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Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to state's abortion law over medical exceptions 05/31/2024 05:49pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday rejected a closely watched challenge to the state's restrictive abortion ban, ruling against a group of women who had serious pregnancy complications and became the first in the U.S. to testify in court about being denied abortions since Roe v Iowa attorney general will resume emergency contraception funding for rape victims 05/31/2024 05:06pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa attorney general’s office said Friday it will resume emergency contraception funding for victims of sexual assault but end the rare practice of reimbursing victims for abortions. Attorney General Brenna Bird, a Republican, paused the funding while awaiting the re Romance Writers of America files for bankruptcy after tumultuous split spurred by racism allegations 05/31/2024 04:39pm • The Romance Writers of America has filed for bankruptcy protection following several years of infighting and allegations of racism that fractured the organization, causing many of its members to flee. The Texas-based trade association, which bills itself as the voice of romance writers, has lost ro Not guilty plea for suspect in killing of nursing student found on University of Georgia campus 05/31/2024 04:32pm • ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — A man accused of killing a nursing student whose body was found on the University of Georgia campus pleaded not guilty Friday to murder and other charges in her death. A grand jury in early May returned an indictment charging Jose Ibarra, 26, with murder, aggravated assault, kid Police arrest 80 at Israel-Hamas war protest at UC Santa Cruz, school says 05/31/2024 03:57pm • Police in riot gear surrounded arm-in-arm protesters Friday at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to remove an encampment and barricades where pro-Palestinian demonstrations have blocked the main entrance to the campus this week. Dozens were arrested, the university said. Campus, local and s Historic Saratoga takes its place at center of horse racing world when Belmont Stakes comes to town 05/31/2024 03:46pm • SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — Health, history and horses are the three H’s carved into the welcome sign when travelers venturing into New York's Adirondack Mountains reach Saratoga Springs. Horses have always been the main event here, where the oldest active sporting venue in the country, the Sa Family of Utah man held in Congo coup attempt has no proof he's alive 05/31/2024 03:10pm • WEST JORDAN, Utah (AP) — A Utah family whose son was implicated in a thwarted coup in Congo said they’re unsure if he's alive as they struggle to get U.S. officials to make contact with him and two other Americans two weeks after their arrest. Tyler Thompson Jr., 21, flew to Africa in April with Google makes fixes to AI-generated search summaries after outlandish answers went viral 05/31/2024 02:29pm • Google said Friday it has made “more than a dozen technical improvements” to its artificial intelligence systems after its retooled search engine was found spitting out erroneous information. The tech company unleashed a makeover of its search engine in mid-May that frequently provides AI-gener Scientists are testing mRNA vaccines to protect cows and people against bird flu 05/31/2024 12:49pm • The bird flu outbreak in U.S. dairy cows is prompting development of new, next-generation mRNA vaccines — akin to COVID-19 shots — that are being tested in both animals and people. Next month, the U.S. Agriculture Department is to begin testing a vaccine developed by University of Pennsylvania AP analysis finds 2023 set record for US heat deaths, killing in areas that used to handle the heat 05/31/2024 11:33am • David Hom suffered from diabetes and felt nauseated before he went out to hang his laundry in 108-degree weather, another day in Arizona's record-smashing, unrelenting July heat wave. His family found the 73-year-old lying on the ground, his lower body burned. Hom died at the hospital, his core bod Swift Trump verdict has the media considering history's sweep — and the polarizing figure behind it 05/31/2024 10:32am • NEW YORK (AP) — A sudden, decisive verdict in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial on Thursday led the media to simultaneously reflect on both the sweep of history and the most polarizing figure in modern American politics. Broadcast networks ABC, CBS and NBC suspended regular programm 1 man killed after police shooting in Silver Spring, was allegedly assaulting mother 05/31/2024 10:14am • An hourslong barricade in Silver Spring, Maryland, ended with a man killed by Montgomery County police officers early Thursday morning. The situation began at around 11:40 p.m. Wednesday evening after police received a call by a family member about a person in distress inside an apartment located Berlin lets Ukraine use German weapons against targets in Russia after the US also eases its stance 05/31/2024 10:02am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Germany joined the United States on Friday in authorizing Ukraine to hit some targets on Russian soil with the long-range weapons they are supplying — a significant policy change that comes as depleted Ukrainian troops are losing ground in the war. Ukrainian officials have e Summer shutdown of Metro Red Line stations begins, here's how to get around construction work 05/31/2024 07:55am • Metro says free shuttle buses traveling in special bus-only lanes through parts of Montgomery County, Maryland, will help riders affected by the shutdown of five Red Line stations starting Saturday. The Glenmont, Wheaton, Forest Glen and Silver Spring stations will be closed from Saturday through Shares in Trump Media slump after former president convicted in hush money trial 05/31/2024 07:23am • Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, slumped before the opening bell Friday after former President Donald Trump was convicted in his hush money trial. A New York jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally