New York — Deaths of pregnant women in the U.S. fell in 2022, dropping significantly from a six-decade high during the pandemic, new data suggests. More than 1,200 U.S. women died in 2021 during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth, according to a final tally released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In…

Washington — The North Dakota Supreme Court on Thursday kept in place a lower court order blocking enforcement of the state’s trigger law banning abortion while a legal challenge continues, finding the measure likely violated the North Dakota Constitution. Click Here: Juventus soccer tracksuit The decision from North Dakota’s highest court came in a case…

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A passenger jet last month was cleared by air traffic controllers to land on the same runway of a Sarasota, Florida, airport that a second plane had also been cleared to take off from, officials said Thursday, detailing another in a string of similar close calls at U.S. airports this year. According to the National…

All week, a parade of Biden administration officials has sought to drive home the message that taxpayers will not bear the financial burden of the government’s guarantee that all of the depositors at two failed banks — Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank — will have their funds available to them immediately.  On Monday, President…

Poland said Thursday it plans to give Ukraine about a dozen MiG-29 fighter jets, which would make it the first NATO member to fulfill Kyiv’s increasingly urgent requests for warplanes to defend itself against the Russian invasion. Warsaw will hand over four of the Soviet-made warplanes “within the next few days,” President Andrzej Duda said,…

A powerful storm descended on Texas on Thursday, knocking out power to several thousand customers and prompting tornado warnings in several areas. The National Weather Service forecasted that “strong and severe” thunderstorms would hit both the north and central part of the state, extending from Lamar County, located northeast of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, all…

BEAUMONT, CA — Traffic concerns could halt a proposal to construct a gas station with 16 fueling spots in the Beaumont Walmart Supercenter parking lot. During the 6 p.m. Sept 11 Beaumont Planning Commission meeting, the commissioners will weigh city staff’s recommendation to deny an amendment to the Beaumont Retail Partners Specific Plan for the…

A growing number of sports fans plan to try their luck by betting on the NCAA’s annual March Madness college basketball tournament, which kicked off this week. Click Here: Scotland Rugby Shirt About 68 million Americans will place a wager on the games, up from 45 million in 2022,  the American Gaming Association predicted. Of…

Moscow will work to retrieve the wreckage of an American drone that crashed into the Black Sea after Washington said a Russian fighter jet collided with it, a top Russian official said Wednesday. Army Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters Wednesday afternoon that the drone likely broke up in…