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By JOHN HANNA and MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Officials in Missouri’s largest city are moving to declare it a sanctuary for people seeking or providing gender-affirming care. Kansas City is poised to defy state officials intent on banning such care for minors and restricting it for adults. A City Council

DETROIT (AP) — Authorities in Detroit say a man fatally shot another customer inside a gas station and wounded two more in a dispute over a small purchase. The shooting occurred last weekend when the clerk locked the door. Samuel McCray was charged with murder and attempted murder Wednesday. The prosecutor’s office says McCray tried

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health advisers said Wednesday that a decades-old birth control pill should be sold without a prescription, paving the way for a likely U.S. approval of the first over-the-counter contraceptive medication. The panel of FDA advisers voted unanimously in favor of drugmaker Perrigo’s request to sell

BERLIN (AP) — Germany has given final approval for a Chinese company to take a significant minority stake in the operator of a container terminal at the Hamburg port. The deal was crafted following concerns that a larger buy-in might pose a national security risk. The government said on Wednesday that it would abide by

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House next month. Biden is aiming to court an Indo-Pacific leader with whom he’s sought stronger ties at a time when the United States looks to blunt China’s growing assertiveness in

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press Vermont’s Republican governor has signed abortion and gender affirming shield bills into law that are the first in the country to include protecting access to a medication widely used in abortions even if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration withdraws its approval of the pill, mifepristone. The legislation protects providers

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A U.S. Army sergeant plans to appeal his 25-year prison sentence for fatally shooting an armed man during a Black Lives Matter protest in Texas, and will cooperate with efforts by the state’s Republican governor to issue a pardon, his attorney said Wednesday. Daniel Perry, 36,

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing growing pressure to show progress in their investigations, House Republicans on Wednesday detailed what they say are concerning new findings about President Joe Biden’s family and their finances. The smoking gun, according to the GOP, is recently obtained financial records connected to the president’s son Hunter

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Ex-Las Vegas Raiders player Henry Ruggs pleaded guilty Wednesday to driving his sports car drunk at speeds up to 156 mph on a city street before causing a fiery crash that killed a woman and her dog. “Guilty,” said the former first-round NFL draft pick, 24,

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer When Martin Scorsese premieres his latest film, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20th, it will return Scorsese to a festival where he remains a key part of its fabled history. Scorsese premiered his masterpiece of urban alienation, “Taxi Driver,” in Cannes in

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer For two decades, scientists have been comparing every person’s genetic blueprint they study to a template that relies mostly on just one man. But now, scientists are building a much more diverse set of reference genomes called a pangenome that combines genetic material from 47 people from various places

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press Vermont’s Republican governor has signed abortion and gender affirming shield bills into law that include protecting access to a medication widely used in abortions even if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration withdraws its approval of the pill, mifepristone. The legislation protects providers from discipline for providing legally protected reproductive

Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Thousands of fans have joined Rita Lee Jones’ family at her wake in Sao Paulo to mourn the death of Brazil’s “Queen of Rock”. In spite of the rain, fans started lining up at 5 a.m. local time outside Sao Paulo’s planetarium in the Ibirapuera park – a place close

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Almost everyone knows the backstory of the iPhone, a breakthrough that continues to reshape culture 16 years after late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs introduced the device to the world. But what’s unforgotten is the must-have gadget that came before Jobs unveiled the iPhone in 2007. It was the BlackBerry,