Politics

WATCH: Biden touts Pittsburgh bridge project as infrastructure win

By Chris Megerian, Associated Press

President Joe Biden has checked out the repair work underway at a Pennsylvania bridge that became a symbol of the nation’s troubled infrastructure when it collapsed nine months ago.

Jair Bolsonaro struggles to sway Brazil’s poor voters with welfare boost

By Mauricio Savarese, Associated Press

Even if it was an obvious election-year gambit, needy Brazilians are grateful for the extra 200 reais ($38) per month -- but perhaps not enough to switch their political allegiance to the far-right leader in large numbers.

WATCH: State Department holds briefing as UN decries Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories

By Jill Lawless, Associated Press

Price did not address the findings of the experts' report but reiterated standing U.S. concerns about the U.N. commission.

5 states to decide on closing slavery loopholes in voter referendums

By Kimberlee Kruesi, Associated Press

Voters in five states are deciding whether to close loopholes that allowed convict labor as an exception to slavery.

A U.S. Marine used political connections to adopt an Afghan baby, her family says. Now they’re suing to get her back.

By Juliet Linderman, Claire Galofaro, Martha Mendoza, Associated Press

An Afghan couple who arrived in the U.S. as refugees are suing a U.S. Marine and his wife for allegedly abducting their baby.

Louisiana uses a ‘jungle primary’ for its elections. What does that mean?

By Meg Kinnard, Associated Press

When they go to the polls on the general election date of Nov. 8, Louisiana voters will technically be voting in a primary that includes candidates from all corners, in a unique system unofficially called a “jungle primary.”…

WATCH: U.K. Prime Minister Truss resigns after tumultuous 6-week term

By Jill Lawless, Associated Press

British Prime Minister Liz Truss has resigned. She has bowed to the inevitable after a tumultuous term in which her policies triggered turmoil in financial markets and a rebellion in her party obliterated her authority.

Illinois vote takes center stage in battle over union rights

By Don Babwin, Associated Press

With U.S. union ranks swelling as everyone from coffee shop baristas to warehouse workers seeks to organize, Illinois voters will decide next month whether to amend their state constitution to guarantee the right to bargain collectively.

U.S. announces sanctions, criminal charges against network providing technology to Russian military

By Eric Tucker, Fatima Hussein, Associated Press

The Biden administration has announced a round of criminal charges and sanctions related to a complicated scheme to procure military technologies from U.S. manufacturers and illegally supply them to Russia for its war in Ukraine.

Medical guidance sought after radioactive contamination closes school

By Jim Salter, Associated Press

Coldwater Creek runs directly behind Jana Elementary. The creek was contaminated in the 1940s and 1950s when waste from atomic bomb material manufactured in St. Louis got into the waterway.