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Martha Harris with member station KUER was at Thursday's hearing.

We don't want the chaos that is out in the media in this courtroom.

Washington state is under a state of emergency from torrential rain.

The governor there says flooding could reach historic levels.

About 78,000 people live in the floodplain north of Seattle.

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House has voted to restore collective bargaining rights for about a million federal workers.

President Trump issued an executive order in March to end those rights.

Twenty Republicans sided with Democrats on Thursday to repeal that order.

A Myanmar airstrike on a hospital in the west of the country has reportedly killed more than 30 people and wounded dozens more.

It was one of the last hospitals still operating in the province, which has been ravaged by civil war.

Michael Sullivan has more from Chiang Rai in neighboring Thailand.

China will soon begin collecting taxes on contraceptives, including condoms.

Beginning January 1st, a 13 percent value-added tax is to be added.

to contraceptive products.

The move is in keeping with Beijing's effort to encourage procreation, following a decades-long policy that limited births to just one per family.

China lifted its one-child rule in 2015.

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