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Military service members will now be eligible for 12 weeks of paid parental leave, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, announcing a change that doubles how much leave is available to parents and does away with distinctions between primary and secondary caregivers. The Defense Department’s under secretary for personnel and readiness, Gilbert R. Cisneros Jr., issued
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Madison Mogen, who went by Maddie, was a senior from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, who was majoring in marketing. Her grandmother, Kim Cheeley, said Ms. Mogen had always been a gentle and caring person who kept many long-term friendships and close ties with an extended family. Ms. Mogen’s boyfriend, Jake Schriger, said she had been excited
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Two major pharmacy chains will apply to sell abortion pills under a new Food and Drug Administration regulation that will allow the medication to be offered by retail pharmacies for the first time. The chains, CVS and Walgreens, said they planned to seek certification to sell the pill, mifepristone, the first pill used in the
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“We’ve lived here all our lives so we know what a flood does,” said Mr. Cavazos, 77, a retired U.S. customs agent. “You don’t build on the riverbank.” Engineers who studied the fence’s construction on behalf of the Justice Department reached a similar conclusion. Among the issues outlined in the 400-page report from the engineering
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WASHINGTON — President Biden on Thursday will announce new plans to allow up to 30,000 migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti to legally enter the United States each month, while also drastically cracking down on people who seek refuge by crossing the border with Mexico, administration officials said. The president is expected to announce
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WASHINGTON — Senator Debbie Stabenow, the senior Democratic senator from Michigan and a member of the party leadership, announced on Thursday that she would not seek a fifth term next year. The statement by Ms. Stabenow, 72, made her the first Democrat to say she would not be on the ballot in 2024 and created
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Pennsylvania’s incoming Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro, will nominate a Philadelphia Republican who resisted Donald J. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results to serve as the state’s chief election official, Mr. Shapiro said Thursday. For Mr. Shapiro, who will be sworn into office on Jan. 17, his choice for secretary of the commonwealth
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WASHINGTON — With a historic Republican deadlock that has paralyzed Congress entering its third day, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California was still battling for the votes to become speaker on Thursday after losing a half-dozen consecutive votes for the post amid a right-wing revolt. The House was scheduled to return at noon and plunge back
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On Monday night, millions of people watched a terrifying scene unfold in real time. Damar Hamlin, a 24-year-old safety for the Buffalo Bills, collapsed and went into cardiac arrest after making what appeared to be a routine tackle in a nationally televised N.F.L. game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Hamlin’s medical emergency, the specifics of which
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“It’s a little embarrassing it’s taking so long, and the way they are dealing with one another,” Mr. Biden said of House Republicans on Wednesday as he left the White House. “What I am focused on is getting things done.” The Republican unrest has trickled down to places like the Ohio Statehouse, where State Representative
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Another bout of rain, wind and snow was expected across large portions of California on Thursday, as a powerful winter storm moved eastward across the state, disrupting the power grid and threatening to cause flash flooding. Weather conditions deteriorated overnight across much of the state as the storm, one of several that is expected to
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