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AP Headline News - Apr 24 2024 14:00 (EDT)
AP News, I'm Ed Donahue Ukraine is getting more U.S. aid in the fight against Russia and U.S. officials tell the AP for the first time Ukraine used a long-range ballistic missile secretly provided by the U.S. The AP's Sagar McGani is at the White House. The officials say the Ukrainians used the missiles known as "attackums" last week on a Russian military airfield in Crimea and another occupied location overnight. The Turkey had pleaded for the long-range missiles, which nearly double the striking distance they had with the mid-range version the U.S. provided last year. The Biden administration secretly provided the long-range attackums last month. The delivery was so secret, lawmakers and others have recently been demanding the U.S. send the weapons to help against a Russian onslaught, not knowing the attackums were already in Ukraine. Sagar McGani at the White House. Conservative Supreme Court justices appear skeptical, state abortion bans conflict with federal health care law, even during some medical emergencies. At issue is a case out of Idaho. Just as Samuel Alito is one of the skeptics. How can you impose restrictions on what Idaho can criminalize simply because hospitals in Idaho have chosen to participate in Medicare? I don't understand how this squares with the whole theory of the spending clause. This is in the liberal minority, raised sharp questions about whether Idaho's law was putting women's health at risk. Agriculture officials say dairy cattle, moving between states, must be tested for the bird flu virus. Authorities say a prison guard in Georgia shot and killed a prisoner. She had helped escort to a hospital for treatment. After he snatched another guard's pepper spray and used it to overpower him, a man accused of fatally shooting a nine-year-old girl when he was robbed at a Houston ATM in 2022 has been indicted for murder. A new AARP survey says more than one in four adults over the age of 50 say they expect to never retire. This is AP News. The Department of Transportation is pushing for more refunds for significantly delayed flights. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced at a news conference that airlines will be required to provide cash refunds to people who have had their travel or bags significantly delayed or their flights canceled entirely. Importantly, we are also changing the refund to clarify that it must be in cash by default unless a passenger actively chooses another form of compensation rather than the other way around. Normally, airlines decide how long a delay must last before triggering refunds. The Biden administration is removing that wiggle room by defining a significant delay as lasting at least three hours for domestic flights and six hours for international ones. Buttigieg said the measure would go into effect in about six months. Hi, up in Joani, Washington. I'm Ed Donahue, AP News.