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The US Supreme Court has made it possible for Arkansas to ban medication-induced abortions. The law was passed in 2015 and was challenged by women’s health services organisation Planned Parenthood. It is meant to provide follow-up care in case of complications however doctors administering the abortion drugs have had a hard time finding fellow physicians who will partner with them, meaning medication-induced abortions are essentially made impossible. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2LCXf4C

A gunman killed two female police officers and a man in a parked car in the eastern Belgian city of Liege, before he was shot dead by police. The assailant is suspected of being radicalised in prison by Islamist militants. - At around 10:30 am (0830 GMT), a man followed two female police officers in Liege, stabbed them several times, then grabbed their firearms and shot them both dead. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2xrmAM7

Over a dozen cars were involved in a chain-reaction pileup near Cajon Pass in Southern California on Wednesday morning amid dense fog. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2stemgw

The family of a small boy found hanging from a balcony in Paris have expressed heartfelt thanks to the Malian migrant who saved him. "He's truly a hero," the boy's grandmother said of Mamoudou Gassama, who climbed four floors before a crowd of well-wishers to pluck the child from danger. The four-year-old's father, who had allegedly left him in their flat to go shopping, and then stayed out longer than planned to play Pokemon Go, faces charges of child neglect. The daring rescue, which has earned him the nickname of Spider-Man, saw Mr Gassama become an overnight national hero and he was offered French citizenship. President Emmanuel Macron awarded him a medal for bravery after inviting him to the Elysée Palace on Monday and offered him a job in the fire brigade. “Thank you France. That’s all I can say,” said Mr Gassama after coming out of the state prefecture in of Bobigny, north or Paris, where he was handed a residency permit while awaiting full citizenship. It

The manufacturer of Ambien on Wednesday dismissed actress Roseanne Barr’s suggestion that the sleep aid was to blame for her racist and anti-Semitic tweets that led to the cancellation of her top-rated sitcom. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2LLtIWv

San Francisco’s city attorney has demanded that Uber and Lyft turn over employment records after a California high court ruling that could reshape the gig economy. Technology firms that allow people to perform discrete tasks for money - like driving passengers to their destination - typically classify those workers as independent contractors, rather than full-time employees, a designation that means they are not entitled to wage and benefit guarantees. The California Supreme Court recently threw that business model into doubt by ruling that companies must meet a series of conditions to prove workers should be independent contractors. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2sk8Uxq

CHESTERFIELD, S.C. (AP) — The mother of an 11-month-old baby found dead in a diaper box near her South Carolina home has been charged with lying to police and improperly disposing of a body, authorities said Wednesday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IXkokK

Ultimately, the Navy hopes to build and operate as many as 12 new nuclear-armed submarines, to serve well into the 2080s. The administration's 2019 budget request, released earlier this year, has already increased funding for the service's new nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine by $2 billion over this year's amount in what appears to be a clear effort to further accelerate technology development and early production. The Navy and industry may be speeding up full production plans for its first Columbia-Class nuclear armed ballistic missile submarine as part of a broader move to increase the size of the service's submarine fleet more quickly. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2LaktOC

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An airplane flying from China to Vietnam turned back to make an emergency landing after cracks appeared in a window, just two weeks after another airliner's cockpit window broke mid-flight in the country, state media said Wednesday. The Beijing Capital Airlines flight bound for Nha Trang in southern Vietnam with 211 people aboard returned to the eastern city of Hangzhou around an hour after take-off on Tuesday, the official Xinhua news agency said. Several disgruntled passengers refused to board an alternative flight because they considered the compensation too low and were upset that the airline did not offer an apology, it said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2J3G6zB

The blast from the summit’s Halemaumau crater sent smog billowing into the air while the lava made its way into evacuated areas in the eastern corner of Hawaii’s Big Island. Easterly winds are expected to push volcanic gases, vog and ash westward towards more communities, officials said. In Leilani Estates and Lanipuna Gardens lava flow has spread over 3.7 square miles from around two dozen fissures. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2sltYTn

The story of a dramatic rescue of a child that was dangling from a Paris balcony took a depressing turn on Tuesday when it was revealed that the child's father was off playing Pokémon Go at the time of the incident . SEE ALSO: Real-life 'Spider-Man' who climbed building to save child to meet with French president The child was rescued by 22-year-old Mamoudou Gassama, an undocumented Malian migrant. In the now-famous feat, Gassama scaled several stories, earning him the "Spiderman" nickname, to save the child. But it turns out the child's father is now in very hot water over what he was doing at the time of the rescue. French prosecutor Francois Molins told a CNN affiliate that the father had gone grocery shopping, leaving the child alone and then proceeded to play Pokémon Go after leaving the shop. (The child's mother was away on a trip visiting family at the time.) The father has been charged with "failure to meet parental obligations" and co

"Democrats mistakenly tweet 2014 pictures from Obama's term showing children from the Border in steel cages" from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2smiWgE

Southwest Airlines has apologised to a woman who claimed a member of staff stopped her from boarding because they did not believe her one-year-old biracial son was hers. Lindsay Gottlieb claimed in a series of tweets that before a flight from Denver to Oakland, a desk agent asked her to "prove" that her son was hers "despite having his passport". “She said because we have different last name," the woman's basketball coach from the University of California, Berkeley wrote. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2L9TNNN

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich had every right to take Israeli citizenship, saying his choice to acquire another passport was no big deal. Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea soccer club who has found himself without a visa to Britain, took Israeli citizenship on Monday and will move to Tel Aviv where he has bought a property, the Israeli news website Ynet said. Abramovich, 51 has traditionally enjoyed good relations with the Kremlin and served as a regional governor in a remote Russian region from 2000-2008. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2LFpBLR

Russia's embattled liberal community was reeling Wednesday from the murder of fiercely anti-Kremlin journalist Arkady Babchenko who was gunned down in Ukraine after leaving Moscow following a campaign of harassment. A prominent Russian war correspondent, Babchenko, 41, was murdered on Tuesday evening in a contract-style killing in the stairwell of his building in the Ukrainian capital Kiev where he moved last year. The journalist was killed less than a month after President Vladimir Putin was inaugurated for his fourth Kremlin term and as Russia gears up to host the World Cup later this month. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2xpI4c1

HONOLULU (AP) — The Latest on the eruption of Kilauea volcano in Hawaii (all times local): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2J1uqgO

San Francisco’s city attorney has demanded that Uber and Lyft turn over employment records after a California high court ruling that could reshape the gig economy. Technology firms that allow people to perform discrete tasks for money - like driving passengers to their destination - typically classify those workers as independent contractors, rather than full-time employees, a designation that means they are not entitled to wage and benefit guarantees. The California Supreme Court recently threw that business model into doubt by ruling that companies must meet a series of conditions to prove workers should be independent contractors. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2sk8Uxq

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza's Hamas rulers said Wednesday they had agreed to a cease-fire with Israel to end the largest flare-up of violence between the two sides since a 2014 war. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2L9fqOp

Arkady Babchenko, reported dead, showed up at a news conference very much alive from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2LGtxvD

Jenna Dewan might've lopped off Tatum from her last name (and her brunette from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2xr8RVC

The family of a small boy found hanging from a balcony in Paris have expressed heartfelt thanks to the Malian migrant who saved him. "He's truly a hero," the boy's grandmother said of Mamoudou Gassama, who climbed four floors before a crowd of well-wishers to pluck the child from danger. The four-year-old's father, who had allegedly left him in their flat to go shopping, and then stayed out longer than planned to play Pokemon Go, faces charges of child neglect. The daring rescue, which has earned him the nickname of Spider-Man, saw Mr Gassama become an overnight national hero and he was offered French citizenship. President Emmanuel Macron awarded him a medal for bravery after inviting him to the Elysée Palace on Monday and offered him a job in the fire brigade. “Thank you France. That’s all I can say,” said Mr Gassama after coming out of the state prefecture in of Bobigny, north or Paris, where he was handed a residency permit while awaiting full citizenship. It

Donald Trump Jr. saw fit to retweet Roseanne Barr's claims that billionaire Democratic donor George Soros was "a Nazi." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2xtlBem

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An American televangelist is appealing for donations to fund the purchase of a $54 million business jet, saying that if Jesus was still preaching he "wouldn't be riding a donkey." Jesse Duplantis, 68, whose Christian ministry is based in Louisiana, made the appeal for a Dassault Falcon 7X jet in a video for his followers. Jesse Duplantis Ministries has already gone through three private planes, "burning them up for the Lord Jesus Christ," he said. "Now some people believe that preachers shouldn't have jets," he said in the video. "I really believe that preachers oughta have and go on every available voice, every available outlet to get this gospel preached to the world." Duplantis said he needs the jet "so we can go anywhere in the world one stop" and he recounted a conversation he said he had with God about needing the plane. A Dassault Falcon 7X plane  Credit: LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP "He said, 'Jesse, you wanna come up wher

More than 50 senior Taliban commanders were killed in an artillery strike on a meeting in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, a U.S. military spokesman said on Wednesday, as fighting continued across the country. Details of last week's operation emerged as fighting continued in other parts of Afghanistan, where the Taliban, aiming to restore their version of hardline Islamic law, launched their annual spring offensive last month. There were also serious incidents in Takhar province in the north, in Loghar, east of the capital, and Kandahar in the south, keeping up a pattern of attacks across the country. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IWNNvu

Paris Jackson is breaking her silence after abruptly leaving the Dior fashion show from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IV21wK

President Donald Trump reportedly asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IXo7ik

Officer Julian Padron wasted no time. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2L9ezxn

By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's ruling coalition started talks with opposition groups on Wednesday on amending provisions of an anti-terrorism law that critics say has criminalised dissent, state-affiliated media said. Watchdog groups say the 2009 law's broad definitions have been used indiscriminately against anyone who opposes government policy. The discussions follow the release on Tuesday of opposition leader Andargachew Tsige, who was sentenced to death under the law in 2009 over his role in the opposition group Ginbot 7, which the government has labelled a terrorist organisation. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2xtrlVd

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — A man who expressed thoughts about suicide and was briefly hospitalized returned to a home and fatally shot his wife, her father and her stepmother before killing himself, police said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2seQXQK

It's been almost three weeks since Melania Trump last appeared in public, from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2J3y9dC

An airplane flying from China to Vietnam turned back to make an emergency landing after cracks appeared in a window, just two weeks after another airliner's cockpit window broke mid-flight in the country, state media said Wednesday. The Beijing Capital Airlines flight bound for Nha Trang in southern Vietnam with 211 people aboard returned to the eastern city of Hangzhou around an hour after take-off on Tuesday, the official Xinhua news agency said. Several disgruntled passengers refused to board an alternative flight because they considered the compensation too low and were upset that the airline did not offer an apology, it said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2J3G6zB

President Trump on Wednesday responded to the ABC’s firing of Roseanne Barr over a tweet that included with a racist slur against former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett. And, true to form, the president made it about him. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IZRdtm

By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan played down a spate of recent Taliban attacks on Wednesday, saying violence levels were still lower than average as some insurgents talked peace - a situation he described as "talking and fighting." "You see mid-level, senior-level Taliban leaders engaging with Afghans," said Army General John Nicholson, adding that a lot of the diplomatic activity was taking place "off the stage." Nicholson's remarks came the same day that gunmen armed with assault rifles and grenade launchers attempted to penetrate the heavily fortified headquarters of the Afghan interior ministry, battling security forces for more than two hours in the latest attack on the capital Kabul. The attack was a reminder of the challenges facing U.S.-backed Afghan forces even after 16 years of war, including in the capital Kabul. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2xt68e1

The story of a dramatic rescue of a child that was dangling from a Paris balcony took a depressing turn on Tuesday when it was revealed that the child's father was off playing Pokémon Go at the time of the incident . SEE ALSO: Real-life 'Spider-Man' who climbed building to save child to meet with French president The child was rescued by 22-year-old Mamoudou Gassama, an undocumented Malian migrant. In the now-famous feat, Gassama scaled several stories, earning him the "Spiderman" nickname, to save the child. But it turns out the child's father is now in very hot water over what he was doing at the time of the rescue. French prosecutor Francois Molins told a CNN affiliate that the father had gone grocery shopping, leaving the child alone and then proceeded to play Pokémon Go after leaving the shop. (The child's mother was away on a trip visiting family at the time.) The father has been charged with "failure to meet parental obligations" and co

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich had every right to take Israeli citizenship, saying his choice to acquire another passport was no big deal. Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea soccer club who has found himself without a visa to Britain, took Israeli citizenship on Monday and will move to Tel Aviv where he has bought a property, the Israeli news website Ynet said. Abramovich, 51 has traditionally enjoyed good relations with the Kremlin and served as a regional governor in a remote Russian region from 2000-2008. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2LFpBLR

The manufacturer of Ambien on Wednesday dismissed actress Roseanne Barr’s suggestion that the sleep aid was to blame for her racist and anti-Semitic tweets that led to the cancellation of her top-rated sitcom. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2LLtIWv

President Trump on Tuesday accused, without evidence, investigators working on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe of a partisan plot to meddle in the 2018 midterm elections. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2L4u2P7

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man arrested on suspicion of having explosives after a blast killed his ex-girlfriend at her day spa has walked free after U.S. prosecutors said Tuesday that they had dropped the charge against him. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2LEuq89

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By Matthias Williams and Andrew Osborn KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) - A dissident Russian journalist reported murdered in Kiev on Tuesday dramatically reappeared alive on Wednesday during a televised briefing by Ukrainian state security about the killing, which they then said they had faked. Authorities said Arkady Babchenko was shot dead at his flat and found by his wife in a pool of blood. "I would like to apologize for what you have all had to go through," said Babchenko, who looked on the verge of tears. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2kyGmMb

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP) — The Latest on the aftermath of Maryland's flash flooding (all times local): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2H0LIsC

President Trump on Wednesday expressed fresh regret for appointing Jeff Sessions his attorney general. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2sracpn

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Animal rights activists have expressed outrage after a report on Japan’s “scientific whaling” programme showed that more than two-thirds of the female minke whales harpooned in the Southern Ocean earlier this year were pregnant females. The report, submitted to a meeting of the scientific committee of the International Whaling Commission in Slovenia earlier this month, also showed that 53 of the 333 whales slaughtered were juvenile animals. “The killing of 122 pregnant whales is a shocking statistic and sad indictment on the cruelty of Japan’s whale hunt”, said Alexia Wellbelove, of the Australia branch of Humane Society International. “It is further demonstration, if needed, of the truly gruesome and unnecessary nature of whaling operations, especially when non-lethal surveys have been shown to be sufficient for scientific needs”, she said. Activists accuse Tokyo of ignoring a ruling in 2014 by the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, that Japan’s whaling was a commercial exe

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some elements of the Taliban in Afghanistan are showing interest in peace talks, the top U.S. commander in Kabul said Wednesday, citing "off stage" contacts involving what he described as mid- and high-level leaders of the insurgency. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2J1J9bp