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Republican Wisconsin Senate candidate says he doesn't oppose elderly people voting
The Republican candidate in Wisconsin's closely watched U.S. Senate race emphasized this week that he doesn't oppose elderly people voting after initially saying that “almost nobody in a nursing home" is at a point in life where they are capable of voting. Eric Hovde faces Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin in the race that is essential for Democrats to win in order to maintain their majority in the Senate. A Marquette University Law School poll this week showed the race is about even among likely
4 min read - USCNN
‘Wild, wild west.’ Families say organs of deceased Alabama inmates have been removed without their consent
The state Department of Corrections and the University of Alabama at Birmingham face disturbing allegations from the families of five inmates whose organs were removed and reportedly kept without consent, according to a series of lawsuits.
14 min read - USNY Daily News
NYC squatters got engaged, spent big after stuffing slay victim in duffel bag: prosecutors
The young squatter couple accused of beating a Manhattan woman to death and stuffing her body in a duffel bag went on a wild shopping spree, got engaged while on the lam and even bought a diamond ring with the victim’s credit card to seal the deal, authorities said Thursday. After fleeing to Pennsylvania and crashing the victim’s Lexus they stole from outside the murder scene, Halley ...
4 min read - USAssociated Press
Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroom
One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. Complaints that pregnant women were turned away from U.S. emergency rooms spiked in 2022 after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, federal documents obtained by The Associated Press reveal.
8 min read - WorldINSIDER
More than half of the US Air Force's B-2 stealth bombers just staged a mass fly-off
Photos show the mass fly-off of 12 B-2s at Whiteman Air Force Base earlier this week.
3 min read - USKansas City Star
This Johnson County fast-food restaurant just closed. It had been open for decades
The restaurant’s sign is already taken down, and the parking lot was blocked off as workers cleared out the space.
1 min read - USAssociated Press
Convenience store chain with hundreds of outlets in 6 states hit with discrimination lawsuit
The Sheetz convenience store chain has been hit with a lawsuit by federal officials who allege the company discriminated against minority job applicants. Sheetz Inc., which operates more than 700 stores in six states, discriminated against Black, Native American and multiracial job seekers by automatically weeding out applicants whom the company deemed to have failed a criminal background check, according to U.S. officials. President Joe Biden stopped by a Sheetz for snacks this week while cam
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