BOISE, Idaho — Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador cast doubts on doctors’ claims that they’re transferring an increasing number of patients out of state for care to comply with the state’s strict abortion laws.

The claims were central to a U.S. Supreme Court hearing Wednesday that will determine whether Idaho abortion law conflicts with the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA. In amicus briefs filed for the case, and in interviews with the Idaho Statesman and other news outlets, doctors and the state’s largest health care provider, St. Luke’s, described emergency situations that prompted the transfer of patients out of state to seek abortions.

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Former Daytona 500 winner McDowell will leave Front Row Motorsports at the end of NASCAR season
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Former Daytona 500 winner McDowell will leave Front Row Motorsports at the end of NASCAR season

  • By JENNA FRYER - AP Auto Racing Writer

Former Daytona 500 winner Michael McDowell says he will not return to Front Row Motorsports after this season. The 39-year-old has been with Front Row Motorsports since 2018. McDowell won the Daytona 500 in 2021 and last year’s Cup race on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course driving the No. 34 Ford for Front Row. He said he’s not retiring and is looking for a new seat in the Cup Series.

Advocates ask Supreme Court to back Louisiana's new mostly Black House district
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Advocates ask Supreme Court to back Louisiana's new mostly Black House district

  • By KEVIN McGILL - Associated Press

Voting rights advocates have filed an emergency motion asking the Supreme Court to keep in place a new Louisiana congressional map that gives the state a second majority Black district. Wednesday’s Supreme Court filing seeks to block an April 30 ruling from a divided panel of federal judges. The majority ruled that the map passed by lawmakers in January was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. But advocates want to keep the map during the appeals. Gov. Jeff Landry and Attorney Gen. Liz Murrill, both Republicans, also back the map and Murrill has said she will appeal too.

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Movie review: 'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' an exciting new world for franchise

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Since Charlton Heston first gazed upon the remnants of the Statue of Liberty emerging from a sandy beach in horror, 56 years ago, the “Planet of the Apes” movies have been extremely popular with moviegoing audiences. The appeal of these earnest, big-budget spectacle movies is the opportunity…

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Judge Cannon delays Trump’s documents trial. Will it be held before Election Day?

  • Jay Weaver - Miami Herald (TNS)

The odds against Donald Trump facing trial before the presidential election on charges of withholding classified documents from the government at his Palm Beach estate rose dramatically Tuesday when a federal judge indefinitely postponed the former president’s originally scheduled May 20 trial.

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Prada focuses generational transition on artisans, expanding production and workforce in Italy

  • By COLLEEN BARRY - AP Business Writer

The Prada Group is expanding its production footprint in Italy, including dozens of new jobs at its knitwear factory in Umbria, leaning into “Made in Italy” as integral to the brand’s ethos. It's also developing new artisanal talent to ease the luxury group through a generational shift in its management. Prada CEO Andrea Guerra, who was brought in last year as part of the generational change in family-run Prada’s management, said at an unveiling of the plant that the company is investing 60 million euros in production this year.

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Court of Appeals agrees to consider DA removal in Trump Georgia election case

  • Bill Rankin, Tamar Hallerman and David Wickert - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS)

ATLANTA — The Georgia Court of Appeals on Wednesday decided to hear an appeal of a judge’s ruling allowing District Attorney Fani Willis to remain at the helm of Fulton County’s election interference case against former President Donald Trump.

In the NIL landscape, schools are turning to companies to train and manage in-house general managers
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In the NIL landscape, schools are turning to companies to train and manage in-house general managers

  • By LARRY LAGE - AP Sports Writer

Athletic departments across the country are trying to figure out the best way to manage the name, image and likeness landscape when it comes to athletes earning endorsement money. Michigan is the 18th school to hire a NIL general manager in a partnership with Altius Sports Partners. It will give the company more than $250,000 a year  Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel says it’s the right time to bring in a company that has had three years to develop strategies and NIL connections.

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Hollier campaign claims 'bad faith' in Thanedar's bid to block him from ballot

  • Melissa Nann Burke - The Detroit News (TNS)

DETROIT — U.S. House candidate Adam Hollier of Detroit says hundreds of challenges to his individual petition signatures made by U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar are "baseless," saying the congressman acted in "bad faith" and with the "clear" attempt to disenfranchise Black voters across Michigan's 1…

Osaka plays solidly in her opening match at the Italian Open. Darderi eliminates Shapovalov
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Osaka plays solidly in her opening match at the Italian Open. Darderi eliminates Shapovalov

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Naomi Osaka looked comfortable in her opening match at the Italian Open. She beat 45th-ranked Clara Burel 7-6 (2), 6-1. It was Osaka’s first victory over a top-50 player on clay since defeating Victoria Azarenka at the 2019 French Open. Argentine-born Italian Luciano Darderi had strong crowd support in a 6-7 (4), 6-3, 7-6 (4) victory over Denis Shapovalov on Campo Centrale. Rafael Nadal opens against Belgian qualifier Zizou Bergs on Thursday. Top-ranked Novak Djokovicis also back in Rome after a month out.

PSG faces a difficult rebuilding task without Mbappé as the curtain falls on superstar era
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PSG faces a difficult rebuilding task without Mbappé as the curtain falls on superstar era

  • By JEROME PUGMIRE - AP Sports Writer

Kylian Mbappé will become the latest expensive superstar to leave Paris Saint-Germain without a Champions League title. The question now for the French club is how to rebuild without its record scorer: keep pouring money on big-name signings or find another way to compete with Europe’s best? Replacing him will be difficult, no matter how much money the club spends. The France forward has scored 255 goals for PSG, and his prolific output helped deliver six league titles in seven years. But it also often masked glaring deficiencies that were exposed at the highest level in the Champions League. Club president Nasser Al-Khelaifi has many key decisions to make as PSG kicks off its new era.

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Pakistani security forces kill 6 militants in twin raids in volatile northwest near Afghanistan

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Pakistan's military says its security forces have killed six militants in twin raids in the volatile northwest region bordering Afghanistan. In a statement Wednesday, it said five militants were killed in the first raid in Dera Ismail Khan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Another militant was killed in the second raid in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the northwest. It provided no further details about the slain men. However, such operations often target the Pakistani Taliban, which are a separate group but a close ally of the Afghan Taliban who seized power in Afghanistan in 2021.

Families of the victims of attacks on displaced people in Congo mourn their dead
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Families of the victims of attacks on displaced people in Congo mourn their dead

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Families of the victims of last week's bombings at two camps of displaced people in eastern Congo, which killed at least sixteen people, have mourned their loved ones at a ceremony in the city of Goma. Among them was Alimeti Kigiho, who survived the attack but lost his wife and two young children, aged 6 and 2. “War has taken everything from me,” he told the Associated Press. M23, a rebel group with alleged links to Rwanda, and the Congolese army blame each other for the attacks.

Travis Kelce lines up another TV job joining FX's 'American Horror Story: Grotesquerie' season
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Travis Kelce lines up another TV job joining FX's 'American Horror Story: Grotesquerie' season

  • By ALICIA RANCILIO - Associated Press

Travis Kelce continues to work in the NFL off season. The Super Bowl winner has booked a role on “American Horror Story: Grotesquerie.” Fellow cast member Niecy Nash posted a series of Instagram stories Tuesday of her and Kelce on set. In one video, the show's creator, Ryan Murphy, embraces Kelce and says, “You were wonderful.” This is the second TV job for Kelce in recent months. He wrapped production as host of the new game show “Are You Smarter than a Celebrity?” for Prime Video. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end is dating music superstar Taylor Swift who starts the European leg of her world tour in Paris on Thursday.

Rangers reacquire switch-hitting OF Robbie Grossman in a trade with the White Sox
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Rangers reacquire switch-hitting OF Robbie Grossman in a trade with the White Sox

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The Texas Rangers have reacquired switch-hitting outfielder Robbie Grossman in a trade with the Chicago White Sox. Texas sent minor league right-hander Anthony Hoopii-Tuionetoa to Chicago in the deal Wednesday. Grossman hit .238 with 10 homers and 49 RBIs in 115 games for the Rangers last season, when they won their first World Series title. Grossman went to the White Sox on a minor league deal in free agency. He hit .211 in 19 games, but was batting .375 against left-handed pitchers. Rangers rookie outfielder Wyatt Langford could be out a month after going on the injured list this week with a strained right hamstring.

Thomas takes biggest road win of his career on Giro stage 5 as Pocagar keeps leader's pink jersey
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Thomas takes biggest road win of his career on Giro stage 5 as Pocagar keeps leader's pink jersey

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Benjamin Thomas of France got the biggest victory of his career on the road as he won the fifth stage of the Giro d’Italia while Tadej Pogacar kept the leader’s pink jersey. Thomas surprisingly won from a breakaway as he sprinted to edge out Michael Valgren and Andrea Pietrobon at the end of the undulating 178-kilometer (111-mile) route from Genoa to Lucca. The 28-year-old Thomas, who lives in Italy, is a four-time world champion on the track but had never won a stage in a grand tour. Pogacar remains 46 seconds ahead of Geraint Thomas and 47 seconds ahead of Daniel Martinez.

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Mexico hit by hours of rolling blackouts due to high temperatures and low power generation

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Mexico has been hit by hours of rolling blackouts late Tuesday due to high temperatures and temporary drops in electrical power generation. The government’s National Center for Energy Control said the blackouts lasted a total of about five hours, though it was likely less for individual customers because it was a rolling blackout distributed around the country. The center said the largest power cut affected about 5% of customers, and lasted about four hours. Mexico has broken several high temperature records this year, with about a third of the country expected to reach 113 degrees Fahrenheit, or 45 degrees Celsius, on Wednesday.

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Dogs entering US must be 6 months old and microchipped to prevent spread of rabies, new rules say

  • By MIKE STOBBE - AP Medical Writer

New U.S. rules require all dogs coming into the U.S. to be at least 6 months old and microchipped to help prevent the spread of rabies. The new rules published Wednesday require vaccination for dogs that have been in countries where rabies is common. The regulations apply to dogs brought in by breeders or rescue groups as well as pets traveling with their U.S. owners. Worries about rabies resulted in a temporary order in 2021, suspending the importation of dogs from more than 100 countries. The new rules take effect on Aug. 1, as the temporary order expires.

EU reaches a tentative deal on Ukraine aid coming from profits of frozen Russian assets
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EU reaches a tentative deal on Ukraine aid coming from profits of frozen Russian assets

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European Union nations have reached a tentative breakthrough deal to provide Ukraine with billions in additional funds for arms and ammunitions coming from the profits raised from frozen Russian central bank assets held in the bloc. The agreement among the 27 EU ambassadors came after weeks of tough negotiations that were made more complicated by the stringent financial limits on using such funds. It should free up to 3 billion euros a year for Kyiv, of which 90% could be spent on ammunition and other military equipment. The EU is holding around 210 billion euros in Russian central bank assets.

Kai Cenat's riot charges dropped after he apologizes and pays for Union Square mayhem
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Kai Cenat's riot charges dropped after he apologizes and pays for Union Square mayhem

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Charges of inciting a riot will be dropped against streamer Kai Cenat after he agreed to pay restitution and apologize for luring thousands of fans to New York’s Union Square last year. Prosecutors say the 22-year-old Cenat and two codefendants agreed to pay more than $57,000 in restitution and apologize for the Aug. 4 mayhem. Thousands of fans showed up after Cenat announced that he would be in Union Square giving away video game consoles. Teenagers bashed car windows, climbed on buses, threw paint cans and set off fire extinguishers. Cenat apologized on Snapchat on Tuesday for “the disruption and damage to the community."

Kosovo backs Ukraine even though Kyiv has not recognized its independence, foreign minister says
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Kosovo backs Ukraine even though Kyiv has not recognized its independence, foreign minister says

  • By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Kosovo’s foreign minister says her country is convinced that Russia must lose the war in Ukraine for conflict not to spread further in Europe. She also said in an interview with The Associated Press that her young nation’s support for Ukraine is unconditional even though Kyiv has not recognized Kosovo’s independence. Donika Gërvalla-Schwarz, Kosovo’s foreign minister and deputy prime minister, said her small Baltic nation — which declared its independence from Serbia in 2008 — is constantly reminded of the aggressive intentions of Russia, Serbia’s key ally.

Movie Review: 'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' finds a new hero and will blow your mind
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Movie Review: 'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' finds a new hero and will blow your mind

  • By MARK KENNEDY - AP Entertainment Writer

Fans of the “Planet of the Apes” franchise may still be mourning the 2017 death of Caesar, the charismatic ape leader. Not to worry: He haunts the next episode, “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.” Associated Press critic Mark Kennedy calls the new movie thrilling. Screenwriter Josh Friedman has cleverly created a movie that examines how ancient stories can be hijacked and manipulated, like how Caesar’s non-violent message gets twisted by bad actors. Unlike the last movie which dealt with man’s inhumanity to animals — concentration camps included — ape-on-ape violence is in the cards for this one. The PG-13 movie hits theaters starting Friday.

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Lithuania defends banning Russian and Belarusian observers from monitoring upcoming election

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Lithuania has defended the decision not to allow Russian and Belarusian observers to monitor its upcoming presidential election, accusing both countries of spearheading campaigns that “pose a threat to our national security.” The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe — which includes Lithuania, Russia and Belarus — usually sends multi-national observer teams to watch its member states’ elections. Sunday's election comes at a time when Russia is making gains on the battlefield in Ukraine fueling fears across all of Europe and especially in the strategically important Baltic region. Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry said Wednesday the country had invited OSCE observers to monitor the election “except for the aggressor Russia and its supporter Belarus.”

The opening round of the Wells Fargo Championship is delayed with rain in the forecast
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The opening round of the Wells Fargo Championship is delayed with rain in the forecast

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The opening round of the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow Club on Thursday will be delayed with rain in the forecast. The start of the first round was set for 11 a.m. because of heavy rain expected to move through the area in the morning. Tournaments typically begin around 8 a.m. Wyndham Clark is the defending champion. Masters champion and world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is not playing because of the impending birth of his first child.

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2 young children die after being swept away by fast-flowing California creek

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Two young siblings died after being swept away by a rapidly flowing creek in Southern California’s San Bernardino Mountains. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department says the tragedy occurred Tuesday when a mother took her 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son to spend the afternoon at a picnic area on Highway 38 near Mill Creek. They were playing along the creek when at one point the mother was attending to her son and her daughter was taken downstream. The department says the mother unsuccessfully searched for the girl and then returned to discover her son was also gone. Rescue crew later found both children, who were pronounced dead at hospitals despite extensive efforts to save their lives.

Republicans renew push to exclude noncitizens from the census that helps determine political power
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Republicans renew push to exclude noncitizens from the census that helps determine political power

  • By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press

Civil rights groups and Democratic lawmakers are concerned about a push by some House Republicans to include a citizenship question on the once-a-decade census. The legislation facing an expected House vote later Wednesday would eliminate people who aren’t citizens from the head count that helps determine political power in the United States. A similar attempt failed before the last census in 2020 and was promoted by the Trump administration. The GOP bill is unlikely to pass the Democratic-controlled and the White House opposes it. But opponents are still concerned that the legislation could get this far in the Republican-led House.