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Texas women denied abortions give emotional accounts in court, ask judge to clarify law 07/19/2023 07:52pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — For the first time since Roe v. Wade was overturned, Texas women who were denied abortions testified in a court Wednesday of carrying babies they knew would not survive and continuing pregnancies that put their health in worsening danger. Their detailed accounts in a crowded Phillies doctors recommend elbow surgery for top prospect Andrew Painter 07/19/2023 07:37pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Phillies medical staff has recommended right-handed pitching prospect Andrew Painter have surgery on his right elbow. The team said Wednesday that a UCL reconstruction on Painter's elbow was advised along with ulnar nerve transposition surgery. The 20-year-old Sanders will miss Pac-12 media day for surgeries to remove clot in right leg, fix toes on left foot 07/19/2023 06:07pm • Deion Sanders will miss Pac-12 media day due to a procedure to remove a blood clot from his right leg and another to straighten toes on his left foot. The first-year Colorado coach announced his latest medical update in an Instagram post on Wednesday. He's scheduled to have surgery Thursday. Media d Maine governor expands access to abortion later in pregnancy 07/19/2023 04:39pm • AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine will soon expand abortion access, joining a half dozen states that leave it to doctors and patients to make the decision without restrictions on timing. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills signed a bill into law Wednesday that allows abortions at any time if deemed medically ne A powerful storm sweeps Balkans region after days of heat, killing at least 5 people 07/19/2023 04:19pm • ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A powerful storm hit the Balkans with strong winds and heavy rain Wednesday, killing at least five people in Croatia, Bosnia and Slovenia and injuring dozens, police and local media outlets said. The storm was the second in two days to sweep over the region following a stri Masks are out at In-N-Out after burger chain bans employees from wearing them in 5 states 07/19/2023 02:51pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The In-N-Out burger chain will bar employees in five states from wearing masks unless they have a doctor's note, according to internal company emails leaked on social media. In the memo announcing new guidelines for Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Texas and Utah workers, the fast food c As the planet warms, scientists worry that cases of infectious diseases could spike 07/19/2023 02:27pm • NEW YORK (AP) — People around the world are living longer, healthier lives than they were just half a century ago. Climate change threatens to undo that progress. Across the planet, animals — and the diseases they carry — are shifting to accommodate a globe on the fritz. And they’re not al Escalating violence in Congo displaces more people and demands urgent response, UN and aid group say 07/19/2023 10:37am • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The United Nations warned that violence in northeastern Congo has escalated significantly, with more than 40 civilians killed in three days. More than 600 people have been killed and 345,000 displaced in Ituri province so far this year, according to Stephane Dujarric, a Unite Kosovo's former intelligence chief is convicted for secret deportations to Turkey 07/19/2023 10:36am • PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A court sentenced Kosovo's former intelligence chief to prison Wednesday for secretly deporting five Turkish teachers and a Turkish doctor to Turkey. The court in Pristina convicted Driton Gashi, the former director of the Kosovo Intelligence Agency, of abuse of official po Revolving Door: DEA’s No.2 quits amid reports of previous consulting work for Big Pharma 07/19/2023 08:41am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s second-in-command has quietly stepped down amid reporting by The Associated Press that he once consulted for a pharmaceutical distributor sanctioned for a deluge of suspicious painkiller shipments and did similar work for the drugmaker UK’s governing Conservatives face a reckoning with voters in 3 special elections 07/19/2023 04:48am • LONDON (AP) — Bad things may come in threes for British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, whose Conservative Party faces a trio of unwanted verdicts from voters this week. The U.K. is holding three special elections for House of Commons seats on Thursday that will let a broad cross-section of voters — 'Oppenheimer' stirs up conflicted history for Los Alamos and New Mexico downwinders 07/19/2023 01:12am • LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — The movie about a man who changed the course of the world’s history by shepherding the development of the first atomic bomb is expected to be a blockbuster, dramatic and full of suspense. On the sidelines will be a community downwind from the testing site in the southern Tobi Amusan, women's record holder in 100 hurdles, charged with missing 3 drug tests 07/19/2023 12:32am • World-record hurdler Tobi Amusan says she has been charged with an anti-doping rules violation for missing three drug tests in the span of 12 months. The Nigerian posted the news on her Instagram account Tuesday and said she would fight the charges. “I am a CLEAN athlete, and I am regularly (may Virginia finalizes guidance on transgender students, including rolling back some accommodations 07/18/2023 07:47pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's administration said Tuesday that it has finalized new policies on the treatment of transgender students, guidance that will direct school districts to roll back some current accommodations and increase parental notification requirements about cer 1st lawsuit filed against Pat Fitzgerald and Northwestern leaders stemming from a hazing scandal 07/18/2023 06:44pm • A former Northwestern football player filed the first lawsuit against Pat Fitzgerald and members of the school's leadership, seeking damages stemming from a hazing scandal that cost the former football coach his job. The player, identified in the lawsuit as John Doe, alleged Tuesday in the Cook Coun