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Buffalo, New York's roads have finally reopened Thursday after a driving ban was in place for nearly a week following a deadly winter storm that swept through the region.

Voters in the state in November approved restrictions on menthol cigarettes and flavored vaping products.

The Supreme Court on Monday refused a request from tobacco companies to stop California from enforcing a ban on flavored tobacco products that was overwhelmingly approved by voters in November. R.J. Reynolds and other tobacco companies sought the high court's intervention to keep the ban from taking effect by Dec. 21. The ban was first passed by the state legislature two years ago but it never took effect after tobacco companies gathered enough signatures to put it on the ballot.

The prime minster will look at whether his promises are still deliverable, his spokeswoman says.

Tory MPs are told to oppose a move to ban fracking in a vote to demonstrate Liz Truss's authority.

The tennis star arrives in Belgrade after being deported from Australia over his Covid vaccination status.

The biblical town of Bethlehem is gearing up for its second straight Christmas Eve hit by the coronavirus -- with small crowds and gray, gloomy weather dampening celebrations in the traditional birthplace of Jesus

The Federal Reserve on Thursday announced a ban on officials owning individual stocks and limits on other activities as well.

The justices heard oral arguments around the legislation from attorneys representing the village, a Deerfield gun owner and gun ownership rights groups.

Most Europeans, vaccinated or not, have been banned from the United States since March 14, 2020: More than 550 days and counting.

Gov. Greg Abbott — who announced Tuesday that he had tested positive for COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated — has been fighting with local governments over masks for months.

Gov. Greg Abbott — who announced Tuesday that he had tested positive for COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated — has been fighting with local governments over masks for months.

The current ban on evictions will last until October 3.Now two landlords are suing saying it is equivalent to the court taking private property. Legal challenges were expected here.

GettyABUJA, Nigeria— Dozens of employees working in the State House, where the offices of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo are located, were gathered in a room and forced to take an Oath of Secrecy earlier this week because the president’s top aides were “embarrassed” by The Daily Beast report revealing the reasons behind his demand for a nationwide Twitter ban, according to two officials.The government was open about the mass-oath-taking, billing it as a sta

US group The Base, which aims to start a race war, is banned after recruitment efforts in Britain.

A U.S. federal appeals court on Monday put on hold a judge's ruling this month to overturn California's 32-year-old ban on assault weapons.

A bill banning COVID-19 vaccine passports in Michigan is heading to the state Senate.

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The proposed ban also applies to flavored cigars. The agency hopes to implement the plan within the next year.

The proposed ban also applies to flavored cigars. The agency hopes to implement the plan within the next year.

(AP Photo/Ben Gray)Shortly after his mother was killed in the Atlanta-area shootings, Randy Park launched a GoFundMe page asking for $20,000 to pay for funeral expenses. For now, donors to victims of the Atlanta shootings must scour individual GoFundMe accounts. A page for Yong Yue’s family drew more than $115,000. AdPark's family was the first to launch a GoFundMe page. This is simply a change in my life,” Park wrote to the 70,000 people who had contributed as of Sunday afternoon.

Allen J. Schaben | Los Angeles Times | Getty ImagesMore than 2,200 organizations have written a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to extend the national eviction moratorium. Advocates say a wave of evictions is inevitable if the ban is allowed to lapse. Property owners have criticized the ban and say landlords can't afford to continue housing people for free. "Short-term policies like eviction moratoria leave renters accruing insurmountable debt and jeopardize the ability for rental housing providers to provide safe, affordable housing," said Bob Pinnegar, president of the National Apartment Association. However, housing experts say allowing the eviction ban to expire before rental assistance goes out to people is bad policy.

Gretchen Whitmer's proposed $67 billion state budget proposes a $5 million allocation for improving Capitol security. The Michigan Capitol Commission, which is responsible for making decisions concerning the upkeep of the Capitol building and grounds banned open carry firearms on Jan. 11 after months of reluctance to take on that responsibility. Armed protesters entered the state Capitol in April demanding to be allowed into legislative chambers in opposition to Whitmer's COVID-19 restrictions. “It’s important for people to feel safe inside the Michigan Capitol building, especially the thousands of elementary students who visit each year," Leddy said. "The Republican-led Legislature and the Michigan Capitol Commission said that a lack of funds has prevented them from taking action to ban weapons, which is why Governor Whitmer included this funding in her budget.

LANSING, Mich. – The Michigan House Oversight Committee will hear testimony Thursday about the state’s ban on high school sports due to the coronavirus pandemic. Committee members including Chairman Steve Johnson (R-Wayland), Michigan High School Athletic Association Director Mark Uyl, Let Them Play Michigan Director Jayme McElvany, Olivet High School Athletic Director Matt Seidl, and concerned parents and athletes are expected to testify during the session Thursday morning. “Families throughout the state have reached out to their elected legislators about the governor’s abrupt decision to extend the ban on certain high school winter sports,” reads a statement from the House committee. “The House Oversight Committee will listen to testimony in an effort to provide answers to concerned residents regarding the extension.”AdLate last week, Gov. Michigan House Republicans on Wednesday proposed a $3.5 billion coronavirus recovery plan but threatened to withhold billions to K-12 schools unless Whitmer cedes her administration’s power to prohibit in-person instruction and sports to local health departments.

Biden reverses Trump's transgender military ban President Biden reversed the ban on transgender troops, which was imposed in 2017 by former President Trump. Before the ban, an estimated 15,500 transgender people served in the military. Nancy Cordes has more.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Smoking, vaping and all types of marijuana and tobacco products are now prohibited from all city parks and playgrounds. Those who violate the ban can be fined a $25 civil infraction or instead participate in a smoking cessation program. Related: Grand Rapids bans smoking in parks, but not at city-owned golf courseCity officials hope the ban will decrease cigarette butt litter and create healthier park environments. In an explainer on the ban, city officials advised people who see someone smoking in parks to “politely let them know that parks are now tobacco-free” and thank them for creating healthier park spaces. According to Grand Rapids officials, nearly 60 jurisdictions in Michigan have tobacco-free parks policies, including Greenville, Sault St. Marie, Traverse City, Escanaba, Grand Haven Township, Howell, Ottawa County, Portage and Michigan’s state parks.

Doctors and nurses around the U.S. are becoming exhausted and demoralized as they struggle to cope with a record-breaking surge of COVID-19 patients that is swamping hospitals and prompting governors to clamp back down to contain the virus. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)Doctors and nurses around the U.S. are becoming exhausted and demoralized as they struggle to cope with a record-breaking surge of COVID-19 patients that is overwhelming hospitals and prompting governors to clamp back down to contain the virus. “We’re constantly looking for beds,” said Cassie Ban, an intensive care nurse at Indiana University Health. Health care workers will be among the first to start getting the nation’s first COVID-19 vaccine in the coming days after the Food and Drug Administration gave it the final go-ahead Friday. Each one of those numbers is the death of a person who wasn’t ready to go yet.”Although concerns remain about getting enough beds, masks and other equipment, many frontline health workers are most worried about staff shortages.

WASHINGTON – The Commerce Department will roll out a ban of transactions in the U.S. using TikTok and WeChat starting Sunday. The order Friday was put into place, according to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, to “combat China’s malicious collection of American citizens' personal data.”Aug. 14, 2020: Trump orders Chinese owner of TikTok to sell US assetsThe government previously said that using and downloading the app to communicate won’t be a banned transaction, although messaging on the app “could be directly or indirectly impaired” by the ban, and people who use it for messaging won’t be subject to penalties. Some security experts have raised concerns that ByteDance Ltd., the Chinese company that owns TikTok, would maintain access to information on the 100 million TikTok users in the United States, creating a security risk. Read the Commerce Department release here.

TikTok won't face the most drastic sanctions until after the Nov. 3 election, but WeChat users could feel the effects as early as Sunday. The order, which cited national security and data privacy concerns, follows weeks of dealmaking over the video-sharing service TikTok. Trump had said this week that he does not like the idea of ByteDance keeping majority control of TikTok. The administration, however, has provided no specific evidence that TikTok has made U.S. users’ data available to the Chinese government. Some cybersecurity experts question whether the administration's efforts are more political than rooted in legitimate concerns about Chinese threats to data security.

TORONTO, ONT The U.S. and Canada are extending their agreement to keep their shared border closed to non-essential travel to Aug. 21, according to a report from CTV News. The restrictions were announced on March 18 and were extended in April, May and June. The U.S. has more confirmed cases and deaths from COVID-19 than any country in the world while Canada has flattened the epidemic curve. Essential cross-border workers like healthcare professionals, airline crews and truck drivers are still permitted to cross. Truck drivers are critical as they move food and medical goods in both directions.

Michigan’s ban on evictions amid the coronavirus pandemic has been extended until July 15. Gretchen Whitmer’s order to temporarily ban evictions was set to expire June 30, but on Friday her office announced she signed Executive Order 2020-134 to extend the temporary suspension of evictions until July 15. Tenants whose back rent is not completely covered by the Eviction Diversion Program will be entered into manageable payment plans facilitated by Supreme Court Administrative Order 2020-17, according to Whitmer’s office. The program was created following the passage of Senate Bill 690, which passed unanimously out of both the Michigan House and Senate on June 17. The legislation appropriated $60 million in Coronavirus Relief Funding to the Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity for the creation of a rental assistance program to assist tenants and landlords after the eviction moratorium concludes.

DETROIT Non-essential between the United States and Canada has been banned since March amid the coronavirus pandemic. The border remaining closed to non-essential travel through at least June 21. Now, there are reports the ban on non-essential travel between the two countries could last until late July. In the more populated United States, cases are rising at vastly different paces depending on the state. The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel has been closed to non-essential travel since March 21, seemingly making it easier to complete a renovation of the tunnel.

In 1996, following a mass shooting in which 35 people were killed, the Australian government issued an unprecedented ban on certain guns, and confiscated nearly 700,000 weapons. Has this ban made a difference? Seth Doane reports.