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Gay & Bisexual Men Now Eligible to Donate Blood Under New FDA Policies

ADVOCATE.COM – No matter their gender or sexual orientation, all potential donors will be asked the same questions in a move that ends the previous screening based on sexual orientation, which many considered discriminatory. Men in monogamous relationships are no longer required to abstain from sex to donate. Several years ago, an FDA reexamination led to the lifting of a lifetime ban on blood donations for gay and bisexual men. A more recent policy recommended a...

College Prof. Placed on Leave, Investigated for Sharing Daily Wire’s Gendered Chocolate Bars

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A tenured history professor at Madera Community College is under investigation for handing out chocolate bars with real gender pronouns on the wrappers. The candy in question, created and sold by the Daily Wire, comes in two styles: the “He/Him” chocolate bars have nuts; the “She/Her” chocolate bars are “nutless.” Professor David Richardson purchased a case of the candy bars to protest the Hershey’s Chocolate advertising campaign for International Women’s Day, which...

‘Notorious’ orangutan is star attraction … but animal groups say he is being ‘exploited’

The ape called Nhong has picked up a habit of touching women's breasts.

Man, 30, dies with ping pong ball up his bum after being electrocuted while pleasuring himself

The man was electrocuted by an electric massage device. Medics also found an object around 9cm in length lodged in his rectum

On the Night Shift With a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner

MISSOULA, Mont. — Jacqueline Towarnicki got a text as she finished her day shift at a local clinic. She had a new case, a patient covered in bruises who couldn’t remember how the injuries got there. Towarnicki’s breath caught, a familiar feeling after four years of working night shifts as a sexual assault nurse examiner in this northwestern Montana city. “You almost want to curse,” Towarnicki, 38, said. “You’re like, ‘Oh, no, it’s happening.’” These nights on...

Border Patrol to Release Hordes of Illegals into Communities as Title 42 Ends

(By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) – Instead of U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehending, detaining and deporting people who’ve illegally entered the U.S., they will be implementing a plan decided on last year to release them en masse into local border communities. The public health authority Title 42, which has given Border Patrol agents an additional tool to deport certain individuals, was slated to end last May. On May 20, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Western District...

Trump wants the death penalty for drug dealers

NPR – Former President Donald Trump spoke to New Hampshire voters during a CNN town hall held at St. Anselm College in Manchester Wednesday night. Audience members asked how he would tackle issues like abortion, Second Amendment rights, immigration and more. But nobody brought up the opioid crisis plaguing the Granite State. Two of New Hampshire's major cities, Manchester and Nashua, saw a spike in opioid-related deaths at the end of 2022, WMUR reported in January,...

Jacklyn Zeman, 70

Zeman died after a short battle with cancer.

Can you afford to age in place?

NerdWallet – Most older adults ages 50 to 80 say it's important to stay in their homes for as long as they can, according to the 2022 National Poll on Healthy Aging from the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation at the University of Michigan. But only 1 in 3 said their home "definitely" has the features needed to allow them to age in place. Aging in place isn't as simple as just staying home...

Britain: 1st babies born in country using DNA from 3 people

LONDON (AP) — Britain's fertility regulator on Wednesday confirmed the births of the U.K.'s first babies created using an experimental technique combining DNA from three people, an effort to prevent the children from inheriting rare genetic diseases. Britain's Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority said fewer than five babies have been born this way in the U.K. but did not provide further details to protect the families' identities. The news was first reported by the Guardian...

Marco Rubio pushes for SNAP benefits to ‘explicitly exclude’ junk food

Marco Rubio pushes for SNAP benefits to ‘explicitly exclude’ junk food, sodas to curb obesity crisis, reduce medical costs

Study Links Poor Diet to 14 Million Cases of Type 2 Diabetes Globally

Researchers estimate 7 out of 10 cases of type 2 diabetes worldwide in 2018 linked to food choices.

AP, University of Texas Celebrate “founding of occult in America”

(THE CONVERSATION) Every May 8, thousands of people celebrate White Lotus Day, commemorating a remarkable and controversial Russian American woman: spiritual leader Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, who died in 1891. HPB, as followers affectionately call her, is remembered as a co-founder of the Theosophical Society. Aiming to create a universal brotherhood of humanity, theosophy claimed that its tenets came from spiritual masters in the Himalayas. Today, the movement has over 25,000 official members, with more than 1,000...

Sheriff: Louisiana man shot child playing hide and seek

STARKS, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man has been charged with aggravated assault and battery after shooting at children who had been playing hide and seek outside his home, striking a 14-year-old girl, officials said. The girl suffered a gunshot wound to the back of the head early Sunday, and was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening, the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office said in a statement posted on social media Monday. Investigators learned...
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