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Clarification: Election 2024-Abortion story

Jan 16, 2024, 9:12 AM

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — In a story published January 16, 2024, The Associated Press reported that Florida has a six-week abortion ban. The story should have made clear that the ban will take effect if the state supreme court upholds a previously passed 15-week ban.

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Erik and Lyle Menendez are a step closer to leaving prison, but freedom won’t come quickly

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Erik and Lyle Menendez still have a long way to go before they can walk out of prison, even though the Los Angeles County district attorney has recommended their life-without-parole sentences be thrown out and the brothers be resentenced and immediately eligible for parole. The brothers, convicted in the 1989 killings […]

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Michael Jeffries, former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, leaves following a hearing at the Paul G. Roge...

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Ex-Abercrombie & Fitch head to be arraigned on sex trafficking and prostitution charges

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — The former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch is expected to be arraigned Friday on federal sex trafficking and interstate prostitution charges in a New York court. Prosecutors allege that for nearly two decades, Michael Jeffries, his romantic partner and a third man lured men into taking part in sex parties […]

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FILE - A housing development in Middlesex, Pa., is shown on March 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puska...

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Allies hope a Trump win changes the system for mortgages. Some warn it will make them pricier

If Donald Trump wins the presidential election, Republicans hope he will fulfill a longstanding GOP goal of privatizing the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which have been under government control since the Great Recession. But Democrats and some economists warn that, especially in this time of high mortgage rates, doing so will make […]

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Two Virginia candidates for Congress say democracy is at stake. It’s there the campaigns part ways

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — The candidates to represent Virginia’s 7th Congressional District both say democracy is in trouble. Republican Derrick Anderson and Democrat Eugene Vindman each make the case that the government has failed voters in the district and across the country as leaders embrace extreme politics. In this year’s election, they say, the country’s […]

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FILE - Danielle Dauphinais, who was charged with second-degree murder and two counts of witness tam...

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Mother who beat and starved her 5-year-old son to death faces over 50 years in prison

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire woman faces a sentence of over 50 years to life in prison in the death of her 5-year-old son, who was beaten, starved and exposed to drugs, weighing just 19 pounds when his body was found buried in a Massachusetts park in 2021. Danielle Dauphinais, 38, is scheduled […]

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Biden heads to Indian Country as Harris steps up appeal to Native American voters

PHOENIX (AP) — President Joe Biden is at last making his way to Indian Country, paying a long-promised visit to a reservation in Arizona that Democrats hope could provide a boost to Vice President Kamala Harris’ turnout effort in a key battleground state. Biden’s visit to the Gila River Indian Community’s land on the outskirts […]

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Clarification: Election 2024-Abortion story