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President Joe Biden speaks during an event in Virginia on Jan. 23, to campaign for abortion rights, a top issue for Democrats in the upcoming presidential election.

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  • Politics

As abortion looks like a key issue in 2024, voters more divided by party than ever

In a new report, Democrats are increasingly motivated by the issue of abortion - and increasingly supportive, as are independent voters. Republicans views have mostly remained the same.

May 02, 2024
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  • Sarah McCammon
Federal judges have enormous power over their courtrooms and their chambers, which can leave employees vulnerable to abuse, with few ways to report their concerns anonymously.

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  • Law

Victims of harassment by federal judges often find the judiciary is above the law

Federal judges have enormous power over their courtrooms and their chambers, which can leave employees vulnerable to abuse, with few ways to report their concerns anonymously.

May 02, 2024
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
Amazon and Target are among the latest big retailers to stop selling weighted infant sleepwear due to concerns about safety. Here, a woman pushes a stroller as the New York skyline is seen from Weehawken, New Jersey.

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  • Family

Amazon, Target and other retailers pull weighted infant sleepwear over safety fears

Federal regulators, medical experts and safe-sleep advocates have warned of the potential danger of weighted infant sleepwear, but manufacturers say their products have helped millions of families.

May 02, 2024
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  • Joe Hernandez
Angie Cox, left, and Joelle Henneman hug after an approval vote at the United Methodist Church General Conference that repealed their church's longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy and same-sex weddings.

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  • Religion

United Methodist Church lifts bans on LGBTQ clergy and same-sex weddings

Meeting at their worldwide General Conference in Charlotte, N.C., United Methodist delegates voted overwhelmingly to allow LGBTQ clergy and for Methodist ministers to officiate at same-sex weddings.

May 02, 2024
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By:
  • Jason DeRose
Low-dose estrogen can be taken orally, but it's also now available in patches, gels and creams.

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  • Your Health

Hormones for menopause are safe, study finds. Here's what changed

Women under 60 can benefit from hormone therapy to treat hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause. That's according to a new study, and is a departure from what women were told in the past.

May 02, 2024
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  • Allison Aubrey
Arizona's Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes, speaking in Phoenix last month after the state's supreme court ruled that an 1864 ban on abortion could be enforced, had pledged not to enforce the law. Now the legislature has voted to repeal it.

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  • National

Arizona lawmakers vote by a narrow margin to repeal Civil War-era abortion ban

Gov. Katie Hobbs plans to sign the repeal of the law that bans nearly all abortions — keeping the state's 15-weeks-of-pregnancy ban in place. But it's unclear when the repeal takes effect

May 01, 2024
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  • Wayne Schutsky
The Hudson-Athens Lighthouse is one of two "middle-of-the-river" lighthouses left standing on the Hudson River.

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  • Arts & Life

Here's this year's list of the most endangered historic places in the U.S.

The National Trust's annual list includes Eatonville, the all-Black Florida town memorialized by Zora Neale Hurston, Alaska's Sitka Tlingit Clan houses, and the home of country singer Cindy Walker.

May 01, 2024
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  • Neda Ulaby
Nickelodeon's <em>SpongeBob SquarePants</em> made its TV debut 25 years ago on May 1, 1999 before the official series launch in July 1999.

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  • Television

The iconic SpongeBob SquarePants made his TV debut 25 years ago

Nickelodeon's megahit show SpongeBob SquarePants made its TV debut on May 1, 1999. Fans of the cartoon span generations and the animated series has become a multibillion-dollar franchise.

May 01, 2024
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  • Ashley Montgomery
The 2024 presidential race remains extremely close between President Biden and former President Donald Trump, according to the latest polling from NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist.

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  • Elections

NPR poll: Democrats fear fascism, and Republicans worry about a lack of values

A new 2024 election poll from NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist shows fundamental divides over concerns for America's future and what to teach the next generation.

May 01, 2024
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  • Domenico Montanaro
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump attends a news conference with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., on April 12, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla.

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  • Politics

Trump may get another chance to be president. He's planning an aggressive second term

In a new interview with TIME Magazine, Trump promises to prosecute President Biden, unleash the National Guard on immigrants and says it's "irrelevant" if he's comfortable criminalizing abortions.

May 01, 2024
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  • Stephen Fowler
Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell and his colleagues voted to hold interest rates steady at a 23-year high on Wednesday. The central bank is trying to curb stubborn inflation.

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  • Economy

Fed keeps interest rates at 23-year high

The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady Wednesday, as inflation remained stubbornly above the Fed's 2% target. Investors now think it could be September or later before rates start to fall.

May 01, 2024
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  • Scott Horsley
Anti-abortion rights advocates demonstrate prior to an Arizona House of Representatives session at the Arizona state Capitol on April 17 in Phoenix.

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  • Elections

Christian conservatives wrestle with shifting GOP stance on Arizona abortion ban

After former President Donald Trump and Arizona GOP Senate candidate Kari Lake distanced themselves from the law, some abortion rights opponents are left wondering who they can count on.

May 01, 2024
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  • Ben Giles
Using a tactical vehicle, New York City police enter an upper floor of Hamilton Hall on the Columbia University campus in New York on Tuesday, after protesters took over the building earlier in the day.

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  • Education

New York police arrest 300 people as they clear Hamilton Hall at Columbia University

New York police arrested pro-Palestinian demonstrators on two campuses Tuesday night, as officers cleared out a Columbia University building occupied by protesters.

May 01, 2024
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  • Ayana Archie
Counterprotesters try to dismantle a pro-Palestinian encampment set up on the University of California, Los Angeles campus in the early hours of Wednesday.

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  • National

Violence erupts at UCLA as protests over Israel's war in Gaza escalate across the U.S.

Members of pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel groups in Los Angeles clashed, with reports of fireworks and pepper spray use. Elsewhere, universities are tearing down encampments and arresting students.

May 01, 2024
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Elisabeth Moss plays British spy Imogen Salter in <em>The Veil.</em>

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  • TV Reviews

Elisabeth Moss embraces her best role yet as a secret agent in 'The Veil'

Moss plays a British spy on the trail of a woman who may or may not be a terrorist. As the two begin working together, suspicions swirl on both sides.

May 01, 2024
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  • David Bianculli
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