A Nebraska lawmaker is facing calls for his resignation after reading a graphic account of rape that included a colleague's name on the floor of the Nebraska Legislature. Republican Sen. Steve …
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By MARGERY A. BECK
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3/19/24
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New research shows that more than six in 10 of the abortions in the United States last year were done through medication. That's up from 53% in 2020. The Guttmacher Institute is a research group that …
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By LAURA UNGAR
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3/19/24
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The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that a pharmacist engaged in sex-based discrimination when he refused to provide emergency contraception to a woman in 2019. This comes less than two years …
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By TRISHA AHMED
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3/19/24
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The Los Angeles Dodgers showcased splashy signings Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, but other teams focused on the fact that pricey payrolls don’t translate into titles very often. …
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By RONALD BLUM
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3/19/24
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A new report warns that famine is imminent in Gaza as fighting between Israel and Hamas continues. Aid groups say that 1.4 million people in Haiti are on the verge of famine. Famine occurs when …
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By JONEL ALECCIA
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3/19/24
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Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro has reported to prison to begin serving his sentence for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the …
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By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
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3/19/24
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Tracking the changes upending college sports can be as frenetic as keeping up during the first week of March Madness. Ultimately, those changes could impact what America’s favorite basketball …
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By EDDIE PELLS
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3/19/24
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Over the last two years, the quiet city of Antioch, California, has been wrestling with its long and complicated history of discrimination against early Chinese immigrants during the gold rush. This …
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By TERRY TANG and DEEPA BHARATH
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3/19/24
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Officials say a Russian border region plans to evacuate some 9,000 children from the area that is being continuously shelled from the Ukrainian side. Kyiv’s forces have been increasingly striking …
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By The Associated Press
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3/19/24
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Medicaid recipients in Wisconsin are getting access to the first over-the-counter birth control pill. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers says Opill will start becoming available in some Medicaid-enrolled …
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By SCOTT BAUER
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3/19/24
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Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men will be sentenced by a federal judge starting Tuesday. U.S. …
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By MICHAEL GOLDBERG
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3/19/24
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Former President Donald Trump on Monday charged that Jews who vote for Democrats “hate Israel” and hate “their religion,” igniting a firestorm of criticism from the White House and Jewish …
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By JILL COLVIN
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3/18/24
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Lawyers for a Georgia man who's set to be executed this week say he should not be put to death because he is is intellectually disabled and feels remorse for killing his former girlfriend three …
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By JEFF MARTIN
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3/18/24
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Former President Donald Trump and other defendants in Georgia’s election interference case are seeking to appeal a judge’s ruling not to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis …
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3/18/24
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Hawaii’s attorney general is blaming a delay of the release of a key report into a deadly Maui wildfire on county agencies that forced investigators to issue subpoenas. Investigators have needed to …
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By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER
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3/18/24
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Ohio mom who left toddler alone 10 days when she went on vacation pleads guilty to aggravated murder
An Ohio mother whose 16-month-old daughter died after being left home alone in a playpen for 10 days last summer while she went on vacation has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of …
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3/18/24
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Reactions as Vladimir Putin secures a fifth term as Russia's president after tightly controlled vote
Vladimir Putin has secured an unprecedented fifth term as president of Russia. The election commission announced the results of a vote in which he faced no serious challenges and which happened amid …
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The Associated Press
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3/18/24
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An Afghan refugee has been found guilty of first-degree murder in one of three fatal shootings that shook Albuquerque’s Muslim community during the summer of 2022. Jurors returned the verdict …
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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN
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3/18/24
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Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men will be sentenced by a federal judge starting Tuesday. U.S. …
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By MICHAEL GOLDBERG
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3/18/24
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Writer and actor Kate Taney Billingsley has been thinking a lot about America’s racial history and her family’s part in it. Billingsley’s great-great-great-great uncle was Chief Justice Roger …
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By MARK KENNEDY
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3/18/24
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