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MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA — The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law, a ruling critics said could have sweeping implications for fertility treatments. The decision was issued in a pair of wrongful death cases brought by three couples who had frozen embryos destroyed in an accident at a fertility […]

Israeli forces carried out aerial attacks and ground operations Monday in the southern Gaza Strip, as Gaza health officials said the number of Palestinians killed there since October surpassed 29,000 people. The Hamas-run health ministry said 107 people had been killed during the past day, and that the total number of people wounded in Israeli […]

MIAMI, FLORIDA — Lionel Messi and Inter Miami get the new Major League Soccer season under way on Wednesday with pressure on the Argentine star to deliver trophies for his club and more eyeballs on the league. The World Cup winner joined Inter from Paris Saint Germain in mid-July, the biggest name ever to move to […]

NORFOLK, VA. — Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the first leader of a new republic — not a tyrant. And yet the nation will once again commemorate the first U.S. president on Monday, 292 years after he was born. The meaning of […]

BURNSVILLE, Minn. — Two police officers and a paramedic were killed in Burnsville Sunday morning, according to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Walz said other officers were also injured. A source told WCCO all three decedents were killed by gunfire. Dakota County dispatch said earlier authorities were responding to an “incident with weapons” in the area. […]

WHITEFISH POINT, MICH. — Shipwreck hunters have discovered a merchant ship that sank in Lake Superior in 1940, taking its captain with it, during a storm off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society and shipwreck researcher Dan Fountain announced Monday the discovery of the 74-meter bulk carrier Arlington in about 200 meters of water some […]

The NBA’s best and brightest are all in Indianapolis for the annual All-Star Weekend. Several players are making their first appearances in the game, but it’s beginning to turn into a tradition for Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum. Tatum is an All-Star for the fifth straight season, leading a Celtics team with the best record […]

Alina Habba, a lawyer for former President Trump, slammed a judge’s recent ruling in the former president’s New York civil fraud trial Friday. “[T]hey will not get away with it,” Habba said on Fox News’ “Hannity”. “We will come at them, we will come hard, and we will literally fight until the truth comes out. There was […]

More than 100 people have been detained across Russia after venturing to lay flowers at floral tributes to opposition leader Alexey Navalny, according to an Associated Press report Saturday. The flower memorials were later removed by workers supervised by police, the news agency said. OVD-Info, a Russian human rights group, said in a statement that […]

Record hot seawater killed more than three-quarters of human-cultivated coral that scientists had placed in the Florida Keys in recent years in an effort to prop up a threatened species that’s highly vulnerable to climate change, researchers discovered. Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration this week returned to five reefs where they planted […]