Retired radio talk show host Diane Rehm testified in favor of a Maryland measure to allow the terminally ill to end their lives with a doctor’s help, describing the misery her husband suffered during his final days. Opponents, however, say the measure is dangerous and could enable vulnerable people to kill themselves, even if they aren’t terminally ill.
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Associated Press on February 15, 2019
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• Updated on February 15, 2019 at 6:31 pm
A 15-year employee being fired from a manufacturing company opened fire in its suburban Chicago plant today, killing five co-workers and wounding five police officers before he was fatally shot, police said.
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Associated Press on February 14, 2019 • Updated on February 14, 2019 at 5:00 pm
Associated Press Posted on February 14, 2019 • Updated on February 14, 2019 at 5:00 pm
Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High and other schools across the U.S. bowed their heads in a moment of silence and took part in volunteer projects today to mark the anniversary of the shooting rampage that claimed 17 lives.
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A research vessel funded by the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen has discovered the wreckage of an American aircraft carrier sunk in the South Pacific during World War II. It is the latest in an ongoing effort to discover sunken vessels.
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Denver teachers ended a three-day walkout Thursday and returned to their classrooms after their union reached a tentative deal raising their pay as much as 11 percent.
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Associated Press on February 14, 2019
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The storm made stronger by the phenomenon called an atmospheric river hit Northern California and southern Oregon on Wednesday before moving down the coast overnight and threatening the southwestern corner of California.
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The massacre renewed the national debate on guns and school safety and turned some victims’ parents and surviving students into political activists.
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According to CBS, which conducted the interview, McCabe said Justice Department officials discussed bringing the Cabinet together to consider using the Constitution’s 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office.
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A federal judge will now decide whether Harvard University intentionally discriminates against Asian-American applicants, an allegation made in a 2014 lawsuit that was debated in a final round of arguments today.
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U.S. food regulators say they weren’t able to identify a contamination source for a food poisoning outbreak that prompted them to warn people to avoid romaine lettuce this fall.
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Flight controllers tried numerous times to make contact and sent one final series of recovery commands Tuesday night along with one last wake-up song, Billie Holiday’s “I’ll Be Seeing You.” There was no response from space, only silence.
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