By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The board overseeing Alabama public libraries on Thursday voted to remove books that discuss being transgender from the teen and children's sections of all public libraries in the state. The Alabama action is the latest salvo in ...

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — When it became clear to Texas high school theater teacher Gigi Cervantes that she couldn't ignore a new state law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in her Fort Worth classroom, she felt she had no choice. She resigned from the job ...

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Frame by frame, six photos released by federal investigators on Thursday graphically captured horrifying images of ill-fated Flight 2976 as it turned into a deadly fireball along a Kentucky airport runway. The chilling sequence ...

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and GISELA SALOMON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department said Thursday it plans to reclassify certain refundable tax credits as "federal public benefits," which will bar some immigrant taxpayers from receiving them, even if they file and pay ...

By MATTHEW DALY and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced on Thursday new oil drilling off the California and Florida coasts for the first time in decades, advancing a project that critics say could harm coastal communities and ecosystems, as ...

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled Thursday that police in the nation's capital illegally seized a gun from a man they stopped outside a laundromat, blasting the officers' account as unreliable and sharply criticizing Justice Department ...