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Pence opens presidential bid with denunciation of Trump over Jan. 6 insurrection and abortion

By JILL COLVIN and THOMAS BEAUMONT - Associated Press
Updated 5 min ago

Mike Pence has opened his presidential bid with an unusually forceful denunciation of former President Donald Trump over Jan. 6, Trump's temperament and abortion. Pence told an audience in a Des Moines, Iowa, suburb on Wednesday, “Anyone who puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States, and anyone who asks someone else to put them over the Constitution should never be president again.” And he accused Trump of abandoning conservative principles, particularly on abortion. Pence is the first vice president in modern history to challenge his former running mate. Trump leads the GOP 2024 presidential field in early polls.

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South Korean inquiry to look into 237 more foreign adoptions suspected to have laundered origins

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press
22 min ago

South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission will investigate 237 more cases of South Korean adoptees who suspect their family origins were manipulated to facilitate their adoptions in Europe and the United States. The commission said the new cases in its expanded inquiry involve adoptees in 11 nations who were adopted from 1960 to 1990. About 200,000 South Koreans, mostly girls, were adopted to the West in the past six decades, creating what’s believed to be the world’s largest diaspora of adoptees. Most were placed with white parents in the United States and Europe during the 1970s and ’80s. The military dictatorships that ruled South Korea at the time saw foreign adoptions as a tool to reduce poverty and deepen ties with the West.

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Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, begins erupting after 3-month pause

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Updated 5 min ago

Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii's Big Island is erupting again. U.S. Geological Survey officials say a glow was detected in webcam images from the summit caldera early Wednesday. The images show fissures at the base of the crater generating lava flows on the crater floor's surface. Before issuing the eruption notice, the observatory said increased earthquake activity and changes in the patterns of ground deformation at the summit started Tuesday night, indicating the movement of magma in the subsurface. All activity is within a closed area of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and not threatening any communities.

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