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Month: September 2023

Georgia can resume enforcing ban on hormone replacement therapy for transgender youth, judge says

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge in Atlanta has allowed Georgia to resume enforcing a ban on hormone replacement therapy for transgender people under 18. Judge Sarah Geraghty on Tuesday put her previous order blocking the ban on hold. Attorneys for Georgia had asked her to vacate the preliminary injunction

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Design approved for memorial to the victims and survivors of the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The permanent memorial to the victims and survivors of the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history will feature 58 candle-like beams under a plan officials in Las Vegas approved Tuesday. With the design officially in place, Clark County commissioners will shift their focus to selecting

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United Airlines says the outage that held up departing flights was not a cybersecurity issue

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer United Airlines said Tuesday that a software update triggered a glitch that forced it to halt departures nationwide, briefly crippling one of the nation’s biggest carriers on a busy travel day. Federal officials said United crews had been unable to contact airline dispatchers through normal means. “A software update

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Riverside County proclaims local emergency due to flooding and leak of unknown materials in the Thermal area

Riverside County proclaimed a local emergency in response to the breach of the retaining berm at the Lawson Dump Site on Torres Martinez tribal land near Thermal. The area was hit hard by a storm that struck the Coachella Valley on Friday. Flooding was reported across the Coachella Valley, but in particular Mecca, Coachella, Thermal,

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Design approved for memorial to the victims and survivors of the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The permanent memorial to the victims and survivors of the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history will feature 58 candle-like beams under a plan officials in Las Vegas approved Tuesday. With the design officially in place, Clark County commissioners will shift their focus to selecting

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Voting rights groups ask to dismiss lawsuit challenging gerrymandered Ohio congressional map

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio voting-rights groups want to dismiss their lawsuit against Ohio’s unconstitutional congressional map. Attorneys for the League of Women Voters of Ohio and others told the Ohio Supreme Court Tuesday that prolonging the legal wrangling over U.S. House districts isn’t in the best interests of

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Arnold Schwarzenegger recalls scary moment after open-heart surgery: ‘I was in the middle of a disaster’

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Arnold Schwarzenegger is remembering a frightening moment that left him “freaking out” while recovering from open-heart surgery. In a YouTube video posted late last month, the actor and former governor of California said that he awoke to doctors telling him that his surgery – which was meant to be

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At least 7 people die as severe rainstorms trigger flooding in Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Fierce rainstorms are battering neighboring Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria, causing at least seven deaths. In northwestern Turkey, two people died Tuesday when a flash flood swept through a campsite, while two people died in Istanbul. One person is dead in Greece and five are missing, while authorities have banned road traffic

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Swiss parliamentary panel urges expulsions of Russian, other spies who threaten national security

GENEVA (AP) — A Swiss parliamentary commission has voted to urge the government to systematically expel Russian and other spies who threaten Switzerland’s security through illegal intelligence activities. The foreign affairs commission of the lower house of parliament passed the motion by 11 votes to 9, with one abstention. The vote comes as the Swiss

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