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ST. LOUIS — A Missouri commissioner on Friday ruled that the state’s only abortion clinic can continue providing the service at least until August as a fight over its license plays out, adding that there’s a “likelihood” that the clinic will succeed in the dispute. Administrative Hearing Commissioner Sreenivasa Rao...

New York City is marking the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, days of unrest in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village that began with a police raid on a gay bar and catalyzed a sustained LGTBQ liberation movement. The streets outside the modern incarnation of the Stonewall Inn were blocked off Friday...

MONTAUK, N.Y. — A desperate search for a mother who had threatened to kill her 2-year-old twin daughters ended with the discovery of the girls’ bodies in the woman’s car, police on New York’s Long Island said Friday. Tenia Campbell, 24, was arrested in the deaths of her daughters Jasmine...

Poland ordered prosecutors to probe Ikea of Sweden after its local unit fired a man over his actions during a gay-pride corporate event, while ruling-party officials mulled a boycott of the world’s largest furniture retailer. The incident comes after Poland’s most powerful politician, governing-party boss Jaroslaw Kaczynski, said in the...

SALT LAKE CITY — One person was taken into custody Friday in the case of a Utah college student who disappeared 11 days ago, police said. Officials did not immediately provide further details ahead of a planned news conference scheduled in the disappearance of 23-year-old Mackenzie Lueck. The news comes...

OSAKA, Japan — With a smirk and a finger point, President Donald Trump dryly told Russia’s Vladimir Putin “Don’t meddle in the election” in their first meeting since the special counsel concluded that Moscow extensively interfered with the 2016 campaign. The tone of the president’s comment did little to silence...

SEOUL — The U.S. special envoy for North Korea reaffirmed Friday that Washington is ready to hold talks with the North, South Korea’s government said, as North Korea escalates its calls for the United States to make new proposals to resolve the impasse in their nuclear diplomacy. Stephen Biegun’s reported...

CAMDEN, N.J. — “Amanda you stabbed me,” a stunned Anna Ramirez told her identical twin as blood seeped from her chest early Saturday morning outside their Camden home, according to a witness statement read in court Thursday. She was pronounced dead less than an hour later and her twin sister...

MILWAUKEE — Prosecutors say a Milwaukee father is accused of fatally punching his 5-year-old son because the boy ate some of the cheesecake he had gotten for Father’s Day. Travis Stackhouse is charged with first-degree reckless homicide in the child’s death last Saturday. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office determined...

A 27-year-old Alabama woman was indicted on manslaughter charges Wednesday in the shooting death of her own unborn child, even though, police say, another woman pulled the trigger. The moment quickly became a flashpoint in the broader debate over abortion, particularly in Alabama, and raised questions over how fairly manslaughter...

An angler won a game of tug-of-war with a snake trying to steal a rainbow trout from his stringer on Crooked Creek in Virginia, according to a report from Storyful. Larry Bobbit, the angler, shot a video on June 22 of the incident, which went viral on the social media...

In a recent health class, a sixth- and seventh-grade students in Canada got quite an adult version of sex education. While the booklet, the Safer Sex Guide, given to the kids offers advise on how to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs), it also talks about fetishes and sex acts (like...

GARDNER, Kan. — A cat named Meow has been reunited with her suburban Kansas City owners after she went missing nearly three years ago. The Kansas City Star reports that Meow escaped after Taylor Jezik moved to a new apartment complex in Gardner, Kansas. Jezik searched for Meow in her...

MATAMOROS, Mexico — The young family from El Salvador appeared in this border city over the weekend with panic on their faces. They went to the downtown bridge that leads to Brownsville, Texas, where Xiomara Mejia, a migrant from Honduras, explained that the newcomers would not be able to add...

LINCOLN, Neb. — Authorities say the remains of twin brothers killed in the Pearl Harbor attack have been identified and will be returned to Nebraska. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Thursday in a news release that the remains of Machinist’s Mate 2nd Class Leo Blitz and Fireman 1st Class...

NEW YORK — Two women have confirmed that the writer E. Jean Carroll told them in the 1990s that she’d been sexually assaulted by Donald Trump in the dressing room of a New York City department store. The women, both journalists who were friends with Carroll, spoke publicly for the...

SELAH, Wash. — An appeals court says a piano teacher in Washington state deserved the $40,000 she was awarded in a dispute with a neighbor who revved his pickup truck engine for months to drown out the sound of her lessons. The Yakima Herald-Republic reports the appeals court ruled Tuesday...

SALT LAKE CITY — Police investigating the case of a college student who went missing in Utah 10 days ago said Thursday that the owner of a home they searched in connection with the disappearance is a “person of interest” and that they are trying to find a mattress that...

MIRAMAR, Fla. — Police in South Florida say an 18-year-old man drugged and sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl he met at a party and posted a naked video of her on Instagram. Miramar police say Jorge Martinez gave the girl Percocet on Monday and took her to a home where...

Driver’s licenses in Hawaii will soon have a third gender option. “Gender X” will be available for residents who prefer not to identify as male or female, reports Hawaii News Now. The move is aimed at reducing discrimination against transgender and gender fluid individuals. Gov. David Ige was expected to...

NEW YORK — Apple is recalling some MacBook Pro laptops due to a fire hazard. The batteries in the laptops can overheat, posing a safety risk. The recalled MacBook Pros have a screen that measures 15-inches diagonally and were sold between September 2015 through February 2017 in the United States...

LOS ANGELES — Kari Williams has worked to make her natural hair salon a refuge for black Angelenos, including those who’ve felt pressured to alter their hairstyles to hold on to a job. Some customers have asked her to cut their locs — short for dreadlocks — because their bosses...