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Pro-choice advocates say the United States should lead the world in making abortion more accessible and argue against restrictions in some states that limit the procedure on demand. Still, restrictions such as Mississippi’s ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy are more liberal than those of several Western and industrialized countries.
An internet search of abortion practices finds that France limits the procedure to 12 weeks. Germany, Switzerland, Russia, the Czech Republic and Greece have the same constraint.(Snip)Italy restricts abortion to the first 90 days of pregnancy. Croatia limits it to 10 weeks. Poland and some Latin American countries do not allow abortion at all on request,
New York Post,
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Yaron Steinbuch
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Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb warned Wednesday that “we’re in for a whopper” of a flu season due to a lack of immunity in the US population. Gottlieb, who helmed the FDA under President Donald Trump and serves on Pfizer’s board of directors, made the chilling prediction during an interview on CNBC about workplace safety amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. “We haven’t seen a flu season last year—we’re in for a whopper because we haven’t put immunity into the population in at least one and maybe now two years. When the flu does come back, and it will come back, it’s going to come back
Daily Mail (UK) & Wires,
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Keith Griffith
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Rachel Sharp
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Haitian immigrants deported back to the Caribbean nation have bit Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and assaulted pilots on deportation flights back to Port-au-Prince, according to new reports. In one incident on Monday at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas, two Haitian migrants left their seats as the plane taxied to the runway and attacked ICE agents by biting them, forcing takeoff to be delayed, according to the Washington Examiner. Meanwhile in a another incident, three ICE officers also suffered non-life-threatening injuries during an assault on Tuesday at the Port-au-Prince airport, when a group from a plan carrying single adult men stormed another recently
Daily Mail (UK),
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Adriana Diaz
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A scandal-hit school board has now launched a study into whether it would be appropriate to give reparations to black people after it previously ignored a landmark desegregation ruling. Loudoun County in Virginia voted 6-3 in favor of beginning the study Tuesday after it was proposed by supervisor Juli Briskman. Speaking to Fox5 about her proposal, Briskman said: 'The anti-CRT (critical race theory) movement is much more about 'today' and what we're teaching today. And my board member initiative is looking back at potential harm that was because we operated segregated schools illegally against the ruling of Brown vs. the Board of Education,
Daily Mail (UK),
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Ross Ibbetson
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Gina Martinez
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Texas Governor Greg Abbot has praised officials for using 'unprecedented' methods to prevent more Haitian migrants from entering U.S. by creating a 'steel barrier' of hundreds of vehicles at the border. Abbott visited the U.S.-Mexican border on Tuesday and praised DPS and Texas National Guard for creating the barrier from of hundreds of state-owned vehicles, almost all of which appear to be bulky SUVs. They are lined up outside Del Rio in Texas, which has seen an influx of 14,600 migrants who crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico into the US.(Snip)'They have created a steel barrier preventing people from being able to cross the border,'
Guardian [U.K.],
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Patrick Wintour
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The French president, Emmanuel Macron, was expected to speak on the phone on Wednesday with Joe Biden to demand the US president explain why he went behind France’s back to seal a security pact with Australia and the UK that voids the former‘s €56bn submarine contract with France. The central part of the Aukus pact is the requirement for Australia to cancel its contract to buy 12 French barracuda submarines with diesel-electric propulsion. America will instead partner with Australia and the UK to build nuclear-powered submarines.(Snip)Macron is expecting “clarifications about the American decision to keep a European ally outside fundamental talks about cooperation in the Indo-Pacific
New York Post,
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Jesse O'Neill
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A new variant of the COVID-19 virus has been identified at a Kentucky nursing home, where it infected 45 residents and workers, many of whom were vaccinated.
The R.1 variant originated in Japan, and contains dangerous mutations that can improve “transmission, replication, and immune suppression,” a scientist wrote in Forbes Monday.
There are already more than 10,000 entries of the R.1 variant in a database used by researchers to track genomic material, infectious disease expert Dr. William Haseltine said.
The variant shares the highly infectious D614G mutation that is present in other variants fueling new surges of the coronavirus, according to the doctor.
Washington Times,
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Tom Howell Jr.
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President Biden will announce Wednesday the U.S. is purchasing an additional 500 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to give to the rest of the world, bringing its total commitment to more than 1 billion shots.(Snip)“For every one shot we have administered in this country to date, we are now donating three shots to other countries. One shot here today, three shots committed for the world,” the official told reporters. “No other country, or group of countries, have come close to that.” The administration and the World Health Organization say the coronavirus will be a danger so long as swaths of the global population remain unvaccinated
Forbes,
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Jemima McEvoy
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Many Haitian migrants camping in the Texas border town of Del Rio have been released into the U.S. despite the Biden administration’s indications they would be deported, according to a Wednesday report from The Associated Press. One unnamed federal official “with direct knowledge of operations” told The AP Haitians have been freed on a “very, very large scale” in recent days, estimating the figure at thousands. A second official corroborated the mass releases of Haitians being processed under immigraiton laws, which the newspaper also said some of its journalists witnessed at the Del Rio bus station. Many are being released with notices to appear (NTA) at an immigration office
Daily Mail (UK),
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Emily Goodin
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Joe Biden on Tuesday did not recognize any American reporters for questions during an Oval Office meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his aides cleared out journalists as they tried to query the president. Biden did attempt to answer one shouted question from a CBS reporter about the crisis on the Southern border but his answer was unclear when White House staff shouted down reporters, covering the president's attempt to respond as they demanded journalists leave.(Snip)Johnson then took control, calling on three British reporters for questions that he and Biden answered. The president did not call on a single reporter. With no American reporter called upon
New York Post,
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Emily Smith
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin threw a lavish Studio 54-themed end-of-summer party at hot New York members club Zero Bond. Guests including Elon Musk, Shawn Mendes, Jared Leto and even Barstool Sports boss Dave Portnoy gorged on a caviar, oyster and lobster bar upon arriving at the SoHo hotspot on Saturday. Other big names invited to the exclusive fête included La La Anthony, Brooklyn Nets coach Steve Nash, comedian Jeff Ross and Hizzoner’s equestrian daughter Georgina Bloomberg. An insider told us, “The party started with a 60-person dinner followed by performances by DJs Diplo and Kygo.(Snip)The source added, “They took everyone’s phone upon entry
New York Post,
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Selim Algar
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More than 28,000 Department of Education employees—including 10,000 classroom teachers—remain unvaccinated just days before a city-mandated deadline. As of Tuesday, the DOE said 87 percent of all 78,000 city teachers have had at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine. The remaining 13 percent comprise roughly 10,100 holdouts—or roughly six educators for each of the city’s 1,600 schools.(Snip)The DOE declined to say how many teachers have applied for or received exemptions Tuesday — but teachers’ union sources told The Post that only a small fraction of accommodation requests are being granted. Asked about potential staffing shortfalls,
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Our Dear Drooler is a uniter after all.