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Month: October 2022

‘It hurts the business’: Wisconsin Senate race could hinge on voters’ views of economy, inflation

By Eric Bradner, Omar Jimenez and Donald Judd, CNN Few Senate races have seen as much television advertising in the past month as the contest in Wisconsin, with Republican incumbent Ron Johnson attacking his Democratic challenger, Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, on crime, while Barnes hammers the senator over his opposition to abortion rights. But for

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An American dream turned nightmare: Four members of a Sikh family in California kidnapped and killed

By Stephanie Becker, CNN The terrifying kidnapping and murder in Merced, California, of 8-month old Aroohi Dheri, her mother and father, Jasleen Kaur and Jasdeep Singh, and his older brother, Amandeep Singh, have horrified and left heartbroken the relatives in this tight knit Sikh family. A grieving close relative of the brothers told CNN, “You

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Hospital agrees to pause gender-affirming surgery on minors, officials say

By Daniel Smithson Click here for updates on this story     NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Vanderbilt University Medical Center has agreed to pause gender-affirming surgery on transgender youth following backlash from conservative commentators and politicians, according to state leaders. “VUMC has agreed to pause gender transition surgeries on minors, as well as honor religious objectors,” State

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Philadelphia apologizes for history of prison experiments on Black men, hopes to rectify medical mistrust within community

By Jalen Brown and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Philadelphia has apologized for experiments conducted on mostly Black men incarcerated in the city’s now-inactive Holmesburg Prison, which exposed subjects to herpes, skin blistering chemicals, radioactive isotopes, and poisonous chemicals used during the Vietnam war. In the city’s statement Thursday, Mayor Jim Kenney said the “historical impact and

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