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FILE – In this photo made with a long exposure, a man is silhouetted against lights reflected in the waters off Cape Neddick in Maine on Dec. 11, 2017. Federal health advisers are considering the first request to approve the mind-altering club drug MDMA as a treatment for PTSD. The advisers to the Food and Drug Administration are scheduled to vote on the drug’s safety and effectiveness Tuesday, June 4, 2024, potentially setting the stage for federal approval later this year. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

FDA panel rejects MDMA as a treatment for PTSD

June 4, 2024 at 6:02 p.m.

Federal health advisers are weighing the first-of-a-kind approval of MDMA, the mind-altering club drug, as a treatment for PTSD — part of a decadeslong effort by psychedelic advocates to win...

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on former U.S. President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict in his hush-money trial before speaking on the Middle East at the White House on May 31, 2024 in Washington, DC. Biden said Trump had a fair trial and an impartial jury found him guilty on all 34 counts and added it is dangerous for anyone to say the trial was rigged. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

President Biden endorses latest Gaza cease-fire proposal

May 31, 2024 at 2:22 p.m.

Biden's remarks came as the Israeli military confirmed that its forces are now operating in central parts of Rafah in its expanding offensive in the southern Gaza city. Biden called...

FILE – People walk along a trail as the sun sets, on July 16, 2023, in Death Valley National Park, Calif. The death certificates of more than 2,300 people who died in the United States last summer mention the effects of excessive heat, the highest number in 45 years of records, according to an Associated Press analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. With May already breaking heat records, 2024 could be even deadlier. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

AP analysis: US set a record for heat-related deaths in 2023

May 31, 2024 at 10:52 a.m.

The death certificates of more than 2,300 people who died in the United States last summer mention the effects of excessive heat, the highest number in 45 years of records,...

FILE – President Joe Biden speaks on April 12, 2024, in Washington. A temporary fix allowing President Biden to appear on this fall’s ballot cleared the Ohio House during a rare special session Thursday, May 30, along with a ban on foreign nationals contributing to state ballot campaigns that representatives said was demanded in exchange by the Ohio Senate. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Report: Biden finalizing US-Mexico border migrant limit reforms

May 30, 2024 at 1:13 p.m.

The restrictions being considered are an aggressive attempt to ease the nation's overwhelmed asylum system, along with a new effort to speed up the cases of migrants already in America...

California advances measures targeting AI discrimination and deepfakes

May 30, 2024 at 4:06 p.m.

As corporations increasingly weave artificial intelligence technologies into the daily lives of Americans, California lawmakers want to build public trust, fight algorithmic discrimination and outlaw deepfakes that involve elections or...

Israeli soldier stands on an armored personnel carrier as it moves along the border with the Gaza Strip on May 29, 2024 in Southern Israel, Israel. In recent days, Israeli forces have pressed farther into central Rafah, despite international objections to a ground offensive in Gaza’s southernmost city. A US spokesperson said he doesn’t believe the activity constitutes a “major ground offensive” in Rafah by Israel, which the US said it would not support.(Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Israel says it has taken control of part of Gaza’s border with Egypt

May 29, 2024 at 5:12 p.m.

Israel is pressing ahead with its military offensive in the face of growing global outrage, after an Israeli airstrike on Sunday killed at least 45 people and injured 200 others...

FILE – Associate Justice Samuel Alito joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, Oct. 7, 2022, at the Supreme Court building in Washington. Alito rejects calls to step aside from Supreme Court cases on Trump and Jan. 6. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Justice Samuel Alito won’t recuse himself from cases on Trump, Jan 6, amid flag controversy

May 29, 2024 at 3:35 p.m.

In letters to members of Congress on Wednesday, Alito said his wife was responsible for flying an upside-down flag over his home in 2021 and an "Appeal to Heaven" flag...

FILE – In this image taken from San Francisco Police Department body-camera video, the husband of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Paul Pelosi, right, fights for control of a hammer with his assailant David DePape during a brutal attack in the couple’s San Francisco home on Oct. 28, 2022. Opening statements are scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 8, 2023, in the federal trial of the man accused of breaking into former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home seeking to kidnap her and bludgeoning her husband with a hammer. (San Francisco Police Department via AP, File)

Judge keeps 30-year term at resentencing for man who attacked Paul Pelosi

May 29, 2024 at 4:01 a.m.

David DePape's defense attorneys had asked the judge to sentence him to 14 years, pointing out that he was going through a difficult period at the time of the attack,...

FILE – Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Board of Directors Chairman Martin Gruenberg, testifies during the House Committee on Financial Services hearing on oversight of prudential regulators, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The most powerful Democrat in Congress on banking and financial issues called for President Joe Biden to replace the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on Monday, May 20, 2024, saying the agency is broken and there must be “fundamental changes at the FDIC.” (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

FDIC chief set to step down after report detailing toxic workplace

May 21, 2024 at 4:06 a.m.

The White House said Martin Gruenberg will step down once a successor is appointed and that President Joe Biden will name a replacement "soon." The announcement came after the top...

FILE – Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., talks at the House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on “Columbia in Crisis: Columbia University’s Response to Antisemitism” on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Trump ally Rep. Stefanik rips Biden in speech to Israeli parliament

May 21, 2024 at 4:11 a.m.

Stefanik, a representative from upstate New York and a strong supporter of Trump, is believed to be on the short list of his possible running mates.

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