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Wisconsin university regents reject deal with Republicans to reduce diversity positions 12/09/2023 03:51pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Universities of Wisconsin regents narrowly rejected a deal Saturday reached with Republicans that would have given employees a pay raise and paid for construction of a new engineering building in exchange for reductions in staff positions focused on diversity, equity and inclu Consumer product agency issues warning on small magnetic balls linked to deaths 12/09/2023 03:39pm • The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is warning about the danger of high-powered, pea-sized magnets found in toys, announcing one company's recall of a set containing them and saying it was aware of seven deaths linked to their ingestion. The federal agency estimated that ingestion of the mag The State Department approves the sale of tank ammunition to Israel in a deal that bypasses Congress 12/09/2023 02:20pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Going around Congress, the Biden administration said Saturday it has approved the emergency sale to Israel of nearly 14,000 rounds of tank ammunition worth more than $106 million as Israel intensifies its military operations in the southern Gaza Strip. The move comes as President A pregnant Texas woman asked a court for permission to get an abortion, despite a ban. What's next? 12/09/2023 01:44pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Kate Cox, a mother of two in Texas, became pregnant again in August but soon after learned devasting news: Her baby has a fatal condition and is likely to either be stillborn or die shortly after birth. The tragic circumstances have thrust Cox, 31, into the center of an unprec Maine's congressional delegation calls for Army investigation into Lewiston shooting 12/09/2023 09:59am • LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Maine's congressional delegation is calling for the Army to investigate the events that lead up to the October mass shooting - the deadliest in the state's history - by one of its reservists. Robert Card killed 18 people in a bowling alley and a restaurant in Lewiston on Oct US vetoes UN resolution backed by many nations demanding immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza 12/09/2023 08:49am • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States vetoed a United Nations resolution Friday backed by almost all other Security Council members and dozens of other nations demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza. Supporters called it a terrible day and warned of more civilian deaths and destr Israeli troops round up Palestinian men in northern Gaza as UN warns aid operation is 'in tatters' 12/08/2023 11:03pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel said Friday that the military was rounding up Palestinian men in northern Gaza for interrogation, searching for Hamas militants, while desperate Palestinians in the south crowded into an ever-shrinking area, and the U.N. warned that its aid operation is “i UN takes no immediate action at emergency meeting on Guyana-Venezuela dispute over oil-rich region 12/08/2023 10:41pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Security Council took no immediate action at a closed emergency meeting late Friday requested by Guyana after Venezuela’s referendum claiming the vast oil- and mineral-rich Essequibo region that makes up a large part of its neighbor. But diplomats said th Prince George's Co. parent-led school groups demand safer roads after 2 kids killed in crosswalk 12/08/2023 10:40pm • In November, two young students at Riverdale Elementary School — 10-year-old Shalom Mbah and 5-year-old Sky Sosa — were in the crosswalk on Riverdale and Taylor Road when they were struck and killed by a driver making a left turn. The crosswalk had no crossing guard. Weeks after the tragedy, Live updates | UN resolution demanding immediate cease-fire in Gaza fails 12/08/2023 08:35pm • The United States vetoed a United Nations resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza, where Israeli troops rounded up Palestinian men in the northern part of the territory for interrogation, seeking Hamas militants. The U.N. vote came after Secretary-General Antonio Guterres US Sen. Kevin Cramer's son makes court appearance after crash that killed North Dakota deputy 12/08/2023 06:22pm • MANDAN, N.D. (AP) — The 42-year-old son of U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer made his first court appearance Friday on manslaughter and other charges after authorities say he fled from police and crashed into a squad car, killing a North Dakota sheriff's deputy who was taking cover behind the vehicle. Ian Cr Maryland issues advisory on eating certain fish from local waterways 12/08/2023 06:19pm • The Maryland Department of the Environment has issued an advisory about eating certain types of fish from local waterways over concerns about "forever chemicals." The new advisory covers largemouth and smallmouth bass, sunfish, bluegill and white perch, according to the department. Officials s High-profile attacks on Derek Chauvin and Larry Nassar put spotlight on violence in federal prisons 12/08/2023 05:59pm • Derek Chauvin was stabbed nearly two dozen times at a federal prison in Arizona. Larry Nassar was knifed repeatedly at a federal penitentiary in Florida. The recent assaults of two high-profile federal prisoners by fellow inmates have renewed concerns about whether the crisis-plagued federal Bureau Report: Deputies were justified when they fired at SUV that blasted through Mar-a-Lago checkpoint 12/08/2023 05:54pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Two Florida sheriff's deputies were justified when they fired numerous shots at a Connecticut opera singer whose speeding SUV blasted through a checkpoint outside then-President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club almost four years ago, an internal affairs investigation con Top White House cyber aide says recent Iran hack on water system is call to tighten cybersecurity 12/08/2023 05:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A top White House national security official said recent cyber attacks by Iranian hackers on U.S. water authorities — as well as a separate spate of ransomware attacks on the health care industry — should be seen as a call to action by utilities and industry to tighten cybers