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EPA finalizes ban on all remaining uses and importation of asbestos

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The EPA on Monday finalized a rule banning the importation and all remaining uses of chrysotile asbestos, an action officials said has been necessary for decades due to the health effects associated with the toxic mineral.

The mineral has been long linked to lung cancer and mesothelioma, and while its use has waned, EPA Administrator Michael S....Read more

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Armed gangs attack Haiti's wealthiest enclaves, leaving bodies on the streets

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The violence engulfing Haiti’s capital that has led to daily gun battles between police and gangs extended into the hills on Monday, as Haitians in some of Port-au-Prince’s wealthiest enclaves woke up to bursts of heavy gunfire and bodies riddled with bullets on their streets.

Scores of heavily armed men were spotted in the neighborhoods of...Read more

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Unknown costs, legal challenges: Idaho bill to expand death penalty dies after testimony

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BOISE, Idaho — An effort to expand capital punishment in Idaho died when a bill that sought to make lewd acts with children under age 12 qualify for the death penalty failed to earn enough support for a Senate floor vote. The bill’s sponsors pledged to try again next year.

House Bill 515 aimed to make Idaho at least the second state to ...Read more

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USF students begin hunger strike, confront trustees over Israel-Hamas war

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A group of 18 University of South Florida students started their promised hunger strike on Monday, saying they don’t plan to give up until USF severs financial ties with companies supporting Israel.

The students also demanded that USF President Rhea Law state that genocide is occurring in Gaza, where more than 30,000 people have died from ...Read more

Missouri GOP lawmaker was married at 15. She now wants to ban all child marriages

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COLUMBIA, Mo. — Ending child marriage in Missouri is personal for Sen. Holly Thompson Rehder, who was married at age 15 to her 21-year-old boyfriend in 1984.

A year earlier, her sister, at age 16, married her 39-year-old drug dealer, said Thompson Rehder, a Sikeston Republican.

“These are the things that are happening in the communities ...Read more

Two attorneys injured in California courtroom stabbing frenzy during murder trial

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MARTINEZ, Calif. — Two attorneys were treated for injuries after an Oakland man allegedly used a pen to stab his own defense lawyer before turning his rage onto the prosecutor in a Martinez courtroom, multiple law enforcement sources confirmed.

Ramello Randle, 28, allegedly broke or cut through a restraint device keeping him in a courtroom ...Read more

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Gov. Hochul orders 'top-down' review of NY's marijuana licensing process

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NEW YORK — New York state has launched a comprehensive review of its sluggish process for licensing cannabis shops, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office said Monday, targeting a tortured legalization rollout that has allowed a sprawling market of unlicensed retailers to emerge across New York City.

The governor tapped Jeanette Moy, the commissioner ...Read more

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Trump, co-defendants ask to appeal judge's decision not to remove DA Willis

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ATLANTA — Attorneys for former President Donald Trump and seven co-defendants in the Fulton County election interference case are asking a Superior Court judge for permission to appeal his recent decision that has kept District Attorney Fani Willis at the helm of the prosecution.

The defendants on Monday requested that Judge Scott McAfee ...Read more

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Haitian community leaders in South Florida renew calls to aid country. 'A frustration that is boiling inside.'

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The worsening crisis in Haiti has leaders in South Florida’s large Haitian American community alarmed and searching for solutions that never seem to come.

“Every day in Haiti people are being murdered, are being raped, killed. Houses, properties are being set ablaze in total impunity. This is what Haiti is living today,” Frandley Julien ...Read more

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Trump, co-defendants ask to appeal judge's decision not to remove DA Willis

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ATLANTA — Attorneys for former President Donald Trump and seven co-defendants in the Fulton election interference case are asking a Superior Court judge for permission to appeal his recent decision that has kept District Attorney Fani Willis at the helm of the prosecution.

The defendants on Monday requested that Judge Scott McAfee grant a so-...Read more

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Families of Oxford victims call for statewide task force to investigate, more reforms

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PONTIAC, Mich. — Families of the four Oxford students killed in 2021 continue to call for accountability and change, including the creation of a statewide task force and commission to investigate the emergency response to the shooting and mandatory statewide threat assessment policies.

In a statement issued Monday, the parents of Hana St. ...Read more

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Missouri attorney general says government censored social media. The Supreme Court seemed skeptical

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WASHINGTON — Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey emerged from the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, into a biting spring wind and declared that the federal government violated the First Amendment by coercing social media to censor content on their websites.

“We believe that the justices will make the right decision here,” Bailey said, ...Read more

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Intermittent fasting linked to heart risks in research surprise

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The safety of intermittent fasting, a popular strategy to lose weight by limiting food intake to certain times, was called into question by a surprise finding from research presented at a medical meeting.

Limiting mealtimes to a period of just eight hours a day was linked to a 91% increase in risk of death from heart disease in the study, ...Read more

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Firearm restrictions on defendants awaiting trial are constitutional, 9th Circuit rules

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Court orders that barred two criminal defendants from possessing guns while they awaited trial were in line with historical restrictions on firearms and therefore constitutional, a federal court ruled Monday.

While specific to the two cases in question, the court's analysis adds to one of the most contentious debates in modern constitutional ...Read more

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Biden warns Netanyahu over Rafah attack; team to visit DC

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that a major ground operation in Rafah would be a mistake and the two agreed to hold talks in Washington about Israel’s war plans in the coming days.

National security adviser Jake Sullivan said Biden asked Netanyahu to send a team of military, intelligence ...Read more

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Prosecutors drop case against CJ Rice, subject of Jake Tapper cover story in The Atlantic

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PHILADELPHIA — Prosecutors will not seek a new trial against C.J. Rice, a South Philadelphia man convicted of four counts of attempted murder in 2013, they told a judge during a minutes-long hearing Monday.

There was no contention between the District Attorney’s Office and Rice’s defense team when prosecutors said at the Court of Common ...Read more

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'Seems to be a pattern': Baltimore County officer investigated for punching 2nd detainee

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BALTIMORE — Baltimore County Police Sgt. William McGladrie punched the Black man multiple times as other officers stood nearby in the Woodlawn precinct, but he was not punished for his use of force.

The story may sound familiar because it’s happened before.

“This seems to be a pattern for Sergeant McGladrie,” Maj. Orlando Lilly wrote...Read more

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Former Georgia official Geoff Duncan passes on No Labels presidential bid

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Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he won’t launch a third-party presidential bid with the No Labels movement.

“It was an honor to be approached, and I am grateful to all those who are engaged in good-faith efforts to offer Americans a better choice than the Trump vs. Biden rematch,” Duncan ...Read more

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3 jurors who convicted condemned Georgia prisoner don't want him executed

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ATLANTA — Three of the nine surviving jurors who convicted Willie James Pye of the 1993 rape and murder of his former girlfriend are pleading with Georgia’s Board of Pardons and Paroles to spare his life.

“I want the board to know I do not want Mr. Pye to be executed,” one woman wrote. “I would like Mr. Pye to live out the rest of his...Read more

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Another Kate Middleton sighting? Unedited pics or it didn't happen

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Catherine, Princess of Wales, is said to be out and about again for the first time since December, making a casual public appearance after weeks of speculation about her well-being — not to mention less than a week after Kensington Palace's instantly infamous proof-of-life photo fail.

The former Kate Middleton was reportedly spotted Saturday ...Read more