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Iowa, naturalized citizens settle lawsuit over voter eligibility ahead of 2024 election

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s top election official and a group of naturalized citizens settled a federal lawsuit Wednesday that will prevent the state from relying exclusively on driver’s license records for citizenship data in the three months before an election. The naturalized U.S. citizens sued Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate in late October 2024, alleging he infringed on their rights to vote when he directed election workers to challenge ballots from about 2,000 registered voters in an attempt to prevent people officials identified as possible noncitizens from ...

Winter drilling program in Alaska petroleum preserve can proceed, judge rules

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — ConocoPhillips Alaska can proceed with an oil and gas exploration program in a portion of a vast petroleum reserve in the state after a federal judge refused to block the project, denying a request by opponents who said it was improperly analyzed by the U.S. government ...

Maine’s ‘lobster lady’ Virginia Oliver, who worked decades in the lobster industry, dies at 105

(AP) — Virginia Oliver, one of the oldest lobster fishers in the world who trapped crustaceans in Maine for nearly a century, has died. She was 105. Born in Rockland, Maine, Oliver started trapping lobsters at age 8 alongside her father and older brother at a time when few women worked on the water in the male-dominated industry. She fell in love with the business and went on to become known as the “lobster lady” as she faithfully tended traps for decades “I like doing it, I like being along the water,” she told The Associated Press in 2021. “And so I’m going to keep on ...