Former President Donald Trump attended opening arguments in a fraud trial that could prevent him from doing business in New York and force him to give up properties including Trump Tower. Trump wasn't required to attend, and he isn't expected to testify for weeks, but "I wanted to watch this witch hunt myself," he said. |
Watching the "witch hunt." (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) |
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Longtime Kevin McCarthy critic Rep. Matt Gaetz late Monday filed a "motion to vacate" that could remove the House speaker from his job. "I have enough Republicans where at this point next week, one of two things will happen: Kevin McCarthy won't be the speaker of the House or he'll be the speaker of the House working at the pleasure of the Democrats," Gaetz said. |
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The end of $24 billion in pandemic childcare aid could make it even more expensive and shutter as many as one in three providers. The American Rescue Plan funding, which expired at the end of September, subsidized 80% of providers across the U.S. Without it, about one in five providers say they will cut staff or serve fewer families. Two in five plan to raise prices for working parents. |
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Men who have sex with men should take an inexpensive, common antibiotic as a morning-after pill to vastly reduce their chances of getting chlamydia, syphilis or gonorrhea, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a draft recommendation released yesterday. The CDC said public health agencies need as many tools as possible to combat sexually transmitted infections as they hit record levels. |
The antibiotic doxycycline could serve as a post-sex morning-after pill. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) |
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Nine-year-old girl Charlotte Sena is "safe and in good health" Monday two days after she vanished during a family camping trip in upstate New York. Investigators arrested kidnapping suspect Craig Nelson Ross Jr., 47, who reportedly was identified from a fingerprint left on a ransom note. |
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Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó and American Drew Weissman won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their research on messenger RNA, which enabled the creation of Pfizer's and Moderna's Covid-19 vaccines. Early this morning, the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Pierre Agostini of Ohio State, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier for looking at electrons in atoms during the briefest of split seconds. |
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San Francisco, San Diego and five other California counties began piloting the state's new court program that can force people into treatment for schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. Many families support the program, which allows them to petition a court to get help for their loved ones. Critics say the state should adequately fund voluntary services instead. |
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Montana will appeal a judge's ruling that state agencies' failure to address climate change has violated young people's right to a clean and healthful environment, which is written into the state constitution. The August ruling, the first such win for climate activists in the U.S., joins a small number of court decisions around the world that have faulted governments for not doing enough to protect citizens from climate change. … and we would have kept approving fossil fuel projects without regard for climate change if it wasn't for those meddling kids. |
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This story isn't about Congress or climate change or medical advances or the next meeting of the G7 or anything like that. It is about a kindergarten for puppies in Mexico. Someday they will be trained to rescue people or sniff drugs or explosives. But for now, they run through little obstacle courses and play other games that build up their puppy skills. Of course we included more puppy photos in the article. |
Kindergarten classmates. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) |
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Having bested the reaper for more than a century, 104-year-old Dorothy Hoffner of Chicago ran up the score on Sunday by becoming the oldest-ever person to complete a skydive. Skydive Chicago is hoping to certify the jump with Guinness World Records, which most recently certified the 2022 jump of a 103-year-old Swedish woman. Hoffner, who turns 105 in December, said she might ride in a hot-air balloon next. "Age is just a number," said Hoffner. So is her jump from 13,500 feet. |
Goals. (Daniel Wilsey via AP) |
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The actor, who has lived with multiple sclerosis for two decades, has published an online guide, Reframing MS, to help others with MS build a support system. Years of keeping her own diagnosis secret took its toll both emotionally and physically. "You cannot do this alone," she said. "Trust me. I've tried." |
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It's hilarious to me when people say "give it the old college try". Nowhere on earth did I try less. —@thesulk
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