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WASHINGTON (@AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues. The court’s order allows women seeking abortions to continue obtaining the drug, mifepristone, at pharmacies or through the mail, without an in-person visit to a doctor. Access is likely to remain uninterrupted at least until into next year as the case plays out, including a potential appeal to the high court.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (@AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency moved Thursday to roll back limits that require coal-fired power plants to prevent the release of toxic heavy metals into streams and rivers through polluted groundwater, saying a three-year-old rule is unduly costly for the energy industry at a time when energy demand is spiking.

Breaking: Man arrested for making ‘politically violent’ threats to Pa. lawmakers online, State Police say, via @SpotlightPA: spotlightpa.org/news/2026/05/a…

WASHINGTON (@AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday set the stage for Alabama to get rid of one of two largely Black congressional districts before this year’s midterm elections, creating an opening for Republicans to gain an additional U.S. House seat in a partisan battle for control of the closely divided chamber.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (@AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump says he will suspend the federal tax on gas to help Americans shoulder higher fuel prices caused by the Iran war.

BEIRUT (@AP) — Nobel Peace laureate Narges Mohammadi has been transferred to a Tehran hospital more than a week after collapsing in an Iranian prison, her foundation said Sunday. The 53-year-old Iranian rights activist and champion of women’s rights was awarded the Nobel in 2023 while in prison in Iran and has been jailed repeatedly throughout her career.

WASHINGTON (@AP) _ The FBI searched the Virginia state Senate leader’s office on Wednesday as part of a corruption investigation, a person familiar with the matter said. The search at Virginia Sen. L. Louise Lucas’s district office in Portsmouth comes after the Democrat helped lead the state’s recent redistricting effort.

DENVER (@AP) _ The Trump administration sued Denver and its police department on Tuesday seeking to strike down an assault weapons ban that’s been in place for Colorado’s largest city since 1989.

COLUMBUS, Ind. (@AP) — A majority of Republican state senators whose opponents were endorsed by President Donald Trump lost on Tuesday, dealing the president wins in a deep red state just four months after lawmakers rejected his redistricting plan.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (@AP) _ Pennsylvania has sued an artificial intelligence chatbot maker, saying its chatbots illegally hold themselves out as doctors and are deceiving the system's users into thinking they are getting medical advice from a licensed professional.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (@AP) _ The United Arab Emirates said Monday it came under attack by Iran for the first time since a fragile ceasefire took hold in early April. The attacks appeared to be in response to President Donald Trump’s latest efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Building trades unions — long fashioned as the voice of the American worker — are now intertwined with the richest companies in the world as they create America’s artificial intelligence economy. Unionized workers are employed on a huge number of massive data center projects and are a force in helping counter fierce opposition in communities and hostile legislation. Via @AP: apnews.com/article/artifi…

In the PR battle for AI data centers, tech giants have a blue-collar ally in building trade unions. @AP's @timelywriter has more: apnews.com/article/artifi…

NEW ORLEANS (@AP) — A federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking mailing of prescriptions of mifepristone. A panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is requiring that the abortion pill be distributed only in-person at clinics.

BATON ROUGE, La. (@AP) _ Louisiana’s congressional primaries won’t be going forward as scheduled in May, as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down a majority Black congressional district, the state’s top elected officials said Thursday. Gov. Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill said in a joint statement that Wednesday’s high court ruling effectively prohibits the state from carrying out the primaries under the current districts.

PORTLAND, Maine (@AP) _ Maine Gov. Janet Mills is dropping her bid for the U.S. Senate just weeks before the Democratic primary in a race that reflected an internal party debate over how to win one of this year's most competitive Senate seats. Mills, a two-term governor and longtime Maine politician, was seen as one of Democrats' top 2026 recruits when she entered the Senate race last year. But Mills struggled to outshine first-time candidate Graham Platner, her opponent in the June 9 Democratic primary.

WASHINGTON (@AP) _ The US Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s second majority Black congressional district in a decision that could open the door for Republican-led states to eliminate Black and Latino electoral districts that tend to favor Democrats and affect the balance of power in Congress. The court’s conservative majority found that the district, represented by Democrat Cleo Fields, relied too heavily on race.

The security upgrades at Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro's privately-owned home fuel push for more oversight and accountability. Read our latest here: spotlightpa.org/news/2026/04/p…

In the “troubled teen industry,” children are strip-searched, regularly restrained and punished with manual labor, the Associated Press found. Communication with the outside world, including their parents, is limited and tightly monitored. Via @AP: apnews.com/article/adopte…