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September 19, 2024
Carl Grant, a Vietnam veteran with dementia, wandered out of a hospital room to charge a cellphone he imagined he had. When he wouldn’t sit still, the police officer escorting Grant body-slammed him, ricocheting the patient’s head off the floor. Taylor Ware, a former Marine and aspiring college student, walked the grassy grounds of an
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Every day, police in the U.S. rely on common use-of-force tactics that, unlike guns, are meant to stop people without killing them. But when misused, these tactics can still end in death. Over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other means not
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BOSTON (AP) — Financially embattled hospital operator Steward Health Care has struck a deal to sell its nationwide physician network to Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, as it works to stabilize its finances. The move comes as Gov. Maura Healey has said state monitors are keeping eye on the nine health care facilities operated
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Having HIV will no longer automatically disqualify someone from serving as a Metropolitan Nashville Police Officer, the Tennessee city agreed in a legal settlement on Friday. The agreement settles a federal discrimination lawsuit filed last year by a former Memphis police officer of the year. The officer, who filed under the
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TOKYO (AP) — Health supplement products believed to have caused two deaths and sickened more than 100 people have been ordered to be taken off store shelves in Japan. The products from Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., billed as helping to lower cholesterol, contained an ingredient called “benikoji,” a red species of mold. In addition to the
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ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — With vigils outside clinics, marches drawing thousands and groups of men kneeling to pray in public squares, religious and neo-conservative groups have been ramping up pressure to ban abortions in staunchly Catholic Croatia. The fierce debate has fueled divisions in the European Union nation of about 3.9 million people where abortion
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BOSTON (AP) — Two former officials of a veterans home in Massachusetts where at least 76 people died in one of the nation’s worst COVID-19 outbreaks in a long-term care facility settled their criminal case Tuesday without having to go to jail. Bennett Walsh, the former superintendent of the Veterans’ Home in Holyoke, and Dr.
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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will be highlighting their healthcare plan on Tuesday in North Carolina, a crucial state that Democrats are aiming to win after losing to Donald Trump in the last two presidential races. After fourteen years since President Barack Obama enacted the Affordable Care Act, the current White House
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday regarding an abortion case, the first since conservative justices overturned the constitutional right to abortion two years ago. This case will determine the accessibility of a medication used in the majority of abortions in the U.S. last year. Anti-abortion advocates are urging the judges to approve a
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The “strippers’ bill of rights” has been officially passed into law in Washington state, earning recognition as the most comprehensive set of protections for strippers in the country. Governor Jay Inslee approved the bill, which enforces more secure working environments for individuals in the adult entertainment field and allows clubs to legally serve alcohol. “My
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