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Pig kidney works in a donated body for over a month, a step toward animal-human transplants

August 16, 2023

BY LAURAN NEERGAARD NEW YORK (AP) – Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it’s worked normally – a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living […]

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Americans are divided along party lines over Trump’s actions in election cases, AP-NORC poll shows

August 16, 2023

BY LINLEY SANDERS AND JONATHAN J. COOPER WASHINGTON (AP) – Americans are deeply divided along party lines in their views of President Donald Trump’s actions in the most recent criminal cases brought against him, a new poll shows, with about half […]

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US universities launch partnership to elevate free speech to counter threats to democracy

August 15, 2023

BY THALIA BEATY The presidents of a wide-ranging group of 13 universities are elevating free speech on their campuses this academic year, as part of a new nonprofit initiative announced Tuesday to combat what organizers call dire threats to U.S. democracy. […]

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Clarence Avant, ‘Black Godfather’ of entertainment, and benefactor of athletes and politicians, dies

August 15, 2023

BY HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) – Clarence Avant, the judicious manager, entrepreneur, facilitator and adviser who helped launch or guide the careers of Quincy Jones, Bill Withers, and many others and came to be known as the “Black Godfather” of […]

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Rights group urges rapid international intervention to end spiraling gang violence in Haiti

August 14, 2023

BY DÁNICA COTO SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – A human rights group urged the international community on Monday to intervene quickly to end spiraling violence by gangs in Haiti as it detailed the brutal rapes and killings committed in the […]

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How a law associated with mobsters could be central in possible charges against Trump

August 14, 2023

BY KATE BRUMBACK ATLANTA (AP) – Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis opened her investigation into Donald Trump after the release of a recording of a January 2021 phone call between Trump and Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger. Trump suggested during […]

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Georgia jail fails to let out inmates who are due for release and met bail, citing crashed database

August 14, 2023

JONESBORO, Ga. (AP) – The jail in a suburban Atlanta county held inmates for days who were due for release because a state database had crashed, preventing jailers from being able to check whether a person was wanted in another […]

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Legal experts question judge’s order telling Southwest lawyers to get religious-liberty training

August 14, 2023

BY DAVID KOENIG A federal judge has set off a debate among legal scholars by ordering lawyers for Southwest Airlines to undergo “religious-liberty training” by a conservative Christian legal group. Critics say that if the judge believes such training is necessary, […]

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Russia’s currency hits the lowest level since the early weeks of the war in Ukraine

August 14, 2023

LONDON (AP) – The Russian ruble has reached its lowest value since the early weeks of the war in Ukraine as Moscow increases military spending and Western sanctions weigh on its energy exports. On Monday, the Russian currency passed 101 […]

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A central Kansas police force sparked a firestorm by raiding a newspaper and the publisher’s home

August 13, 2023

BY JOHN HANNA AND MARGERY A. BECK MARION, Kan. (AP) – A small central Kansas police department is facing a torrent of criticism for raiding a local newspaper’s office and the home of its owner and publisher, seizing computers and cellphones, […]

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