California AG challenges housing plans in wildfire areas
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's attorney general is challenging some of the state's largest suburban development projects as local officials weigh the risk of increasingly devastating wildfires against the state's dire need for more housing.
Florida bill seeks to block trans athletes from girls teams
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Transgender women and girls couldn't play on girls and women's school sports teams under a bill passed by a Florida House committee on Wednesday.
Georgia massage parlor shootings leave 8 dead; man captured
ATLANTA (AP) — Shootings at two massage parlors in Atlanta and one in the suburbs left eight people dead, many of them women of Asian descent, authorities said Tuesday. A 21-year-old man was taken into custody in southwest Georgia hours later after a manhunt.
2 charged in assault of Capitol officer who died after riot
U.S. officials have arrested and charged two men with assaulting U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick with bear spray during the Jan. 6 riot, but they do not know yet whether it caused the officer’s death.
Michelle Obama will be inducted into U.S. National Women’s Hall of Fame
Former first lady Michelle Obama will be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame this year, the organization announced on International Women’s Day.
