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AP Headline News - Apr 24 2024 16:00 (EDT)
The Arizona House has advanced a bill to repeal the state's near total ban on abortions, clearing its first hurdle two weeks after a court concluded the state can enforce the 1864 law, which only offers an exception for saving the patient's life. Conservative Supreme Court justices appear skeptical state abortion bans that took effect after the sweeping ruling overturning Roe vs. Wade violates federal health care law even during some medical emergencies. U.S. officials say Ukraine has, for the first time, used ballistic missiles from the U.S. to hit Russian held areas. The AP's Sagar McGonny is at the White House. Kyiv had long pleaded for the long-range version of the missiles known as attackums, which nearly doubled the striking distance it had with the mid-range version the U.S. sent to last year. The Biden administration had resisted, fearing Ukraine might escalate the fight by striking deep inside Russian territory. But after evaluating the risks, President Biden signed off. The boss made this decision the time is right to provide these based on where the fight is right now. Admiral Christopher Grady, the nation's number two military officer, says Ukraine can use long-range fires to strike Russian logistics nodes and troop concentrations well back from the front lines. One official says the U.S. is making clear the attackums cannot be used to strike inside Russia itself. Sagar McGonny at the White House. White House Press Secretary Karine Jumpier says pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses are anti-Semitic vile and anti-Semitic hate. We have to show moral clarity. We have to call that out. And I said this at the beginning. This should feel safe. Community should feel safe. And we, you know, we can't, we can't stay silent. A New Jersey woman who was near death has received a transplited pig kidney. This is AP news. Cicadas at one county in South Carolina are so loud, people are calling police. The Newbury County Sheriff's Office in South Carolina received noise complaints of sirens or a loud roar. Male Cicadas have been singing after more than a decade of being dormant to find a mate. And in this county, 40 miles northwest of Columbia, they've been so loud, the local sheriff Lee Foster says residents were calling the office to see what was going on. You don't hear that noise here every day and you don't hear it every year. So I think they were just concerned about what might be going on in their area. And we've had, we had several calls about that because it is, it is quite loud. The county also took to Facebook to assure residents that Cicadas pose no danger to humans or pets. And that quote, unfortunately, it is the sounds of nature. Unquote. I'm Haya Punjwani. I'm Ed Donahue, AP news.