Tennessee lawmakers said Monday they are considering whether to seek one of the nation’s strictest abortion bans even as such laws continue to be struck down in court. At issue is a proposal to prohibit abortion once a pregnancy is detected. While a similar bill stalled in the Republican-controlled Statehouse earlier this year, backers are […]
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We don’t know about you, but Taylor Swift is feeling … pretty damn good. The singer threw a party over the weekend in celebration of her whopping 10 MTV Video Music Award nominations, and the resulting footage has, unsurprisingly, gone viral. Threw a party to celebrate with the people who made the ME! & YNTCD
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Image copyright Getty Images Even by the standards of Argentina’s very volatile financial markets, it was a brutal meltdown. In a matter of hours, the country’s main stock index Merval – which represents the most heavily traded shares – shed 37% of its value. The national currency lost almost 30% of its value against the
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Former NBA player Sebastian Telfair has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison in a New York City gun case. Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said on Monday that Telfair received the term for his conviction in April on a gun-possession charge. Police had arrested the 33-year-old Telfair in 2017 after finding a loaded
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Lisa: Is this the weirdest place you’ve ever selfied? Booker: This is unbelievable, that we literally have a team of photographers behind us on a Ferris wheel in Iowa. This is really one of the more surreal moments of my life and — I’m glad we’re sharing, you as a reporter, me as a candidate,
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Image copyright Getty Images A vaccine to protect people against the common sexually transmitted infection chlamydia has passed initial safety tests. It is the first of its kind to enter human trials. Experts say immunisation may be the best way to tackle the disease that accounts for nearly half of all sex infections diagnosed in
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A controversial tweet came back to bite Priyanka Chopra on Saturday during a tense confrontation with a woman who accused the actress of encouraging war between Pakistan and her home country of India. Chopra, who was appointed as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador in 2016, expressed her support for the Indian Armed Forces in February amid heightened tension
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Image copyright Getty Images Bosses of more than 50 retailers including Asda and Boots have written to the chancellor urging him to change tax rules to boost the UK High Street. The group said it wanted him to fix the “broken business rates system”, which it called outdated. It said the tax had jumped by
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Pescueza in Extremadura, western Spain, is adapting to provide for the needs of its older population through a non-profit project called Stay With Us. It aims to provide elderly residents, who make up two thirds of its population, with the services they need in the hope they can remain independent. Could this pensioner-friendly village be
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Andy Murray moved well in his first singles match since January, but not well enough to move on — even to the U.S. Open. Using a bottomless arsenal of drop shots, Richard Gasquet snapped a five-match losing streak against Murray with a 6-4, 6-4 win in the first round of the Western & Southern Open
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