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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Two Planned Parenthood groups sued the state of Missouri on Tuesday, arguing the state’s newest law restricting abortions is unconstitutional. The GOP-controlled Legislature approved law in question — Senate Bill 5 — this summer during a special session on abortion called by Gov. Eric Greitens, a Republican. Planned Parenthood Great Plains

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Segregationist Napoleon Bonaparte Broward — the man the Florida county is named after — is no longer welcome in the Broward County Courthouse. A statue of Broward will be removed from the courthouse soon, county leaders said Tuesday, the latest casualty of a nationwide debate about whether it’s proper to commemorate

The Ku Klux Klan hopes to recruit future white supremacists at high school football games. The racist group distributed propaganda fliers at a Friday night football game at Gray’s Creek High School in North Carolina. The fliers showcased racist comments about Jews, Mexicans and Muslims written atop the Confederate flag, also attacking Black Lives Matter,

Much of a Reform Jewish summer camp has been wiped out by forest fires sweeping across northern California. The Union for Reform Judaism’s Camp Newman, an hour north of the San Francisco Bay, has been “mostly destroyed” by the fires burning in the Sonoma and Napa Counties, the camp posted on Facebook Tuesday evening. Camp

WASHINGTON — At the start of Donald Trump’s presidency, Sen. Bob Corker reacted like most other Republicans to the daily White House outbursts and tweets. He largely withheld criticism and called for patience as the new administration settled in. Corker, though, stood out by sometimes letting slip what he was privately thinking — an eye

DALLAS — Houston high school senior India Landry had sat through the Pledge of Allegiance in the classrooms of at least six teachers — about 200 times, she says, with zero trouble. That is, until the 17-year-old landed in Principal Martha Strother’s office at Windfern High School in Houston. As the Pledge of Allegiance streamed

WASHINGTON — Longtime California Sen. Dianne Feinstein has made it official: She’ll run for a sixth term in 2018. “I’m immensely proud of my service in the Senate and all I’ve done to help the people of California and the nation. But there’s still so much work left to do, from ending gun violence, to

One person has died and at least 1,500 homes, businesses and other structures have been destroyed as more than 14 fires ravaged eight counties throughout Northern California on Monday, authorities said. The death was related to the Redwood Valley fire in Mendocino County, according to the Mendocino County coroner’s office. The vast devastation over just

First lady Melania Trump has responded quickly to claims by the president’s first wife, Ivana Trump, that she was the actual “first lady.” “Mrs. Trump has made the White House a home for Barron and the President,” a spokesperson for the first lady said in a statement. “She loves living in Washington, DC and is