By ELLEN SCHMIDT and CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Friends and family of Minnesota Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman said the man sentenced Thursday to two life terms plus 40 years after pleading guilty to her murder failed to eliminate her legacy but caused ...

By VALERIE GONZALEZ and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A nun who was taken into immigration custody last month in Texas said Thursday that she went into a cold sweat as two armed men approached her while she walked to Sunday Mass in her habit, thinking about the ...

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court may be deeply conservative, but it is not simply a rubber stamp for President Donald Trump, Justice Elena Kagan said Thursday. Kagan, one of the court's three liberal justices, told an audience of lawyers and ...

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Will President Donald Trump 's name grace one of the most famous -- and sometimes maligned -- landmarks in his hometown of New York City? The Republican administration this week urged leading U.S. Senators to rename Penn Station as it ...

By NOELLE FUJII-ORIDE/Honolulu Civil Beat Waves gently roll over a reef in Hā'ena as Kanoe Alapa'i-Hashimoto and his father, Keli'i Alapa'i, search for limu in the ankle-deep water with fishing nets wrapped around their waists and shoulders. The seaweed is food for manini, a small ...

BUCKHANNON, W.Va. (AP) — Two people have died in flash floods caused by torrential rains in West Virginia this week, the governor's office said Thursday. An emailed statement from Lars Dalseide, communications director for Gov. Patrick Morrisey, did not provide details on where the bodies ...