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Month: March 2024

Biden signs new executive order to improve women’s health research as reproductive health remains central to reelection pitch

By Sam Fossum, Michael Williams and Donald Judd, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden is taking new executive action Monday to improve research on women’s health across the federal government as well as announce new actions being taken by several federal agencies as the White House seeks to increase funding for women’s health research.

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New York to probe sputtering legal marijuana program as storefronts lag, black market booms

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York will evaluate its troubled recreational marijuana licensing program as lawsuits and bureaucratic stumbles have severely hampered the legal market and black-market sellers have flourished. Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered the review Monday, eager to find ways to speed up license processing times and allow legal

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Biden signs executive order on advancing study of women’s health while chiding ‘backward’ GOP ideas

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed an executive order aimed at advancing the study of women’s health by strengthening data collection and providing better funding opportunities for biomedical research. During a reception at the White House on Monday, he also chided Republicans for having “no clue about the

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Afghan refugee convicted of murder in a case that shocked Albuquerque’s Muslim community

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An Afghan refugee has been found guilty of first-degree murder in one of three fatal shootings that shook Albuquerque’s Muslim community during the summer of 2022. Jurors returned the verdict Monday. Muhammad Syed faces up to life in prison for killing 41-year-old Aftab Hussein in

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Global ocean heat has hit a new record every single day for the last year

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The world’s oceans have now experienced an entire year of unprecedented heat, with a new temperature record broken every day, new data shows. Global ocean surface temperatures started breaking daily records in mid-March last year, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, fueling

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Commanders sign cornerback Michael Davis, who joins Chargers teammate Austin Ekeler in Washington

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer The Washington Commanders signed cornerback Michael Davis to a one-year contract Monday, adding another player from the Los Angeles Chargers along with running back Austin Ekeler. Davis, 29, gives Washington an established veteran in the secondary to go with Benjamin St-Juste and 2023 first-round pick Emmanuel Forbes. He has

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Descendant of judge who wrote infamous Dred Scott decision pens a play about where we are now

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Writer and actor Kate Taney Billingsley has been thinking a lot about America’s racial history and her family’s part in it. Billingsley’s great-great-great-great uncle was Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, who ruled that African Americans could not be citizens as part of the infamous Dred

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