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UN top court orders Israel to open more land crossings for aid into Gaza 03/28/2024 07:11pm • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top United Nations court on Thursday ordered Israel to take measures to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, including opening more land crossings to allow food, water, fuel and other supplies into the war-ravaged enclave. The International Court of Justice 'Stand in solidarity': Md. nonprofit raises nearly 100K for families of workers killed after bridge collapse 03/28/2024 03:37pm • Nearly $100,000 has been raised by a Maryland Latino grassroots organization for the families of the construction workers that died in the Patapsco River when the Francis Scott Key Bridge was hit by a cargo ship and collapsed on Tuesday.  Eight people fell into the water after the collision. Two Interior Department rule aims to crack down on methane leaks from oil, gas drilling on public lands 03/27/2024 06:25pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration issued a final rule Wednesday aimed at curbing methane leaks from oil and gas drilling on federal and tribal lands, its latest action to crack down on emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to global warming. The rule Biden leans on his Democratic predecessors as Trump remains isolated from other Republican leaders 03/27/2024 04:08pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Joe Biden needs advice, there are two people he can turn to who know what it’s like to sit in his chair. Sometimes he will invite Barack Obama over to the White House for a meal or he will get on the phone with Bill Clinton. The three men share decades of history Biden and Harris argue that Democrats will preserve health care and Republicans would take it away 03/26/2024 09:51pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday promoted their health care agenda in the battleground state of North Carolina, arguing that Democrats like themselves would preserve access to care while Republicans would reverse gains made over the past decade a Editorial Roundup: United States 03/25/2024 05:01pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: March 23 The Washington Post on SCOTUS and abortion The Supreme Court declared nearly two years ago, when it overruled Roe v. Wade, that the rules on abortion were now up to the states — but as the justices hear a critical case this UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths is stepping down for health reasons 03/25/2024 03:20pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths is stepping down for health reasons after nearly three years of trying to tackle mounting humanitarian crises in Ukraine, Gaza and Africa, the United Nations announced Monday. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres praised Griffiths Malawi follows Zambia in declaring drought disaster as El Niño brings hunger to southern Africa 03/25/2024 02:41am • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The southern African nation of Malawi has declared a state of disaster over drought in 23 of its 28 districts and the president says it urgently needs more than $200 million in humanitarian assistance, less than a month after neighboring Zambia also appealed for help Biden signs $1.2 trillion funding package after Senate's early-morning passage ended shutdown threat 03/23/2024 01:25pm • WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills after Congress had passed the long overdue legislation just hours earlier, ending the threat of a partial government shutdown. “This agreement represents a compromise, which means neither si Wyoming governor vetoes abortion restrictions, signs transgender medical care ban for minors 03/22/2024 05:49pm • CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming's governor on Friday vetoed a bill that would have erected significant barriers to abortion, should it remain legal in the state, and signed legislation banning gender-affirming care for minors. The abortion bill rejected by Gov. Mark Gordon, a Republican, would have Investigation finds no bullying before suicide of top historically Black Missouri college leader 03/21/2024 05:39pm • COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The president of a historically Black Missouri university has been reinstated after an independent investigation cleared him of claims that he bullied another top administrator before she killed herself this year, university leaders announced Thursday. Lincoln University curat Georgia lawmakers advance bills targeting immigrant-friendly policies 03/21/2024 05:01pm • ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia Senate on Thursday pushed through bills aimed at forcing local governments to help deport immigrants instead of sheltering them, part of a continuing political response to the killing of a nursing student on the University of Georgia campus allegedly by a Venezuelan man. California wants to pay doctors more money to see Medicaid patients 03/21/2024 01:05pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — When Hunter Morgan bought an optometry practice in Southern California three years ago, one of the first things he did was start seeing patients who use Medicaid, the government-funded health insurance program for low-income people. The previous owners had not accepted p US drops out of top 20 on the latest world's happiest countries report 03/21/2024 09:51am • People in the United States are not as happy as they once were. Younger people in particular have pulled the country down in the newest world's happiest countries report. The World Happiness Report, measured between 2021 and 2023, during the COVID-19 pandemic, showed that happiness scores from th Nearly 8 in 10 AAPI adults in the US think abortion should be legal, an AP-NORC poll finds 03/21/2024 07:06am • WASHINGTON (AP) — With abortion rights poised to be one of the major issues in the 2024 election, a new poll shows that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the United States are highly supportive of legal abortion, even in situations where the pregnant person wants an aborti