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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says women's health will be jeopardized by a Supreme Court decision that allows corporations with religious objections to opt out of a requirement that they cover contraceptives. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said today that women should make their own personal health decisions. He called on Congress to take action to assist women affected by the decision. The court's 5-4 decision means the Obama administration must find alternative ways under the health care law of providing free contraception to women who are covered under objecting companies' health insurance plans.
WASHINGTON (AP) —Thousands of home health care workers in Illinois cannot be required to pay fees that help cover a union's costs of collective bargaining. The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the practice violates the First Amendment rights of nonmembers who disagree with the positions that unions take. The ruling was limited to "partial-public employees" and stopped short of overturning decades of practice that has generally allowed public sector unions of teachers, firefighters and other government workers to pass through their representation costs to nonmembers.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Security officials say the Israeli military has discovered the bodies of three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped in the West Bank earlier this month. They say the bodies were found today near the location where the teens disappeared on June 12. The search for the teens has become a national obsession, setting off a frantic manhunt and large crackdown on the Hamas militant group.
VERNON, Ariz. (AP) — Crews battling a wildfire in Arizona's eastern mountains are making headway with successful operations to blow the fire back on itself, even as the blaze blackens more territory and sends up clouds of smoke. A spokesman for the firefighting effort says an area of nearly 9 square miles has been charred. About three dozen homes have been evacuated.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Luis Suarez says he's taken his last bite. The soccer player from Uruguay is apologizing to an Italian player for biting him during a World Cup match. And he's vowing never to do it again. Suarez was banned from all soccer for four months after the incident, which occurred during Uruguay's 1-0 win over Italy in their group-stage game in Brazil.
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