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Abortions resume in some Texas clinics after judge halts law

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Abortions quickly resumed in some Texas clinics Thursday after a federal judge halted the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., but doctors across the state did not not rush ...

Oct 07, 2021

Alabama swamped, 4 killed in floods from slow-moving front

PELHAM, Ala. (AP) - The death toll from flash floods caused by torrential rains in Alabama has risen to four. Forecasters say as much as 13 inches of rain from a slow-moving front covered roads, trapp...

Oct 07, 2021

Poland: Court rules that some EU rules clash with Polish law

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Poland's constitutional court has ruled that some European Union laws are in conflict with Poland's Constitution. The Constitutional Tribunal ruled Thursday that some provisions ...

Oct 07, 2021

Strong earthquake in southwest Pakistan kills at least 11

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - A powerful earthquake early Thursday shook a remote mountainous part of southwestern Pakistan dotted with coal mines and mud houses, killing at least 11 people and injuring mor...

Oct 06, 2021

Judge orders Texas to suspend new law banning most abortions

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Texas to suspend the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., which since September has banned most abortions in the nation's second-most po...

Oct 06, 2021

McConnell offers Dems short-term debt fix amid standoff

WASHINGTON (AP) - Edging back from a perilous standoff, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday told Democrats he would allow an emergency debt limit extension into December, offering a ...

Oct 06, 2021

White House says Biden, Xi expected to meet virtually

ZURICH (AP) - President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are expected to hold a virtual working meeting before year's end, according to a senior Biden administration official. The agreement for...

Oct 06, 2021

Police: Student opens fire at Texas high school; 4 hurt

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - A student opened fire inside a Dallas-area high school during a fight, injuring four people before he fled, authorities said Wednesday. The shooting happened at Timberview High...

Oct 06, 2021

NATO expels 8 'undeclared' Russian intelligence officers

BRUSSELS (AP) - NATO on Wednesday expelled eight members of Russia's mission to the military alliance, saying that they were secretly working as intelligence officers and cut the size of Moscow's team...

Oct 06, 2021

Nobel Prize in chemistry honors tool to build molecules

STOCKHOLM (AP) - The Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to German scientist Benjamin List of the Max Planck Institute and Scotland-born scientist David W.C. MacMillan of Princeton University. ...

Oct 06, 2021