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Month: April 2024

Chicago area healthcare system providing free suicide prevention courses

By Elyssa Kaufman, Aida Mogos Click here for updates on this story     CHICAGO (WBBM) — A local healthcare system is offering suicide prevention courses throughout the Chicago area. Franciscan Health, which has hospitals in Northwest Indiana and Chicago’s south suburbs, is offering free Question, Persuade, Refer Suicide Prevention Courses in April and May. The courses

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Someone fishing with a magnet dredged up new evidence in Georgia couple’s killing, officials say

McRAE-HELENA, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say someone fishing with a magnet in a Georgia creek pulled up new evidence in a nine-year-old murder case. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says the citizen’s magnet fishing in rural Telfair County turned up a .22-caliber rifle and a bag containing driver’s licenses and credit cards that belonged to

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NYU responds to protests with plywood wall; Mayor Adams says outside agitators may be stirring things up

By Christina Fan, Mahsa Saeidi, Jennifer Bisram Click here for updates on this story     NEW YORK, NY (WCBS) — A plywood wall now blocks NYU’s Gould Plaza after police arrested several protesters Monday, amid pro-Palestinian demonstrations sweeping campuses across the country. Security remains tight around campus Tuesday, and it’s unclear if the protesters will return.

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Supreme Court to weigh whether doctors can provide emergency abortions in states with bans

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly two years after overturning the constitutional right to abortion, the Supreme Court will consider how far state abortion bans can extend to women in medical emergencies. The justices are weighing a case Wednesday from Idaho, where a strict abortion ban went into effect shortly after the

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Abortion returns to the spotlight in Italy, 46 years after it was legalized

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right-led government has scored a victory with the Senate approving a law allowing anti-abortion groups access to women considering ending their pregnancies. Tuesday’s development revives tensions around the issue of abortion in Italy, 46 years after it was legalized in the overwhelmingly Catholic

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