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FILE - A guard checks vehicles entering the main gate at San Quentin State Prison on April 12, 2022, in San Quentin, Calif. California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to transform a state prison home to the nation's largest number of inmates on death row into a facility where prisoners can receive education, training and rehabilitation before reentering society. Newsom's office announced the new plans for San Quentin State Prison on Thursday, March 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

California to transform prison with death row legacy

California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to transform San Quentin State Prison, a facility in the San Francisco Bay Area known for maintaining the highest number of prisoners on death row in the country. … more

By JANIE HAR and SOPHIE AUSTIN | 3/16/23

This photo provided by researcher Katsuhiko Hayashi shows mice derived from stem cells, four weeks after their birth, in Osaka, Japan in September 2021. In a study published Wednesday, March 16, 2023, in the journal Nature, scientists led by Hayashi have created baby mice with two fathers for the first time by turning male mouse stem cells into female cells in a lab. (Katsuhiko Hayashi via AP)

For 1st time, scientists create mice with cells from 2 males

Scientists have created baby mice with two fathers for the first time by turning male mouse stem cells into female cells in a lab. They described their research in a study published Wednesday in the … more

By LAURA UNGAR | 3/16/23

FILE - Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer delivers her State of the State address to a joint session of the House and Senate, Jan. 25, 2023, at the state Capitol in Lansing, Mich. Whitmer signed legislation Thursday, March 16, 2023, codifying LGBTQ protections into the state's civil rights law, permanently outlawing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in the state. (AP Photo/Al Goldis, File)

Michigan adds LGBTQ protections to anti-discrimination law

Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation Thursday that will permanently outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in the state. The Michigan … more

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI | 3/16/23

FILE - Pakistani climate justice advocate Ayisha Siddiqa reads a poem she wrote during an intergenerational panel discussion addressing loss and damage, at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 17, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced seven new climate leaders, including Siddiqa, that will become his next Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change on Thursday, March 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell, File)

UN announces new advisers to bolster young voices on climate

UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced seven young climate leaders for his next Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change on Thursday afternoon. They include advocates, tribal land defenders, … more

By ISABELLA O'MALLEY | 3/16/23

Visitors walk toward Building 114, the S.T.A.R. Center, at Central State Hospital in Dinwiddie County, Va., on May 17, 2018. Seven Virginia sheriff's office employees have been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of a 28-year-old man at Central State Hospital last week, a local prosecutor said Tuesday, March 14, 2023. (Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

Prosecutor: Black man smothered to death at mental hospital

A prosecutor says security camera footage from a state mental hospital shows a Black Virginia man who was handcuffed and shackled being pinned down by the deputies who are now facing murder charges … more

3/16/23

Doug Whitney, left, looks at his son, Brian, in Manson, Wash., on Nov. 5, 2022. Doug inherited the same gene mutation that gave Alzheimer's disease to his mother, brother and generations of other relatives by the unusually young age of 50. Doug is a healthy 73, his mind still sharp. Somehow, he escaped his genetic fate. Brian, who also inherited the devastating family gene, has reached the fateful age of 50 without symptoms but knows that’s no guarantee. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)

Seeking Alzheimer's clues from few who escape genetic fate

Scientists are digging into why a few people escape the rarest form of Alzheimer's, which is inherited and strikes young. Every so often, someone dodges their family's genetic fate. Doug Whitney of … more

By LAURAN NEERGAARD | 3/16/23

Spain's Alexia Putellas receives the Best FIFA Women's player award from FIFA president Gianni Infantino during the ceremony of the Best FIFA Football Awards in Paris, France, Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Women's World Cup prize money gets big FIFA raise to $150M

The Women’s World Cup is getting an increase in prize money of more than 300% for this year’s tournament. The $152 million fund for the first 32-team tournament is a huge boost from the 24-team … more

By GRAHAM DUNBAR | 3/16/23

File - A hiring sign is displayed at a grocery store in Arlington Heights, Ill., Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. On Thursday, the Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Applications for jobless aid in U.S. fall last week

Fewer Americans applied for jobless claims last week as the labor market continues to thrive despite the Federal Reserve’s efforts to cool the economy and tamp down inflation. The Labor Department … more

By MATT OTT | 3/16/23

FILE - A Los Angeles Unified School District bus driver walks past parked vehicles at a bus garage in Gardena, Calif., on Dec. 15, 2015. Tens of thousands of workers in the Los Angeles Unified School District will strike for three days next week over stalled contract talks and teachers will join them, likely shutting down the nation's second-largest school system, union leaders announced Wednesday, March 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Thousands of LA school district workers to hold 3-day strike

Tens of thousands of workers in the Los Angeles Unified School District will strike for three days next week over stalled contract talks and teachers will join them, likely shutting down the … more

3/16/23

This mugshot provided by Warren County Jail on Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in Indianola, Iowa, shows Megan Staude. The mother and grandfather of a newborn found dead in a ditch in Iowa have been charged with first-degree murder, and court documents say they told investigators the baby was still alive when they put him in a trash bag and abandoned him. (Warren County Jail via AP)

Newborn found dead in Iowa ditch; mom, granddad charged

Authorities say the mother and grandfather of a newborn found dead in a ditch in Iowa have been charged with first-degree murder. Twenty-five-year-old Megan Staude and her father, 64-year-old Rodney … more

By MARGARET STAFFORD | 3/15/23

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