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For years, public health experts have advocated for higher sales taxes on menthol cigarettes or even an outright ban. In 2021, the federal Food and Drug Administration announced a proposal to prohibit the sale of menthol cigarettes, a move that could prevent up to 650,000 deaths nationwide over several decades, according to research cited by the agency.

The Biden administration and immigrant advocates rushed to the Supreme Court on Monday to prevent Texas from enforcing one of the harshest immigration laws in the United States, saying the new statute would disrupt more than a century of federal control over international borders.

A crippling blizzard has dumped as much as 6 to 11 feet of snow on California’s Sierra Nevada since Thursday, closing roads and ski resorts as it produced whiteout conditions and hurricane-force winds. The snow had eased across the region early Monday, but forecasters said more is to come through Tuesday afternoon, and winter storm warnings are in effect.

PARIS – French legislators Monday voted to explicitly enshrine access to abortion in the constitution, making their country the first in the world to do so.

Overcoming concerns about a small crack in the hatch, SpaceX launched another four passengers on their way to the International Space Station late Sunday from Florida’s Space Coast.

James K. Polk’s final night as president of the United States was an all-nighter. “The 11th President had spent the previous evening with Congress trying to pass some final appropriation bills before turning the Oval Office over to the incoming Zachary Taylor,” Polk wrote in his diary in the early hours of Sunday, March 4, 1849, “thus closed my official term as President.” But did it?

States’ efforts to disqualify former president Donald Trump from their primary ballots for “engaging in insurrection” have come to an end, with the Supreme Court ruling that states cannot enforce the 14th Amendment for federal candidates.

Jack Teixeira appeared in a federal district court Monday and pleaded guilty to the massive leak of U.S. intelligence documents last year on Discord, an online chat platform popular with video gamers.

Vice President Kamala Harris, who has emerged as one of the leading voices for Palestinians in closed-door meetings, pressed for a pause in fighting in Gaza with a member of Israel’s war cabinet, Benny Gantz, at the White House on Monday afternoon, according to the White House.

 Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of Donald Trump’s real estate company, pleaded guilty to perjury in connection with testimony he gave in New York state’s civil fraud case against the former president.

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states may not bar former President Donald Trump from running for another term, rejecting a challenge to his eligibility that threatened to upend the presidential race by taking him off ballots around the nation.

Israel delayed sending a high-level delegation to Cairo for talks on a cease-fire in the war against Hamas for a second day, putting a damper on hopes for an imminent deal.

At least four people were killed in a suspected gang shooting in Monterey County, KSBW Action News 8 reported. A woman and three men were killed Sunday night in King City, the news outlet said. 

A judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Texas attorney general from forcing an LGBTQ+ organization to turn over documents on transgender minors and the gender-affirming care they may be receiving.

The Supreme Court announced Sunday that it would issue at least one decision Monday, a strong signal that it would rule then on former President Donald Trump's eligibility for Colorado's primary ballot. The announcement said Monday's opinion or opinions would be posted online starting at 10 a.m.

A cargo ship sank in the Red Sea after an attack by Houthi militants, taking some 21,000 metric tons of fertilizer down with it, posing a significant environmental risk to one of the world’s busiest waterways and the home of many coral reefs.