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Month: August 2023

The anti-abortion movement is fractured over what it wants from its first post-Roe GOP presidential nominee

By Steve Contorno and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Bernie Hayes has spent most Mondays since the overturning of Roe v. Wade meeting with friends outside of an Iowa Planned Parenthood trying to stop abortions one at a time. He huddles monthly with other like-minded activists plotting more wholesale paths to halting the procedure. Lately,

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Daimler Truck finance chief Jochen Goetz, credited with its spinoff from Mercedes-Benz maker, dies

By The Associated Press Daimler Truck says its chief financial officer Jochen Goetz has died. He worked more than three decades at the Daimler Group, the German automotive giant known as the maker of Mercedes-Benz luxury cars. Daimler Truck said he was “decisively responsible” for the spinoff in 2021 of Daimler’s truck division from the

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Senegal’s opposition leader Ousmane Sonko hospitalized a week into prison hunger strike

By ZANE IRWIN Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s jailed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, who has been on a hunger strike in prison to protest criminal charges against him, has been hospitalized. Sonko was imprisoned last week in advance of criminal proceedings against him on charges of calling for insurrection, conspiracy against the state

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Days of torrential rains and floods in Austria have left 1 person dead, officials say

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Torrential rains and heavy floods have ravaged southern Austria for the past three days, killing one person who was swept away by a quickly swelling river on Sunday. After the person fell into the river, firefighters, divers and water rescuers immediately began rescue operations, according to the

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Pence asegura que “cumplirá la ley” si lo llaman a testificar en el juicio contra Trump sobre las elecciones de 2020

urielblanco (CNN) — Mike Pence, exvicepresidente de Estados Unidos, dijo que cumplirá la ley si debe testificar en el juicio contra el expresidente Donald Trump por el caso de las elecciones de 2020. “No tengo planes de testificar, pero, siempre cumpliremos con la ley. Sin embargo (…) no sé cuál será el camino de esta

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