An appeals court is considering a push to restrict most common abortion method

September 10, 2026

A panel of federal judges heard arguments Wednesday over whether prescribing rules should be tightened for a key drug used in the most common abortion method in the United States, one of several ongoing efforts to restrict abortion access four years after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to decide the issue. The case before the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is one of three making its way through the courts as abortion opponents try to block providers in states where abortion is legal from sending drugs for medication abortions into states where it is ...

A Kentucky man with a meat allergy was craving a burger. So he got into ostrich farming

September 10, 2026

DANVILLE, Ky. (AP) — When a friend approached Brent Williams four years ago with a business proposition to start an ostrich farm, he was more than intrigued — he had a personal motivation as someone who developed a life-threatening allergy to red meat, triggered by tick bites. The ...

Temporary protections for about 200,000 Salvadoran immigrants are in limbo as deadline nears

September 10, 2026

MIAMI (AP) — Temporary legal protections for about 200,000 immigrants from El Salvador was in limbo Wednesday as a deadline neared for the Trump administration to decide if they should end, as it has done for hundreds of thousands from Venezuela, Haiti and other countries. The Temporary Protected Status designation expires Wednesday but the statute does not give a specific time for when that happens. If the Department of Homeland Security takes no action, protections are automatically extended for six months. This rare reprieve happened in May, when the protections were automatically ...

School integration, 1963

September 10, 2026

AP Photo Pupils at West End High shout and wave flags from the curb across the street from the school which was integrated, Sept. 10, 1963 in Birmingham, Ala. They yelled to other students to come out and shouted racial slurs after two black students entered the building.

In North Carolina, a race is on to restore critical peatland before it dries up or is destroyed

September 10, 2026

BELHAVEN, N.C. (AP) — The birds are up with the sunrise — warblers, flycatchers, sparrows and towhees calling across the treetops. Deer browse on tender buds emerging from dense shrubs. Black bears scrounge for roots, insects and other edibles. It’s an idyllic setting in North ...

Republicans begin two-day midterm convention billed as a ‘Trump-a-Palooza’

September 10, 2026

DALLAS (AP) — Republicans opened their highly unusual midterm convention in Dallas on Wednesday afternoon, a “Trump-a-Palooza” that is putting the president at the center of this fall’s midterm elections — whether the candidates running like it or not. Many party members, including ...