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Republican IVF Bill Fails In U.S. Senate

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/17/2024 - 1:00am

Sarah Brown, from Birmingham, Ala., holds a sign in support of IVF treatments during a rally advocating for IVF rights outside the Alabama State House on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024 in Montgomery, Ala. Brown has two children, age three and one, who were conceived using IVF at Birmingham Fertility center.
(Stew Milne / AP Images for RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association)

WASHINGTON — Alabama Republican Sen. Katie Britt’s efforts to pass legislation that would block Medicaid funding from going to states that ban in vitro fertilization were unsuccessful Wednesday when Democrats blocked the bill from advancing.

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In A West Bank Refugee Camp, Israel's Raids Fuel The Militancy It Tries To Stamp Out

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/10/2024 - 6:00am

Samer Jaber, father of Abu Shujaa, a military commander of the Islamic Jihad group, pauses for a picture during an interview with the Associated Press, in the West Bank refugee camp of Nur Shams, near Tulkarem, on May 20, 2024.
(Nasser Nasser / AP Photo)

NUR SHAMS REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — An Israeli army raid in April set off a near three-day gunbattle with Palestinian militants. By the time it was over, homes had been blasted to rubble and many residents had fled.

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RFK Jr. Does Not Belong On The Debate Stage

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/10/2024 - 5:00am

With the deadline quickly approaching for him to qualify for the June CNN presidential debate, RFK Jr. has yet to meet the commonsense qualifications that CNN has set for participants. Which is at it should be. He doesn't belong on the stage. His candidacy is at best a distraction and at worst a spoiler. What it most certainly is not is a serious bid for the presidency.

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Hunter Biden's Ex-Wife And Former Girlfriend Testify At Trial About Finding His Drug Paraphernalia

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/10/2024 - 3:00am

Hunter Biden, left, arrives at federal court with his wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Wilmington, Del.
(Matt Slocum / AP Photo)

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden's ex-wife and a former girlfriend testified Wednesday in his gun trial about finding his crack pipes and other drug paraphernalia, and jurors saw photos of the president's son bare-chested in a bubble bath and heard about his visit to a strip club.

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Omaha Candidate Seeks Recount At Own Cost After Soundly Losing GOP Primary

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/10/2024 - 2:00am

OMAHA --- A Republican candidate for Douglas County board who lost the May 14 primary election by 30 percentage points has requested a recount at his own cost.

That could be the first such request in more than two decades, county election officials said Wednesday.

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Dwindling Number Of D-Day Veterans Mark Anniversary With Plea To Recall WWII Lessons In Today's Wars

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/10/2024 - 1:00am

World War II veterans listen during a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day, Thursday, June 6, 2024, in Normandy.
(Evan Vucci / AP Photo)

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — As young soldiers, they waded ashore in Normandy through gunfire to battle the Nazis. On Thursday, a dwindling number of World War II veterans in a parade of wheelchairs joined a new generation of leaders to honor the dead, the living and the fight for democracy in moving commemorations on and around those same beaches where they landed exactly 80 years ago on D-Day.

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The US-Built Pier In Gaza Broke Apart. Here's How We Got Here And What Might Be Next

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/03/2024 - 6:00am

These images released by Maxar Technologies show the newly completed pier in the Gaza Strip on May 18, 2024, top, and the remaining section of the temporary pier on May 29, 2024.
(Satellite images ©2024 Maxar Technologies via AP)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A string of security, logistical and weather problems has battered the plan to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid to Gaza through a U.S. military-built pier.

Broken apart by strong winds and heavy seas just over a week after it became operational, the project faces criticism that it hasn’t lived up to its initial billing or its $320 million price tag.

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What Choice Does Israel Have?

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/03/2024 - 5:00am

The killing of civilians in Sunday's airstrike against Hamas in Rafah was, as Benjamin Netanyahu admits, a "tragic mistake." It was certainly that. The strike was aimed at two Hamas leaders meeting in a compound that was full of civilians, according to news reports. It was not supposed to set adjoining tents on fire.

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Funds For Clean School Buses Coming To Hundreds Of Districts, White House Says

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/03/2024 - 4:00am

WASHINGTON — As part of its ongoing effort to replace diesel-fueled school buses, the Biden administration on Wednesday said it will provide approximately 530 school districts across nearly all states with almost $1 billion to help them purchase clean school buses.

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A Lesson On Dissent From A Vietnam War Protester Who Joined The US Military – And Then Faced Execution After His Protest Didn’t Stop

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Mon, 06/03/2024 - 3:00am

Sergeant G. Sanders from Detroit looks from the window of his Chinook helicopter during a resupply mission, April 24, 1969. Across his helmet he was written with black, pasty color "Black Power". Sanders is a door gunner of a helicopter unit of the 1st Cavalry Division which operates in War Zone C.
(Horst Faas / AP Photo)

During the late 1960s, when protests against the Vietnam War erupted across the country, college campuses emerged as places of more than intellectual debate over U.S foreign policy and the country’s deeply racist history.