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For pregnant women, pandemic made hunt for drug rehab harder

By SALLY HO and CAMILLE FASSETT
Jul 15, 2021 7:00 am - After using drugs on and off for years, Megan Sims wanted to get clean again. But she couldn't bring herself to stop during the coronavirus pandemic, even when she disco...
Authoritarianism advances as world battles the pandemic

By JILL LAWLESS
Jul 15, 2021 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Here's some of what happened while the world was distracted by the coronavirus: Hungary banned the public depiction of homosexuality. China shut Hong Kong'...
'Boogaloo' ex-convict gets home confinement for illegal gun

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Jul 15, 2021 7:00 am - BALTIMORE (AP) - A Maryland man who belonged to an anti-government extremist movement was sentenced Thursday to six months of home confinement for illegally possessing a...
DeSantis presses Biden to help keep internet flowing in Cuba

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and FREIDA FRISARO
Jul 15, 2021 7:00 am - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other officials pressed the White House on Thursday to support efforts to preserve internet service to antigovernment protesters in Cuba, e...
Microsoft says it blocked spying on rights activists, others

By ALAN SUDERMAN
Jul 15, 2021 7:00 am - RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Microsoft said Thursday it has blocked tools developed by an Israeli hacker-for-hire company that were used to spy on more than 100 people around th...
Israel arrests dozens of Hamas-linked students in West Bank

The Associated Press
Jul 15, 2021 7:00 am - JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel says it arrested dozens of Palestinian students in the occupied West Bank who are linked to the Hamas militant group. The military said late Wedn...
Cuomo to be questioned in sexual harassment investigation

By MARINA VILLENEUVE, MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO
Jul 15, 2021 7:00 am - ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is expected to be interviewed Saturday as the state attorney general's office winds down its investigation into sexual har...
Pritzker signs ban on deceptive interrogation of minors

By JERRY NOWICKI Capitol News Illinois jnowicki@capitolnewsillinois.com
Jul 15, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Terrill Swift spent 15 years in prison, convicted of a rape and murder which DNA evidence later proved he did not commit. On Thursday, he appeared alongsid...
Husband charged with murder in strangulation of Elgin woman

By Rick West
Jul 15, 2021 1:00 am - A 36-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a woman found in her home Monday night by Elgin police. Victor Hugo Ayllon is accused of str...
Highland Park man pleads not guilty to 18 child pornography charges

By Doug T. Graham
Jul 15, 2021 1:00 am - A 47-year-old Highland Park man pleaded not guilty this week to 18 counts of child pornography and two counts of aggravated battery to a peace officer. Steven E. Habay, ...

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