Trump's possible trial date, rising cancer rates and young people and a medical breakthrough

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That sum of what we'll get to on the 7th from the Washington Post. I'm Jeff Pierre.

It's Thursday, March 4th.

This week the former president and 18 others were charged in connection with efforts to overturn

Joe Biden's victory in the state.

Fulton County District Attorney Fanny T. Willis proposed the March date yesterday.

The final date will be decided by the judge overseeing the case.

It'll have to avoid a clash with Trump's three other criminal cases. If it's in March though,

the trial will take place right in the middle of the Republican presidential primaries.

Number two, a federal court said it would restrict access to a key abortion medication. The federal government didn't follow proper procedures when it loosened restrictions on Mifapristone in 2016.

The drug has been taken by millions of women to terminate early pregnancies

since it was first approved in the US in 2000.

The pill will remain available under its current guidelines while legal battles continue,

but if the Supreme Court opposed the Maui fires could last for years.

Last week's wildfires sent toxic fumes and materials spewing throughout Lahaina and into the sea.

It's now dangerous to breathe the air and drink the water in the devastated town,

and there are fears that the next big storm will flush even more

contamination into local waters. Yesterday the death toll from the fires rose to 111.

Desperate families are posting sticky notes outside an evacuation center in an attempt to track down hundreds of people who remain missing.

Number four, cancer among younger Americans is on the rise.

A new study shows that early onset cancer diagnoses rose by nearly 1% between 2010 and 2019.

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