Roe's Legacy: Proliferation of "Back-Alley" Abortion Clinics and other top stories.

• Roe's Legacy: Proliferation of "Back-Alley" Abortion Clinics

  5415469Today’s legal abortion clinics are the true “back alleys” of abortion mythology.  And more than four decades after Roe v. Wade, hundreds of disreputable abortion providers are hoping that the Supreme Court’s June 2016 decision invalidating Texas’ abortion patient safety law gives them the green light to increase profits by mainstreaming unsafe and substandard abortion care. Standing in the way are the growing pro-life majorities in state legislatures across the country that are actively..

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• Dylann Roof Is Sentenced to Death in Charleston Church Massacre

  

  “It’s a hard thing to know that someone is going to lose their life, but when you look at the totality of what happened, it’s hard to say that person deserves to live when nine others don’t,” Mr. Graham said at a news conference. “How do you justify saving one life when you took nine, and in such a brutal fashion?” The Rev. Anthony B. Thompson, the widower of another victim, Myra Thompson, said in an interview on Tuesday that while he remained “in awe” at how much Mr. Roof enjoyed doing what he..

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• Majority of police in the US say their jobs have gotten harder

  

  Police officers in the U.S. think their job has gotten harder of late, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center.The public outcry over high-profile police shootings of black Americans, coupled with a recent uptick in fatal shootings of police, has left the majority of officers feeling more concerned for their personal safety and more reluctant to carry out some of their duties, according to the report, titled “Behind the Badge.” “The fact that these incidents have brought so much a..

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• Poll: Americans divided on Obama legacy

  

  Poll: Americans divided on Obama legacy ap file photo President-elect Barack Obama is welcomed in 2009 by then-President George W. Bush for a meeting at the White House in Washington with former presidents, from left, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. WASHINGTON — More than half of Americans view President Barack Obama favorably as he leaves office, a new poll shows, but Americans remain deeply divided over his legacy. Fewer than half of Americans say they’re better o..

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• What Obama's address has in common with memorable farewells from past presidents

  

  President Obama delivered his farewell address to the nation at McCormick Place in Chicago on Tuesday. (Victoria Walker/The Washington Post) With President Obama's final speech to the nation Tuesday night in Chicago, he faced a unique challenge unlike any modern president that came before him: How to give the milestone farewell address, one that typically touts a president's key achievements and attempts to define his legacy before he leaves office, just as his signature legislative achie..

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• Massachusetts weighs doing away with winter time shift

  By Associated Press January 11 at 12:16 AM BOSTON — Massachusetts residents wouldn’t have to reset their clocks during the darkest months of the year under an idea being studied on Beacon Hill. On Wednesday, an 11-member commission will begin weighing the economic and health impacts of the state remaining on Eastern Daylight Time year-round. Massachusetts stays on Eastern Daylight Time much of the year, but shifts to Eastern Standard Time on the first Sunday in November by setting clocks bac..

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• Missing Ohio girl found dead in restaurant, parents charged

  

  NORTH CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Police have charged the parents of a missing 5-year-old Ohio girl after the child's body was found in the family's restaurant. Jackson Township Police say the body of Ashley Zhao was found hidden at Ang's Asian Cuisine in North Canton on Tuesday. Your current subscription does not provide access to this content. Please click the button below to manage your account. Subscribe Thank ..

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• Los Angeles college reportedly pays hackers $28G ransom

  

  A Los Angeles college reportedly paid hackers a $28,000 ransom after a cyberattack kept students and faculty locked out of their accounts. The Valley Star, the Los Angeles Valley College school newspaper, reported Friday that hackers locked students and staff out of files, emails and messaging systems and threatened to delete everything if the ransom wasn’t paid within a week. The school eventually paid the fee in bitcoins after it determined that was the cheaper alternative than to remove the ..

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• AP News Guide: Trump's business ties around the world

  

  NEW YORK — Donald Trump says his business is “great,” and you’ll have to trust him on that. One of the few things an outsider can know for sure is that it’s a complex and opaque hodgepodge of an empire scattered around the globe. Trump has interests in 500 companies in about 20 countries. But many of them have no business operations and are just are shells set up to hold stakes in other companies, possibly to provide legal and tax protection. A disclosure document in May listing the companies r..

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