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States with abortion bans saw greater drops in medical school graduates applying for residencies 05/09/2024 08:52pm • Fewer U.S. medical school graduates are applying to residency programs, but the drop is more striking in states that ban abortion compared with other states. Figures released Thursday by the Association of American Medical Colleges showed continuing declines after the group first spotted the differe Judge finds Beach Boys' Brian Wilson needs conservatorship because of mental decline 05/09/2024 03:31pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A judge found Thursday that Beach Boys founder and music luminary Brian Wilson should be in a court conservatorship to manage his personal and medical decisions because of what his doctor calls a ���major neurocognitive disorder.��� At a hearing, Los Angeles Superior Court Judg India urges pro-China Maldives to ease tensions and improve their strained relationship 05/09/2024 10:46am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� India urged pro-China Maldives on Thursday to ease tensions and improve their strained relationship. The foreign ministers of India and Maldives met in New Delhi a day ahead of a deadline set by the Maldives��� new president, Mohamed Muizzu, for India to withdraw dozens of its sol Has Israel followed the law in its war in Gaza? The US is due to render a first-of-its-kind verdict 05/08/2024 01:37pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Facing heat over its military support for Israel's war, the Biden administration is due to deliver a first-of-its-kind formal verdict this week on whether the airstrikes on Gaza and restrictions on delivery of aid have violated international and U.S. laws designed to spare civili Kosovo prime minister deplores new condition ahead of Council of Europe's membership vote next week 05/08/2024 01:17pm • TIRANA, Albania (AP) ��� Kosovo���s prime minister Wednesday deplored the fact that some Western powers reportedly have set another condition ahead of Kosovo's joining the Council of Europe. Kosovo media reported that France and Germany want Kosovo to take a significant step toward establishing an a The Latest | Israel forces block Gaza's Rafah border crossing. UN says it's running out of fuel 05/08/2024 12:10pm • Israeli forces have seized the Gaza side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, pressing their offensive into the southern city on Tuesday. The closed border means U.N. humanitarian teams in Gaza will run out of diesel fuel by Wednesday, a senior humanitarian official said, leaving them unable to Israel seizes Gaza's vital Rafah crossing, but the US says it isn't the full invasion many fear 05/07/2024 11:02pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� Israeli troops seized control of Gaza���s vital Rafah border crossing on Tuesday in what the White House described as a limited operation, as fears mount of a full-scale invasion of the southern city and talks with Hamas over a cease-fire and hostage release remain on a knife���s edge Medicare and Social Security go-broke dates are pushed back in a 'measure of good news' 05/06/2024 05:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security have been pushed back as an improving economy has contributed to changed projected depletion dates, according to the annual Social Security and Medicare trustees report Monday. Still, officials warn that policy changes are neede Auditors can't locate former St. Louis circuit attorney to complete state audit 05/06/2024 02:57pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) ��� A state examination of the office that handles criminal prosecutions in St. Louis is being delayed because auditors can���t find former Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, Missouri Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick said Monday. Fitzpatrick said in a news release that auditors have tried for sev A Holocaust survivor will mark that history differently after the horrors of Oct. 7 05/05/2024 08:27pm • KIBBUTZ MEFALSIM, Israel (AP) ��� When Hamas fighters invaded southern Israel on Oct. 7, the militant group that rules the Gaza Strip perpetrated the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust. So this year���s Holocaust Remembrance Day, which begins on Sunday evening in Israel, carries a heavier Many Florida women can't get abortions past 6 weeks. Where else can they go? 05/05/2024 02:06am • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� When Florida enacted its six-week abortion ban last week, clinics in several other Southern and mid-Atlantic states sprang into action, knowing women would look to them for services no longer available where they live. Health care providers in North Carolina, three states to t The American paradox of protest: Celebrated and condemned, welcomed and muzzled 05/05/2024 12:59am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� They���re hallmarks of American history: protests, rallies, sit-ins, marches, disruptions. They date from the early days of what would become the United States to the sights and sounds echoing across the landscapes of the nation���s colleges and universities during this activist sp South Sudan removes newly imposed taxes that had triggered suspension of UN food airdrops 05/04/2024 04:46pm • JUNA, South Sudan (AP) ��� Following an appeal from the United Nations, South Sudan removed recently imposed taxes and fees that had triggered suspension of U.N. food airdrops. Thousands of people in the country depend on aid from the outside. The U.N. earlier this week urged South Sudanese authori The Latest | Israel's planned invasion of Rafah risks killing hundreds of thousands, UN says 05/03/2024 07:30pm • The United Nations humanitarian aid agency says hundreds of thousands of people would be ���at imminent risk of death��� if Israel carries out a military assault in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. The border city is a critical entry point for humanitarian aid and is filled with displaced Palestinia Abortion is still consuming US politics and courts 2 years after a Supreme Court draft was leaked 05/02/2024 04:32pm • Two years after a leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion signaled that the nation's abortion landscape was about to shift dramatically, the issue is still consuming the nation's courts, legislatures and political campaigns ��� and changing the course of lives. On Wednesday, a ban on abortion a