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Texas medical panel issues new guidelines for doctors but no specific exceptions for abortion ban 06/21/2024 04:45pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas medical panel on Friday approved guidance for doctors working under one of the nation's most restrictive abortion bans but refused to list specific exceptions to the law, which doctors have complained is dangerously unclear. The decision by the Texas Medical Board cam Defense for woman accused of killing police officer boyfriend tries to show she was framed 06/21/2024 04:03pm • Attorneys for a woman accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a snowbank outside another officer's home began presenting their case Friday that she was framed by police, with a snowplow driver who said he didn't see a body. Snowplow driver Bri 2 teens dead after fiery 3-car crash on I-270 in Montgomery County 06/21/2024 03:58pm • Two teens were killed in a fiery, three-car crash on Interstate 270 in Montgomery County, Maryland, early Friday morning and police are now searching for the driver of a BMW who they said fled the scene. The two teens have been identified as 17-year-old Luis Isaac Bran, of Gaithersburg, Maryl GOP Convention security will allow guns within outer perimeter, sets parade route for demonstrators 06/21/2024 01:58pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) — People will be allowed to carry guns within blocks of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee next month and protesters will be given two outdoor stages, one within sight of the convention arena, under a security plan law enforcement authorities released Friday. Demonstrat How does heat kill? It confuses your brain. It shuts down your organs. It overworks your heart. 06/21/2024 01:45pm • As temperatures and humidity soar outside, what's happening inside the human body can become a life-or-death battle decided by just a few degrees. The critical danger point outdoors for illness and death from relentless heat is several degrees lower than experts once thought, say researchers who pu Trump ally Bannon asks the Supreme Court to delay his 4-month prison sentence on contempt charges 06/21/2024 01:11pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, asked the Supreme Court on Friday to delay his prison sentence while he fights his convictions for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the attack on U.S. Capitol. The emergency application c Youth in Hawaii took on the state government over climate change. A historic settlement has emerged 06/21/2024 12:41pm • HONOLULU (AP) — Thirteen children and teens in Hawaii took the state government to court over the threat posed by climate change. Now they're celebrating a settlement that emphasizes a plan to decarbonize Hawaii's transportation system in the next 20 years. It's the latest example of frustrated yo A fire that spread through settlements in Turkey killed 11. Greece evacuates villages for safety 06/21/2024 12:20pm • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A fire that apparently started in crop stubble spread through settlements in southeast Turkey overnight, killing 11 people and leaving dozens of others requiring medical treatment, officials and news reports said Friday. In neighboring Greece, authorities evacuated several vi A major power outage hits Balkan region as countries swelter in an early summer heat wave 06/21/2024 12:12pm • PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — A major hourslong power outage hit much of the Balkans on Friday as the southern European region sweltered in an early heat wave that sent temperatures soaring to more than 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). Montenegrin authorities said that an outage that la Russia-North Korea pact could dent China's influence, but Beijing still holds sway over both 06/21/2024 10:27am • BEIJING (AP) — With no obvious options, China appears to be keeping its distance as Russia and North Korea move closer to each other with a new defense pact that could tilt the balance of power among the three authoritarian states. Experts say China's leaders are likely fretting over a potential l The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Here’s the state of abortion rights now in the US 06/21/2024 09:57am • Judges, state lawmakers and voters are deciding the future of abortion in the U.S. two years after the Supreme Court jolted the legal status quo with a ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. The June 24, 2022, ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization sparked legislative action, protest an AP Decision Notes: What to expect in New York's state primaries 06/21/2024 09:32am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Tensions within the Democratic Party about President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war are playing out in a key New York primary race on Tuesday. Rep. Jamaal Bowman faces Westchester County Executive George Latimer in Tuesday's highly contentious Democratic primary i Navigating through darkness: Ukraine’s emergency blackouts return after Russia pounds infrastructure 06/21/2024 01:19am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — During daytime, entire districts of Ukraine's capital are disconnected from the power grid to save energy. Traffic lights stop, choking traffic, accompanied by the constant rumble of generators installed outside cafes and shops. Ukraine, including Kyiv, is struggling to cope w Should young kids have smartphones? These parents in Europe linked arms and said no 06/21/2024 01:10am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Try saying “no” when a child asks for a smartphone. What comes after, parents everywhere can attest, begins with some variation of: “Everyone has one. Why can’t I?” But what if no pre-teen in sight has one — and what if having a smartphone was weird? That’s th Argentina's president promises to quash corruption then shocks with his Supreme Court pick 06/21/2024 12:07am • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Campaigning last year as a libertarian outsider, Javier Milei electrified rallies with his vows to destroy Argentina’s corrupt political elite. But the eccentric economist-turned-president now faces accusations of hypocrisy over his Supreme Court nomination. What