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A man prepares to smoke fentanyl on a park bench in downtown Portland, Ore., Thursday, May 18, 2023. Oregon is poised to step back from its first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law. A measure lawmakers sent to the governor, Friday, March 1, 2024, would reinstate criminal penalties for possessing small amounts of some drugs. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP) ** FILE **

GOP says Biden is passing the buck on fighting fentanyl

President Biden told Congress to stiffen penalties for fentanyl trafficking in his State of the Union address, sparking an angry response from GOP lawmakers who say the president is the one who must get moving.

March 8, 2024
This image made from video provided by WCVB-TV, shows Jack Teixeira, in a T-shirt and shorts, being taken into custody by armed tactical agents on Thursday, April 13, 2023, in Dighton, Mass. (WCVB-TV via AP, File)

Pentagon online leaker pleads guilty, faces 16 years in prison

A Massachusetts Air National Guard member accused of putting hundreds of highly classified Pentagon documents online in part to impress his gamer friends pleaded guilty Monday in exchange for a likely sentence of 16 years in prison.

March 4, 2024
Allen Weisselberg, right, is escorted to Manhattan criminal court, Monday, March 4, 2024, in New York. Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, surrendered to the Manhattan district attorney Monday morning for arraignment on new criminal charges, the prosecutor's office said. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Former Trump Org. CFO pleads guilty to perjury

Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer for the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty Monday to perjury charges related to his testimony in the New York attorney general's probe of the real estate company's finances.

March 4, 2024
A container with frozen embryos and sperm stored in liquid nitrogen is removed at a fertility clinic in Fort Myers, Fla., Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018. The Alabama Supreme Court ruled, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law, a ruling critics said could have sweeping implications for fertility treatments. The decision was issued in a pair of wrongful death cases brought by three couples who had frozen embryos destroyed in an accident at a fertility clinic. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

DNC runs billboards tying Trump to Alabama’s IVF upheaval

The Democratic National Committee is placing in eight swing states 40 billboards that tie former President Donald Trump's appointees to the U.S. Supreme Court to an Alabama ruling that upended in vitro fertilization there.

February 27, 2024