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The Biden administration finalized sweeping Title IX rules barring discrimination against transgender students and ordering a new system for sexual assault claims.

A JetBlue flight was starting its takeoff roll at Reagan Washington National Airport when an air traffic controller instructed a Southwest Airlines flight to cross the same runway, the FAA said.

Friday’s vote produced a seldom-seen outcome in the typically hyper-partisan House, with Democrats helping Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan advance 316-94.

The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission says the video, recorded Tuesday, shows the group of people at an apartment complex grabbing the cubs from a tree.

Tensions remain high in the wider Middle East after Iran’s unprecedented missile-and-drone attack on Israel.

The arrests came one day after Columbia’s president, Nemat Shafik, and other university leaders were questioned in a Congress hearing about campus protests and antisemitism.

A group of lawmakers from six states have worked on the first major proposals to reign in bias in AI decision making.

Supporters and critics agree on one thing: Modi has achieved staying power by making Hindu nationalism acceptable — desirable, even — to a nation of 1.4 billion that for decades prided itself on pluralism and secularism.

Besides showing the difficulties in seating an anonymous jury, the actions may put news organizations in the difficult position of not reporting something they heard in an open courtroom.

This is the second Palestinian attempt to become a full member of the United Nations. The Palestinians revived their bid for membership in early April, backed by the 140 countries that have recognized Palestine as an independent state.

Judges have dumped plaintiff experts. BP has fought every case. And lawyers sometimes have done a poor job representing clients.

Instead of spending the money on new addiction treatment and prevention services they couldn’t afford before, some jurisdictions are using it to replace existing funding and stretch tight budgets.

The Biden administration is moving to let conservationists lease government land for restoration, part of an effort to make conservation an “equal” to other uses of public lands such as drilling and livestock grazing.

Kennedy Jr. played down the endorsements, writing on social media that his family was “divided in our opinions but united in our love for each other.”

The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control targeted 16 people and two entities in Iran that produce engines that powered the drones used in the April 13 attack on Israel.

Prosecutors are asking that the former president to be held in contempt and fined because of social media posts they said violated a judge’s gag order barring him from attacking witnesses.

A U.S. Air Force leader in Niger made a complaint to Congress raising alarm over the Biden administration’s reluctance to heed an exit order.

Mount Ruang on Sulawesi Island had five large eruptions Wednesday, and smoke emitted from the crater all day Thursday.

Proponents say the Senate could vote on the repeal as early as May 1.

The package totals $95.3 billion in spending, which matches the total that the Senate passed in mid-February. But there a few differences designed to win over some House conservatives.

Of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, just Newhouse and one other remain in the chamber.

The House Committee on Education and the Workforce summoned the school’s president and other leaders to testify on campus antisemitism.

On the tariff front, Chinese imports account for only a small percentage of the steel products coming into the United States, so the higher fees are largely symbolic.