Nation and World
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First over-the-counter birth control pill in U.S. begins shipping to stores
Mar 04, 2024 1:16 pm - The first over-the-counter birth control pill will be available in U.S. stores later this month, allowing American women and teens to purchase contraceptive medication as...
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Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira pleads guilty to leaking military secrets
Mar 04, 2024 12:04 pm - BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira pleaded guilty on Monday in federal court to leaking highly classified military documents about the wa...
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Settlement in Wisconsin fake elector case offers new details on the strategy by Trump lawyers
Mar 04, 2024 10:56 am - Two attorneys for then-President Donald Trump orchestrated a plan for fake electors to file paperwork falsely saying the Republican won Wisconsin in a strategy to overtur...
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Former Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg pleads guilty to perjury in ex-president’s civil fraud trial
Mar 04, 2024 9:38 am - NEW YORK — Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty Monday in New York to perjury in connection with testimony he g...
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Supreme Court restores Trump to ballot, rejecting state attempts to ban him over Capitol attack
Mar 04, 2024 9:11 am - The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to ban the Republican former president over t...
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Apple fined nearly $2 billion by the European Union over music streaming competition
Mar 04, 2024 8:50 am - LONDON — The European Union leveled its first antitrust penalty against Apple on Monday, fining the U.S. tech giant nearly $2 billion for breaking the bloc's competition ...
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JetBlue, Spirit ending $3.8B deal to combine after court ruling blocked their merger
Mar 04, 2024 8:47 am - JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines are ending their proposed $3.8 billion merger weeks after a federal judge blocked the deal, saying it would hurt consumers who depend ...
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Texas struggles to contain wildfires as wind threatens to further their spread
Mar 04, 2024 7:29 am - McALLEN, Texas — Strong winds spread flames and led to a town's evacuation while airplanes dropped fire retardant over the northern Texas Panhandle in an attempt to stop ...
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Death toll rises from Russian drone strike on Ukrainian port city, as China's envoy tours Moscow
Mar 03, 2024 9:14 am - KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The death toll rose to 10 on Sunday from a Russian drone strike that destroyed an apartment block in Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa the previo...
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Voucher expansion leads to more students, waitlists and classes for some religious schools
Mar 03, 2024 9:14 am - The Miami Archdiocese’s superintendent of schools says Catholic education is increasingly in demand in South Florida, now that all K-12 students regardless of income are ...