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19.05.2021 / 18:49

Down syndrome abortion bans gain traction after court ruling

It’s a ban that even supporters acknowledge will be hard to enforce. Yet 2021 has been a breakthrough year for legislation in several states seeking to prohibit abortions based solely on a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.

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Florida’s cruise line lawsuit against CDC sent to mediation

ORLANDO, Fla. – Florida’s cruise industry lawsuit against the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is heading to mediation.

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GOP seeks political opening amid tense Israel-Hamas fighting

WASHINGTON – Republicans trying to drive a wedge between Democrats and chip away at President Joe Biden’s support are zeroing in on the violence in the Middle East, laying blame on his administration and aiming to make his liberal critics the face of the party heading into the midterm elections.

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LEADING OFF: Trout sidelined, Kluber faces Rangers

A look at what’s happening around the majors on Wednesday:

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Spieth in good place at PGA as he takes long view of career

KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. – Jordan Spieth has a much clearer outlook now than he did the last time the PGA Championship was at Kiawah Island.

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Knee still hurting, Koepka can walk but not run at PGA

KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. – Brooks Koepka’s preparation for the PGA Championship included playing the AT&T Byron Nelson last week in Texas — just to see if he could walk 18 holes without pain in his surgically repaired right knee.

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US envoy: Fear of Taliban conquering Kabul are overblown

WASHINGTON – Predictions that the Taliban will quickly overrun Afghan government forces and conquer Kabul once U.S. and coalition forces have fully withdrawn are unduly pessimistic, Washington's special envoy to Afghanistan said Tuesday.

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Attorney: US makes concessions to ease asylum restrictions

SAN DIEGO – The Biden administration has agreed to let about 250 people a day through border crossings with Mexico to seek refuge in the United States, part of negotiations to settle a lawsuit over pandemic-related powers that deny migrants a right to apply for asylum, an attorney said Monday.

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Yankees DH Stanton on 10-day injured list with quad strain

ARLINGTON, Texas – Designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton was placed on the 10-day injured list Monday by the New York Yankees because of a left quad strain.

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Supreme Court won't hear case involving the N-word

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court is declining to hear a case that would have let the justices decide whether a single use of the N-word in the workplace can create a hostile work environment.

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Missing Texas tiger transported to animal sanctuary

HOUSTON – A tiger that frightened residents after it was last seen briefly wandering around a Houston neighborhood was transported to a wildlife sanctuary on Sunday after police found the animal a day earlier following a nearly week-long search.

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Sam Houston wins FCS title with late TD over South Dakota St

FRISCO, Texas – Eric Schmid threw for three touchdowns, including a 10-yarder to Ife Adeyi with 16 seconds left, and Sam Houston wrapped the longest and most unusual college football season with its first FCS national title, beating top-seeded South Dakota State 23-21 on a rain-drenched Sunday.

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Weather halts Nelson with K.H. Lee on verge of win, PGA spot

MCKINNEY, Texas – The AT&T Byron Nelson is in a final-round weather delay with K.H. Lee leading by three shots and three holes from qualifying for next week's PGA Championship.

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Yankees staffer tests positive for COVID; Hicks goes on IL

BALTIMORE – The New York Yankees have had another positive COVID-19 test, this one involving a staff member, manager Aaron Boone said before their game against the Orioles on Sunday.

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‘We got him:’ 9-month-old tiger spotted on front lawn found safe, police say

HOUSTON – Houston police announced Saturday night that the missing tiger seen in a Houston neighborhood has been found.

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Burns still leads Nelson despite more Spieth magic on 18

MCKINNEY, Texas – Sam Burns still has the lead going into the final round of the AT&T Byron Nelson despite more magic on the 18th green from local favorite Jordan Spieth.

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Pipeline operator says "normal operations" have resumed

ATLANTA – The operator of the nation's largest gasoline pipeline — hit earlier this week by a ransomware attack — announced Saturday it has resumed “normal operations," delivering fuel to its markets, including a large swath of the East Coast.

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Service at gas pumps should be ‘normal’ by end of weekend after Colonial Pipeline attack, Granholm says

delivery to return to normal. "Some markets served by Colonial Pipeline may experience, or continue to experience, intermittent service interruptions during this start-up period," the company wrote on Twitter. "Colonial will move as much gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel as is safely possible and will continue to do so until markets return to normal."The company said those markets include Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. RELATED: Colonial Pipeline restores full service, return to normal will take ‘several days’Colonial Pipeline, the operator of a major pipeline system that transports fuel across the East

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PGA CHAMPIONSHIP '21: A capsule look at 10 top contenders

A capsule look at 10 top contenders for the 103rd PGA Championship, to be played May 20-23 on the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island in South Carolina (listed in predicted order of finish):

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'There was no going back': Migrants send kids into US alone

LA JOYA, Texas – Marely had traveled for 13 days, trekking with her mother from Central America to the busiest corridor for illegal U.S.-Mexico border crossings. Then, as the 12-year-old Salvadoran girl got on an inflatable raft to cross the Rio Grande in Texas in the middle of the night, she discovered her mom wasn’t coming with her.

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Musgrove gets 1st win since no-hitter, Padres beat Cardinals

SAN DIEGO – Joe Musgrove got through five innings for his first victory since throwing a no-hitter on April 9, and San Diego beat St. Louis 5-4 Friday night in the first meeting between the teams since the Padres eliminated the Cardinals from the playoffs last year.

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Burns keeps rolling with 2nd-round 62, 2-shot lead at Nelson

MCKINNEY, Texas – Now that Sam Burns has figured out how to turn an early lead into a victory, it's already time to try again.

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Texas woman wakes to blood spattering from apartment ceiling fan

El Paso, Texas resident Ana Cardenas was awoken by what she initially thought was water dripping from her ceiling but turned out to be blood spattered around her apartment by a ceiling fan after the neighbour above her, had died from natural causes.

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Woman wakes up to blood dripping on her from apartment ceiling fan

EL PASO, Texas - An El Paso woman is seeking legal damages as well as mental health support after she woke up in the middle of the night to blood dripping from her ceiling and splattered throughout her room.Ana Cardenas, 58, awoke around 4 a.m. on May 8 after she felt something dripping on her body.

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Woman wakes up to blood ‘pouring down’ from her apartment ceiling

A Texas woman will have enough nightmare fuel to last a lifetime after she was jolted out of bed by drops of blood that fell on her face while she slept.Ana Cardenas initially thought the drops were water, but horror slowly dawned on her after she flicked on the lights in her bedroom.“My apartment is covered in blood!” she said in a video recorded at the time, which she later shared with local broadcaster KTSM.Cardenas’ nightmare unfolded at the Cielo Vista Apartments, a two-storey complex in El Paso, Texas. Cardenas’ apartment was on the ground floor and blood had seeped through the ceiling from above.The blood dripped onto her bed and into her hair.

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Spieth shoots 63, shares lead at low-scoring hometown Nelson

MCKINNEY, Texas – Jordan Spieth had his longest stretch all day of mere pars — a whopping four holes — on the besieged new home course of the AT&T Byron Nelson when the local favorite stepped over a 55-foot eagle putt on the par-5 18th.

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US agents encounter more single adults are crossing border

LA JOYA, Texas – Parents emerge from the brush into a baseball field, carrying exhausted children. Border Patrol agents dictate orders: Families with young children in one line and unaccompanied children in another. The smallest of three lines is for single adults.

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Witness: Man angered by Texas deputies in yard killed them

EDEN, Texas – A West Texas man accused of fatally shooting two sheriff's deputies was angry they were in his yard trying to catch a dog and he told them he would open fire if they didn't leave, a witness said.

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EXPLAINER: With bankruptcy tossed, what's next for the NRA?

NEW YORK – Now that a judge has rejected the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy bid, blocking its plan to reincorporate in Texas, the gun rights group is back to fighting New York regulators in a lawsuit that threatens to put it out of business.

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EWU QB Eric Barriere highlights AP FCS All-America team

Eastern Washington quarterback Eric Barriere, Sacred Heart running back Julius Chestnut and VMI receiver Jakob Herres are among the Walter Payton Award finalists highlighting The Associated Press FCS All-America team released Wednesday.

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Texas farmer finds young migrant girls abandoned near border without food, water

Texas farmer found five migrant girls abandoned on his ranch amid a steady stream of people crossing the Rio Grande to get from Mexico to the United States."I found them about, probably around 8, 8:30 in the morning," Jimmy Ray Hobbs told Fox News’ Bill Melugin Tuesday. "They had been there all night."He said he found the girls, ranging in age from 11 months old to 7 years old, on a blanket on his property Sunday, north of Eagle Pass.

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COVID-19 Scan for May 11, 2021

Compared with non-pregnant women hospitalized with COVID-19, pregnant women with COVID-19 had lower in-hospital death rates, according to a research letter in the Annals of Internal Medicine today.University of Texas (UTHealth) and University of Maryland research

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NRA bankruptcy case dismissed, leaving group to face NY lawsuit over financial abuses

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy case, leaving the powerful gun-rights group to face a New York state lawsuit accusing the NRA of financial abuses and that aims to put it out of business.The case was over whether the NRA should be allowed to incorporate in Texas instead of New York, where the state is suing in an effort to disband the group. Though headquartered in Virginia, the NRA was chartered as a nonprofit in New York in 1871 and is incorporated in the state.Judge Harlin Hale said he was dismissing the case because he found the bankruptcy was not filed in good faith.His decision followed 11 days of testimony and arguments.

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Colonial Pipeline attack: Amid service outage, NC declares state of emergency to help ensure fuel supply

a statement from Gov. Roy Cooper said — noting that the pipeline is the primary fuel source for North Carolina.Colonial Pipeline, which delivers about 45% of the fuel consumed on the East Coast, halted operations last week after revealing a ransomware attack that it said had affected some of its systems.

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Southern US braces for another round of severe weather after tornadoes cause damage, 2 deaths

national Storm Prediction Center. That zone is home to more than 11 million people and includes the cities of Nashville, Tennessee; Birmingham, Alabama; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Jackson, Mississippi, forecasters said."We’ll see all three threats as far as hail, wind and tornadoes on Tuesday," said Mike Edmonston, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Mississippi.Hail and high winds were reported in north Texas Monday night.

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Video shows man confronted by tiger in residential Texas neighborhood

HOUSTON (AP) - Authorities on Monday were searching for a Texas man whose tiger was found wandering around a residential area in Houston and who was out on bond on a murder charge.Video of the Sunday night encounter shows the tiger coming face-to-face with an armed off-duty Waller County sheriff's deputy, police said. During the encounter, the deputy can be heard yelling at Victor Cuevas, who police believe is the tiger's owner, to get the animal back inside.No shots were fired.When officers arrived, Cuevas put the animal in a white Jeep Cherokee and drove off, Houston police Cmdr.

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Johnson withdraws from Nelson with knee discomfort

MCKINNEY, Texas – Dustin Johnson withdrew Monday from the AT&T Byron Nelson because of discomfort in his knee, one week before the second major of the year, the PGA Championship.

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U.S. women’s national soccer team set to play three games in Texas before Tokyo Olympics

One of the greatest soccer teams (or football teams, depending on what country you live in) is getting ready for this summer’s Tokyo Olympics with three friendly matches set for June.

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After pipeline cyberextortion attempt, gasoline prices tick higher

NEW YORK – Gasoline futures are ticking higher Monday following a cyberextortion attempt on a vital U.S. pipeline that carries fuel from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast.

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Alvarez adds another title with 8th-round TKO of Saunders

ARLINGTON, Texas – Big ring or small, Texas judges or not, Canelo Alvarez wasn't going to disappoint a huge pro-Mexico crowd in another fight in Texas.

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String of satellites baffles residents, bugs astronomers

PHILADELPHIA – A string of lights that lobbed across the night sky in parts of the U.S. on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday had some people wondering if a fleet of UFOs was coming, but it had others— mostly amateur stargazers and professional astronomers— lamenting the industrialization of space.

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Floyd's brother, nephew react to ex-cops' federal indictment

HOUSTON – George Floyd’s brother and nephew expressed gratitude Saturday after a federal grand jury indicted the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in his death.

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Georgia-based pipeline company halts operations after cyberattack

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Red meat politics: GOP turns culture war into a food fight

DES MOINES, Iowa – Conservatives last week gobbled up a false news story claiming President Joe Biden planned to ration red meat. Colorado Rep. Rep. Lauren Boebert suggested Biden “stay out of my kitchen.” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted out a headline warning Biden was getting “Up in your grill.”

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Texas linebacker Jake Ehlinger found dead in Austin

AUSTIN, Texas – Texas linebacker Jake Ehlinger, the younger brother of former Longhorns quarterback Sam Ehlinger, was found dead near campus Thursday, Austin police said.

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Some in GOP worry new limits will hurt their voters, too

As Republicans march ahead with their campaign to tighten voting laws in political battlegrounds, some in their party are worried the restrictions will backfire by making it harder for GOP voters to cast ballots.

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Officials: Army to put civilian in charge of criminal probes

WASHINGTON – The Army plans to put a civilian in charge of the command that conducts criminal investigations, a response to widespread criticism the unit is understaffed, overwhelmed and filled with inexperienced investigators, officials familiar with the decision told The Associated Press.

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Space Tourism: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin auctioning off seat on its first crewed spaceflight

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Sixty years after Alan Shepard became the first American in space, everyday people are on the verge of following in his cosmic footsteps.Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin used Wednesday’s anniversary to kick off an auction for a seat on the company’s first crew spaceflight — a short Shepard-like hop launched by a rocket named New Shepard.

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