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Advocates: HIV prevention pill could save lives

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 16:08
CHICAGO (AP) -- A pill to prevent HIV infection is already being given to some healthy people, but without government approval, it remains out of reach and too costly for many who need it....
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Advocates: HIV prevention pill could save lives

CHICAGO — A pill to prevent HIV infection is already being given to some healthy people, but without government approval, it remains out of reach and too costly for many who need it.

Doctors, patients and advocates say that would change if the Food and Drug Administration takes a landmark ...

Obama jokes with Clooney at star's gala fundraiser

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 16:08
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- George Clooney played the suave host, chef Wolfgang Puck whipped up something for dinner and President Barack Obama and about 150 of his Hollywood donors enjoyed a few laughs at Clooney's good-humored expense....
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Ex-NE mob boss gets 5 1/2 years in RI strip club plot

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 16:08
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- The former New England Mafia boss was sentenced Friday to 5 1/2 years in prison for his role in the shakedown of Providence strip clubs, becoming the first ex-mob leader to be locked up in a case that has ensnared nine people described by prosecutors as having ties to organized crime....
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FDA reviews first rapid, take-home test for HIV

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 16:08
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is considering approval of the first over-the-counter HIV test that would allow consumers to quickly test themselves for the virus at home, without medical supervision....
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Kidnap-slaying suspect kills himself; 2 girls OK

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 16:08
GUNTOWN, Miss. (AP) -- A man wanted by the FBI for killing a mother and daughter and kidnapping two other girls shot himself to death as officers closed in, but the two children were rescued without injuries and released from a hospital Friday....
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Obese Ohio boy, 9, sheds 50 lbs, is returned home

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 16:08
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- A 9-year-old boy removed from his mother's custody after his weight ballooned to more than 200 pounds has slimmed down enough to return home....
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NJ.com: "Trucker found with 364 pounds of marijuana doesn't have to reveal BlackBerry password, N.J. court rules"

FourthAmendment.com - News - Mon, 2025-06-09 16:08

NJ.com: Trucker found with 364 pounds of marijuana doesn't have to reveal BlackBerry password, N.J. court rules by AP:

MOUNT OLIVE — Police in northern New Jersey can't force a California trucker accused of hauling marijuana to reveal his password to unlock his BlackBerry.

A judge in Morristown on Thursday ruled that disclosing the password would violate the trucker's Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.

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