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| | | Biden announces plan to reduce energy, gas prices: Amid price hikes at gas stations across the country, President Joe Biden announced a plan on Thursday to release roughly 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation's strategic petroleum reserve over the next six months to reduce energy and gas prices. Placing blame on both Russian President Vladimir Putin's ongoing invasion of Ukraine and the lingering economic effects of COVID-19, Biden predicted that gas prices will go down "fairly significantly" once his plan is in motion. The president also took aim at oil company executives who are failing to boost oil production for Americans. "They don't want to increase supply because Putin's price hike means higher profits," Biden said. "No company should take advantage of a pandemic or Vladimir Putin at the expense of American families." The first barrels from Biden's announcement are set to come to the market in May for delivery that month. Officials said all the funds from the sale of the oil will go to restocking the reserves. | | DOJ charges 9 anti-abortion protesters, police say 5 fetuses found in home: The Justice Department has charged nine anti-abortion protesters with conspiring to obstruct access to a women's reproductive health facility in Washington, D.C., in October 2020, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday afternoon. Prosecutors say Lauren Handy and eight others invaded the unnamed health facility on Oct. 22, 2020, and created a blockade to prevent patients from receiving abortions and other reproductive health services. All have been charged with two counts of engaging in a conspiracy against individuals' civil rights and clinic access obstruction. Then on Wednesday, the Metropolitan Police Department allegedly found five fetuses at Handy's home after acting on a tip that biohazardous material was at the house. Handy, who led the 2020 protest for the group, which called itself Red Rose Rescue, said the raid at her home would "happen sooner or later." If convicted, Handy and the group could each face a maximum of 11 years in prison. | | 'X' gender marker soon available on passports as part of push for inclusivity: The U.S. State Department announced on Thursday that starting April 11, people applying for U.S. passports will be able to select "X" to mark their gender in a move designed to accommodate nonbinary, intersex and gender non-conforming individuals. The milestone, which was announced on Transgender Day of Visibility, was first introduced by Secretary of State Antony Blinken in June and that the option to select "X" for gender will also become available on other documents in the coming year. "These updates to passports and TSA policy will make it safer for transgender, nonbinary and intersex members of our community to travel and to walk through everyday life," GLAAD said in response to the news in a statement. "Everyone deserves the right to have identity documents that reflect who they are." | | Dog adopted after being called 'gay,' abandoned at shelter: A North Carolina man wasn't planning to adopt a dog last week but one canine's story stood out to Steve Nichols and his partner, John Winn. The couple, who have been together for 33 years, learned about a dog who was abandoned for showing so-called "gay" behavior from a local news report. Nichols told "GMA" that the owner turned the dog into the shelter after he had "humped another male dog." "He contacted the shelter and said if you don't rescue this dog, I'm going to kill him," Nichols said. Nichols and Winn said they were moved by the dog's story as he had faced similar instances of ignorance and bigotry that the couple also experienced in their lives. The couple ended up adopting the pup, who they renamed as Oscar. Nichols said he and his partner hope Oscar's story inspires others to adopt. "Please adopt, don't shop," he said. | |
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| | | This morning on "GMA," Oscars producer Will Packer is opening up about what happened behind the scenes after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards. And cookbook author Tieghan Gerard of Half Baked Harvest will stop by to show us how to make her saucy garlic peanut noodles. Plus, we're saying "Rise and Shine" in Missouri. All this and more only on "GMA." | | | | | |
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