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39 states investigate Juul’s marketing of vaping products

By Dave Collins, Associated Press

Investigators from 39 states will look into the marketing and sales of vaping products by Juul Labs, including whether the company targeted youths and made misleading claims about nicotine content in its devices, officials announced Tuesday.

WATCH: Pompeo blasts China and Iran for virus response

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused the two governments of censorship and of trying to cover up the severity of the spread of the deadly illness.

Long-term survivors of HIV/AIDS reflect on what they’ve witnessed and endured

By Grace Birnstengel, Next Avenue

"Those of us who are longtime survivors — there are other things popping up now because we weren’t expected to live this long," one HIV survivor said.

In effort to stop virus’ spread, countries limit travel

By Kim Tong-Hyung, Matt Sedensky, Associated Press

Police manned checkpoints in quarantined towns, governments issued travel warnings and more flights were suspended Tuesday as officials desperately sought to stop the seemingly inevitable spread of a new virus.

Federal agents’ shootings escape scrutiny, use-of-force reforms

By MacKenzie Shuman, Derek Hall, Devin Sauer, Nicole Ludden, José-Ignacío Castañeda Perez, Arizona State University

First came the crash, reverberating off the walls of the retirement community like a "mini atom bomb," then a barrage of gunfire shattered the desert morning calm.

White House unveils $2.5 billion emergency coronavirus request

By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press

The request could advance quickly through Congress and came as coronavirus fears are credited with a 1,000-plus point drop in the Dow Jones index and are increasingly seen as a potential political threat to President Donald Trump. …

With new outbreaks of COVID-19, are we on the ‘precipice’ of a pandemic?

Will novel coronavirus, now known as COVID-19, morph into a global pandemic? Health officials worldwide are concerned about incidents of human-to-human transmission of the illness, although it continues to have a relatively low death rate. Amna Nawaz reports and Georgetown…

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U.S. appeals court upholds Trump rules involving abortions

By Gene Johnson, Associated Press

The rules ban taxpayer-funded clinics from making abortion referrals and prohibit clinics that receive federal money from sharing office space with abortion providers — a rule critics said would force many to find new locations, undergo expensive remodels or shut…

Japan health officials say coronavirus ship quarantine was not perfect

By Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press

More than 690 people were sickened on the ship and three died. The number of cases in Japan outside of the ship is continuing to rise, and experts say the country is now at a critical juncture. …