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  • Abortion-bans’ limit on health care argued

    WASHINGTON -- Conservative Supreme Court justices voiced skepticism Wednesday that state abortion bans enacted after the overturning of Roe v. Wade violate fed…

    by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports April 25, 2024

  • Grand jury indicts 18 in Arizona election plot

    PHOENIX -- An Arizona grand jury has indicted former President Donald Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows, lawyer Rudy Giuliani and 16 others for their efforts…

    by JACQUES BILLEAUD, JONATHAN J. COOPER and JOSH KELETY The Associated Press April 25, 2024

  • Pennsylvania’s Senate contest has high stakes

    HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and Republican challenger David McCormick will face each other in Pennsylvania's high-stakes U.S. Senate contest t…

    by MARC LEVY The Associated Press April 25, 2024

  • Biden signs $95 billion aid package into law

    WASHINGTON -- 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 m…

    by AAMER MADHANI and SEUNG MIN KIM The Associated Press April 25, 2024

  • Student protests persist across US

    AUSTIN, Texas -- Police tangled with student demonstrators in Texas and California while new encampments sprouted Wednesday at Harvard and other colleges as sc…

    by JIM VERTUNO, ACACIA CORONADO and NICK PERRY The Associated Press April 25, 2024

  • N.J. woman receives pig kidney transplant

    NEW YORK -- Doctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also stabilized her fa…

    by LAURAN NEERGAARD The Associated Press April 25, 2024

  • Ex-DEA agent gets 4 years for bribery

    NEW YORK -- A federal judge Wednesday sentenced a longtime U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent to four years in prison for leaking DEA intelligence to d…

    by LARRY NEUMEISTER, JIM MUSTIAN and JOSHUA GOODMAN The Associated Press April 25, 2024

  • Arizona House OKs abortion ban repeal

    PHOENIX -- A proposed repeal of Arizona's near-total ban on abortions won approval from the state House on Wednesday after two weeks of mounting pressure on Re…

    by JACQUES BILLEAUD and JONATHAN J. COOPER The Associated Press April 25, 2024

  • 2nd state set to ban helping minors get abortion

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee is poised to become the second state in the nation to make it illegal for adults to help minors get an abortion without parental …

    by KIMBERLEE KRUESI The Associated Press April 25, 2024

  • In the news

    Cairenn Binder, assistant director of the Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center at Ramapo College in Mahwah, N.J., said researchers concluded that "a jawbone …

    by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports April 25, 2024

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