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16 states back Alabama’s challenge to Census privacy tool
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Sixteen other states are backing Alabama's challenge to a statistical method the U.S. Census Bureau is using for the first time to protect the privacy of people who participated i...
Apr 13, 2021
US agency says women can get abortion pill via telemedicine
WASHINGTON (AP) - Women seeking an abortion pill will not be required to visit a doctor's office or clinic during the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. health officials said Tuesday in the latest reversal in an...
Apr 13, 2021
Minnesota police chief, officer quit after Black driver’s death
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) - A Minnesota police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb and the city's chief of police resigned Tuesday.Officer Kim Potter a...
Apr 13, 2021
Defense begins case in ex-cop’s trial over Floyd’s death
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The defense began its case Tuesday at the murder trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin, seizing on a 2019 confrontation between police and George Floyd in which Floyd suffered dange...
Apr 13, 2021
US to leave troops in Afghanistan beyond May, 9/11 new goal
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden has decided to leave American troops in Afghanistan beyond the May 1 deadline negotiated with the Taliban by the Trump administration, and has set the 20th annive...
Apr 13, 2021
US investigating possible air bag failures in GM vehicles
DETROIT (AP) -The U.S. government's highway safety agency is investigating complaints that the air bags may not inflate in a crash on thousands of General Motors vehicles.The National Highway Traffic ...
Apr 13, 2021
US recommends ‘pause’ for J&J vaccine over clot reports
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. is recommending a "pause" in using the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to investigate reports of potentially dangerous blood clots.The Centers for Disease...
Apr 13, 2021
Number of kids alone at border hits all-time high in March
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. government picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March, authorities said Thursday, the largest monthly number ever recorded and a maj...
Apr 08, 2021
Police: Goat ‘arrested’ after report of break-in
GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Police in eastern North Carolina say they've "arrested" a goat after they got a call reporting an attempted break-in. The Charlotte Observer reports that the incident occurred ...
Apr 08, 2021
Netflix scores streaming rights to new top Sony films
NEW YORK (AP) - Netflix further beefed up its film catalog on Thursday in a multi-year deal that will make it the new streaming home to Sony Pictures' top releases in the U.S. Beginning next year, Son...
Apr 08, 2021
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