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Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill patient has become the first person in the world to undergo a gene-edited pig kidney transplant and also have a mechanical heart pump surgically implanted. Surgeons at NYU Langone Health, in New York City, performed the operation in […]
Michael Godek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Senate on Tuesday night passed a package to deliver $95 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan — a bipartisan win months in the making. The package was approved 79-18. Thirty-one Republicans joined with 48 Democrats to pass the legislation. That’s nine more Republicans than supported the […]
POOL/ABC News (NEW YORK) — The district attorney in Stanislaus County, California, has filed new paperwork in court opposing a motion by Scott Peterson’s defense team — the Los Angeles Innocence Project — for DNA testing in the murder case of Laci Peterson and Conner Peterson. In a more than 300-page filing on Monday, the […]
krisanapong detraphiphat/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As federal agencies and state partners continue investigating outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) — more commonly referred to as bird flu — the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it discovered fragments of the virus in some samples of milk. In an update from the FDA, the […]
EllenMoran/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Department of Transportation on Wednesday is rolling out new rules that will require airlines to automatically give cash refunds to passengers for cancelled and significantly delayed flights. The delays covered would be more than three hours for domestic flights and more than six hours for international flights, the agency […]
Walter Bibikow/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — When the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would decide whether former President Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution in the federal government’s election subversion case, many court experts considered it a major win for his team — because it means a trial could be substantially delayed again or even […]
Audubon Aquarium Rescue (NEW YORK) — A juvenile bottlenose dolphin was found shot to death with bullets lodged in its brain, spinal cord and heart and now authorities are offering a handsome reward for information on who committed the gruesome act. Authorities from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) received a report on March […]
Two horses on the loose bolt through the streets of London near Aldwych. Picture date: Wednesday April 24, 2024. (Jordan Pettitt/PA Images via Getty Images) (LONDON) — As many as five horses — and at least one of them soaked in blood — have caused chaos across central London on Wednesday morning after breaking free […]
Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, for the first time since overruling Roe v. Wade, will consider the scope of a state abortion ban and whether a federal law governing emergency care protects access to abortion at hospitals when a woman’s health is at risk. Idaho’s Defense of Life Act, […]
Photo. Keith Draycott/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An influential, deep-pocketed suspect under criminal investigation. Secret negotiations with federal prosecutors to hammer out a deal. A lack of consultation with victims of the crime. Those are circumstances attorney Paul Cassell says motivate him into action. A former federal judge who teaches law at the University of […]
