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Port Arthur Man Facing Human Trafficking Charge, 16 Facing Solicitation Charges Following DPS Operation in Beaumont
Trafficking of persons is a second degree felony and solicitation of prostitution became a state jail felony in Texas for those paying for sex in September 2021. By Scott Eslinger Published: March 29, 2024 To watch video report click here. BEAUMONT, Texas — A 39-year-old Port Arthur man is facing a human trafficking charge and 16…
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Planned Parenthood Will Offer Low-Cost Vasectomies in Phoenix
After demand overwhelmed the Tucson clinic, a Phoenix clinic will now offer the procedure BY: GLORIA REBECCA GOMEZ – APRIL 2, 2024 Planned Parenthood Arizona is now offering vasectomy services in Phoenix, in what company leaders say is a natural extension of its commitment to reproductive health care — and a critical safeguard in a post-Roe world. Last…
Read MoreUSCIS Revises Policy Manual to Align with New Fee Rule
Release Date:04/01/2024 We are revising our guidance (PDF, 364.37 KB) in the USCIS Policy Manual to align with the Fee Schedule and Changes to Certain Other Immigration Benefit Request Requirements Final Rule published in the Federal Register on Jan. 31, 2024, and effective on April 1, 2024. Revisions to the policy manual apply to all applications and petitions postmarked on…
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Heat Protections for California Workers Are in Limbo After Newsom Abandons Rules
By Angela Hart and Samantha Young APRIL 3, 2024 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has abandoned proposed protections for millions of California workers toiling in sweltering warehouses, steamy kitchens, and other dangerously hot workplaces — upending a regulatory process that had been years in the making. The administration’s eleventh-hour move, which it attributed to the…
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Attacks on Emergency Room Workers Prompt Debate Over Tougher Penalties
By Sejal Parekh APRIL 3, 2024 Patients hurl verbal abuse at Michelle Ravera every day in the emergency room. Physical violence is less common, she said, but has become a growing threat. Ravera, an ER nurse at Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento, recalled an incident in which an agitated patient wanted to leave. “Without any warning…
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The Colombian City Sending Men to School to Learn How to Care
By Peter Yeung 03.20.24 Bogota, Colombia — It is a rare spectacle in Bogota. Three women in fluorescent exercise gear stop in their tracks and gawp in surprise. A young mother pushing her newborn in a buggy pulls out her phone and snaps a picture. An elderly man with a bushy mustache pauses to wipe his glasses. …
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More Women Are Drinking Themselves Sick. The Biden Administration Is Concerned.
By Lauren Sausser MARCH 28, 2024 When Karla Adkins looked in the rearview mirror of her car one morning nearly 10 years ago, she noticed the whites of her eyes had turned yellow. She was 36 at the time and working as a physician liaison for a hospital system on the South Carolina coast, where she…
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The Burden of Getting Medical Care Can Exhaust Older Patients
By Judith Graham MARCH 27, 2024 Susanne Gilliam, 67, was walking down her driveway to get the mail in January when she slipped and fell on a patch of black ice. Pain shot through her left knee and ankle. After summoning her husband on her phone, with difficulty she made it back to the house. And…
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At Stake in Mifepristone Case: Abortion, FDA’s Authority, and Return to 1873 Obscenity Law
By Sarah Varney MARCH 25, 2024 Lawyers from the conservative Christian group that won the case to overturn Roe v. Wade are returning to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday in pursuit of an urgent priority: shutting down access to abortion pills for women across the country. The case challenges the FDA’s regulation of mifepristone, a prescription-only drug…
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