A hearing next month will decide whether Marianne Smyth can be extradited to the United Kingdom over a scam dating back more than 15 years in Northern Ireland.
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Supreme Court seems likely to preserve access to abortion medication mifepristone
A consensus appeared to emerge among justices that the abortion opponents who challenged the FDA’s approval of the medication and subsequent actions to ease access to it lack the legal right to sue.
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UK court says Assange can’t be extradited on espionage charges until U.S. rules out death penalty
His supporters say he is a journalist protected by the First Amendment who exposed U.S. military wrongdoing in Iraq and Afghanistan that was in the public interest.
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Israel, Hamas dig in as international pressure builds for a cease-fire in Gaza
The war has killed over 32,000 Palestinians, left much of the Gaza Strip in ruins, displaced most its residents and driven a third of its population of 2.3 million to the brink of famine.
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Baltimore’s Key Bridge collapses after a cargo ship hits it; 6 presumed dead
The cargo ship lost power and issued a mayday before hitting the bridge, enabling authorities to limit vehicle traffic on the span.
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A major European nature protection plan stumbles at the final hurdle
The member states were supposed to give final approval to the biodiversity bill on Monday. But farmers’ protests of new environmental laws changed minds.
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Putin says Islamic extremists raided concert hall but attack masterminds are yet to be found
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the gunmen who raided a suburban Moscow concert hall and killed 139 people were ‘radical Islamists.’
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High school teacher and students sue over Arkansas’ ban on critical race theory
The suit stems from the state’s decision last year to not count an Advance Placement course on Afridan American Studies toward state credit.
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Brothers tried to fight off mountain lion during fatal attack in Northern California, family says
The brothers from rural Mount Aukum were hunting for shed antlers Saturday afternoon near Georgetown, a historic town about 50 miles northeast of the state capital.
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The IRS has 940,000 unclaimed tax refunds from 2020. Is one of them yours?
People in the U.S. have until May 17 to submit tax returns for unclaimed refunds for tax year 2020, which total more than $1 billion nationwide.