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July 7th, 2022

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Hard-line conservative Reps. Boebert, Miller win primaries

By Will Weissert/The Associated Press • June 29, 2022

Two of Congress’ staunchest conservatives repelled more centrist alternatives to lock up Republican nominations on Tuesday, even as the party’s voters chose to turn out a six-term incumbent in Mississippi.

Takeaways from first primaries since Roe v. Wade overturned

By Steve Peoples/AP National Politics Writer • June 29, 2022

A rare Republican who supports abortion rights found success in Colorado in the first primary elections held since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, while New York’s first female governor positioned herself to become a major voice in the post-Roe landscape.

Trump painted in testimony as volatile, angry president

By Eric Tucker/The Associated Press • June 29, 2022

When President Donald Trump learned his attorney general had publicly rejected his election fraud claims, he heaved his lunch at the wall with such force that the porcelain plate shattered and ketchup streamed down.

In flurry of court activity, rulings on abortion bans mixed

By Amy Forliti and Geoff Mulvihill/The Associated Press • June 29, 2022

A federal court Tuesday allowed Tennessee to ban abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy, while in Texas — which is already enforcing a similar ban based on an embryo’s cardiac activity — a judge temporarily blocked an even stricter decades-old law from taking effect.

Families brace for changes to pandemic-era free school meals

By Lisa Rathke/The Associated Press • June 29, 2022

Before the pandemic, there was no room in the budget for Kate Murphy’s children to buy lunch at school.

Court kills Flint water charges against ex-governor, others

By Ed White/The Associated Press • June 29, 2022

The Michigan Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out charges against former Gov. Rick Snyder and others in the Flint water scandal, saying a judge sitting as a one-person grand jury had no power to issue indictments under rarely used state laws.

San Antonio migrant deaths lead to slow effort to ID victims

By The Associated Press • June 29, 2022

Victims have been found with no identification documents at all and in one case a stolen ID. Remote villages lack phone service to reach family members and determine the whereabouts of missing migrants. Fingerprint data has to be shared and matched by different governments.

FDA advisers recommend updating COVID booster shots for fall

By Lauran Neergaard and Matthew Perrone/The Associated Press • June 29, 2022

At least some U.S. adults may get updated COVID-19 shots this fall, as government advisers voted Tuesday that it’s time to tweak booster doses to better match the most recent virus variants.

New York’s 1st legal marijuana crop sprouts under the sun

By Michael Hill/The Associated Press • June 29, 2022

New York’s recreational marijuana market is beginning to sprout, literally, with thin-leafed plants stretching toward the sun in farms around the state.

US officials announce more steps against monkeypox outbreak

By Mike Stobbe/AP Medical Writer • June 29, 2022

Reacting to a surprising and growing monkeypox outbreak, U.S. health officials on Tuesday expanded the group of people recommended to get vaccinated against the monkeypox virus.

Explainer: Abortion, tech and surveillance

By Barbara Ortutay/AP Technology Writer • June 29, 2022

With abortion now or soon to be illegal in over a dozen states and severely restricted in many more, Big Tech companies that vacuum up personal details of their users are facing new calls to limit that tracking and surveillance. One fear is that law enforcement or vigilantes could use those data troves against people seeking ways to end unwanted pregnancies.

Turkey lifts its objections to Sweden, Finland joining NATO

By Jill Lawless and Joseph Wilson/The Associated Press • June 29, 2022

Turkey agreed Tuesday to lift its opposition to Sweden and Finland joining NATO, ending an impasse that had clouded a leaders’ summit opening in Madrid amid Europe’s worst security crisis in decades, triggered by the war in Ukraine.

Ukrainian survivor: Only a ‘monster’ would attack a mall

By Francesca EbeL/The Associated Press • June 29, 2022

The mall was nothing extraordinary, but in the middle of a war it was an escape for those in this Ukrainian city who had decided not to flee. Then it exploded in a Russian airstrike.

Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years for helping Epstein

By The Associated Press • June 29, 2022

NEW YORK — Ghislaine Maxwell, the jet-setting socialite who once consorted with royals, presidents and billionaires, was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for

Supreme Court’s abortion ruling sets off new court fights

By The Associated Press • June 28, 2022

Judges temporarily blocked abortion bans Monday in Louisiana and Utah, while a federal court in South Carolina said a law sharply restricting the procedure would take effect there immediately as the battle over whether women may end pregnancies shifted from the nation’s highest court to courthouses around the country.

Election 2022: Abortion central in first post-Roe primaries

By Nicholas Riccardi/The Associated Press • June 28, 2022

The midterm primary season enters a new, more volatile phase on Tuesday as voters participate in the first elections since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision revoking a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion jolted the nation’s politics.

Health tips from Dr. Mike Roizen for 6-28-22

By Dr. Mike Roizen • June 28, 2022

COVID-19 insights for patients of color and folks getting boosted According to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, as of the Memorial Day weekend, the

Post-Roe: Dems challenge GOP to show they care for mothers

By Josh Boak/The Associated Press • June 28, 2022

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade’s constitutional protections for abortion rights set off a contest between Democrats and Republicans going into the midterm elections over whose policies would do more to help vulnerable mothers and children.

Court revives block of vaccine mandate for federal workers

By Kevin McGill/The Associated Press • June 28, 2022

In a reversal for President Joe Biden, a federal appeals court in New Orleans on Monday agreed to reconsider its own April ruling that allowed the administration to require federal employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

46 migrants found dead in abandoned trailer in San Antonio

By Eric Gay and Elliot Spagat/The Associated Press • June 28, 2022

Forty-six people were found dead after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer on a remote back road in San Antonio in the latest tragedy to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico to the U.S. Sixteen people were hospitalized, including four children.

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