Evette Jeffrey was an unintended victim of the shooting on May 12 after a schoolyard fight. Two boys in their early teens have now been charged in the killing.
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The blast took place around 11 a.m. local time outside American Reproductive Centers in Palm Springs, an upscale city around 100 miles from Los Angeles. Videos from the scene show plumes of smoke, blown out windows on nearby buildings, and sirens sounding off.
President Trump said in a post on Truth Social Sunday that he and First Lady Melania Trump are "saddened to hear about Joe Biden's recent medical diagnosis."
THE NEW YORK TIMES – Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape that saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970 after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon, died on April 21 in Crossville, Tenn. He was 95.
His death, in a hospice facility, was confirmed by his son, Steven.
The day after the...
KFF HEALTH NEWS – Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the legislation yesterday, joining Utah. The bill does not mention fluoride specifically and is intended to allow more medical freedom, according to The Hill. Other news comes from Texas, Kentucky, California, Georgia, and Michigan.
The Hill: Florida Joins Utah In Fluoride Ban
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed legislation Thursday making Florida the second state in the country to ban fluoride from public water. The bill doesn’t...
ATLANTA — A pregnant woman in Georgia who was declared brain dead after a medical emergency has been on life support for three months to let the fetus grow enough to be delivered, a move her family says a hospital told them was required under the state's strict anti-abortion law.
With her due date still more than three months away, it could be one of the longest such pregnancies.
Her family is upset that Georgia's law...
KFF HEALTH NEWS – In the dim basement of a Salt Lake City pharmacy, hundreds of amber-colored plastic pill bottles sit stacked in rows, one man’s defensive wall in a tariff war.
Independent pharmacist Benjamin Jolley and his colleagues worry that the tariffs, aimed at bringing drug production to the United States, could instead drive companies out of business while raising prices and creating more of the drug shortages that have plagued American patients for...
Zach, who lives in New York, abandoned plans to start a traditional patchwork sleeve after beginning it with a bold panther head. Courtesy Zach Gilyard
ARS TECHNICA – Since 2017, a particularly dangerous strain of E. coli O157:H7 has emerged across the country to spark outbreaks, severe disease, and deaths.
It spreads in various ways: via leafy greens and contaminated beef, like its relatives, but also recreational waters.
Hundreds of people across 46 states have been infected, and health officials have documented at least nine separate outbreaks.
One in 2018, linked to lettuce, caused over 200 infections across 37 states, killing five...