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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?After decades of inaction in the face of escalating natural disasters and sustained聽global warming, Congress hopes to make clean energy so cheap in all aspects of life that its nearly irresistible. The House is poised to pass a transformative bill Friday that would provide the most spending to fight climate change by any one nation ever in a single push.Fridays anticipated action comes 34 years after a top scientist grabbed headlines warning Congress about the dangers of global warming. In the decades since, there have been 308 weather dis
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DUBLIN 鈥?Abortion rights activists proclaimed victory for social justice Saturday as exit polls and early results indicated Irelan
af1 d had voted overwhelmingly to repeal a 1983 constitutional ban on abortions.Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, speaking Saturday before official results were announced, said it appeared that voters chose to liberalize Irelands strict laws on abortion 鈥?only allowed when a womans life is at risk 鈥?by a more than two-to-one margin. The people have spoken, said Varadkar, a medical doctor who campaigned for repeal in Fridays historic referendum. The people have said that we want a modern constitution for a modern country, that we trust women and we respect them to make the right deci
stanley cup sion and the right choices about their health care. Women celebrate the result of yesterday referendum on liberalizing abortion law, in Dublin, Ireland, May 26, 2018. Photo by Clodagh Kilcoyne/ReutersCalling the result a culmination of a quiet revolution that had been gaining strength in the last 20 years, Varadkar said the large margin of victory will give his government a greater mandate when enacting new abortion legislation through parliament.Campaigners who have fought for more than three decades to remove the eighth amendment abortion ban from Irelands constitution hailed the referendum vote as a major breakthrough in a largely Catholic nation that has already seen a wave of social liberalization in recent years. This is a monume
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