China’s massive travel restrictions, house-to-house checks, huge isolation wards and lockdowns of entire cities bought the world valuable time to prepare for the global spread of the new virus. But with troubling outbreaks now emerging in Italy, South Korea and Iran, and U.S. health officials warning Tuesday it’s inevitable it will spread more widely in […]
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WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a pair of Republican bills that would ban most late-term abortions and threaten prison for doctors who don’t try saving the life of infants born alive during abortions. The measures have been defeated multiple times in recent years, but Senate Republicans pushed for renewed votes to allow GOP
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionSimon Warr had performed the role of headmaster in Channel 4’s That’ll Teach ‘Em show Broadcaster Simon Warr told the BBC the week before his death that dying of cancer would not be “as bad” as being falsely accused of child sex abuse. The ex-teacher died on
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Police bodycam footage released on 25 February has captured the moment a visibly distressed child was arrested at her school in Orlando, Florida in September 2019. The six-year-old girl was restrained with zip ties and escorted to a waiting police car after misbehaving in class. Lawyers for her family at Smith and Eulo Law Firm
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Airports, often hemmed in by neighborhoods, highways or water, already struggle to keep up with the rising number of air travelers. And the number is expected to keep going up — to more than seven billion globally by 2035, an airline trade association says, nearly doubling from 2016. So while airports are expanding their physical
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The president and CEO of one of the nation’s largest marathons says a late University of Michigan doctor performed an inappropriate act on him during a medical examination in the 1970s By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press February 25, 2020, 11:32 PM 5 min read ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The president and CEO of one of
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Thrilling. Invigorating. Cathartic. These were the adjectives that some Democratic women used last week to describe watching Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts on the debate stage, where she confronted former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York over his past embrace of stop-and-frisk policing tactics, his history of sexist comments and the nondisclosure agreements binding
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Image copyright Wallace Family Image caption Madeline Wallace died from sepsis in January 2018 A coroner said GPs’ knowledge of eating disorders was “woeful and inadequate” after an inquest into the death of a severely anorexic woman. Madeline Wallace, from Peterborough, died in January 2018 from sepsis. Coroner Sean Horstead told the inquest at Huntingdon
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Actor and purveyor of jade eggs, Gwyneth Paltrow visited ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on Monday to chat about her lifestyle brand Goop and her new Netflix show, “The Goop Lab.” Things got real weird after Kimmel decided to bust out one of Goop’s best selling products — a $75 candle named “This Smells Like My
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Bob Iger has led Disney since 2005 Disney boss Bob Iger, who led the media company through several blockbuster acquisitions and the launch of a streaming network, is stepping down as chief executive. Disney said it had appointed Bob Chapek, who previously ran the company’s parks and products division,
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