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President Joe Biden goes on a bike ride in Gordons Pond State Park in Rehoboth Beach, Del., Sunday, July 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden says he's mulling health emergency for abortion access

President Joe Biden says he's considering declaring a public health emergency to free up federal resources to promote abortion access even though the White House has said it doesn’t seem like “a … more

By HANNAH FINGERHUT | 7/10/22

A firefighter protects a sequoia tree as the Washburn Fire burns in Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park, Calif., on Friday, July 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Yosemite fire grows as crews protect iconic sequoias

A wildfire threatening the largest grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park has more than doubled in size since Saturday afternoon. Firefighters are scrambling Sunday to protect the iconic … more

7/10/22

FILE - Col. Lamar Davis, superintendent of the Louisiana State Police, speaks during a news conference, Friday, May 21, 2021, in Baton Rouge, La. Davis told WAFB-TV in an interview on July 7, 2022, that he was pulled over for speeding on Interstate 10 west of Baton Rouge in late June but was not ticketed by one of his own officers. Davis apologized and said: “I need to slow my butt down.” (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte, File)

Police leader caught speeding: 'I need to slow my butt down'

The superintendent of Louisiana State Police acknowledges he was pulled over for speeding in an unmarked work vehicle but did not receive a ticket from one of his own officers. Col. Lamar Davis tells … more

7/9/22

Donald Neconie, 84, a former U.S. Marine and member of the Kiowa Tribe, recounts his experiences as a child at an Indian boarding school Saturday, July 9, 2022, in Anadarko, Okla., during a meeting to hear about the painful experiences of Native Americans who were sent to government-backed boarding schools designed to strip them of their cultural identities. One by one, Native American tribal elders who were once students at government-backed Indian boarding schools testified about the hardships they endured: beatings, whippings, sexual assaults, forced haircuts and painful nicknames. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Tribal elders recall painful boarding school memories

Native American tribal elders in Oklahoma delivered powerful testimony to federal officials about their experiences in government-backed Indian boarding schools. The stop Saturday at Riverside Indian … more

By SEAN MURPHY | 7/9/22

Mourners hug outside Memorial Chapel Funeral Home in Waukegan, Ill., during funeral services for Eduardo Uvaldo, who was killed Monday during a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Saturday, July 9, 2022. (Pat Nabong /Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

July 4 parade attack victim remembered for love of family

Friends, neighbors and dignitaries are paying their respects to the family of Eduardo Uvaldo, one of the seven people who were killed in the attack on a July Fourth parade near Chicago. Uvaldo, who … more

By CHARLES REX ARBOGAST | 7/9/22

Attorney Benjamin Crump, foreground left, and Doreen Coleman, mother of Randy Cox, hold a poster of Cox, outside a courthouse in New Haven, Conn., Friday, July 8, 2022. Cox, who was being transported in a police van without seatbelts, was paralyzed when the van braked suddenly. His family asked federal authorities Friday to file civil rights charges against the officers involved. (Ben Lambert/New Haven Register via AP)

Family of man hurt in police van seeks civil rights charges

Hundreds of protesters have demanded justice for a Black man who was seriously injured in the back of a police van in Connecticut. Friday evening's march through the streets of New Haven to the … more

By PAT EATON-ROBB | 7/8/22

This Oct. 21, 2020, photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows inmate Bruce Davis. A California panel on Friday, July 8, 2022, denied parole Davis, a follower of cult leader Charles Manson, who was convicted of slayings more than a half-century ago. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP)

Parole denied for Manson follower for slayings in 1969

A California panel has denied parole for a follower of cult leader Charles Manson convicted of slayings more than a half-century ago. Bruce Davis was previously recommended for parole seven times, … more

By DON THOMPSON | 7/8/22

Protestors chant "Let them go" as Des Moines police vans arrive at the Polk County Jail after protestors were arrested outside the Capitol, in Des Moines, Iowa, on Wednesday, July 1, 2020. Two central Iowa police officers are suing a sitting Des Moines City Council member and five other people who participated in a racial justice protest in 2020, and are seeking an unspecified amount in damages in what experts say is a legal move rarely taken by police and other first responders. (Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Des Moines Register via AP)

2 Iowa officers sue 2020 protesters, accuse them of assault

Two Iowa police officers are taking the unusual move of suing six people who participated in a 2020 protest in Des Moines after the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. The lawsuit accuses … more

By MARGERY A. BECK | 7/8/22

FILE -This combination of photos provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office in Minnesota on Wednesday, June 3, 2020, shows Derek Chauvin, from left, J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao. Federal prosecutors asked a judge to sentence one of the four former Minneapolis police officers convicted of civil rights violations in George Floyd's killing to as many as 6 1/2 years in prison but to impose significantly stiffer sentences on two others. (Hennepin County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

EXPLAINER: What's next for 3 other ex-cops in Floyd's death

Now that former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to federal prison, attention turns to the fates of three fellow ex-cops. They're still working their way through a … more

By STEVE KARNOWSKI | 7/8/22

FILE - Students carry a mock coffin as they hold a symbolic funeral for slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, at al-Azhar University in Mughraqa, central Gaza Strip, Monday, May 16, 2022. The family of a Palestinian-American reporter Abu Akleh, killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank lashed out at President Joe Biden in a letter released Friday, July 8, 2022 over his administration's response to her death. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Family of journalist killed in West Bank lashes out at Biden

The family of a Palestinian-American reporter killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank has lashed out at President Joe Biden over his administration’s response to her death. … more

By JOSEPH KRAUSS | 7/8/22

A sign reading "Luhansk People's Republic Square" is set outside the British embassy in Moscow, Russia, Friday, July 8, 2022. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin signed the decree naming the stretch outside the embassy after the Luhansk People's Republic. (Alexander Avilov, Moscow News Agency photo via AP)

Russia sticks US, UK embassies with 'unrecognized' addresses

Moscow is trolling both the U.S. and the U.K. by officially renaming the streets in front of their embassies for the two separatist regions of eastern Ukraine where fighting is now the fiercest. … more

7/8/22

FILE - In this Dec. 2, 1966, file photo, actor Larry Storch, one of the co-stars of "F Troop", poses during the filming of an episode at the Warner Brothers studio in Los Angeles. Storch, the rubber-faced comic whose long career in theater, movies and television was capped by his role as “F Troop’s” zany Cpl. Agarn in the 1960s spoof of Western frontier shows, died Friday in New York. He was 99. (AP Photo/David F. Smith, File)

Larry Storch, zany Cpl. Agarn on TV's 'F Troop,' dies at 99

An actor best known for the 1960s TV Western spoof “F Troop” has died. Larry Storch, who played Corporal Agarn, died early Friday. His manager says the actor died of natural causes. “F Troop” … more

By LYNN ELBER | 7/8/22

In this image provided by the National Park Service, a firefighter walks near the Mariposa Grove as the Washburn Fire burns in Yosemite National Park, Calif., Thursday, July 7, 2022. A portion of Yosemite National Park has been closed as a wildfire rages near a grove of California's famous giant sequoia trees, officials said. (National Park Service via AP)

Wildfire grows near famed Yosemite grove of sequoia trees

Officials say part of Yosemite National Park has been closed as a wildfire rages near a grove of California’s famed giant sequoia trees. The fire quintupled in size from Thursday night to Friday … more

7/8/22

Ted Kubacki gets a lick from the family golden retriever, Lulu, outside their house after being reunited in Sitka, Alaska, on Thursday, July 7, 2022. The elderly, blind dog who had been missing three weeks, was found Tuesday, July 5, 2022, by a construction crew in salmonberry bushes after initially confusing her for a bear. Behind Ted is his wife, Rebecca, and their children Ella, Viola, Star, Lazaria and Olive. (James Poulson/The Daily Sitka Sentinel via AP)

Blind, older dog found in Alaska 3 weeks after wandering off

An Alaska family had given up hope of finding their blind, elderly golden retriever who wandered away from their home three weeks ago, but a construction crew found Lulu in salmonberry bushes after … more

7/8/22

FILE - Chaka Khan performs during rehearsals for the annual Fourth of July Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular in Boston on July 3, 2022. Khan is one of many female performers featured in the four-part docuseries “Women Who Rock” starting Saturday on Epix. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

'I can’t be the only one': Docuseries on 'Women Who Rock'

A deep dive into rock ‘n’ roll’s female pioneers like Chaka Khan, Pat Benatar, Mavis Staples and Shania Twain forms the backbone of the fascinating, four-part docuseries “Women Who Rock.” … more

By MARK KENNEDY | 7/8/22

Kelly Titchenell sits on her porch in Mather, Pa., holding a photo of her mother Diania Kronk, and an urn containing her mother's ashes, Thursday, July 7, 2022. A Greene County, Pa., detective last week filed charges against 911 operator Leon “Lee” Price, 50, of Waynesburg, in the July 2020 death of Diania Kronk, 54, based on Price's reluctance to dispatch help without getting more assurance that Kronk would actually go to the hospital. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Dispatcher who didn't send ambulance charged in 2020 death

A Pennsylvania 911 operator faces involuntary manslaughter and other charges for failing to send an ambulance to the rural home of a woman who died of internal bleeding about a day later. A county … more

By MARK SCOLFORO | 7/8/22

An apartment building damaged by Russian attack is seen in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Monday, July 4, 2022. The Ukrainian military's General Staff says that Russian forces are trying to press their offensive deeper into eastern Ukraine after capturing a key stronghold. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa

JULY 1 - JULY 7, 2022 From the war in Ukraine to Boris Johnson stepping down as Conservative party leader, a fatal avalanche in Italy and Wimbledon, this photo gallery highlights some of the most … more

By The Associated Press | 7/8/22

Astrid Cardona kisses her mother Ufemia Tomas, the mother of survivor Yenifer Yulisa Cardona Tomas, during an interview in Guatemala City, Monday, July 4, 2022. Yenifer is one of the survivors of the more than 50 migrants who were found dead inside a tractor-trailer near San Antonio, Texas. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

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7/8/22

FILE - Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner (42) shoots during the first half of Game 1 of the WNBA basketball Finals against the Chicago Sky, on Oct. 10, 2021, in Phoenix. Jailed American basketball star Brittney Griner returns to a Russian court Thursday July 7, 2022, as calls increase for Washington to do more to secure her release. Griner was detained in February at a Moscow airport after vape canisters with cannabis oil allegedly were found in her luggage. (AP Photo/Ralph Freso, File)

WNBA players union 'stands with' Griner after guilty plea

Brittney Griner's guilty plea has not lessened the support the Olympic gold medalist continues to receive from her WNBA peers. The Phoenix Mercury All-Star pleaded guilty to drug possession charges … more

By DOUG FEINBERG | 7/7/22

FILE - Mariposa County Sheriff Jeremy Briese points to a map to show where a missing family was found dead during a news conference in Mariposa, Calif., Oct. 21, 2021. A tourist from Michigan who tried to retrace the steps of the family who died during a grueling summer hike in Northern California had to be rescued on June 29, 2022, after getting lost, the sheriff said. The man, who has not been identified, was reported missing near the trail in Mariposa County where officials last year found the bodies of Jonathan Gerrish, his wife, their toddler and their dog. (Craig Kohlruss/The Fresno Bee via AP, File)

Michigan man rescued from California trail where family died

Authorities say a Michigan tourist who tried to retrace the steps of a family who died during a grueling summer hike in Northern California had to be rescued last week after getting lost. Mariposa … more

7/7/22