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US abortion battle rages on with moves to repeal Arizona ban and a Supreme Court case 04/25/2024 12:13am • Action in courts and state capitals around the U.S. this week have made it clear again: The overturning of Roe v. Wade and the nationwide right to abortion did not settle the issue. One iteration of the issue was back before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday for the second time in a month. Meanwhi Civil lawsuit dismissed against former Texas Tech basketball player Pop Isaacs 04/24/2024 10:21pm • LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) ��� A civil lawsuit against former Texas Tech basketball player Pop Isaacs was dismissed this week after he had been alleged in the assault of a 17-year-old girl during the team's trip to Bahamas in November. Isaacs��� attorneys said in a statement Wednesday that the parties to Senators demand accounting of rapid closure plan for California prison where women were abused 04/24/2024 09:50pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Nearly all inmates have been transferred out of a troubled women's prison set to be shut down in California, and U.S. senators on Wednesday demanded an accounting of the rapid closure plan for the facility where sexual abuse by guards was rampant. As of Tuesday only ���a small Md. Board of Education picks Carey Wright as permanent public schools superintendent 04/24/2024 09:09pm • She���s staying put. The interim title will be removed from Carey Wright���s name after the Maryland Board of Education���s unanimous vote Wednesday to make her the permanent state superintendent of public schools. Wright began as��interim superintendent Oct. 23, replacing Mohammed Choudhury, Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to let Arizona doctors provide abortions in California 04/24/2024 08:11pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� Arizona doctors could give their patients abortions in California under a proposal announced Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom to circumvent a ban on nearly all abortions in the neighboring state. It would apply only to doctors licensed in good standing in Arizona and their Jury urged to convict former Colorado deputy of murder in Christian Glass shooting 04/24/2024 06:46pm • DENVER (AP) ��� Prosecutors on Wednesday urged jurors to convict a former Colorado sheriff's deputy of murder and other charges for shooting and killing a 22-year-old man in distress after they say the deputy needlessly escalated a standoff with him. The 2022 death of Christian Glass in a small moun Authorities confirm 2nd victim of ex-Washington officer was 17-year-old with whom he had a baby 04/24/2024 06:44pm • WEST RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) ��� Authorities on Wednesday confirmed that a body found at the home of a former Washington state police officer who killed his ex-wife before fleeing to Oregon, where he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, was that of a 17-year-old girl with whom he had a baby. Elias H Biden meets 4-year-old Abigail Edan, an American who was held hostage by Hamas 04/24/2024 06:43pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden met Wednesday with Abigail Edan, the 4-year-old American girl who was held hostage in Gaza for several weeks at the start of the war. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the White House meeting with Abigail and her family was ���a reminder Meta more than doubles Q1 profit but revenue guidance pulls shares down after-hours 04/24/2024 06:25pm • Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta said Wednesday its first-quarter profit more than doubled, boosted by higher advertising revenue and a 6% increase on the average price of ads on its platforms. But its shares dropped sharply in after-hours trading following lukewarm revenue guidance. Meta Hamas releases video showing well-known Israeli-American hostage 04/24/2024 06:21pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Hamas released a hostage video on Wednesday showing a well-known Israeli-American man who was among scores of people abducted by the militants in the attack that ignited the war in Gaza. The video was the first sign of life of Hersh Goldberg-Polin since Hamas��� Oct. 7 attack on s Senate Intel Chair: New law on TikTok will hold up in court 04/24/2024 04:50pm • For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller at��Today on the Hill. U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, says he believes the new law that requires Chinese parent company ByteDance to divest TikTok Southwest Airlines flight attendants ratify a contract that will raise pay about 33% over 4 years 04/24/2024 04:32pm • DALLAS (AP) ��� Flight attendants at Southwest Airlines have ratified a contract that includes pay raises totaling more than 33% over four years, as airline workers continue to benefit from the industry's recovery since the pandemic. The Transport Workers Union said Wednesday that members of Local 5 Biden says the US is rushing weaponry to Ukraine as he signs a $95 billion war aid measure into law 04/24/2024 04:28pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he was immediately rushing badly needed weaponry to Ukraine as he signed into law a $95 billion war aid measure that also included assistance for Israel, Taiwan and other global hot spots. The announcement marked an end to the long, painful U.Md. program uses AI to teach you how to play the violin 04/24/2024 04:20pm • On the ground floor of one of the new computer buildings at the University of Maryland, Anna Kelleher played her centuries-old violin while a program running on a laptop in front of her told her to do things such as raise her chin or widen her stance. These were common mistakes that Kelleher Review: 'The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed' announces an exciting new voice 04/24/2024 04:09pm • In writer-director-star Joanna Arnow���s ���The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed,��� Ann (Arnow), a 30-something New Yorker, lies naked in bed with an older man, Allen (Scott Cohen), with whom she has a yearslong BDSM relationship. She tells him she's grateful he only cares about