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Biden and Harris paint Trump as freedom's enemy at abortion rally in Virginia 01/23/2024 09:35pm • MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday condemned abortion bans that have increasingly endangered the health of pregnant women, forcing them to grow sicker before they can receive medical care, and he laid the blame on Donald Trump, his likely Republican challenger in this year's elect With Oregon facing rampant public drug use, lawmakers backpedal on pioneering decriminalization law 01/23/2024 09:01pm • SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Democratic lawmakers in Oregon on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping new bill that would undo a key part of the state’s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law, a recognition that public opinion has soured on the measure amid rampant public drug use during the fentanyl crisis. Judge says Canada's use of Emergencies Act to quell truckers' protests over COVID was unreasonable 01/23/2024 08:39pm • TORONTO (AP) — A Canadian judge has ruled that the government’s use of the Emergencies Act to quell weeks of protests by truckers and others angry over COVID-19 restrictions in 2022 was unreasonable and unconstitutional. Up to thousands of protesters clogged the streets of the capital of Ottawa Arkansas abortion ban may be scaled back, if group can collect enough signatures 01/23/2024 08:07pm • LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas' attorney general on Tuesday approved the wording of a proposed ballot measure that would scale back the state's abortion ban, clearing the way for supporters to begin gathering enough signatures to qualify for the November election. Republican Attorney General Ti Death toll in southwestern China landslide rises to 31 while more remain missing 01/23/2024 07:03pm • BEIJING (AP) — Authorities raised the confirmed death toll to 31 on Tuesday in a landslide in a remote, mountainous part of China's southwestern province of Yunnan, Chinese state media reported. The disaster struck just before 6 a.m. on Monday in the village of Liangshui in the northeastern part o FEMA devotes more resources to outstanding claims filed by New Mexico wildfire victims 01/23/2024 07:02pm • The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Tuesday that it is devoting more resources to processing outstanding claims filed by victims of the largest wildfire in New Mexico’s recorded history. The 2022 blaze was caused by a pair of prescribed fires that were set by the U.S. Forest Service in a These Organizations Will Give You a Grant for Your Small Business 01/23/2024 07:00pm • If you're a small business owner, you know that funding your business can be one of the most challenging hurdles to overcome, particularly in this time of high inflation. Small business loans can also come with stringent requirements and high interest rates, and investors might ask for more stake in South African police arrest man who says he started a fire that left 76 dead to hide another killing 01/23/2024 06:58pm • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A man was arrested Tuesday and will face 76 counts of murder after telling an inquiry that he started a deadly building fire in South Africa last year while trying to get rid of the body of someone he had strangled in the apartment complex on the orders of a drug dealer. The s Lawsuit says Minnesota jail workers ignored pleas of man before he died of perforated bowel 01/23/2024 06:49pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota jail workers ignored the pleas of a 41-year-old man who died of a perforated bowel after spending days begging to be taken to a hospital, with pain so severe that he was forced to crawl on the floor of his cell, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday. Lucas Bellamy was t At United and Alaska airlines, frustration with Boeing's manufacturing problems is boiling over 01/23/2024 06:44pm • The leaders of United Airlines and Alaska Airlines took turns Tuesday blasting Boeing over manufacturing problems that have led to the grounding of more than 140 of their planes, with United's CEO saying his airline will consider alternatives to buying a future, larger version of the Boeing 737 Max. Memphis utility lifts boil-water advisory after 5 days following deep freeze that burst pipes 01/23/2024 06:21pm • Memphis' water company lifted a boil-water advisory for more than 600,000 people Tuesday that was in place for five days due to freezing temperatures that caused pipes to break throughout the southern city. Memphis Light, Gas and Water said water quality tests have met state and federal standards, a A pastor and a small Ohio city tussle over the legality of his 24/7 homeless ministry 01/23/2024 06:07pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Christian church in Ohio filed a federal lawsuit this week after its pastor was charged with violating city ordinances when he opened up the sanctuary around the clock for homeless people and others to find shelter. Police this month filed 18 criminal charges against Dad's Nearly 14,000 fentanyl pills found during search of Prince George's Co. home 01/23/2024 05:19pm • Nine men were arrested after a police search inside a Prince George's County, Maryland, home on Thursday turned up nearly 14,000 fentanyl pills, cocaine and guns, authorities said. The Prince George's County Police Department's Gang Unit and Emergency Services Team executed the search warrant for Chanel's spring couture show is a button-inspired ballet on the Paris runway 01/23/2024 05:16pm • PARIS (AP) — An air of surrealism enveloped Chanel’s Spring Couture show Tuesday as celebrity guests including Naomi Campbell and Kendrick Lamar faced a navigational challenge: walking past a towering pair of open metal scissors. That symbolic gateway set the stage for a theater-in-the-round sho Man sentenced to life in prison for the fatal shooting of a deputy U.S. marshal in Arizona in 2018 01/23/2024 04:29pm • TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A man convicted of fatally shooting a federal agent in Tucson in 2018 has been sentenced to life in prison, authorities said Tuesday. Ryan Phillip Schlesinger, 31, was not in court for Monday’s sentencing as his lawyers argued for a prison term of less than 50 years. Schlesi