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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A Kansas invoice that may bar transgender individuals from utilizing public loos or altering their identify or gender on their driver’s license cleared the GOP-controlled Legislature on Tuesday by margins suggesting backers might override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s anticipated veto. ...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Washington state has bought a three-year provide of a number one abortion remedy in anticipation of a courtroom ruling that would restrict its availability, Gov. Jay Inslee mentioned Tuesday. The Democratic governor mentioned he ordered the Department of Corrections, which has a ph...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea this month will start weekly exams of sewage produced by its main cities and cities to trace the unfold of COVID-19 and establish future waves. Officials on the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency stated Wednesday that wastewater surveillance will probably present a...

Pharmaceutical big Johnson & Johnson is providing to pay $8.9 billion over 25 years to settle claims that its talc-based child powder might trigger most cancers, counting on a chapter maneuver to attempt to transfer on from the lawsuits. The firm on Tuesday mentioned the proposed deal wouldn't be an ad...

People serving time at house within the jail system as a result of hazard posed by the COVID-19 pandemic could possibly keep there after the Biden administration declares the virus emergency is over, in line with a Justice Department rule. Attorney General Merrick Garland signed the rule, saying the Federa...

LOS ANGELES — Coolio, the rapper who was amongst hip-hop’s largest names of the Nineties with hits together with “Gangsta’s Paradise” and “Fantastic Voyage,” died final yr due to fentanyl, his supervisor stated. Coolio’s former longtime supervisor Jarez Posey instructed The Associated Press Thursday that C...

TOPEKA, Kan. — Republican legislators in Kansas have been poised Wednesday to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a invoice that may ban transgender athletes from ladies’ and girls’s sports from kindergarten by way of faculty, a day after they pushed a broad rest room invoice to passage. The sta...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama lawmakers on Thursday accredited harsher penalties for trafficking fentanyl - with punishments of as much as life imprisonment - as lawmakers attempt to reply to the lethal overdose disaster. The Alabama Senate accredited the House-passed invoice on a 31-0 vote that got here with...

MEXICO CITY — China’s authorities on Thursday denied the nation’s involvement in any unlawful fentanyl trafficking with Mexico and stated it had not been notified by Mexico’s authorities of any seizures of the precursor chemical substances used to make the highly effective drug. China’s Foreign Ministry sp...

ROME — Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi is being handled for a lung an infection that may be a results of persistent leukemia, his medical doctors stated Thursday, revealing the newest of string of well being setbacks for the 86-year-old media mogul. Berlusconi’s private doctor, Alberto Zangrillo, ...