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![FILE - State Senate President Pro Tempore Martin Looney meets with reporters outside the Senate chamber June 9, 2021, in Hartford, Conn. The Connecticut Senate gave final legislative approval Friday to a bill abortion rights advocates contend is needed to protect in-state medical providers from legal action stemming from out-of-state laws, as well as the patients who travel to Connecticut to terminate a pregnancy and those who help them. Looney said lawmakers in Connecticut needed to pass the legislation “in defense of our own values and our own legal system." (Mark Mirko/Hartford Courant via AP, File)]()
Connecticut Senate OKs bill that protects abortion providersHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Connecticut Senate gave final legislative approval shortly before midnight Friday to a bill abortion rights advocates contend is needed to protect in-state medical...By SUSAN HAIGH
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![FILE - Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall speaks at a news conference, Thursday June 3, 2021, in Montgomery, Ala. The U.S. Department of Justice is challenging an Alabama law making it a felony for doctors to treat transgender people under age 19 with puberty-blockers and hormones to affirm their gender identity. The action comes after the department sent a letter to all 50 state attorneys general warning that blocking transgender and nonbinary youth from receiving gender-affirming care could be an infringement of federal constitutional protections. (Mickey Welsh/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP, File)]()
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![FILE - This Nov. 3, 2008 file photo, shows one of Pacific Gas and Electric's Diablo Canyon Power Plant's nuclear reactors in Avila Beach, Calif. Facing possible electricity shortages, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday, April 29, 2022, raised the possibility that the state's sole remaining nuclear power plant might continue operating beyond a planned closing by 2025. Newsom has no direct authority over the operating license for the nuclear power plant, but Newsom spokeswoman Erin Mellon said "The Governor is in support keeping all options on the table to ensure we have a reliable (electricity) grid.]()
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![FILE - Travis Scott performs at the Astroworld Music Festival in Houston, Nov. 5, 2021. The experiences of panicked concertgoers who couldn’t breathe and had no clear path to escape a massive crowd surge at last year’s deadly Astroworld music festival in Houston are featured in a documentary set for release Friday, April 29, 2022. But lawyers for Live Nation, which is being sued for its role as the festival’s promoter, say they’re concerned that publicity from the documentary, “Concert Crush: The Travis Scott Festival Tragedy,” could “taint the jury pool.” (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)]()
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![In this photo provided by the U.S. Army, soldiers and National Park Service personnel offload equipment and supplies from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter on Kahiltna Glacier, Alaska, on Wednesday, April 27, 2022. Those wishing to climb North America's tallest peak got a boost this week from the U.S. Army. Aviators from B Company, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment at Fort Wainwright flew two helicopters Wednesday to continue the decades-old tradition of helping set up base camp on Denali, a 20,310-foot mountain located about 240 miles north of Anchorage. (John Pennell/U.S. Army via AP)]()
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![FILE - Youth ride scooters in Manezhnaya Square near Red Square and the Kremlin after sunset in Moscow, Russia, on April 20, 2022. Russia staved off a default on its debt Friday, April 29, 2022, by making a last-minute payment using its precious dollar reserves sitting outside the country, U.S. Treasury officials said.]()
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![FILE - In this May 22, 2018 photo, people enter the University of Southern California's Engemann Student Health Center in Los Angeles. The University of Southern California has settled a lawsuit with 80 former students, mostly gay and bisexual men, who accused a male doctor of sexual misconduct. The agreement announced Thursday, April 28, 2022, for an undisclosed sum follows settlements by the Los Angeles school to pay more than $1 billion to thousands of women who said they were sexually abused by another male doctor at the student health center.]()
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![A pedestrian walk past the Mark B. Allen Funeral Home in the Sun Valley section of Los Angeles on Friday, April 29, 2022. The Los Angeles funeral home owner illegally left the remains of 11 people, including infants, in stages of decay and mummification and faces more than a decade in jail, prosecutors said Friday. Authorities opened an investigation into the Mark B. Allen Mortuary and Cremations Services Inc., after receiving complaints from families. The mortuary, owned by Mark B. Allen, is now closed and phone numbers listed for the business were disconnected.]()
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![FILE - This aerial photo shows the pier and shoreline in Huntington Beach, Calif., on Oct. 11, 2021. A coyote attacked and injured a girl on Southern California's famed Huntington Beach. A police spokesperson says the attack occurred Thursday, April 28, 2022, at night on the beach on the north side of Huntington Beach Pier.]()
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![FILE - San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit police officers Nick Luzano, left, Eric Kelly, center, and Eric Hofstein, right, wear masks while patrolling a Richmond bound train from Powell Street Station BART platform in San Francisco, Calif., on Nov. 20, 2020. The BART board of directors decided, Thursday, April 28, 2022, to temporarily restore a mask mandate for riders on the rail system a week after it was dropped. The new mandate is effective until July 18, unless extended. (Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)]()
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![FILE - Former Idaho state Rep. Aaron von Ehlinger glances toward the gallery during his rape trial at the Ada County Courthouse on April 27, 2022, in Boise, Idaho. The former Idaho lawmaker was convicted Friday, April 29, 2022, of raping a 19-year-old legislative intern after a dramatic trial in which the young woman fled the witness stand during testimony, saying “I can’t do this.” (Brian Myrick/The Idaho Press-Tribune via AP)]()
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![FILE — In this courtroom sketch, Ghislaine Maxwell enters the courtroom escorted by U.S. Marshalls at the start of her trial, Nov. 29, 2021, in New York. A judge has declined to throw out Maxwell’s sex trafficking conviction, despite a juror’s failure to disclose he’d been a victim of childhood sexual abuse. U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan on Friday, April 1, 2022, refused to order a new trial for Maxwell, who was convicted in December of helping the American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein abuse several teenage girls.]()
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![A TV display shows video evidence of a Grand Rapids police officer struggling with and shooting Patrick Lyoya at Grand Rapids City Hall on Wednesday, April 13, 2022. Lyoya, 26, was shot and killed about 8:10 a.m., on April 4, after what police said was a traffic stop. (Grand Rapids Police Department)]()
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![FILE - Judge Patrick McAllister listens to arguments during a hearing in court, Thursday, March, 31, 2022 in Bath, N.Y. New York will now hold its congressional and state Senate primaries on Aug. 23, a McAllister ruled Friday. (Vaughn Golden/WSKG via AP, Pool, File)]()
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![This photo released by the Department of Information and Public Relations of the government of the British Virgin Islands on April 22, 2022 shows British Virgin Island Premier Andrew Alturo Fahie. Fahie and the director of the Caribbean territory’s ports were scheduled to appear in federal court in Miami on Friday, April 29, 2022 after their arrest on drug smuggling charges in a sting set up by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. (Department of Information and Public Relations of the government of the British Virgin Islands via AP)]()
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![Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department Executive Director, Jerry Winchester, speaks during a news conference to talk about upgrades to Oklahoma state parks and local tourism campaigns in Oklahoma City, Okla. on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. Winchester, the embattled director of the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department, resigned Friday, April 29, 202, and the state filed a lawsuit against the operator of six state park restaurants. (Chris Landsberger/The Oklahoman via AP)]()
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![FILE - This still frame from Metropolitan Police Department body worn camera video shows Thomas Webster, in red jacket, at a barricade line at on the west front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. Retired New York City police officer Webster is the next to go on trial, with jury selection scheduled to begin Monday, April 25, 2022. Webster has claimed he was acting in self-defense when he tackled a police officer who was trying to protect the Capitol from a mob on Jan. 6. (Metropolitan Police Department via AP, File)]()
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![Adrian Blake Mitchell, left, and Andrea Laššáková warm up near their dog, Beau, before rehearsing on Monday, April 18, 2022, in Santa Monica, Calif. The dancers left their positions at the Mikhailovsky Ballet Theatre in St. Petersburg and fled Russia ahead of the invasion of Ukraine.]()
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![A pedestrian walks past the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022, in New York. Stocks are falling in early trading on Wall Street Friday, April 29, putting major indexes back into the red for the week after several sharp moves both up and down.]()
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![FILE - A person holds flags during the Bans Off Oklahoma Rally on the steps on Oklahoma state Capitol in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, April, 5, 2022. The Oklahoma House has given final approval to a Texas-style abortion ban that prohibits abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy. The bill passed Thursday, April 28, 2022, by the GOP-led House now heads to Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, who is expected to sign it within days. (Sarah Phipps/The Oklahoman via AP, File)]()
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![Retired NASA astronaut Charlie Duke speaks to a group of middle school students at the South Carolina State Museum on Friday, April 29, 2022, in Columbia, S.C. Duke, 86, is one of four U.S. astronauts still living who walked on the moon during the Apollo program.]()
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![Patrick and Dee Dee Klein, parents of late New York City Firefighter (FDNY) Timothy Klein, follow his casket as it is carried out of St. Francis DeSales Church during a funeral service, Friday, April 29, 2022, in New York. Klein, 31, died Sunday when flames engulfed the second floor of the home, causing part of the ceiling to collapse.]()
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![FILE - Bennett Walsh, then superintendent of the Soldiers' Home in Holyoke, Mass., speaks at a 9/11 ceremony, on Sept. 11, 2019, in West Springfield, Mass. The Massachusetts Inspector General released a report Friday, April 29, 2022, highly critical of the selection process for the superintendent of a veterans care center at which nearly 80 veterans died after falling ill with the coronavirus. The report detailed critical shortcomings in the management of the Holyoke Soldiers' Home as well as concerns regarding the supervision of the superintendent prior to the pandemic. (Don Treeger/The Republican, File)]()
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![FILE - A man looks at cardboard gravestones with the names of victims of opioid abuse outside the courthouse where the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy is taking place in White Plains, N.Y., Monday, Aug. 9, 2021. A federal appeals panel is scheduled to hear arguments on whether members of the Sackler family can be granted protection from lawsuits as part of a bankruptcy settlement for the company they own, OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma. If the company doesn’t get what it wants, it could have to fight off thousands of individual lawsuits.]()
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![FILE - In this photo provided by the Alexandria Sheriff's Office is El Shafee Elsheikh who is in custody at the Alexandria Adult Detention Center, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, in Alexandria, Va. Alexanda Kotey, a British national who played a key role in a scheme by the Islamic State to kidnap and kill Western hostages a decade ago has been sentenced to life in prison on Friday, April 29, 2022. The sentence was a foregone conclusion under the plea deal he entered last year. El Shafee Elsheikh, the second British national, will be formally sentenced in August and will also receive a life term. (Alexandria Sheriff's Office via AP, File)]()
