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With Moldova now on the path to EU membership, the foreign minister resigns 01/24/2024 11:09am • BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Moldova’s Foreign Minister Nicu Popescu announced his resignation Wednesday, saying he needed a break from what he described as a period of difficulty, but also of achievement in the country's progress toward one day joining the European Union. Popescu, who has led the Expected Trump testimony in sex abuse defamation trial postponed to Wednesday after juror falls ill 01/22/2024 04:45pm • NEW YORK (AP) — With former President Donald Trump expected to soon take the witness stand, a juror's illness abruptly forced a two-day delay Monday of a defamation trial over his comments about E. Jean Carroll, the writer he called a liar after she claimed he sexually assaulted her in the 1990s. His presidential bid over, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum says he won't seek a third term as governor 01/22/2024 03:13pm • BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum announced Monday that he will not seek a third term as governor, over a month after he ended his bid for the GOP presidential nomination. His recent endorsement of former President Donald Trump, and Trump's praise of the little-known g New DC law allows women to bypass doctor's approval for birth control prescription 01/22/2024 05:42am • A new law in the District makes it easier for women to get a hormonal birth control prescription without visiting a doctor first. The move is part of a growing national trend. Nearly 30 states and D.C. have approved laws that allow a woman to walk into a local drugstore and get a birth control pr Ron DeSantis ends his struggling presidential bid before New Hampshire and endorses Donald Trump 01/21/2024 07:40pm • MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended his Republican presidential campaign on Sunday, ending his 2024 White House bid just before the New Hampshire primary while endorsing his bitter rival Donald Trump. The decision leaves Trump and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley as th Today in History: January 21, Supreme Court's Citizens United decision 01/21/2024 12:01am • Today in History Today is Sunday, Jan. 21, the 21st day of 2024. There are 345 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 21, 2010, a bitterly divided U.S. Supreme Court, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, vastly increased the power of big business and la Today in History: January 20, Franklin Roosevelt inaugurated on new, earlier date 01/20/2024 12:01am • Today in History Today is Saturday, Jan. 20, the 20th day of 2024. There are 346 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first chief executive to be inaugurated on Jan. 20 instead of March 4. On this date: In 1801, Sec Illness forces Delaware governor John Carney to postpone annual State of the State address 01/18/2024 01:20pm • DOVER, Del. (AP) — Democratic Gov. John Carney was forced to postpone his scheduled State of the State address on Thursday because of illness, his office said. Officials provided few details in a statement, saying only that Carney has “a fever and mild symptoms” but was in good spirits. A spok Wastewater tests can find mpox, study finds. Expect more bugs to be tracked that way 01/18/2024 01:01pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Wastewater testing does a good job at detecting mpox infections, U.S. health officials said in a report Thursday that bolsters a push to use sewage to track more diseases. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers found that over the course of a week, there was a Indigenous faithful and Christians work with environmentalists to conserve India's sacred forests 01/17/2024 11:26am • SHILLONG, India (AP) — Tambor Lyngdoh made his way through the fern-covered woodland — naming plants, trees, flowers, even stones — as if he were paying older family members a visit. The community leader and entrepreneur was a little boy when his uncle brought him here and said these words: � Yellen says current US economic growth 'vindicates' Biden's COVID-19 pandemic stimulus spending 01/17/2024 11:06am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is pushing back against Republican criticism of the Democrats' big coronavirus pandemic response package and making an election-year pitch that the current state of the U.S. economy “vindicates” the steps taken in 2021 to “get our economy bac Britain's unexpected inflation increase in December is unlikely to worry the Bank of England 01/17/2024 08:40am • LONDON (AP) — Inflation across the United Kingdom increased unexpectedly last month as a result of sharp hikes in tobacco and alcohol prices, according to official figures released Wednesday. Economists said it was unlikely to prompt concern at the Bank of England, which recently ended nearly two Today in History: January 17, Eisenhower warns of 'military-industrial complex' 01/17/2024 12:01am • Today in History Today is Wednesday, Jan. 17, the 17th day of 2024. There are 349 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 17, 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered his farewell address in which he warned against “the acquisition of unwarranted influence, wh Thai officials, accused of coddling jailed ex-PM, say not calling him 'inmate' is standard practice 01/16/2024 10:03pm • BANGKOK (AP) — Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is serving a prison sentence after being convicted of wrongdoing in office, but he shouldn't be called an inmate, the country’s Correction Department declared Tuesday. The agency felt it necessary to explain that it is not being defere Elton John achieves rare EGOT status with Emmy win for Dodger Stadium farewell concert special 01/16/2024 10:48am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elton John has achieved EGOT status. The famed British singer-pianist won an Emmy Award on Monday night for best variety special (live) for “Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium,” a three-hour concert documentary that streamed on Disney+. John said he was “incred