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New Mexico governor set to sign recreational marijuana bill MORGAN LEE, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks following the end of New Mexico's annual legislative session on Saturday, March 20, 2021, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.Cedar Attanasio/AP SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham was set Monday to sign legislation that will legalize recreational marijuana use and sales in the state, making it the seventh since last November to do so. The governor, a Democrat, has supported marijuana reform as a way to create jobs and shor...

Water-worried Vegas wants useless grass a thing of the past SAM METZ and KEN RITTER, Associated Press April 12, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 6 1of6Sprinklers water grass at a park on Friday, April 9, 2021, in the Summerlin neighborhood of Las Vegas. A desert city built on a reputation for excess wants to become a model for restraint with a first-in-the-nation policy limiting water use by banning grass that nobody walks on. Parks would not be included, but Las Vegas area water officials are asking the state Legislature to pass a law banning "non-functional turf" in street medians and...

Germany's Bild newspaper to launch television channel April 12, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail BERLIN (AP) — Germany's biggest-selling daily newspaper, Bild, plans to launch a television channel that will go on air before the country's election in late September, its publisher said Monday. Publisher Axel Springer said that the core of the new Bild channel's schedule will be up to six hours daily of live programming starting in the morning. It said in a statement that “the focus is on politics, sports, celebrities, crime, and service topics, among others,” and the program could be interrupted...

Pakistan's iconic human rights defender I.A. Rehman dies Sign In April 12, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FILE - In this July 16, 2018, file photo, I.A. Rehman, a founding member of the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) addresses a news conference, in Islamabad, Pakistan. An iconic Pakistani human rights defender and journalist Rehman has died in the eastern city of Lahore, Monday, April 12, 2021, after a brief illness, his family and friends said. Rehman was about 90 and he spent the whole of his life defending human rights, opposing military dictators, fighting for the rule ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — High schools have reopened in Greece to students in the final...