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Thousands protest in Poland against strict abortion law after pregnant woman died of sepsis 06/14/2023 02:56pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thousands of people demonstrated across Poland on Wednesday against the country's restrictive abortion law after a woman who was five months pregnant died of sepsis, the latest such death since a tightening of the law. The protesters vented their fury against the governing La In blow to Russian LGBTQ+ community, lawmakers weigh a bill banning gender transitioning procedures 06/14/2023 12:53pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian lawmakers gave initial approval Wednesday to a bill that would outlaw gender transitioning procedures in yet another blow to the country's beleaguered LGBTQ+ community. Senior lawmaker Pyotr Tolstoy, who is among the bill’s sponsors, has said it is intended to “ Awesome Con hosts 'Lord of the Rings' reunion 06/14/2023 12:06pm • Don't be surprised if you see folks dressed up as movie and TV characters on the Metro this week. Awesome Con is celebrating 10 years at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. In fact, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser will officially declare Friday as a citywide NFL VP Troy Vincent helps launch domestic abuse study at Niagara University 06/14/2023 12:01pm • Having spent his adult life speaking out against domestic abuse, NFL Vice President Troy Vincent recently began wondering if he needed to modify his message to reach a younger audience. What concerned him were the worrisome statistics showing gender-based violence being as prevalent — if not more Nevada GOP governor signs transgender health bills while vetoing another, bucking party trends 06/14/2023 12:34am • CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo has signed two bills related to transgender rights and vetoed another, bucking trends from other Republican governors across the country who have pushed anti-transgender policies. Lombardo's signing of a bill Monday requiring health insurance compa The Beatles are releasing their 'last' record. AI helped make it possible 06/13/2023 11:32pm • LONDON (AP) — Artificial intelligence has been used to extract John Lennon's voice from an old demo to create “the last Beatles record,” decades after the band broke up, Paul McCartney said Tuesday. McCartney, 80, told the BBC that the technology was used to separate the Beatles' voices from b Young athlete in Montana climate change trial testifies he uses inhaler due to forest fire smoke 06/13/2023 08:00pm • HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A high school athlete who along with 15 other young people took Montana to court over climate change testified Tuesday that increased smoke from forest fires makes it difficult for him to compete and that a doctor prescribed an inhaler to help his breathing problems. Mica Kant Senate just barely confirms Bernstein as Biden's economic adviser 06/13/2023 07:17pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate on Tuesday narrowly confirmed Jared Bernstein to be the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. A longtime aide to President Joe Biden and an economist focused on workers, Bernstein was confirmed by a vote of 50-49. Republican lawmakers were cri New Jersey doctor who sexually abused patients has been threatened in jail, lawyers say 06/13/2023 07:08pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A gynecologist accused of molesting hundreds of patients during a decadeslong career has faced threats and extortion in a federal jail by other inmates who know he was convicted of sex crimes, his lawyers said Tuesday in asking that he be sentenced to three years in prison, far les Flavia Franzoni, professor and wife of Italy's ex-Premier Romano Prodi, dies during hike at 76 06/13/2023 05:57pm • ROME (AP) — Flavia Franzoni, a professor of social work and the wife of former Italian Premier Romano Prodi, died Tuesday during a hike in Umbria, Italy’s rescue service said. She was 76. The Prodis and others were walking along the Via di Francesco, a popular pilgrimage route between Gubbio and Transgender and nonbinary people are often sidelined at Pride. This year is different 06/13/2023 11:11am • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Kara Murphy, a transgender woman helping to organize the Union County Pride in a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina, is heartened to see Pride celebrations across the country, big and small, shining a spotlight on transgender rights this year. “When we look and see who� Few rehab centers for addicted teens offer recommended medicine, US study finds 06/13/2023 11:06am • Only 1 in 4 residential treatment centers for teens offers a recommended medicine for opioid addiction, according to a study that exposes an important gap in care. Posing as an aunt or uncle seeking help for a fictitious 16-year-old who survived a fentanyl overdose, researchers called U.S. rehabs a Using high-tech laser gear, UN-backed team scans Ukraine historical sites to preserve them amid war 06/13/2023 05:11am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Under the plaintive painted eyes of the holy, a volunteer team of two United Nations-backed engineers watched as a whirling laser took a million measurements a second inside Kyiv's All Saints Church. The laser swept quickly across the church, part of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, The Best Indoor Plants for Every Room In Your House 06/12/2023 08:00pm • When it's time to list a home for sale, there's a common trope of the real estate agent bringing in fresh-cut flowers for the photo shoot or the first open house. Flowers add a pop of color and a hint of nature to any home, of course, but the right houseplant in the right room can add a lot to every Biden got a root canal and it upended his schedule for the day 06/12/2023 07:09pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden got a root canal Monday and it left something of a cavity in his daily schedule, forcing him to bow out of a public event with college athletes and postpone his meeting with NATO's general secretary by a day. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre min