Voters in two states are weighing in on abortion restrictions this November, considering whether to approve a set of ballot issues as a national fight intensifies over the future of abortion law in the US.
Search operations continue overnight for the 12 people still missing from capsized ship off Louisiana coast
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Rescue crews will keep searching overnight for the 12 people still missing after a commercial vessel capsized Tuesday several miles south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana, according to the US Coast Guard. Six people we...
Colorado boy, 12, dead after social media challenge, family believes
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Joshua Haileyesus' family believes he went brain-dead on March 22 after participating in a dangerous "game" called the "Blackout Challenge," which has circulated on social media platforms like TikTok, daring users to...
Power outages, storm damage slam Louisiana; search for commercial vessel in Gulf of Mexico continues
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LOUISIANA STORM PROMPTS COAST GUARD SEARCH OFF GRAND ISLE FOR ‘MULTIPLE PEOPLE IN THE WATER' Hazardous winds, lightning and ping-pong ball-sized hail came following days of tornadoes and flooding. Part of a Metairi...
Judges are split on how seriously to take John Roberts’ abortion opinion
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Almost a year after Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the Supreme Court's liberals to cast the determinative vote to block a Louisiana abortion law, his opinion in the case is causing deep divisions among lower ...
A dozen people are missing after a commercial vessel capsized off Louisiana coast
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Six people were rescued and 12 others are missing after a commercial vessel capsized several miles south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana, officials said Tuesday. The vessel had 18 people on board, Lafourche Parish Presi...
Louisiana authorities find body in Mississippi River as search for missing LSU student Kori Gauthier continues
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The remains have not yet been identified. Gauthier’s car was found abandoned on a bridge spanning the Mississippi River last week with her wallet and phone still inside. The 18-year-old Opelousas native and education...
Louisiana man arrested in connection with cold case murder of Courtney Coco
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Police took David Anthony Burns, 43, of Boyce, La., into custody Tuesday afternoon and charged him with second-degree murder in the death of Courtney Coco. The Alexandria Police Department said Detective Tanner Dryde...
Appeals court upholds Ohio’s Down syndrome abortion law in case with Supreme Court implications
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A US appellate court decision on Tuesday upholding an Ohio law that prohibits abortions because of fetal Down syndrome evades major Supreme Court precedent and is certain to reverberate in cases nationwide. The deci...
FDA says medication abortion drug can be distributed by mail during pandemic
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The Biden administration is removing a requirement that one of the drugs involved in medication abortion be dispensed in person during the Covid-19 pandemic. The move, freeing up a type of non-surgical abortion effe...
Colorado bill would give children free mental health services during the pandemic
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The Colorado state legislature is working to give children free access to mental health care to help them cope with the mental ramifications of the Covid-19 pandemic. HB21-1258, introduced in the House on April 6, ...
New voter restrictions are based on a lie told to appease Trump voters
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Poll of the week: A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds that 55% of Republicans falsely believe Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election was the result of illegal voting or rigging. Additionally, 60% of Republ...
The election that voters don’t want anyone to win
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"Unfortunately, I have to vote and choose one, but here we can't even choose the least bad because all of them are bad," sighed 30-year-old photographer Abraham Medina, explaining why he's still undecided ahead of P...