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Jens Kalaene/picture alliance via Getty Images (MOBILE, Ala.) — Two Alabama fertility clinics announced they will stop providing in vitro fertilization treatment days after the state’s Supreme Court issued a decision that said frozen embryos are considered children in the state. Alabama Fertility Specialists and the Center for Reproductive Medicine in Mobile, Alabama, have each […]
Courtney Perry/For the Washington Post (NEW YORK) — National MMR coverage has dropped 2% from the 2019-2021 school year to the 2022-2023 school year, which means approximately 250,000 kindergartners are at risk for measles infection around the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The 93.1% rate during the 2022–23 school is […]
Belongings at Malakal transit site in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State. CREDIT: Jadwiga Figula/Getty Images (LONDON AND NEW YORK) — After a missile struck her home in Khartoum, Sudan, last April, Dallia Mohamed Abdelmoniem said she was forced to flee and has not been back since. “I literally packed for a week thinking I’ll come […]
Stella/Getty Images NEW YORK) — A judge ruled Thursday that the punishment faced by a Black high school student in Texas for refusing to change his hairstyle does not violate the state’s CROWN Act, which prohibits race-based hair discrimination, according to ABC owned KTRK. Darryl George, 18, has been banned by BHISD from attending regular […]
belterz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Alexei Navalny’s cause of death has been listed as “natural” on his medical report, according to Navalny’s spokesperson Kira Yarmysh, who was relayed the information on the death certificate by the Russian opposition leader’s mother. “The medical report on death shown to the mother of Alexei Navalny stated that the […]
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The indictment of Alexander Smirnov, a former FBI informant, is roiling the ongoing impeachment inquiry being led by House Republicans against President Joe Biden. Smirnov, once touted as a star witness by Republicans, was charged last week for allegedly making false statements about Biden and his son […]
Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — A suspect has been arrested in the death of Maleesa Mooney, an aspiring model who was found dead in her Los Angeles apartment last year, according to police. The 31-year-old’s body was discovered at her apartment on Sept. 12 after a welfare check had been requested for her residence, […]
Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden is looking at the possibility of taking executive action to tighten asylum restrictions, an administration official confirms to ABC. One of the possibilities under consideration would be to bar migrants from seeking asylum if they crossed into the U.S. illegally between ports of entry. The migrants […]
drflet/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Yale University has announced a new “test-flexible” standardized testing policy set to go into effect for the 2024-25 admissions cycle, following fellow Ivy League school Dartmouth College in adjusting its COVID-era policies. The university will require standardized test scores for all applicants but is expanding the list of tests that […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is addressing former President Donald Trump’s mocking jabs at her husband, Maj. Michael Haley, who is serving a one-year deployment overseas in the South Carolina National Guard. In a new interview with ABC News’ co-anchor Eva Pilgrim, Nikki Haley discussed the comments about her husband from […]
