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Alabama lawmakers advance legislation to protect IVF providers, with final approval still ahead 03/05/2024 04:00pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ��� Alabama lawmakers facing public pressure to restart in vitro fertilization services in the state advanced legislation Tuesday to shield providers from the fallout of a court ruling that equated frozen embryos to children. Committees in the state Senate and House approved Women without risk factors twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with lung cancer 03/04/2024 01:23pm • Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States ��� and it's disproportionately affecting some women. "It's sadly taking more lives than breast and cervical and ovarian cancers combined," said Laurie Ambrose, president and CEO of Go2 for Lung Cancer, an advocacy group that s 6 in 10 US adults doubt mental capability of Biden and Trump, AP-NORC poll finds 03/04/2024 11:02am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A poll finds that a significant share of U.S. adults doubt the mental capabilities of 81-year-old President Joe Biden and 77-year-old Donald Trump, the former president and current Republican front-runner in what could be a rematch of the 2020 election. More than 6 in 10 (63%) sa Indigenous women in Greenland sue Denmark over involuntary contraception in the 1960s and 1970s 03/04/2024 09:26am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� A group of Indigenous women in Greenland has sued Denmark for forcing them to be fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 1970s and demanded total compensation of nearly 43 million kroner ($6.3 million), their lawyer said Monday. The 143 Inuit wome Today in History: March 4, Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration 03/04/2024 12:01am • Today in History Today is Monday, March 4, the 64th day of 2024. There are 302 days left in the year. Today���s highlight in history: On March 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated for a second term of office; with the end of the Civil War in sight, Lincoln declared: ���With malice Rival of Netanyahu visits US, signaling wider cracks in Israel���s wartime leadership 03/03/2024 11:38pm • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) ��� Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebuked a top Cabinet minister arriving in Washington on Sunday for talks with U.S. officials, according to an Israeli official, signaling widening cracks within the country���s leadership nearly five months into its war with Hamas. The tri Congressional leaders come out with 6 spending bills in a drive to avoid a partial shutdown 03/03/2024 06:28pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Congressional leaders on Sunday came out with a package of six bills setting full-year spending levels for some federal agencies, a step forward in a long overdue funding process beset by sharp political divisions between the two parties as well as infighting among House Republic Congress approves short-term extension to avoid shutdown, buy more time for final spending agreement 02/29/2024 09:06pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Congress passed another short-term spending measure Thursday that would keep one set of federal agencies operating through March 8 and another set through March 22, avoiding a shutdown for parts of the federal government that would otherwise kick in Saturday. The bill now goes to Lawmakers fault Defense Secretary Austin for a failure of leadership over his secret hospital stay 02/29/2024 06:21pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin faced pointed bipartisan criticism at a congressional hearing Thursday for his failure to promptly notify President Joe Biden and other U.S. leaders about his hospital stay last month. Republicans demanded to know why no one has been disciplined. Me Palestinians say Israeli troops fired at people seeking food. Israel says scene was deadly stampede 02/29/2024 05:18pm • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� Israeli troops fired on a crowd of Palestinians racing to pull food off an aid convoy in Gaza City on Thursday, witnesses said. More than 100 people were killed in the chaos, bringing the death toll since the start of the Israel-Hamas war to more than 30,000, according to South Dakota Republican lawmakers want clarity for the state's abortion laws. They propose a video 02/29/2024 04:34pm • PIERRE, S.D. (AP) ��� South Dakota���s Republican-controlled Legislature on Thursday approved the creation of a video to outline the state���s abortion laws and to clarify when health care providers are legally allowed to intervene. The bill passed by the state Senate in a 31-3 vote is also intended The Latest | Families of hostages held in Gaza launch a 4-day march to demand their freedom 02/28/2024 10:02pm • The families of hostages held in Gaza and their supporters are launching a four-day march from southern Israel to Jerusalem to demand their loved ones be set free. The march comes as negotiations are underway in Qatar to bring about a deal between Hamas and Israel that would lead to a cease-fire in Biden 'continues to be fit for duty,' his doctor says, after president undergoes annual physical 02/28/2024 08:33pm • BETHESDA, Md. (AP) ��� President Joe Biden ���continues to be fit for duty,��� his doctor wrote Wednesday after conducting an annual physical that is being closely watched as the 81-year-old seeks reelection in November. Dr. Kevin O���Connor, Biden's physician, wrote that the president is adjusting Congressional leaders reach a tentative deal to avoid government shutdown. But Ukraine aid stalls 02/28/2024 08:22pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Congressional leaders announced Wednesday they have reached a tentative agreement to prevent a government shutdown for now, days before an end-of-the-week deadline that risked shuttering some federal operations. Under the new plan, Congress would temporarily fund one set of feder Food aid reaches north Gaza for first time in weeks. Israeli hostages' families push for release 02/28/2024 04:10pm • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� Aid convoys carrying food reached northern Gaza this week, Israeli officials said Wednesday, the first major delivery in a month to the devastated, isolated area, where the U.N. has warned of worsening starvation among hundreds of thousands of Palestinians amid Israel���s