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A puppy transported from a shelter affected by flooding in Texas is held at PAWS Chicago Medical Center, Wednesday, July 16, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Puppies from flood-stricken Texas arrive at Chicago shelter

July 18, 2025 at 2:07 p.m.

Nine puppies from parts of Texas submerged by catastrophic flooding that killed at least 132 people arrived Wednesday at the no-kill shelter PAWS Chicago, joining dozens of puppies that had...

FILE – This frame grab from video, provided by the Mexican government, shows Ovidio Guzman Lopez being detained in Culiacan, Mexico, Oct. 17, 2019. (CEPROPIE via AP File)

Son of ‘El Chapo’ pleads guilty in US drug trafficking case in Chicago

July 11, 2025 at 1:31 p.m.

A son of notorious Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo” pleaded guilty Friday to U.S. drug trafficking charges. He is the first of El Chapo’s sons to enter a plea deal.

This frame grab from video, provided by the Mexican government, shows Ovidio Guzmán López being detained in Culiacán, Mexico, Oct. 17, 2019. (CEPROPIE via AP File)

Son of ‘El Chapo’ expected to plead guilty this week to drug trafficking charges in Chicago

July 10, 2025 at 11:14 a.m.

A son of notorious Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo” is expected to plead guilty to U.S. drug trafficking charges at a hearing this week. He would be the first of...

Elon Musk speaks at a town hall holding a check Sunday, March 30, 2025, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

State Supreme Courts have become an electoral battleground. But some states choose a different path

April 6, 2025 at 8:44 a.m.

State Supreme Court races across the country have gotten increasingly costly and vitriolic.

FILE – Anti-abortion protesters Jean Bullock, left, and Sue Dunn, demonstrate outside Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2024, at in St. Louis, Mo. (Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, File)

Anti-abortion groups mount effort to strip Planned Parenthood funding ahead of Supreme Court hearing

March 27, 2025 at 8:44 a.m.

Major anti-abortion groups were gathering in the nation’s capital on Thursday to begin a lobbying effort with Congress and President Donald Trump’s administration aimed at eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood...

Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates Brad Schimel and Susan Crawford participate in a debate Wednesday, March 12, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Abortion once more plays a key role in a state political fight, this time in Wisconsin’s court race

March 22, 2025 at 7:12 p.m.

As the candidates for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat squared off in a recent debate before early voting, one issue came up first and dominated at the start: abortion.

Sydney Smith, who lost her job due to DOGE cuts, stands in front of the Sydney Yates building that houses the Forest Service on Thursday, March. 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

Young people who aspired to government service dismayed by Trump ending the federal fellows program

March 10, 2025 at 9:16 a.m.

One of President Donald Trump’s executive orders ended the program, which was created in 1978 to entice highly qualified workers with advanced degrees to join the federal government.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks with reporters at the White House on Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem taps new immigration enforcement leaders and moves to identify leakers

March 10, 2025 at 10:01 a.m.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday announced new leadership at the agency tasked with immigration enforcement as she also pledged to step up lie detector tests on employees to...

FILE – President Donald Trump talks with, from left, Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom, California Gov. Jerry Brown, Paradise Mayor Jody Jones and FEMA Administrator Brock Long during a visit to a neighborhood destroyed by the wildfires in Paradise, Calif., Nov. 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

FEMA cancels classes at national fire training academy amid federal funding cuts

March 8, 2025 at 3:40 p.m.

The country’s preeminent federal fire training academy canceled classes, effective immediately, on Saturday amid the ongoing flurry of funding freezes and staffing cuts by President Donald Trump’s administration.

President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order relating to clemency for anti-abortion protesters as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Justice Department curtails prosecutions for blocking reproductive health care facilities

January 24, 2025 at 4:01 p.m.

President Donald Trump’s new Justice Department leadership issued an order Friday to curtail prosecutions against people accused of blocking reproductive rights facilities, calling the cases an example of the “weaponization”...

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