• Associated Press

    Officers who defended the Capitol fight falsehoods about Jan. 6 and campaign for Joe Biden

    Former Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell is mostly recovered from the brutal assaults he endured from Donald Trump’s supporters on Jan. 6, 2021. Gonell struggled when he heard that former Trump visited Capitol Hill last month and received what he called a “hero’s welcome” from the Republican lawmakers Gonell had protected that day, and when Trump falsely told millions of viewers in last week’s debate that many of the violent rioters, his supporters, “were ushered in by the police.”

  • Associated Press

    Kansas’ top court rejects 2 anti-abortion laws, bolstering a state right to abortion access

    Kansas’ highest court on Friday struck down state laws regulating abortion providers more strictly than other health care providers and banning a common second-trimester procedure, reaffirming its stance that the state constitution protects abortion access. The Kansas Supreme Court’s rulings in two separate cases signal that the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature faces stricter limits on regulating abortion than GOP lawmakers thought and suggests other restrictions could fall. Lawsuits in lower state courts already are challenging restrictions on medication abortions, a ban on doctors using teleconferences to meet with patients, rules for what doctors must tell patients before an abortion and a requirement that patients wait 24 hours after receiving information about a procedure to terminate their pregnancies.

  • PA Media: UK News

    Ex-police watchdog chief raped girl, 14, while seeing another victim, court told

    Michael Lockwood, 65, denies the charges against him.