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Minnesota governor restricts 'conversion therapy' for minors

By Steve Karnowski, Associated Press

Minnesota is now one of about 24 states that restrict mental health professionals from seeking to change a person's sexual orientation.

Schumer sets infrastructure vote, pressures lawmakers

By Alan Fram, Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press

Senator Schumer says he is scheduling a procedural vote for Wednesday to begin debate on a still-evolving bipartisan infrastructure bill.

As 9 out of 10 U.S. children remain unvaccinated, Surgeon General pushes back against misinformation

By Laura Santhanam

Public health experts fear that the more the virus spreads among the unvaccinated, the more chance that variants could mutate and unravel progress made against the pandemic in pockets of the country where the vaccination rate remains dangerously low.

Gunman found criminally responsible for killing 5 at Capital Gazette newsroom

By Associated Press

The jury's finding Thursday means the 41-year-old will be sentenced to prison, not a maximum-security mental health facility. Prosecutors are seeking five life sentences without the possibility of parole.

Biden ends large-scale logging on huge Alaska rainforest

By Matthew Daly, Associated Press

The Biden administration is ending large-scale, old-growth timber sales on the nation’s largest national forest and will instead focus on forest restoration, recreation and other non-commercial uses.

Why more women are dying in jails

By Candice Norwood, The 19th

Many jails are struggling to provide adequate physical and mental health care for women.

WATCH: Biden hosts German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Oval Office

By Frank Jordans, Alexandra Jaffe, Associated Press

The valedictory visit by Merkel is shadowed by plenty of pressing issues in the U.S.-Germany relationship--including differences over a Russian gas pipeline and outlook on the rise of China as a global power.

Lack of federal firefighters hurts California wildfire response

By Sophie Quinton, Stateline

Roughly a third of all federal firefighters work in California.

State Department offering rewards up to $10 million to curb ransomware

By Frank Bajak, Associated Press

The rewards are for information leading to the identification of anyone engaged in foreign state-sanctioned malicious cyber activity, including ransomware attacks, against critical U.S. infrastructure.

WATCH: Surgeon general urges U.S. fight against COVID-19 misinformation

By David Klepper, Associated Press

The warning comes as the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations has slowed throughout the U.S., in part because of vaccine opposition fueled by unsubstantiated claims about the safety of immunizations.