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Merck has strong quarter even as COVID-19 treatment tumble 04/27/2023 08:43am • Merck beat first-quarter expectations and hiked its 2023 forecast even as sales plunged for its COVID-19 treatment and a strong dollar hurt revenue. Soaring sales of the drugmaker���s top seller, the cancer treatment Keytruda, helped counter those hits, a drop expected by analysts. Merck said Thurs San Francisco to repeal boycott of anti-LGBTQ+ states 04/27/2023 08:40am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� San Francisco is repealing a ban on city-funded travel to 30 states that it says restrict abortion, voting and LGBTQ+ rights after determining the boycott is doing more harm than good. The Board of Supervisors voted 7-4 on Tuesday to repeal a section of the city's administrati Montgomery Co. school bus drivers among biggest rule-breakers for passing stopped school buses, report finds 04/26/2023 11:37pm • In a report examining some school system-based purchases, Montgomery County���s Inspector General Megan Davey Limarzi found that 1,622 traffic citations were issued to employees operating school vehicles. And of those issued citations, 1,062 were given to school transportation employees. Accordin No release for Hawaii woman accused of using dead baby's ID 04/26/2023 07:47pm • HONOLULU (AP) ��� A woman accused with her husband of living in Hawaii under the stolen identities of dead babies will remain behind bars pending their trial, a U.S. magistrate judge ruled Wednesday. According to prosecutors, Walter Glenn Primrose and Gwynn Darle Morrison are the real names of the Twitter relaxes pot ad rules to lure in more advertisers 04/26/2023 07:00pm • Twitter under its 420-friendly owner Elon Musk earlier this year became the first major social media company to allow cannabis advertisements. Now, the platform is relaxing those rules in an attempt to lure in more advertisers from U.S. states where marijuana is legal. ���Going forward, certified a Supreme Court on ethics issues: Not broken, no fix needed 04/26/2023 04:54pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court is speaking with one voice in response to recent criticism of the justices' ethical practices: No need to fix what isn't broken. The justices' response on Tuesday struck some critics and ethics experts as tone deaf at a time of heightened attention on the justic Colorado becomes 1st to pass ���right to repair��� for farmers 04/25/2023 08:23pm • DENVER (AP) ��� Sitting in front of a hulking red tractor, Democratic Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill Tuesday making Colorado the first state to ensure farmers can fix their own tractors and combines with a ���right to repair��� law ��� which compels manufacturers to provide the necessary manuals, to Real Estate Agent vs. Realtor vs. Broker: What's the Difference? 04/25/2023 08:00pm • The process of choosing a real estate agent should be a careful one. You want to work with a professional who will not only act in your best interest, but will also effectively guide you every step of the way so you feel confident about your home sale or purchase. But when you're browsing for potent Russian spy intrigue fizzles as Hawaii stolen ID trial nears 04/25/2023 06:52pm • U.S. prosecutors who introduced Russian spy intrigue into the case of a couple accused of living for decades in Hawaii under identities stolen from dead babies are now saying they don���t want jurors to hear about photographs showing them wearing foreign uniforms. A U.S. judge granted the request la As Biden, McCarthy clash on US debt, what are differences? 04/25/2023 05:20pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� They're not quibbling about minor points. There are stark differences in how President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy want to shore up the government's finances. The Democratic president primarily wants higher taxes on the wealthy to lower deficits; the GOP congressio 'Almost authoritarian:' Hawaii's Cold War speech law may go 04/25/2023 04:44pm • HONOLULU (AP) ��� A Cold War-era law in Hawaii that allows authorities to impose sweeping restrictions on press freedoms and electronic communications during a state of emergency could soon be repealed by lawmakers over concerns about its constitutionality and potential misuse. Those who are worrie How 'Perry Mason' captured 1930s Los Angeles, race divisions 04/25/2023 02:36pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Early in the second season finale of ���Perry Mason,��� which aired Monday, the titular character pulls up on his motorcycle to Los Angeles City Hall and pauses for a long moment. He stares up at the edifice, as if sizing up an opponent, before walking in with hopes to intercede East Palestine families living in limbo months after fire 04/25/2023 12:04pm • EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) ��� Jeff Drummond spends days and nights alone in a tiny room with fake wood paneling, two small beds and a microwave atop a mini refrigerator that serves as a nightstand ��� his pickup truck parked just outside the door at the roadside motel where he's taken refuge since e Coalition to Save Historic Thoroughfare calls for Justice Department probe into alleged desecration of Va. cemeteries 04/25/2023 07:42am • This article was written by WTOP���s news partner��InsideNoVa.com��and republished with permission. Sign up for��InsideNoVa.com���s free email subscription��today. The Coalition to Save Historic Thoroughfare is asking for the U.S. Department of Justice to step into a dispute with The Farm Brewery a Respiratory therapist pleads guilty in deaths of 2 patients 04/24/2023 01:56pm • CHILLICOTHE, Mo. (AP) ��� A former respiratory therapist has pleaded guilty in the deaths of two patients at a Missouri hospital two decades ago. Jennifer Hall, 42, initially was charged with two counts of first-degree murder but pleaded guilty instead Friday to reduced first-degree involuntary man