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Democrats hope abortion issue will offset doubts about Biden in Michigan

Craig Fedirighi

LANSING, Mich. — LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two women campaigning for President Joe Biden after facing medical emergencies because of ...

Twyla Tharp dance will open 700-seat amphitheater at New York’s Little Island park in June

Heather Blacksmith

NEW YORK — The 700-seat amphitheater at Little Island, a park in Manhattan built above the Hudson River on a ...

Marijuana backers eye proposed federal regulatory change as an aid to legalizing pot in more states

Craig Fedirighi

As the U.S. government moves toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, there may be little immediate impact in ...

Biden awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 politicians, activists, athletes and others

Heather Blacksmith

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on 19 people on Friday, including civil rights icons ...

Harvey Weinstein to return to court Wednesday after his NY rape conviction was overturned

Heather Blacksmith

NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein is due back in a New York courtroom Wednesday for his ...

Chinese scientist who first published COVID sequence protests after being locked out of his lab

Craig Fedirighi

SHANGHAI — The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China was staging a sit-in protest ...

The Taliban are working to woo tourists to Afghanistan

Bob Elliott

KABUL, Afghanistan — KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Around 30 men are crammed into a Kabul classroom, part of the debut ...

Nicole Kidman, who ‘makes movies better,’ gets AFI Life Achievement Award

Heather Blacksmith

LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Morgan Freeman spoke the words, but pretty much everyone who took the stage ...

Pope visits Venice to speak to artists and inmates and finds a city taxing day-trippers like him

Bob Elliott

VENICE, Italy — Venice has always been a place of contrasts, of breathtaking beauty and devastating fragility, where history, religion, ...

Biden officials indefinitely postpone ban on menthol cigarettes amid election-year pushback

Craig Fedirighi

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s administration is indefinitely delaying a long-awaited menthol cigarette ban, a decision that infuriated anti-smoking advocates ...