The Justice Department is expected to propose a new, lower classification for marijuana that would lessen restrictions on the drug. But there's another review process to come.
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The bill focuses on single-use electronic cigarettes and will allow the state attorney general's office to set up a registry of products deemed off-limits, after an administrative process.
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U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard rejected arguments by the state that the case should not proceed as a class action and denied a state request for a continuance of a trial set to start May 13.
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Springtime upticks in flu are possible. But other indicators, like hospitalizations and patient testing, show low and declining activity.
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The state has served as a haven for Southern pregnant women with little or no access to abortions. Then, the Florida Supreme Court upheld a six-week restriction that begins Wednesday.
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More states than ever are gearing up to vote on abortion rights this fall, including Republican-led Missouri. There, voters could show the issue isn't a down-ballot Democratic dream everywhere.
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Florida had been a destination for people in the Deep South to get abortions, but on May first a six-week abortion ban goes into effect there, making the region the most restrictive for the procedure.
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