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Mexico decriminalizes abortion, extending Latin American trend of widening access to procedure 09/06/2023 08:23pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Mexico���s Supreme Court threw out all federal criminal penalties for abortion Wednesday, ruling that national laws prohibiting the procedure are unconstitutional and violate women���s rights in a sweeping decision that extended Latin American���s trend of widening abortion acce How to Find a Financial Advisor if You're Not Rich 09/06/2023 08:00pm • Financial advice isn't just for the wealthy. In fact, the right guidance early in your financial life can have the biggest impact on your long-term success. "Most wealthy people begin their financial journey as people with lower wealth," says Peter Casciotta, owner of Asset Management & Advisory MLB places Dodgers pitcher Julio Ur��as on administrative leave after arrest 09/06/2023 07:07pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Julio Ur��as was placed on administrative leave indefinitely by Major League Baseball on Wednesday, three days after the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher was arrested on suspicion of corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant. The leave was imposed under baseball���s joint domestic vi Unruly fans singing Nazi songs and interrupting play with shouts cause problems at US Open 09/06/2023 05:18pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Alexander Zverev felt he had to react when he heard a fan use language from Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime during his U.S. Open match. This wasn���t the type of heckling that players are prepared to face and trained to ignore. It highlighted a challenge faced by players and the U.S. Op Wisconsin Democrats combat threatened impeachment of court justice with $4M effort 09/06/2023 01:40pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� The Wisconsin Democratic Party on Wednesday launched a $4 million effort to pressure Republicans to back down from impeaching a new liberal state Supreme Court justice being targeted after she criticized GOP-drawn legislative electoral maps and spoke in favor of abortion right Complaints over campaign comments by Wisconsin Supreme Court justice are dismissed 09/06/2023 07:03am • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� A state judiciary disciplinary panel has rejected several complaints lodged against Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz that alleged she violated the judicial code of ethics for comments she made during the campaign. It's a setback to Republicans who argued thos Police, schools continue investigation into student fights after football game in Bethesda 09/05/2023 05:56pm • Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Monifa McKnight told WTOP that there are two investigations following the fights that broke out after a football game between two Bethesda high schools. One is being conducted by the school system, and the other by Montgomery County Police, who are Owner of collapsed Iowa building that killed 3 people files lawsuit blaming engineering company 09/05/2023 11:41am • DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) ��� The owner of an Iowa apartment building that collapsed in May, killing three people, has filed a lawsuit that blames an engineering company for not warning the building was structurally unsound and that residents should be evacuated. Real estate owner Andrew Wold filed the l France's Macron supports experimenting with uniforms in some schools amid debate over ban on robes 09/04/2023 03:38pm • PARIS (AP) ��� French President Emmanuel Macron opened the door Monday to experimenting in some public schools with uniforms or a dress code amid debate in France over a ban in classrooms on long robes worn mainly by Muslims. The ban on robes known as abayas for girls and women and khamis for boys Gabon's military leader is sworn in as head of state after ousting the president last week 09/04/2023 07:23am • LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) ��� Gabon 's new military leader was sworn in as the head of state Monday less than a week after ousting the president whose family had ruled the Central African nation for more than five decades. Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, took the oath in the presidential palace in Florida fishing village Horseshoe Beach hopes to maintain its charm after being walloped by Idalia 09/03/2023 03:55pm • HORSESHOE BEACH, Fla. (AP) ��� This remote seaside enclave known as ���Florida's Last Frontier��� took much of the pounding from Hurricane Idalia when it struck the state's west coast as a Category 3 storm last week. The damage left behind in the fishing village of Horseshoe Beach is exposing a gul Berlin Wall relic gets a 'second life' on US-Mexico border as Biden adds barriers 09/03/2023 01:01pm • TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) ��� As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away. The 3-ton pockmarked, gray concrete slab sits between a bullring, a lighthouse and the border wall, which extends into t Students criticize the University of North Carolina's response to an active shooter emergency 09/03/2023 12:05am • CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) ��� As sirens blared across the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and cell phones lit up with alerts of an active shooter, Micah Baldonado cried quietly at his desk while his teacher proceeded with the lecture. ���I know there's no right way to react, but I just lost More than a meal: Restaurant-based programs feed seniors' social lives 09/02/2023 08:08am • GOFFSTOWN, N.H. (AP) ��� A group of friends and neighbors meets for a weekly meal, choosing from a special menu of nutritious foods paid for by social programs meant to keep older adults eating healthy. They���re all over 60, and between enjoying butternut squash soup, sandwiches, oats and eggs, the Medicines360���s long and winding, $82 million road to create and distribute $50 birth��control 09/01/2023 03:48pm • Drugs and medical devices rarely come from the nonprofit world. There are more than 2,600 for-profit pharmaceutical companies in the United States, but only three nonprofits have products on the American market. One of them is Medicines360, which in 2015 became the first nonprofit to introduce a med