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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 DeSantis this fall in a campaign that the Republican incumbent sees...

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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 restricts race-based conversation and analysis in business and education...

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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 his own history, he laid out a portrait of a publishing industry...

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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, a noteworthy but limited breakthrough offering modest gun curbs and stepped-up...

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People react outside the Civic Center

AP: Gunman kills 19 children, 2 teachers in Texas school rampage

ACACIA CORONADO and JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press | May 25, 2022

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The 18-year-old gunman who slaughtered 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school barricaded himself inside a single classroom and “began shooting anyone that was...

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Boxes of the drug mifepristone line a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Wednesday, March 16, 2022. The drug is one of two used together in "medication abortions." According to Planned Parenthood, mifepristone blocks progesterone, stopping a pregnancy from progressing. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

AP: Next battle over access to abortion will focus on pills

STEPHEN GROVES, Associated Press | May 5, 2022

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — It took two trips over state lines, navigating icy roads and a patchwork of state laws, for a 32-year-old South Dakota woman to get abortion pills last year. For abortion-seekers...

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A crowd of people gather outside the Supreme Court, Monday night

AP: Report: Supreme Court draft suggests Roe could be overturned

MARK SHERMAN and ZEKE MILLER, Associated Press | May 3, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — A draft opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a Politico report. A...

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A woman holds a placard during a protest against the killing of a Muslim man last Sept.

AP: In India, hate-filled songs are a weapon to target Muslims

SHEIKH SAALIQ, Associated Press | Apr 22, 2022

NEW DELHI (AP) — The frenzied fury against Muslims began with provocative songs played by Hindu mobs that called for violence. It ended with Muslim neighborhoods resembling a war zone, with pavements...

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis holds up the signed Parental Rights in Education bill, surrounded by elementary school children

AP: ‘Grooming’: The ubiquitous buzzword in LGBTQ school debate

KIMBERLEE KRUESI and KARENA PHAN, Associated Press | Mar 30, 2022

Proponents of restrictions on how U.S. public schools address sexual orientation and gender identity say their ultimate goal is to allow parents more involvement in their children’s education and ensure...

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Ukrainian refugees with children board transport at a square next to a railway station in Przemysl, Poland, on Tuesday, March 22, 2022.

AP: Ukraine retakes key Kyiv suburb; battle for Mariupol rages

NEBI QENA and CARA ANNA, Associated Press | Mar 22, 2022

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine said it retook a strategically important suburb of Kyiv on Tuesday, as Russian forces squeezed other areas near the capital and pressed their attack on the embattled southern...

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Erin Carver stands outside her attorney's office in Boise, Idaho

AP: Child marriage becomes a legal loophole in custody fights

REBECCA BOONE, Associated Press | Mar 3, 2022

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Ryan Small was trying to keep his ex-wife from moving out of state with their son early last winter when he found out the 16-year-old boy had been secretly married off to another...

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Ukrainian emergency service personnel carry a body of a victim following shelling that hit the City Hall building in Kharkiv, Ukraine

AP: ‘Undisguised terror’: Russia’s Kharkiv strike chills Ukraine

Mar 1, 2022

KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — In the dust and debris — and the dead — in Kharkiv’s central Freedom Square, Ukrainians on Tuesday saw what might become of other cities if Russia’s invasion isn’t...

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