By RYAN J. FOLEY (IOWA CITY, Iowa, AP) — State legislators are pushing to make it much harder to release police officer body camera videos, undermining their promise as a… Read more »

By TOM COYNE (SOUTH BEND, Ind., AP) — Carrie Swing wasn’t alarmed when her fifth-grade daughter, Ivy, spent a day in a first-grade classroom at her San Francisco school, filling… Read more »

(NEW YORK, AP) — The first direct charter flights between New York City and Cuba are now taking off. Cuba Travel Services has started offering a weekly Tuesday charter between… Read more »

By KELLY CATALFAMO and MICHELLE L. PRICE (SALT LAKE CITY, AP) — Utah — the only state in the past 40 years to carry out a death sentence by firing squad… Read more »

By MELISSA NELSON-GABRIEL (PENSACOLA, Fla., AP) — Seven Marines and four soldiers aboard an Army helicopter that crashed over waters off Florida during a routine night training mission were presumed… Read more »

By JONATHAN MATTISE and NICHOLAS RICCARDI (CHARLESTON, W.Va., AP) — It’s not just Gov. Scott Walker. Republican lawmakers in statehouses nationwide are working to weaken organized labor, sometimes with efforts that… Read more »

By JESSE J. HOLLAND (WASHINGTON, AP) — In only a few minutes on national television, the beatings of civil rights marchers by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma,… Read more »

(CHARLOTTE, N.C., AP) — Former CIA Director David Petraeus has agreed to plead guilty to mishandling classified materials, the Justice Department said Tuesday. A Justice Department statement says a plea… Read more »

By DEEPTI HAJELA (NEW YORK, AP) — Two men arrested on charges of plotting to help the Islamic State group were vocal both online and in personal conversations about their… Read more »

By JAMIE STENGLE (STEPHENVILLE, Texas, AP) — A Texas jury has rejected the insanity defense of a former Marine in the deaths of famed “American Sniper” author Chris Kyle and… Read more »