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Ahead of its second week, catch up on E. Jean Carroll's trial against former president Trump

8:15am April 29, 2023

The second week of E. Jean Carroll's trial against former President Donald Trump starts Monday. The former columnist says he raped her in the 1990s, then called her a liar when she went public.

Biofire founder Kai Kloepfer says his goal in creating this 9mm smart gun is to "have an incremental positive impact on sort of the uniquely American challenge of gun deaths."

The first smart gun with facial and fingerprint recognition is now for sale

7:29am April 29, 2023

by Ryan Lucas

Smart guns have mainly been the stuff of movies. In the real world, technological and political challenges have meant the high-tech devices haven't become a reality. That may be about to change.

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A traveler looks at a flight board with delays and cancellations at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., on Jan. 11, 2023.

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New report blames airlines for most flight cancellations

7:13am April 29, 2023

by The Associated Press

The GAO also said airlines are taking longer to recover from disruptions like storms. It said surges in cancellations in late 2021 and early 2022 lasted longer than they did before the pandemic.

The introduction of the women's peace petition, which began in 1923 in Wales.

A forgotten peace petition started after WWI has resurfaced and is inspiring hope

6:00am April 29, 2023

by Megan Lim

A women's petition for peace written after World War I was signed by nearly three-quarters of all the women in Wales. It was then forgotten for nearly a century.

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Susan Greenstein Prescott in high school.

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An English teacher's response to a stuttering student changed her life

5:00am April 29, 2023

by Autumn Barnes

In high school, Susan had a stutter, and was embarrassed to speak in front of her class. Then her English teacher told her something that changed the course of her life.

Noah Reich, left, and David Maldonado, the Los Angeles co-founders of Classroom of Compassion, put up a memorial Nov. 22, 2022, with photographs of the five victims of a weekend mass shooting at a nearby gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Colorado governor signs 4 gun control bills after massacre

3:09am April 29, 2023

by The Associated Press

The new laws are aimed at quelling rising suicides and youth violence, preventing mass shootings and opening avenues for gun violence victims to sue the long-protected firearm industry.

President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference with South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol on April 26, 2023, in Washington, D.C.

President Biden commutes the sentences of 31 people convicted of drug crimes

1:11am April 29, 2023

by The Associated Press

The move came as the White House announced policy actions across 20 agencies meant to improve the criminal justice system, which disproportionately affects Black and other non-white communities.

In this photo released by the U.S. Army, AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopters from the 1st Attack Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, fly over a mountain range near Fort Wainwright, Alaska, on June 3, 2019.

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U.S. Army grounds aviators for training after fatal crashes

12:16am April 29, 2023

by The Associated Press

The U.S. Army has grounded the units after 12 soldiers died within the last month in helicopter crashes in Alaska and Kentucky, the military branch announced Friday.

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LeRoy Carhart, a doctor well known for performing late-term abortions, has died

9:59pm April 28, 2023

by Emma Bowman

The outspoken and controversial doctor, who specialized in providing second- and third-trimester abortion care, died on Friday at age 81.

Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr, D-Missoula, stands in protest as demonstrators are arrested in the House gallery, Monday, April 24, 2023, at the state Capitol in Helena, Mont.

Montana is the latest state to ban gender-affirming care for trans minors

9:20pm April 28, 2023

by The Associated Press

Gov. Greg Gianforte signed the bill on Friday, a piece of legislation that exiled transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr told fellow lawmakers would leave "blood" on their hands.