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Fed up with prices that remain about 19%, on average, above where they were before the pandemic, consumers are fighting back. In grocery stores, they're shi 3 University of Wyoming swimmers killed in highway crash in Colorado 02/23/2024 06:09pm • CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Three members of the University of Wyoming swimming and diving team were killed and two others injured when their sport utility vehicle veered and rolled over alongside a rural highway, bringing to at least 15 the school's students killed in recent years on the perilous road. Death toll in Spanish building fire hits 9, with 1 missing, as questions grow about speed of blaze 02/23/2024 04:20pm • VALENCIA, Spain (AP) — The death toll in a fire that engulfed an apartment block in the Spanish city of Valencia rose Friday to nine as questions were raised about whether construction materials caused the fire to spread so rapidly. One person remained missing, according to forensic police, who af Maryland House OKs bill to enable undocumented immigrants to buy health insurance on state exchange 02/23/2024 03:57pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Maryland House approved a measure on Friday to enable people to buy health insurance through the state’s health care exchange regardless of their immigration status, with the approval of a federal waiver. The House voted 101-34 for the bill, which now goes to the Sen A list of mass killings in the United States this year 02/23/2024 03:14pm • The latest mass killing in the U.S. happened in Ferguson, Missouri, where authorities say a 39-year-old woman intentionally set a fire at home to kill herself and her four children. The children were 9-year-old twins, a 5-year-old and a 2-year-old. Police announced late Wednesday that a preliminary So many sanctions on Russia. How much impact do they really have? 02/23/2024 02:59pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — So many sanctions. Once again, the United States, United Kingdom and European Union are hitting Russia with a new wave of sanctions over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. This time, they come in response to the death of noted Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic penal 'He was just crazy': Maryland father recounts son's addiction to tianeptine 02/23/2024 01:14pm • Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WBAL) -- What's known on the streets as gas station heroin -- which is just one of its names -- is legal in Maryland for anyone to buy, and there's a good chance it's sold at a smoke shop or gas station near you. It goes by many names - Biden ally meets Arab American leaders in Michigan and tries to lower tensions over Israel-Hamas war 02/22/2024 11:52pm • DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — As Thursday dawned in Dearborn, Michigan, Arab American leaders entered a local coffee shop and greeted Rep. Ro Khanna of California before pulling up chairs at a table. 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