Miscarriages are common. Some 23 million pregnancies worldwide end in miscarriage every year — that’s 15% of all pregnancies or 44 each minute, according to new estimates published in The Lancet medical journal on Monday. However, existing care and support for women and couples is “inconsistent and poorly organized” and amounts to little more than
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One Illinois man has bowled a perfect game more than a dozen times — but the last time he went for the perfect 300, there was more at stake. Earlier this month, John Hinkle Jr., of Peoria, Illinois, honored the memory of his father, John Hinkle Sr., by achieving that perfect score while using a
Continue ReadingOklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a near-total abortion ban and two other abortion restrictions into law on Monday, sending a sweeping message that the state-level fight over access to the procedure is far from over. The Sooner State became the second state this year to enact a so-called heartbeat ban — a law barring
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The California Secretary of State confirmed it has verified enough signatures to initiate the recall of Governor Gavin Newsom There were approximately 2,162,774 signatures for a recall election sent to the SOS. As of April 19, 1,626,042, or 80% of signatures, have been deemed valid. The recall effort needed 1,495,709 verified signatures to trigger a
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For 90 years, it has become a ritual in American politics to pause and compare the first 100 days of a new presidency to the record of early presidential accomplishments set by former President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. Though President Joe Biden is no Roosevelt, he bears some important similarities. And Biden is off
Continue ReadingGetting vaccinated against Covid-19 and receiving a vaccination card has become a rite of passage for many Americans who have endured the pandemic for the last year. Securing a vaccination card, however, doesn’t necessarily mean your Covid-19 vaccine status is in your medical records. Many got the vaccines at drive-in events, sports stadiums and other
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Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE (WSMV) — A Metro Police Officer is on administrative assignment after he shot and killed a man on Clarksville Pike early Saturday morning. Police have not identified the man who died as they continue to notify the next of kin, but said Officer Christopher Royer pulled over
Continue ReadingWhen Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam looks back at his tenure, the inflection point between being a run-of-the-mill executive and the progressive leader he has become is a painful one. The scandal — born of the discovery of a decades-old yearbook photo that featured someone in blackface — was an existential crisis for Northam and his
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHARLES CITY, Iowa (The Courier) — Sharon Miller could barely contain her excitement in the phone message. “Our girl made it!” she said. “She made it through the Crucible. I like to call it the ‘Crucifixion.’” “Our girl” is Mackenzy Bilharz. On Jan. 25, Bilharz, of Charles City,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TULSA, Oklahoma (Tulsa World) — The Tulsa World recently talked to 10 Tulsans who, each in their own way, have committed to telling the story of Greenwood and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre while helping raise awareness of its too-long-ignored history. 50 years ago, the 1921 Tulsa Race
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(CNN) —- Estados Unidos empezará a compartir pronto millones de dosis de la vacuna contra covid-19 de AstraZeneca con otros países, declaró el lunes un funcionario a CNN. EE.UU. tiene almacenadas decenas de millones de vacunas de AstraZeneca, pero ninguna se ha utilizado porque la Administración Medicamentos y Alimentos (FDA por sus siglas en inglés)
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WISDOM, Montana (The Montana Standard) — Two men each illegally shot a gray wolf on private property from a helicopter in the Big Hole Valley near Wisdom in March. The incident comes at a time when the state is grappling with controversy over wolf management. Gov. Greg Gianforte
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHARLESTON, Illinois (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier) — A woman could avoid a record of a conviction if she follows the terms of the sentence she received for stealing money from an elderly woman. Laurie A. Morehead, 59, whose address on record is in Decatur, admitted taking several thousand
Continue ReadingFor the last 100 days, President Joe Biden and his top advisers have mounted an urgent, wartime effort to get millions of coronavirus vaccines into the arms of Americans in order to beat back a pandemic that has upended the world for the better part of year. The effort, described to CNN during in-depth interviews
Continue Reading A historic bottle of whiskey can soon be yours — if you have tens of thousands of dollars to spare. The whiskey, bottled in LaGrange, Georgia, is about to go up for auction. The Old Ingledew Whiskey is believed to be the oldest known whiskey in existence, according to Skinner, which is facilitating the auction.
Continue ReadingTesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is putting up $100 million for a new XPrize competition aimed at spurring the creation of new carbon removal technologies and helping to ease the climate crisis. The prize will be the largest cash incentive in history, according to XPrize, a long-running organization that hosts competitions focused on spurring
Continue ReadingThe White House is hammering out the details of an increasingly likely European summit between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which could happen as soon as early summer, according to sources familiar with the planning. The planning comes as the Biden administration is preparing to send Secretary of State Antony Blinken to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story RACINE, Wisconsin (The Journal Times) — Racine historian Jim Mercier is always on the lookout for memorabilia to add to his collection, which contains thousands of items originated from the community. Mercier never knows what he’ll find, he said, but when he came across an online auction in
Continue Reading (CNN) — El presidente de Francia, Emmanuel Macron, le dijo a su homólogo ruso Vladimir Putin en una llamada este lunes que está seriamente preocupado por el estado de salud de Alexey Navalny y el respeto de sus derechos básicos. En una declaración, el Palacio del Elíseo dijo que Macron le pidió a Putin que
Continue Reading One man was killed and three people were wounded in a Sunday night shooting in the historic and entertainment district in Kansas City, Missouri, police reported. Officers responded to a report of gunshots around 10 p.m. and found four people shot near 19th and Vine streets, the police said in a news release. Officers provided
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