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New Zealand has declared war on tobacco with a remarkable new law. The indigenous Māori population, with the country's highest smoking rate, has a lot to gain. But they have a bone of contention.

The former president has insulated himself with his party, having sold its members over the past seven years on his baseless narrative of a deep-state conspiracy against him.

Many residents had just finished a morning of festivities and were leaving church in Chernihiv, north of Kyiv, when a Russian missile struck the city's center, heavily damaging a theater building.

Some far-right websites are circulating addresses supposedly of grand jurors involved in the Fulton County indictment of former President Donald Trump. Their calls for violence are causing alarm.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's recent health concerns have spotlighted Kentucky's appointment system. It's one of a handful of states where political parties get a say.

A new experiment tries to determine what museum-goers really want to see. In other news, voters overwhelmingly passed a measure to allow child care at San Diego parks and rec centers. Plus, La Jolla Playhouse is populating Shakespeare’s Forest of Arden with a cast of trans, non-binary and queer performers.

Two votes in the Wisconsin Capitol Thursday demonstrate Republicans' controversial efforts to shape election rules in the battleground state going into the 2024 election cycle.

Some House members and top New Jersey Democrats, including the governor, called for the senator's resignation after he was indicted Friday on federal corruption charges.

"I do not make this decision lightly," McCarthy told reporters Tuesday. It's unclear whether any formal impeachment resolution would have the votes in the House to pass.

Stream for free on Black Public Media’s YouTube Channel starting Monday, June 19 in honor of Juneteenth. Based on a true story and directed by Quincy Ledbetter, the film features acclaimed actors Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine (THE CHI; "Farewell Amor"; THE LINCOLN LAWYER) and Zainab Jah ("Black Panther: Wakanda Forever"; HOMELAND; "Farewell Amor") as parents of a young boy who seeks to reject his Blackness after being traumatized by an earlier event. As his parents sit him down to speak with him about the world we live in, he and the audience are taken on a journey through the struggle for freedom by Black Americans.