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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein won’t defend state restrictions on dispensing abortion pills that are being challenged in a lawsuit and instead will argue the restrictions are preempted by federal regulations protecting access to the pills, Stein’s office said Monday. The decision by Stein, a Democrat, means Republican legislative leaders who want to keep the restrictions would have to seek to formally intervene in the […]

Sunday’s Super Bowl was the third most-watched television show in history, with an estimated 113 million people watching the Kansas City Chiefs rally to defeat the Philadelphia Eagles. The 2015 game between New England and Seattle on NBC holds the record at 114,442,000 viewers followed by Super Bowl 48 in 2014 on Fox between Seattle and Denver (112,191,000). Fox said Monday that the preliminary numbers include the broadcasts on Fox […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans kicked off an investigation Monday into the origins of COVID-19 by issuing a series of letters to current and former Biden administration officials for documents and testimony. The Republican chairmen of the House Oversight Committee and the subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic requested information from several people, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, surrounding the hypothesis that the coronavirus leaked accidentally from a Chinese lab. “This investigation […]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Nearly two years after Arkansas became the first state to enact a now-blocked ban on gender-affirming care for minors, Republican lawmakers are trying to effectively reinstate the ban with a proposal Monday to make it easier to file malpractice lawsuits against doctors who provide such care. The proposal, which has been endorsed by a Senate committee, would allow someone who received gender-affirming care as a […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — With few confirmed details from President Joe Biden’s White House, the downing of three unknown aerial objects in as many days by U.S. fighter jets has prompted wild speculation about what they were and where they came from. It even fell to his press secretary on Monday to announce earnestly there was no indication of “aliens or extraterrestrial activity.” The president had no public events Monday and […]

Unable To Cross: Only Death, Despair at Syrian-Turkish Border Following the earthquake, many Syrian refugees in rebel-held Idlib province have not received any aid or help from the outside world By Owen G. Holdaway / The Media Line [Istanbul] The situation at the Bab al-Hawa Border Crossing between Turkey and rebel-controlled Idlib Governorate in Syria is particularly dire following the massive twin earthquakes that hit in the early hours of […]

‘We Are Fighting for Our Democracy’: Mass Protest Held in Jerusalem Against Judicial Reform Religious, secular, left- and right-wing protesters flock to Israeli parliament as committee votes to advance controversial reform By Maya Margit/The Media Line Tens of thousands of Israelis flocked to Jerusalem on Monday and hundreds of companies went on strike against the government’s controversial proposed judicial reform, which aims to give lawmakers much greater control over the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the first Black officers to lead a Special Forces team in combat will receive the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for bravery on the battlefield, nearly 60 years after he distinguished himself during the Vietnam War. President Joe Biden telephoned ret. U.S. Army Col. Paris Davis on Monday “to inform him that he will receive the Medal of Honor for his remarkable heroism […]

Michigan fired football co-offensive coordinator Matt Weiss in January after he failed to attend a meeting to discuss whether he had gained access to computer accounts belonging to other people, according to documents released by the school. An athletic department official told Weiss that the university had evidence that he had “inappropriately accessed” the accounts. “Because you did not attend this meeting and offer any additional information, we are making […]