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Kansas moving to raise age for buying tobacco to 21 from 18
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is moving to increase its legal age for buying cigarettes, electronic cigarettes and other tobacco products to 21 from 18 after the federal government and most other states already have done it. The state Senate approved a bill to raise the age Tuesday...
Elephant in the dining room: Startup makes mammoth meatball
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Throw another mammoth on the barbie? An Australian company on Tuesday lifted the glass cloche on a meatball made of lab-grown cultured meat using the genetic sequence from the long-extinct pachyderm, saying it was meant to fire up public debate about the hi-tech...
Coroner: Lake Mead body found in 2022 was 1974 drowning
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Human remains found last October on the shoreline of shrinking Lake Mead were from a North Las Vegas man who drowned in April 1974, authorities in Las Vegas said Tuesday. Donald P. Smith was 39 when he was reported missing in the waters of the Colorado River...
At trial, Minnesota says e-cigarette maker Juul targets kids
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison personally opened his state's case against Juul Labs on Tuesday, accusing the e-cigarette maker of using “slick products, clever ads and attractive flavors” to hook children on nicotine as the first of thousands of cases against the...
Mayor: Philadelphia water will not be tainted by spill
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia officials say the city's water system will not be affected by a chemical spill into the Delaware River upstream last week. “We can all confidentially say the threat has passed — I repeat: All the city’s drinking water is safe to drink and will...
Wyoming abortion clinic fire suspect to go free pending case
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — She posted on social media about competing in a bike race, losing her pet hedgehog and visiting a butterfly garden with her grandmother but gave no sign of the anti-abortion views investigators say drove her to set fire to a Wyoming abortion clinic. On...
Brazil hits 700,000 virus deaths, 2nd highest in the world
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's government on Tuesday reported the 700,000th death from COVID-19 in the South American nation, which has the second most victims of the virus after the United States. Brazilian health experts say most people dying of COVID-19 in recent days are either...
Nets' Simmons won't play again this season because of back
NEW YORK (AP) — Ben Simmons won't play again this season because of a nerve injury in his back, ending his disappointing first full season with the Brooklyn Nets after just 42 games. Simmons saw multiple specialists this week who determined that he should be shut down for the...
Ohio senators introduce bipartisan bill to end death penalty
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The death penalty could be abolished in Ohio under upcoming bipartisan legislation announced Tuesday — the latest in what has been years of effort to end capital punishment in the state. State senators from both sides of the aisle called for an end to the...
Georgia high court considers whether abortion law is void
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's highest court is considering whether the state's restrictive abortion law is void because it violated U.S. Supreme Court precedent that was in effect at the time when it was enacted. A lower court judge last year ruled that the law enacted in 2019 was not...
