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Abortion pills demand on internet surges after US Supreme Court leak
Dutch physician Rebecca Gomperts' abortion boat and the Women on Waves group have anchored their ship in international waters off the coasts of Poland, Spain, Mexico and other countries, offering medical abortions to women; in the US interest has been surging in her other organization, Aid Access, which since 2018 has provided abortion pills over the internet
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US, EU to boost coordination on semiconductor supply, Russia
Top US officials are visiting the French scientific hub of Saclay for a meet up of the Trade and Technology Council, created last year as China increasingly exerts its technology clout
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Not a Matisse or a Warhol: Dinosaur skeleton sells for $12.4 million at Christie's
Christie's sold the skeleton of a Deinonychus antirrhopus — a species that became one of the world's most recognizable dinosaurs after the release of the movie "Jurassic Park" — for $12.4 million, with fees, to an undisclosed buyer
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A battle over how to battle over Roe
For the protesters chanting loudly outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home, incivility was the point. They said they wanted to impinge on his privacy with picket signs and chants to condemn the Supreme Court justice's apparent support for ending the constitutional right to privacy that guaranteed access to abortion nearly 50 years ago
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Deal to buy Twitter 'temporarily on hold': Elon Musk
Musk, the world's richest man and founder of automaker Tesla, had made the eradication of spam accounts and bots one of the centrepieces of his proposed $44 billion takeover of Twitter
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Crippling baby formula shortage grips the US
Last week, the average out-of-stock rate for baby formula was 43 percent, according to Datasembly, which collected information from more than 11,000 retailers
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Lawyer who argued Roe v. Wade outraged over possible reversal
"It's going to cost a lot more for people that don't have good health care or just the poor" to get an abortion, Linda Coffee, the last surviving member of the legal team who won the case in 1973, said
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Scientists successfully grow plants in soil from the Moon
The ground-breaking experiment has given researchers hope that it may be possible to one day grow plants directly on the Moon. That would save future space missions much hassle and expense, facilitating longer and farther trips
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Leaked China database reveals thousands of Uyghurs, other minorities detained in Xinjiang
Researchers estimate over one million Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities are being held in a secretive network of detention centres and prisons, ostensibly as part of an anti-terrorism campaign after a series of attacks
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Instacart takes big step toward a public offering
If Instacart does go public, it will be doing so at a risky time. Wall Street, spooked by inflation and the war in Ukraine, has been cool to tech stocks in recent months, and the number of IPOs fell 80% from a year earlier as of May 4
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North Korea reports Covid-19 cases for first time
This is the first time that the secretive country has confirmed Covid-19 cases since the virus emerged two years ago and engulfed the world