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Several train cars are immersed in the Yellowstone River after a bridge collapse near Columbus, Mont., on Saturday, June 24, 2023. The bridge collapsed overnight, causing a train that was traveling over it to plunge into the water below. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

Freight train carrying hot asphalt, molten sulfur plunges into the Yellowstone River as bridge fails

By Matthew Brown and Gene Johnson | The Associated Press | June 24, 2023, 10:13 p.m.

(Evan Vucci | AP file photo) President Joe Biden speaks about abortion access during a Democratic National Committee event at the Howard Theatre, Oct. 18, 2022, in Washington. A trio of top reproductive rights groups are endorsing President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Planned Parenthood Action Fund, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and Emily's List are throwing their early support behind the reelection effort in part to highlight the importance of the issue for Democrats heading into the election year, leaders told the Associated Press.

Biden will sign an order seeking to protect birth control access a year after Roe was overturned

By Colleen Long | The Associated Press | June 23, 2023, 3:37 p.m.

(OceanGate Expeditions via AP, file photo) This undated image provided by OceanGate Expeditions in June 2021 shows the company's Titan submersible. Rescuers are racing against time to find the missing submersible carrying five people, who were reported overdue Sunday night.

The pilot and 4 passengers of the Titan submersible are dead, US Coast Guard says

By patrick Whittle and Holly Ramer | The Associated Press | June 22, 2023, 7:54 p.m.

(Andrew Harnik | AP file photo) Emma Rousseau of Oakland, N.J., her mouth bound with a red, white and blue netting, attends a rally on the Fourth of July to protest for abortion rights, at Lafayette Park in front of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 4, 2022. One year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court rescinded a five-decade-old right to abortion, prompting a seismic shift in debates about politics, values, freedom and fairness.

A year after fall of Roe, 25 million women live in states with abortion bans or tighter restrictions

By Geoff Mulvihill, Kimberlee Kruesi and Claire Savage | The Associated Press | June 22, 2023, 3:41 p.m.

(Ross D. Franklin | AP file photo) The Colorado River in the upper River Basin is pictured in Lees Ferry, Ariz., on May 29, 2021.

Supreme Court rules against Navajo Nation in Colorado River water rights case

By Jessica Gresko | The Associated Press | June 22, 2023, 3:24 p.m.

(Andrew DeMillo | AP) Dylan Brandt speaks at a news conference outside the federal courthouse in Little Rock, Ark., July 21, 2021. Brandt, a teenager, is among several transgender youth and families who are plaintiffs challenging a state law banning gender confirming care for trans minors. A federal judge struck down Arkansas' first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming care for children as unconstitutional Tuesday, June 20, 2023.

Judge strikes down Arkansas ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors

By Andrew DeMillo | The Associated Press | June 20, 2023, 9:56 p.m.

(Rick Bowmer | AP) Mormon crickets make their way over a Jersey barrier during the migration of Mormon crickets, Friday, June 16, 2023, in Spring Creek, Nev. The small town in rural northeastern Nevada is being invaded by a swarm of blood-red crickets. The unwelcome visitors began to emerge around late May and early June.

‘Just disgusting’: A Nevada city confronts millions of smelly Mormon crickets

By Eduardo Medina | The New York Times | June 20, 2023, 8:22 p.m.

Former President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally, Thursday, April 27, 2023, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Judge in Trump documents case sets tentative trial date as soon as August

By Alan Feuer, Maggie Haberman and Charlie Savage | The New York Times | June 20, 2023, 6:27 p.m.

(Hannah Schoenbaum | AP file photo) North Carolina state Rep. Tricia Cotham announces she is switching her party affiliation to the Republican Party at a news conference Wednesday, April 5, 2023, at the North Carolina Republican Party headquarters in Raleigh, N.C. An historically high number supermajorities in state legislatures has pushed laws further to the edge on abortion, climate and transgender issues. Twenty-eight states have legislatures with majorities so large they could override a gubernatorial veto without any help of the opposing party.

Supermajorities in state capitols push controversial policies to the fore

By David A. Lieb | The Associated Press | June 19, 2023, 1:54 p.m.

(Mariam Zuhaib | AP file photo) Demonstrators stand outside of the U.S. Supreme Court, as the court hears arguments over the Indian Child Welfare Act on Nov. 9, 2022, in Washington. The Supreme Court has preserved the system that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings of Native children. The court left in place the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act, which was enacted to address concerns that Native children were being separated from their families and, too frequently, placed in non-Native homes.

Supreme Court rejects challenge to Native American child welfare law

By Mark Sherman | The Associated Press | June 15, 2023, 2:49 p.m.

(Evan Agostini via AP) Author Cormac McCarthy attends the premiere of “The Road” in New York on Nov. 16, 2009. McCarthy died Tuesday, June 13, 2023, in Sante Fe, N.M., of natural causes, according to publisher Alfred A Knopf.

Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country For Old Men,’ dies at 89

By Sue Major Holmes and Hillel Italie | The Associated Press | June 13, 2023, 10:10 p.m.

(Jim Rassol | The Associated Press) Former President Donald Trump leaves his Trump National Doral resort, Tuesday, June 13, 2023 in Doral, Fla.

Trump pleads not guilty to federal charges that he illegally kept classified documents at Florida estate

By Eric Tucker and Alanna Durkin Richer | The Associated Press | June 13, 2023, 10:08 p.m.

(Jon Austria | The Albuquerque Journal via AP) Landowner Paulina Atenico, left, tell activists to "go home" near a road block on County Road 7950 east of Chaco Culture National Park on Sunday, June 11, 2023. Opponents and supporters for a buffer zone around Chaco Culture National Park clashed on Sunday after Navajo Allotees blocked a portion of CR 7950 that lead in to the park during U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland's planed visit.

Protest derails planned celebration of 20-year ban on oil drilling near Chaco national park

By Susan Montoya Bryan | The Associated Press | June 12, 2023, 2:09 p.m.

Military personnel at the air base in Bogota, Colombia, on Saturday unload from a plane one of four children who were missing after a deadly plane crash. The children survived a small plane crash 40 days ago and had been the subject of an intense search in the jungle. (AP Photo/John Vizcaino)

4 children, including a baby, survived a plane crash and 40 days alone in the Amazon jungle

By Manuel Rueda and Regina Garcia Cano | The Associated Press | June 10, 2023, 10:45 p.m.

(John Youngbear | The Associated Press) In this April 4, 1996 file photo Theodore John Kaczynski is flanked by federal agents as he is led to a car from the federal courthouse in Helena, Mont. A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted Vladislav Victorvic Timoshchuk, on charges of mailing two envelopes containing ricin to Pelican Bay State Prison, officials announced on Friday Feb. 21, 2020. Last year the federal Bureau of Prisons intercepted a Christmas card from Timoshchuk, now living in Belarus, to Kaczynski, the convicted Unabomber, which authorizes say Timoshchuk discussed his plan to mail ricin to the United States. Kaczynski is serving a life sentence in a federal prison in Colorado for carrying out a series of mail bombings that killed three people.

Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, has died in federal prison at 81

By Michael Balsamo and Lindsay Whitehurst | The Associated Press | June 10, 2023, 6:58 p.m.

FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, April 27, 2023, in Manchester, N.H. Trump’s defiant performance at the CNN town hall may ultimately hurt his standing with key groups of voters in next fall's general election. But he also demonstrated his extraordinary grip on the voters who will decide the GOP’s looming 2024 nomination fight. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Donald Trump says he’s been indicted on charges of mishandling classified documents

By Eric Tucker, Jill Colvin and Michael Balsamo | The Associated Press | Bryan Schott | June 9, 2023, 3:02 a.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Rainbow goes down 400 East in the Pride Parade, on Sunday, June 4, 2023.

LGBTQ+ Americans are under attack, Human Rights Campaign declares in state of emergency warning

By Hannah Schoenbaum | The Associated Press/Report for America | Emily Anderson Stern | June 7, 2023, 5:05 p.m.

(Seth Wenig | AP file photo) This Feb. 16, 2017 file photo shows newborn babies in the nursery of a postpartum recovery center in upstate New York.

Utah joins other states in extending Medicaid coverage for new mothers

By Matt Volz | KFF Health News | June 5, 2023, 10:14 p.m.

Rescuers carry the body of a victim at the site of passenger trains that derailed in Balasore district, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, Saturday, June 3, 2023. Rescuers in India have found no more survivors in the overturned and mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed, killing more than 280 people and injuring hundreds in one of the country’s deadliest rail crashes in decades. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Death toll in India train crash reaches 280, with 900 injured, as officials investigate cause

By Rafiq Maqbool, Ashok Sharma and Kruitika Pathi | The Associated Press | June 4, 2023, 12:00 a.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Pride flag is raised at Washington Square by Salt Lake City and LGBTQ+ leaders, marking the beginning of Pride Month on Thursday, June 1, 2023.

No one knows how many LGBTQ Americans die by suicide

By Azeen Ghorayshi | The New York Times | June 3, 2023, 12:00 p.m.