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FILE - Participants wave signs as they walk back to Orlando City Hall during the March for Abortion Access, Oct. 2, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. The Florida Supreme Court on Monday, April 1, 2024, upheld the state's ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, which means a subsequently passed six-week ban can soon take effect. (Chasity Maynard/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File)

AP: Florida Supreme Court upholds state’s 15-week abortion ban, but voters will soon have a say

Brendan Farrington, Associated Press Apr 2, 2024

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the state to ban abortions after six weeks...

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FILE - People gather during a community vigil for the Half Moon Bay shootings in Half Moon Bay, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. Multiple people were killed in two related shootings at a mushroom farm and a trucking firm in a coastal community south of San Francisco. The U.S. is setting a record pace for mass killings in 2023, replaying the horror in a deadly loop roughly once a week so far this year. The bloodshed overall represents just a fraction of the deadly violence that occurs in the U.S. annually. (Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

AP: Frequent shootings put US mass killings on a record pace

STEFANIE DAZIO, LARRY FENN and COLLEEN SLEVIN, Associated Press May 8, 2023

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Four people found shot to death in an RV in a small Mojave Desert community in California. Four partygoers...

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FILE - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis answers questions from the media in the Florida Cabinet following his State of the State address during a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives Tuesday, March 7, 2023, at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. Advocates for open government are ringing alarms about plans by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration that could make it harder to learn what public officials are doing and to speak out against them. (AP Photo/Phil Sears, File)

AP: Is DeSantis darkening Florida’s sunny open-records laws?

DAVID A. LIEB, Associated Press Mar 13, 2023

Florida has long been known for sunshine -- not only the warm rays that brighten its beaches but also the light of public scrutiny...

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Ben Frazier, president of the Northside Coalition of Jacksonville, center, participates in a public rally by his coalition in front of city hall before a Jacksonville City Council meeting in Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 18, 2023. A protracted legal fight over how city council districts were drawn in Jacksonville, Florida, reflects an aspect of redistricting that often remains in the shadows. Political map-drawing for congressional and state legislative seats captures wide attention after new census numbers are released every 10 years. No less fierce are the battles over the way voting lines are drawn in local governments, for city councils, county commissions and even school boards. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)

AP: Florida city highlights conflicts over local gerrymandering

AYANNA ALEXANDER, Associated Press Feb 3, 2023

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Not far from the postcard images of Jacksonville -- the white sand beaches, the riverfront fountain,...

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Polish police officers search for missile wreckage in the field, near the place where a missile struck, killing two people in a farmland at the Polish village of Przewodow, near the border with Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

AP: Deadly missile strike adds to Ukraine war fears in Poland

VASILISA STEPANENKO and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Nov 18, 2022

PRZEWODOW, Poland (AP) — Since the invasion of Ukraine more than eight months ago, Poland has aided the neighboring country...

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Windows of an apartment building are illuminated during a blackout in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)

Correction: AP source: Russian missiles cross into Poland during strike

JOHN LEICESTER and JAMES LaPORTA, Associated Press Nov 15, 2022

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — In earlier versions of a story published November 15, 2022, The Associated Press reported erroneously,...

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In this Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, protesters chant slogans during a protest over the death of a woman who was detained by the morality police, in downtown Tehran, Iran. Iranians saw their access to Instagram, one of the few Western social media platforms still available in the country, disrupted on Wednesday following days of the mass protests. (AP Photo)

AP: Iranians see widespread internet blackout amid mass protests

The Associated Press Sep 22, 2022

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranians experienced a near-total internet blackout on Wednesday amid days of mass protests...

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People gather outside Buckingham Palace in London, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II has been placed under medical supervision because doctors are "concerned for Her Majesty's health." Members of the royal family traveled to Scotland to be with the 96-year-old monarch. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

AP: Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s monarch for 70 years, dies

DANICA KIRKA, JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI, Associated Press Sep 8, 2022

LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a rock of stability across much of a turbulent century,...

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Charlie Crist shakes hands with supporters

AP: Florida Democrats choose Rep. Crist to challenge DeSantis

MIAMI (AP) — U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist won the Democratic nomination for governor in Florida, setting him up to challenge Gov. Ron...

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DeSantis

AP: Judge blocks Florida ‘woke’ law pushed by Gov. DeSantis

CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press Aug 19, 2022

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida judge on Thursday declared a Florida law championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that...

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Stephen King walks toward the courthouse, out of frame

AP: Stephen King testifies for government in books merger trial

HILLEL ITALIE and MARCY GORDON, Associated Press Aug 2, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bestselling author Stephen King gingerly stepped up to the witness stand Tuesday in a federal antitrust trial. Tracing...

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Badim Trubetskoy, of Boston, and a recent graduate of the University of Southern California, marches in downtown Los Angeles during a gun control rally

AP: Senate negotiators announce a deal on guns, breaking logjam

ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Jun 13, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate bargainers on Sunday announced the framework of a bipartisan response to last month’s mass shootings,...

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