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Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah on May 27, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. (Photo by EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war crosses the seven-month mark, negotiations are apparently stalled […]
Jena Ardell/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Senate on Wednesday failed to advance legislation that would codify the right to access contraceptives nationwide, as Democrats look to put reproductive care at the front of their messaging agenda in the lead up to the November elections. The Right to Contraception Act fell short of the 60 […]
Getty Images – STOCK (NEW YORK) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday she has indefinitely postponed the implementation of congestion pricing, which had been scheduled to begin at the end of the month. The plan would charge a $15 toll for passenger cars driving south of 60th Street from 5 a.m. to 9 […]
DEA.gov (NEW YORK) — A panel of independent advisers for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration voted against recommending approval of psychedelic treatment — along with therapy — to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) during a meeting on Tuesday. The treatment, developed by Lykos Therapeutics, is a pharmaceutical version of midomafetamine, better known as MDMA […]
Photography taken by Mario Gutiérrez./Getty Images (RUSSIA) — A Russian-Ukrainian national suspected of being involved in a terrorist conspiracy was taken into custody after being injured in an explosion in France earlier this week, officials announced Wednesday. The 26-year-old man was “picked up by firefighters in a hotel near Paris for severe burns following an […]
SimpleImages/Getty Images (GEORGIA) — A Georgia court of appeals has halted Donald Trump’s criminal case in Fulton County pending resolution of an appeal of the disqualification ruling that allowed District Attorney Fani Willis to stay on the case. “The proceedings below in the Superior Court of Fulton County are hereby stayed pending the outcome of […]
Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, departs the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building and United States Courthouse on July 26, 2023 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by Mark M (WILMINGTON, Del.) — President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden is on trial in Delaware on three felony charges related to his efforts to obtain a […]
Gins Wang/Getty Images (MEXICO) — The World Health Organization confirmed Wednesday the first-ever fatal case of a subtype of bird flu in Mexico. It is the first laboratory-confirmed human case of the H5N2 strain of bird flu, or avian influenza, and the first-ever reported case in Mexico. This strain is different than the bird flu […]
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (LONDON) — There were “serious breaches” of international law and crimes against humanity were committed during the two-year Tigray War, according to a report released by U.S think tank New Lines Institute. The report said it found “reasonable basis” that all parties in the conflict committed war crimes and “serious” breaches of international […]
Isabel Pavia/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The National Republican Senatorial Committee released a memo on Tuesday that advises GOP Senate candidates to underscore their support for birth control. The memo, which comes a day ahead of Wednesday’s vote on whether or not to advance the Right to Contraceptive Act — legislation that would codify the rights […]
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