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Trump claimed "The Silence of the Lambs" killer threw his support behind him in an awkward flub on Saturday.

New York resident Tara Rule's neurologist told her that a medication could cause birth defects to a hypothetical fetus.

In a similar example of post-Roe concerns around the mere possibility of pregnancy impacting people’s access to medication, several people who could become pregnant have reported being denied sometimes life-saving medications that are deemed “abortifacients” by doctors and pharmacists. Even before Roe was overturned, in 2021, a pregnant woman in Alabama was arrested and prosecuted for trying to pick up pain medication from her pharmacist to manage a chronic back condition, as police alleged she was endangering her pregnancy. Rule told Jezebel she’s heard from “people who say they were denied everything from acne medication to chemotherapy for the same reason.”

Rule’s case shows how the notion of fetal personhood—an ideology that regards embryos as separate people with rights at odds with the pregnant person’s—can be taken even further, said Dana Sussman, deputy executive director at Pregnancy Justice (which isn’t working on Rule’s case). “What we’re seeing is how this ideology can extend beyond pregnancy itself—the idea that if you can even become pregnant, then you can no longer make decisions about your own body or access medical care,” Sussman says.

The IDF has launched retaliatory strikes after scores of Israeli citizens are dead and hundreds wounded.

Globally, around 736 million women an girls are subjected to physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner or sexual violence from a non-partner – a number that has remained largely unchanged over the past decade. According to the World Health Organization, intimate partner violence is the most common form suffered by women, with around 641 million affected globally.

The Magen David Adom emergency service says at least 22 people have been killed since the start of the massive attack by the Hamas terror group.

In this statement, Jason Pfetcher, manager of Worldwide Media Holdings, clarifies on the provenance of the funds that the for-profit investment vehicle based in the U.S. invested in NewsClick

At least a million data points from 23andMe accounts appear to have been exposed on BreachForums. While the scale of the campaign is unknown, 23andMe says it's working to verify the data.

The story of the 2012 death of the 5-year-old Milad, who was killed in a fiery bus crash during a school field trip to a theme park in Israel.

What followed was a desperate daylong search by his father Abed Salama and his family to locate Milad’s body across different cities and hospitals across the country, encountering numerous barriers due to the Israeli occupation system, like different ID cards giving varying levels of access through military checkpoints, and lack of help from any Israeli authorities.

“This awful event allowed me, in telling the story, to describe the entire elaborate system of segregation and subjugation and apartheid in which all of these people live,” says author Nathan Thrall, who wrote a book based upon this story.

Mohammadi, 51, has kept up her activism despite numerous arrests by Iranian authorities and spending years behind bars. She has remained a leading light for nationwide, women-led protests, sparked by the death last year of a 22-year-old woman in police custody. Those demonstrations grew into one of the most intense challenges ever to Iran’s theocratic government.

For nearly all of Mohammadi’s life, Iran has been governed by a Shiite theocracy headed by the country’s supreme leader. While women hold jobs, academic positions and even government appointments, their lives can be tightly controlled. Laws require all women to at least wear a headscarf, or hijab, to cover their hair as a sign of piety. Iran and neighboring Afghanistan remain the only countries that mandate it.

Media Matters looked into Xitter CEO Linda Yaccarino’s claim that “90% of the top 100 advertisers have returned to the platform. In the last 12 weeks alone, about 1500 have returned – w…

A bombshell government report also found that a CBP official used the data to track coworkers with no investigative purpose.

Suppressing nationwide uprisings has become a regular event for the regime in Iran, and its tactics are now well-honed: portray the protests as foreign in origin, pit the country’s ethnic groups against each other, and deal savagely with anyone who remains on the streets.

Trump’s former attorney and current co-defendant has lost two of his Georgia lawyers in less than a week

“Sometimes there’d be a week or so lull, but then there would be a bad news story”

Jade Berry had her sentence suspended pending her attendance of a rehabilitation program, during which she wears a "sobriety" tag and be on the sex offenders registry for 10 years.

Former President Donald Trump railed against President Joe Biden after his administration reversed its policy on building walls on the southern border.

A woman working for DoorDash in New York was arrested and charged with petit larceny after police said she stole packages from two front porches while pretending to deliver an order.

The Department of Homeland Security intends to build up to 20 new miles of Trump administration-era border barriers in one of the busiest crossing spots for migrants attempting to enter the U.S.

Most company leaders also believe pay and promotions could become linked to workplace attendance

Researchers from The University of Queensland and Harvard Medical School, in a collaborative global study, have discovered that one in two people will develop a mental health disorder in their lifetime. Professors John McGrath of UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute and Ronald Kessler of Harvard Medic

The pontiff says any request for such a blessing should be treated with "pastoral charity".

Several world leaders joined the call Tuesday, according to the White House.

France is alarmed as "les punaises", as they're known in French, spread fear and loathing.

The US House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to oust Kevin McCarthy as speaker – a historic moment that threatens to plunge House Republicans even further into chaos and turmoil.

Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Stanford University has agreed to pay nearly $2 million to resolve allegations that it submitted research proposals to federal agencies, including the military, without disclosing that faculty members were receiving funding from foreign sources, including China.