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Women settle lawsuits after Yale fertility nurse switched painkiller for saline 09/09/2024 03:14pm • NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Dozens of women who say they suffered excruciating pain at a Yale University fertility clinic because a nurse stole fentanyl for her own use and replaced it with saline have settled their lawsuits against the Ivy League school. Patients and their lawyers announced the settl A mural honoring scientists hung in Pfizer's NYC lobby for 60 years. Now it's up for grabs 09/09/2024 02:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A mural honoring ancient and modern figures in medicine that has hung in the lobby of Pfizer’s original New York City headquarters for more than 60 years could soon end up in pieces if conservationists can’t find a new home for it in the next few weeks. “Medical Research Thro France captain Mbappé on bench vs. Belgium in Nations League 09/09/2024 01:57pm • LYON, France (AP) — France captain Kylian Mbappé was left out of the starting lineup to play Belgium on Monday in the UEFA Nations League. Mbappé played the full game in a 3-1 loss to Italy in Paris on Friday and coach Didier Deschamps changed the entire forward line to face Belgium in Lyon. Mba Prince William County school board denies petition to remove popular book from circulation 09/09/2024 01:51pm • The Prince William County School Board has upheld a recommendation by the superintendent and division-level committee that the book "A Court of Thorns and Roses" remain in circulation for high school students, denying a petitioner's request to remove the book. A county parent, Chris Funderburg, f A federal judge tosses a lawsuit over the ban on recorded inmate interviews in South Carolina 09/09/2024 01:29pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit trying to overturn the South Carolina prison system's banning on-camera, in-person interviews with inmates or recording their phone calls for broadcast. The American Civil Liberties Union wanted to air a podcast with a death row inmate DC sniper Lee Boyd Malvo transferred from Virginia supermax prison 09/09/2024 01:05pm • Convicted D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, who killed 10 people in October 2002, has been transferred from Virginia's supermax prison, Red Onion State Prison, to Keen Mountain Correctional Center, WTOP has learned. Malvo was 17 when he committed the crimes, and was arrested with John Allen Muhammad, a Read the transcript of Kate's video announcement about her cancer treatment 09/09/2024 12:46pm • LONDON (AP) — Kate, Princess of Wales, has released a video saying she has completed her chemotherapy treatment for cancer. She announced in March that she had been diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer that was detected after abdominal surgery earlier in the year and would begin the treatm Cyprus and the US sign a defense deal outlining ways to tackle regional crises 09/09/2024 12:38pm • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus and the United States have signed a defense cooperation framework agreement that outlines ways the two countries can enhance their response to regional humanitarian crises and security concerns, including those arising from climate change. Cyprus Defense Minister Vass SEC settles with 7 companies it says violated whistleblower protection rules 09/09/2024 12:31pm • Seven companies settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission over charges that they violated rules protecting whistleblowers who report potential misconduct. The combined civil penalties for the seven companies totaled more than $3 million, the SEC said Monday. Among other actions, the compan Did Maryland lawmakers overstep their bounds with a law to protect abused children? 09/09/2024 11:19am • A Maryland state law that removed the limits for sexual abuse victims to accuse their abusers is facing legal challenges. That’s the crux of a case that will be in front of the Maryland Supreme Court this week as the justices hear arguments on whether the Maryland Child Victims Act is constitut D.C.-area economic outlook buoyed by record employment, residential growth 09/09/2024 11:02am • Greater Washington’s economy is showing glimmers of improvement across several key data points. Apartments are filling up, visitors are going out and a record number of residents are employed.  Those are the latest findings from CBRE’s REVIVE Regional Vibrancy Index charting the D.C. area's e Vietnam storm deaths rise to 64 as a bridge collapses and flooding sweeps away a bus 09/09/2024 10:58am • HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A bridge collapsed and a bus was swept away by flooding in Vietnam on Monday, raising the death toll in the Southeast Asian country to at least 64 from a typhoon and subsequent heavy rains that also damaged factories in export-focused northern industrial hubs, state media rep Poland thanks military dogs for their service by giving them army ranks 09/09/2024 10:54am • NOWY DWOR MAZOWIECKI, Poland (AP) — The new privates received their ranks amid military pomp in a town near Warsaw where a Napoleonic fortress attests to a long military history. The group was made up of a German shepherd, a Dutch shepherd and two Belgian Malinois. The dogs — Einar, Eliot, Enzo Iowa judge rules against Libertarian candidates, keeping their names off the ballot for Congress 09/09/2024 10:49am • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Three Libertarian candidates seeking U.S. House seats in Iowa will not appear on the ballot this November following a judge's ruling Saturday, upholding a state election panel’s decision. The ruling came in an appeal by the candidates after the State Objection Panel, comp Book Review: ‘Category Five’ examines superstorms amid compelling personal memoir 09/09/2024 10:24am • I graduated from Middlebury College with Porter Fox just over 30 years ago. We weren’t friends, but it was a small campus and everyone knew something about everybody else. I knew he sailed and wore L.L. Bean like a native Mainer. I didn’t know that he’d spend a good chunk of his career as a jo