Drug-resistant infections and deaths among hospital patients grew amid Covid-19 pandemic
Years of progress the United States had made in fighting drug-resistant infections were largely erased during the Covid-19 pandemic, with…
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Amazon Prime day sales event underway
Consumers world-wide are getting set for major online discounts with Amazon’s Prime Day sales event, which kicked off at 3am and goes for…
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Federal judge blocks Arizona’s ‘personhood’ abortion law
A federal judge in Phoenix has blocked a 2021 state “personhood” law that gives all legal rights to unborn…
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Most adults may soon become eligible for second booster
The Biden Administration says it is considering whether to expand a second Coronavirus booster shot to adults under 50-years of…
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Biden and Mexican President López Obrador to meet after summit standoff
President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will meet at the White House on Tuesday amid record migration in the…
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Firefighters are gaining ground in the fight to protect Yosemite’s giant sequoias, but the weather is not helping
With giant sequoias under threat from a wildfire spreading at Yosemite National Park in California, firefighters are in a race to protect them and…
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VIDEO: FDA review OTC birth control
The FDA has received a request from drugmaker Perrigo to approve a daily birth control pill for over-the-counter (OTC) sale, the first such request…
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LA police arrest man, rescue child after carjacking, chase
A man stole a woman’s car with a sleeping child in the back as she shopped in a convenience store in south Los Angeles, police…
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Educational commercial kitchen opens in Yuma
Arizona Western College (AWC) is partnering with Local First Arizona to bring a unique opportunity to our…
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Evictions in Arizona’s largest county at pre-pandemic levels
Evictions in the greater Phoenix area have returned to pre-pandemic…
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Chairman of Texas House Committee investigating Uvalde school shooting pushes for release of hallway surveillance video
The chairman of the Texas House committee investigating the Uvalde school shooting is pushing for the release of hallway surveillance video that…
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Man sentenced to 25 months for assaulting a woman with a dangerous weapon
A man from Sells, Arizona was sentenced 25 months in prison along with three years of supervised release for assault with a dangerous…
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VIDEO: Biden establishes hospital abortion requirements
The Biden administration on Monday told hospitals that they “must” provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at…
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Judges rule on state abortion restrictions, shape Roe impact
A judge in Utah was deciding Monday whether to allow a trigger-law ban on abortion to take effect while a Minnesota judge declared most of that…
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Biden says gun violence has turned America’s communities into ‘killing fields’
President Joe Biden on Monday said gun violence has turned everyday places in America into “killing fields” as he marked the passage of the first…
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Biden administration says federal law preempts state abortion bans when emergency care is needed
In new clarifying guidance announced Monday, the Biden Administration said that federal law preempts state abortion bans when emergency care is…
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Struggling Latino students should be priority, leaders say
Latino students should be a federal funding priority after they fell behind during the coronavirus pandemic despite making notable educational gains…
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Migrant crossings continue nightly in Yuma
Groups of well over 200 gather where the border wall ends as it meets the Cocopah Reservation just after 1 a.m. on July…
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Board of Supervisors appoints new County Recorder
On Friday, the Yuma County Board of Supervisors unanimously appointed Richard A. Colwell to fill out the remainder of Robyn Stallworth Pouquette’s…
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VIDEO: Father of shooting victim interrupts Biden
The father of one of the teens killed in the 2018 Parkland school shooting interrupted President Joe Biden at a White House event Monday that was…
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