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Ohio city rewrites abortion ban, advocacy groups end lawsuit
Groups representing social workers and women say they have succeeded in forcing a small Ohio city to significantly narrow its abortion ban and dropped their lawsuit
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Fallout from shooting by first-grader includes staff shakeup
The fallout from the shooting of a teacher by a first-grader in Virginia has prompted a staff shakeup in the Newport News school district
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Study: Enough rare earth minerals to fuel green energy shift
The world is trying to switch from electricity produced by burning fossil fuels to cleaner wind and solar power, but some people have worried that there aren't enough rare earth minerals to make the green electricity switch
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Filipino workers: Oil company abandoned us in Hurricane Ida
Ten Filipino men who worked for a major offshore oil industry employer under federally granted visas claim in a federal lawsuit they were treated like prisoners at a company bunkhouse and that some of them were abandoned there when Hurricane Ida struck the Louisiana Gulf Coast in August 2021
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Green comet zooming our way, last visited 50,000 years ago
A comet is streaking back our way after 50,000 years
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Internet evidence key, but not enough in no-body murder case
Prosecutors in Massachusetts are basing their murder case against a man whose wife is presumed dead but whose body has not been found in large part on a series of gruesome internet searches
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Pandemic, culture wars revive 'school choice' policy push
Several years of pandemic restrictions and curriculum battles have emboldened longtime advocates of funneling public funds to private and religious schools in statehouses throughout the country
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Oklahoma investigators identify body as missing 4-year-old
Oklahoma's chief medical examiner has positively identified the body of a child found earlier this month as 4-year-old Athena Brownfield
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DA: 5 Memphis cops 'all responsible' for Tyre Nichols' death
Five fired Memphis police officers have been charged with murder and other crimes in the killing of Tyre Nichols, a Black motorist who died three days after a confrontation with the officers during a traffic stop
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Cops hunt Oregon torture suspect jailed in Vegas kidnap case
Police in southern Oregon are searching for a man accused of torturing a woman he held captive, less than two years after he was convicted in Nevada of critically injuring another woman he held captive for two weeks
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