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Officers of the Metropolitan Police Department pepper spray demonstrators at George Washington University in Washington, early Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Police cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the university and arrested demonstrators early Wednesday, hours after dozens marched to the home of the school’s president. (Sage Russell/GW Hatchet via AP)

Police clear pro-Palestinian protest camp and arrest 33 at DC campus as mayor’s hearing is canceled

Republicans are welcoming a police crackdown that cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University and led to the arrests of 33 protesters.

Pallbearers carry the casket of Frank Tyson out of Hear The Word Ministries church following funeral services Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in Canton, Ohio. Tyson, a 53-year-old Black man, died April 18 after he was handcuffed and left facedown on the floor of a social club while telling officers he couldn't breathe. (AP Photo)

The Rev. Al Sharpton calls for justice in eulogy for Ohio man who died last month in police custody

David Banks, chancellor of New York Public schools, answers a question during a House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education hearing on antisemitism in K-12 public schools, Wednesday, May 8, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

K-12 school leaders reject allegations that they let antisemitism run rampant

FILE - Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis looks on during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. A Georgia appeals court has agreed to review a lower court ruling allowing Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought against Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, Pool)

Georgia appeals court agrees to review ruling allowing Fani Willis to stay on Trump election case

FILE - Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, left, admires the bumper sticker on the car of Congressman Pete McCloskey as the congressman looks on, right, in San Jose, Calif., Sept. 25, 1980. Reagan was in the area on a campaign trip prior to leaving for more campaigning in Washington and Oregon. Former California Congressman McCloskey, who ran as a Republican challenging President Richard Nixon in 1972, has died Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at age 96. (AP Photo/Harrity, File)

Pete McCloskey, GOP congressman who once challenged Nixon, dies at 96

Dozens arrested at George Washington University in DC as protest encampment is cleared

Police cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University Wednesday and arrested demonstrators, hours after dozens marched to the school president’s home

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Police clear Pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University

Abortion

FILE - Demonstrators march and gather near the Texas Capitol following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, June 24, 2022, in Austin, Texas. A Texas man is petitioning a court to use an obscure legal action to find out who helped his former partner in an alleged out-of-state abortion, setting up the latest test to the limits of statewide abortion bans. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

How a Texas man is testing out-of-state abortions by asking a court to subpoena his ex-partner

LGBTQ+

FILE - Bonneville Elementary School parents and students gather during a block party supporting trans and non binary students and staff on April 29, 2024, in Salt Lake City. Transgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports in an effort to shield trans residents and their allies from any legitimate complaints that could threaten their safety. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Transgender activists flood Utah tip line with hoax reports to block bathroom law enforcement

Shootings

FILE - Rio Arriba County workers remove the bronze statue of Spanish conquerer Juan de Onate from its pedestal in front of a cultural center in Alcalde, N.M., June 15, 2020. A settlement has been reached in a civil lawsuit seeking damages from a 23-year-old man and his parents in the shooting of a Native American activist in northern New Mexico amid confrontations about the statue and aborted plans to reinstall it in public. The settlement was disclosed Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in court documents. (Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)

Civil suit settled in shooting of Native American activist at protest of Spanish conquistador statue

Immigration

Migrants reach through a border wall for clothing handed out by volunteers as they wait between two border walls to apply for asylum Friday, May 12, 2023, in San Diego. Hundreds of migrants remain waiting between the two walls, many for days. The image was part of a series by Associated Press photographers Ivan Valencia, Eduardo Verdugo, Felix Marquez, Marco Ugarte Fernando Llano, Eric Gay, Gregory Bull and Christian Chavez that won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

An AP photographer covers the migrant crisis at the border with sensitivity and compassion

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Pennsylvania will make the animal sedative xylazine a controlled substance

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro will sign legislation to criminalize the misuse of a powerful animal tranquilizer called xylazine that is showing up in supplies of illicit drugs and contributing to a growing number of human overdose deaths.

Undercover operation nets arrests as New Mexico’s top prosecutor blames Meta for online predators

New Mexico’s top prosecutor has announced charges against three men who are accused of using Meta’s social media platforms to target and solicit sex with underage children.

Alabama lawmakers approve stiffer penalties for falsely reporting crime

Alabama lawmakers have voted to stiffen penalties for making a false report to law enforcement. The Senate voted 32-0 for the bill on Wednesday.

Milwaukee Bucks' Patrick Beverley reacts during the second half of Game 5 of an NBA basketball series against the Indiana Pacers Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Milwaukee. The Bucks won 115-92. The Pacers lead the series 3-2. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

As Patrick Beverley calls his actions ‘inexcusable,’ police announce they’ve opened an investigation

Indianapolis police have announced they’ve opened an investigation into an “NBA player and citizen” altercation that happened at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on the night Bucks guard Patrick Beverley threw a ball at a fan in the final minutes of a season-ending loss to the Pacers.

FILE - Volodymyr Zhukovskyy looks back at the gallery before closing statements at his trial at Coos County Superior Court, in Lancaster, N.H., Aug. 9, 2022. Zhukovskyy, a commercial truck driver from Ukraine who was acquitted in 2022 of causing the deaths of seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire, testified remotely at an administrative hearing in Concord, N.H, Wednesday, May 8, 2024, to lift a state suspension on his driver's license. (David Lane/Union Leader via AP, Pool, File)

Trucker acquitted in deadly crash asks for license back, but state says he contributed to accident

A commercial truck driver who was acquitted of causing the 2019 deaths of seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire has testified on his request to reinstate his suspended driver’s license.

FILE - The Illinois Capitol is seen, June 19, 2012, Springfield, Ill. Illinois Democrats have changed the way candidates for the General Assembly get on the ballot, and Republicans are complaining that they changed the rules mid-game. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Illinois Democrats’ law changing the choosing of legislative candidates faces GOP opposition

Illinois Democrats have changed the way candidates for the General Assembly get on the ballot. Republicans are complaining that they unfairly changed the rules mid-game.

Urologist convicted of patient sex abuse, including of minors

A New York-area doctor has been convicted in the yearslong sexual abuse of multiple patients. Darius A.

North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore explains his bill that seeks to define antisemitism at a press conference in the Legislative Building in Raleigh, N.C., on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. He said the bill would guide education in the state, in addition to how local prosecutors may evaluate antisemitic incidents. (AP Photo/Makiya Seminera)

North Carolina may join other states in codifying antisemitism definition

A bipartisan group of North Carolina lawmakers has approved a bill codifying a definition of antisemitism into law.

Three men sentenced to life in prison for killing family in Washington state

Three men found guilty of killing a family in Washington state allegedly over drugs and money in 2017 have been sentenced to life in prison.

FILE - Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost speaks during an election night watch party, Nov. 8, 2022, in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio's top lawyer has advised the state's public universities that a law written to deter Ku Klux Klan demonstrations could be used to impose felony charges on students who wear face coverings while protesting the war in Gaza. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File)

Ohio attorney general warns student protesters in masks could face felony charges under anti-KKK law

Republican Attorney General Dave Yost has advised Ohio’s public universities that a law written to deter Ku Klux Klan demonstrations could be used to impose felony charges on students who wear face coverings during pro-Palestinian protests.

FILE - This undated photograph provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate Alan Eugene Miller, who was convicted of capital murder in a workplace shooting rampage that killed three men in 1999. (Alabama Department of Corrections via AP, File)

Alabama schedules second execution by nitrogen gas

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has scheduled a second execution with nitrogen gas, months after the state became the first to put a person to death with the previously untested method.

Pennsylvania House passes bill restricting how social media companies treat minors

Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives is backing legislation aimed at regulating how online social media platforms interact with children.

Michigan man accused of making explosives to target Satanic Temple in Massachusetts

A grand jury has indicted a Michigan man, who is accused of taking explosives to Massachusetts last year to target a building known as the Satanic Temple.

FILE - Interpreter Ippei Mizuhara listens during a baseball news conference at Dodger Stadium, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023, in Los Angeles. Mizuhara, the former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani pleaded guilty to bank and tax fraud Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in a sports betting case where prosecutors allege he stole $16 million from the Japanese baseball player to pay off debts. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Ippei Mizuhara, ex-interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani, will plead guilty in betting case

The former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani has agreed to plead guilty to bank and tax fraud in a sports betting case.

Bridge being built in northern Arizona almost five years after three children died in Tonto Creek

Nearly five years after three young children died in northern Arizona’s Tonto Creek, Gila County is using a $21 million federal grant to build a bridge over part of the stream.

Indiana Fever's Caitlin Clark arrives on the Red Carpet before the world premiere and screening of Episode 1 of the upcoming ESPN+ Original Series Full Court Press, Monday, May 6, 2024, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Indianapolis sports columnist won’t cover Fever following awkward back-and-forth with Caitlin Clark

Indianapolis Star sports columnist Gregg Doyel will not cover the Indiana Fever in person this season after an awkward interaction with No. 1 WNBA draft pick Caitlin Clark.

Steve Albini, legendary producer for Nirvana, the Pixies and an alternative rock pioneer, dies at 61

Steve Albini, a legendary rock producer who shaped the musical landscape through his work with Nirvana, the Pixies, PJ Harvey and more, has died. He was 61.

Court rules North Carolina Catholic school could fire gay teacher who announced his wedding online

A federal appeals court has ruled a Catholic school in North Carolina had the right to fire a gay teacher who announced a decade ago that he was going to marry his longtime partner.

Man indicted in killing of Laken Riley, a Georgia case at the center of national immigration debate

A Georgia man has been indicted on murder charges by a grand jury that said he intended to rape a nursing student whose body was found near a running trail on the University of Georgia campus.

Top water official in New Mexico to retire as state awaits decision in Rio Grande case

New Mexico’s top water official will be stepping down next month, wrapping up a career that has spanned four decades.

FILE -- A banner hangs during a ceremony announcing a proposed $300 million expansion of Google's data center operations Tuesday, June 2, 2015, in Lithia Springs, Ga. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, vetoed a bill that would have suspended tax breaks for new and expanding data centers. (AP Photo/David Goldman, file)

Georgia lawmakers vowed to restrain tax breaks. But the governor’s veto saved a data-center break

Georgia lawmakers vowed they were going to rein in tax breaks for businesses this year, but their efforts came to nothing. Gov.

South Carolina Sen. Michael Johnson, R-Fort Mill, left, talks to Sen. Tom Davis, R-Beaufort, as the Senate debates whether to ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors was this in Columbia, S.C., Wednesday, May 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

South Carolina Senate turns wide-ranging energy bill into resolution supporting more power

A bill passed by the South Carolina House that power companies said is vital to keep the lights on in the state has been turned into an expression of support in the Senate.

FILE - Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe speaks during an interview, Sept. 22, 2009, in Warsaw, Poland. A group of Tennesseans who say they were intimidated into not voting in a primary election or were threatened with prosecution after they did vote have filed a challenge to two state laws meant to prevent crossover voting. One of the plaintiffs is Former Ambassador to Poland and longtime Tennessee Republican politician Ashe, who claims is the laws are so vague that he could be prosecuted for voting in a Republican primary. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

New lawsuit renews challenge to Tennessee laws targeting crossover voting in primary elections

A group of Tennesseans who say they were intimidated into not voting in a primary election or were threatened with prosecution after they did vote have filed a challenge to two state laws that require primary voters to be “bona fide” members of the party they vote for.

Sergeant Michael Lank, of the Canton Police Dept. during cross examination at the murder trial of Karen Read at Dedham Superior Court on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in Dedham, Mass. Read is facing charges including second degree murder in the 2022 death of her boyfriend Boston Officer John O’Keefe. (Stuart Cahill/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

A woman accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend was framed, her attorneys say

Defense attorneys for a woman charged with killing her Boston police officer boyfriend are ramping up efforts to show that she was framed.

Some Xavier University students upset with planned commencement address by UN ambassador

Xavier University’s pick to deliver its undergraduate commencement address has sparked criticism among students who oppose past positions by the U.S. on the war in Gaza.

Daniel Rodimer, second right, leaves court with his attorneys David Chesnoff, left, and Richard Schonfeld after his arraignment at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Rodimer, a retired professional wrestler and former congressional candidate in Nevada and Texas has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in the death of a man last year at a Las Vegas Strip hotel. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

Retired pro wrestler who ran twice for Congress pleads not guilty in Las Vegas murder case

A retired professional wrestler and former congressional candidate in Nevada and Texas has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in the death of a man last year at a Las Vegas Strip hotel.

Woman seeks to drop sexual assault lawsuit against ex-Grammys CEO

A woman who accused the former CEO of the Grammy Awards of sexually assaulting her in 2018 is asking a judge to drop the lawsuit.

FILE - Players and staff on the Utah bench react toward the end of a second-round college basketball game against Gonzaga in the NCAA Tournament in Spokane, Wash., Monday, March 25, 2024. A northern Idaho prosecutor won't bring hate crime charges against an 18-year-old accused of shouting a racial slur at members of the Utah women's basketball team while the team was in Idaho to attend the NCAA Tournament. (AP Photo/Young Kwak, File)

No hate crime charges filed against man who yelled racist slurs at Utah women’s basketball team

A northern Idaho prosecutor won’t bring hate crime charges against an 18-year-old accused of shouting a racist slur at members of the Utah women’s basketball team while the team was in Idaho to attend the NCAA Tournament.

FILE - Billie Eilish performs on stage during Day 2 of Music Midtown 2019 in Atlanta, Sept. 15, 2019. Music Midtown, a festival that draws tens of thousands of people to Atlanta's Piedmont Park will not take place this year. Posts Wednesday, May 8 2024, on the Instagram page and website of Music Midtown, a longtime fixture for pop music lovers, says the festival is “going on hiatus this year.” (Photo by Paul R. Giunta/Invision/AP, File)

Music Midtown, popular Atlanta music festival, canceled this year

A music festival that draws tens of thousands of people to Atlanta’s Piedmont Park will not take place this year.

FILE - Missouri Gov. Mike Parson delivers the State of the State address on Jan. 18, 2023, in Jefferson K-12 students from low-income families across Missouri soon will have access to private school scholarships under legislation signed Tuesday, May 7, 2024, by Parson. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Missouri’s GOP Gov. Mike Parson signs law expanding voucher-like K-12 scholarships

K-12 students from low-income families across Missouri soon will have access to private school scholarships. Republican Gov.