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Florida Senate passes bills seeking to expand health care availability 01/18/2024 02:29pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida will seek to streamline regulations and offer incentives to help make health care more accessible under two bills unanimously passed by the Senate, votes that quickly pushed forward Republican Senate President Kathleen Passidomo's top session priority. The bills pa Beth Goetz is hired as Iowa's athletic director after serving interim role since August 01/18/2024 12:18pm • IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Beth Goetz has become Iowa's athletic director after serving in an interim role since August, the school announced Thursday. Goetz joined the Iowa athletics staff in September 2022 as deputy director of athletics and chief operating officer. She succeeds Gary Barta, who reti Missouri abortion-rights campaign backs proposal to enshrine access but allow late-term restrictions 01/18/2024 11:48am • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri abortion-rights campaign announced Thursday that it's throwing support behind an amendment to the state constitution that would enshrine access to the procedure while allowing restrictions in later stages of pregnancy. Missourians for Constitutional Freedom sa Warriors vs. Mavericks game postponed following death of assistant coach Dejan Milojević 01/18/2024 11:35am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Dallas Mavericks' game at the Golden State Warriors scheduled for Friday night has been postponed following the death of Warriors assistant coach Dejan Milojević, the NBA announced Thursday. The date for the rescheduled game will be announced later. Milojević, a mentor t A Russian border city cancels Orthodox Epiphany events due to the threat of Ukrainian attacks 01/18/2024 10:57am • A Russian city near the Ukrainian border canceled its traditional Orthodox Epiphany festivities on Friday due to the threat of attacks as Kyiv’s forces pursue a new strategy with the war approaching its two-year milestone. The city of Belgorod has scrapped events in which the faithful plunge into Russia's foreign minister rejects a US proposal to resume talks on nuclear arms control 01/18/2024 09:32am • MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top diplomat on Thursday dismissed a U.S. proposal to resume a dialogue on nuclear arms control, saying it’s impossible while Washington offers military support to Ukraine. Speaking at his annual news conference, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused the West of fueling Lawmakers look to take wide-ranging approach to reducing Maryland's emergency room wait times 01/18/2024 09:30am • Maryland has some of the longest emergency room wait times in the nation, but state lawmakers want to ensure that Marylanders with dire health needs can receive care as quickly as possible. The House Health and Government Operation Committee met Wednesday to discuss contributing factors that lead India’s newest airline orders 150 Boeing Max aircraft, in good news for plane maker 01/18/2024 09:21am • HYDERABAD, India (AP) — India’s newest airline will buy 150 Boeing 737 Max aircraft, in the first major announced sale for the manufacturer since a panel blew out of another Max model in midflight earlier this month, the airline announced Thursday. Akasa Air CEO Vinay Dube announced the order of Japan signs agreement to purchase 400 Tomahawk missiles as US envoy lauds its defense buildup 01/18/2024 07:43am • TOKYO (AP) — Japan signed a deal with the United States on Thursday to purchase up to 400 Tomahawk cruise missiles as part of its ongoing military buildup in response to increased regional threats. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government has pledged to double its annual defense spending to arou UN: Palestinians are dying in hospitals as estimated 60,000 wounded overwhelm remaining doctors 01/18/2024 07:36am • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Palestinians are dying every day in Gaza’s overwhelmed remaining hospitals which can’t deal with the tens of thousands people hurt in Israeli’s military offensive, a U.N. health emergency expert said Wednesday, while a doctor with the International Rescue Committee call DC's annual March for Life to bring slew of road closures Friday 01/18/2024 07:35am • Thousands are expected to converge on D.C.'s National Mall on Friday for the annual March for Life. The annual rally of abortion rights opponents marks the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which the court overturned in June of 2022. This year's rally begins Fr 2 New Mexico Republican lawmakers seek to impeach Democratic governor over gun restrictions 01/18/2024 06:16am • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Two Republican legislators filed a resolution Wednesday aimed at initiating impeachment proceedings against Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham over her emergency public health orders suspending the right to carry firearms in some public places in greater Albuquerque, such La estrategia de Trump en Nueva Hampshire: insultos e histrionismo judicial 01/18/2024 05:55am • (CNN) -- Donald Trump está revelando una estrategia doble para lograr una segunda gran victoria electoral en las primarias de Nueva Hampshire, la próxima semana, que espera ponga fin rápidamente a la carrera por la nominación del Partido Republicano.El expresidente está intensificando sus esfue St. Croix tap water remains unsafe to drink as US Virgin Islands offer short-term solutions 01/18/2024 01:47am • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — With no date in sight for when it will be safe to drink tap water again on the island of St. Croix, officials in the U.S. Virgin Islands announced Wednesday night that they would distribute water filters and provide free lead and copper testing as they work on long-ter US officials say 40 Boeing jets have been inspected as investigations continue into midair blowout 01/17/2024 11:55pm • Federal officials have briefed a congressional committee on their investigations into a jetliner that lost a panel of its fuselage in midflight this month and revealed that airlines have inspected 40 identical Boeing planes. The Federal Aviation Administration said it will review information from th