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WASHINGTON (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May will be meeting with President Donald Trump on Friday. It's Trump's first meeting with a foreign leader since he became president. Press Secretary Sean Spicer says Trump has also scheduled a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto later this month. The two are scheduled to meet on Jan. 31 to discuss trade, immigration and security.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many women are afraid they will lose some of their rights now that Donald Trump is president. Hundreds of thousands of people participated in peaceful demonstrations for women's rights across the U.S. and around the world on Saturday. The Women's March on Washington was especially large. Local officials say the crowd at that rally and march exceeded the 500,000 that organizers told city officials to expect.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state is now requiring health insurance companies to cover medically necessary abortions and most forms of contraception at no cost to women. Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the regulations will ensure that women will have access to reproductive health care no matter what happens in the federal government. It's an effort to safeguard protections women currently receive under the Affordable Care Act.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An Army chaplain who won the Medal of Honor for rescuing more than 20 wounded men in Vietnam but gave it back in protest 20 years later has died. A friend says Charlie Liteky died Friday at a VA hospital in San Francisco. He was 85. Liteky, who became a peace activist, left the medal at Washington's Vietnam Veterans Memorial to protest U.S. foreign policy in Central America, where U.S.-backed dictators were fighting left-leaning rebels.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Relatives of passengers and crew aboard the Malaysian Boeing 777 that vanished almost three years ago plan to present the Malaysian transport minister with letters urging that the search resume. Malaysia, Australia and China said last week that the deep sea search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been suspended, perhaps forever, after a sonar scan of 46,000 square miles of the Indian Ocean failed to find any trace of the jet.
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