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Harvey Weinstein rape conviction overturned by NY Court of Appeals
In a dramatic reversal of the nation's landmark #MeToo trial, a New York appeals court on Thursday overturned the sex ... Read More
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Arizona’s 1864 abortion law was made in a women’s rights desert – here’s what life was like then
Dora Juhl, a 15-year-old teenager, walked into Dr. Rosa Goodrich Boido’s obstetrical practice in Phoenix in January 1918. Juhl wanted to end her pregnancy.
But abortion was illegal in Arizona.
Boido, ...Read more
Large retailers don’t have smokestacks, but they generate a lot of pollution − and states are starting to regulate it
Did you receive a mail-order package this week? Carriers in the U.S. shipped 64 packages for every American in 2022, so it’s quite possible.
That commerce reflects the expansion of large-scale retail in recent...Read more
Census change will lead to more data on health of Middle Eastern, North African people in US
Before the successful, healthy birth of her son, recalls Germine Awad — an Egyptian American who is a psychologist at the University of Michigan — clinicians told her that her hormone levels were too high and that her ...Read more
Holdout states consider expanding Medicaid -- with work requirements
In Humphreys County, Mississippi — about 70 miles north of the state capital, in the heart of the fertile Delta region — a third of the residents live in poverty. In Belzoni, the county seat, there are just a handful ...Read more
SC has a teacher shortage. But teachers who leave can be blackballed from coming back
COLUMBIA, S.C -- South Carolina schools are suffering from a shortage of hundreds of teachers, with the number of vacancies only growing. But that hasn’t stopped the state from barring scores of teachers who may want to ...Read more
After 25 years of selling tamales in Chicago, an undocumented immigrant mother returns to Mexico without her family
Claudia Perez’s children could count on one hand the number of times they had seen their father cry.
The day their mother left was one of them.
Perez had worked her whole life for a dream that did not come true: Save ...Read more
He thinks his wife died in an understaffed hospital. Now he's trying to change the industry
For the past year, police Detective Tim Lillard has spent most of his waking hours unofficially investigating his wife’s death.
The question has never been exactly how Ann Picha-Lillard died on Nov. 19, 2022: She ...Read more
Rural jails turn to community health workers to help the newly released succeed
MANTI, Utah — Garrett Clark estimates he has spent about six years in the Sanpete County Jail, a plain concrete building perched on a dusty hill just outside this small, rural town where he grew up.
He blames his ...Read more
Haiti's new leaders wanted to take power in the presidential palace. Then reality hit
Members of Haiti’s new transition government, who are readying to officially assume office on Thursday, were hoping to take the oath of office on the grounds of the presidential palace, the symbol of power even if the ...Read more
Man accused of beating trans woman to death as she slept near Miami City Ballet is arrested
MIAMI — A man caught on video surveillance beating a transgender woman to death — smacking her on her head and face with a pipe as she slept Tuesday near the Miami City Ballet building in Miami Beach — has been ...Read more
Scientists confine, study Chinook at restored Snoqualmie River habitat
FALL CITY, Wash. — In newly restored river channels on the Snoqualmie, baby Chinook salmon are confined in 19 enclosures about the size of large suitcases as they munch on little crustaceans and invertebrate insects ...Read more
Spain's Sanchez threatens to quit. What are his options?
Pedro Sanchez’s decision to take several days to think about his future as Spain’s prime minister has left the euro-zone’s fourth-largest economy shrouded in political uncertainty.
The 52-year-old Socialist leader ...Read more
Will Supreme Court make Trump immune from Jan. 6 prosecution?
The Supreme Court on Thursday will hear former President Trump's claim that he is entirely immune from prosecution for all of his "official acts" during his time in the White House, including his effort to overturn his ...Read more
Key Bridge collapse: Deeper channel opens Thursday, allowing ships to leave Port of Baltimore
BALTIMORE — Ships trapped for a month behind the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge will be given a chance to leave the Port of Baltimore using an alternate shipping channel that opens Thursday morning.
The 35-...Read more
Harvey Weinstein NYC rape conviction overturned by appeals court
NEW YORK — In a bombshell ruling Thursday morning, the New York state Court of Appeals has overturned fallen movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s Manhattan rape and sex crime conviction.
The 4-3 ruling reverses a Manhattan ...Read more
California leaders asked for a Supreme Court homelessness decision. Will it backfire?
LOS ANGELES — As the nation's highest court heard arguments this week in a case expected to shape homelessness policies in the years to come, Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath listened angrily.
The case ...Read more
San Diego is now the top border region for migrant arrivals
LOS ANGELES — For the first time in decades, San Diego has become the top region along the southern border for migrant arrivals.
Migrant arrests in San Diego reached 8,989 for the week ending April 16, according to ...Read more
EPA says its new strict power plant rules will pass legal tests
WASHINGTON — The EPA on Thursday announced a series of actions to address pollution from fossil fuel power generators, including a final rule for existing coal-fired and new natural gas-fired plants that will eventually ...Read more
Minnesota state Sen. Nicole Mitchell's arrest delays votes, but DFL should keep majority despite Republican ethics probe push
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Republican Minnesota senators on Wednesday unsuccessfully pushed to speed up an ethics investigation and expulsion of a Democratic-Farmer-Labor senator facing a felony burglary charge. But for now, it ...Read more
Kansas Marine vet who breached Capitol on Jan. 6 with flag painted on head pleads guilty
A Wichita, Kansas, man who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, wearing a patriotic face mask with an American flag painted on his head has pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor.
Chad Dustin Suenram, a U.S. Marine ...Read more
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- Arizona’s 1864 abortion law was made in a women’s rights desert – here’s what life was like then
- After 25 years of selling tamales in Chicago, an undocumented immigrant mother returns to Mexico without her family
- SC has a teacher shortage. But teachers who leave can be blackballed from coming back
- He thinks his wife died in an understaffed hospital. Now he's trying to change the industry
- Rural jails turn to community health workers to help the newly released succeed
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