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After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a 14-year-old child with rheumatoid arthritis was initially denied medication essential to her quality of life because she was of “child-bearing age” and could become pregnant, her mother and doctor told TODAY. After confronting the pharmacist, the mom said the prescription was filled 24 hours later.Kaitlin Preble, 34, has lost count of how many times her daughter, Emma Thompson, has been poked, prodded and hospitalized. “When she was 3, she was diagnosed with systemic polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis,” Preble, who lives in Arizona, told TODAY. “As a baby, she never crawled because…

Sweater weather has officially commenced, and what better way to celebrate than slipping into a cozy cashmere sweater on a crisp fall morning or winter day? Their soothing softness might be the extra dose of comfort you need right now, whether you’re layering up for an office commute or snuggling up at home on the weekend. And while the best cashmere sweaters for women have a reputation for having a high price tag, direct-to-consumer brands have given the covetable piece a more approachable price point, starting at the $75 mark. If you’re unfamiliar with the material, cashmere comes from the fluffy…

CNN  —  Say this for Donald Trump: He isn’t subtle. That lack of subtlety was on display during Thursday’s January 6 committee hearing, when evidence was presented – over and over again – suggesting that Trump had long planned to simply declare victory no matter what the results on Election Day 2020 actually were. “It was a premeditated plan by the President to declare victory no matter what the actual result was,” committee member Rep. Zoe Lofgren said during Thursday’s hearing. “We also interviewed Brad Parscale, President Trump’s former campaign manager. He told us he understood that President Trump planned…

Perry, Georgia CNN  —  Gabriel Burks, like most Black people in Georgia, nearly always votes for Democrats. But this November, he’ll be voting for Republican Gov. Brian Kemp. “Kemp hasn’t done nothing wrong as a governor,” the 49-year-old dad told CNN at the Georgia National Fair last week as he watched his son go down a slide about 100 yards from Kemp’s campaign bus at the fairgrounds. “He opened up. I got nothing against him.” But that’s where the otherwise loyal Democrat expects his Republican support to end this year – he also plans to vote for Sen. Raphael Warnock…

A new study published by the JAMA Network on Friday, Oct. 14, found that a “substantial portion of youth” have experienced online child sexual abuse.The study, conducted in late 2021, surveyed 2,639 children aged 18 to 21 years about their childhood experiences of online abuse. Of these, 933, about 35%, reported experiencing at least one instance of “technology-facilitated abuse” before age 18, the authors wrote. Overall, the survey found that 15.6% of participants experienced online sexual abuse as kids.Study: ‘Substantial portion of youth’ have experienced online sex abuseOver 15% of 18 to 21-year-olds experienced sex abuse online before turning 18,…

At a conference on violence against women at the European Parliament this week, several former models who were victims of abuse opened up about their experiences. One in three women have experienced physical or sexual violence in the European Union, according to the bloc’s fundamental rights agency. It says the fashion industry is rife with cases, with many models experiencing some sort of abuse while working in the sector.Sweden’s Ebba P. Karlsson, a model who has written a book about her ordeal, said that legislation needs to change in order to protect women from abuse.”When I started sharing my book, I…

Former President Trump published a letter Friday ripping the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 for failing to investigate what he considers basic questions surrounding the riot.The committee issued a subpoena for testimony from Trump at its business meeting Thursday.The letter, dated Thursday, opened with Trump’s unproven claims that the 2020 election was “stolen” before directly addressing the Jan. 6 Committee and questioning its purpose.HIGH-PROFILE JAN. 6 TRIAL BEGINS FOR ACCUSED OATH KEEPERS LEADER STEWART RHODES ON RARE CIVIL WAR-ERA CHARGEAt no point in his memo did Trump clarify if he would be honoring the subpoena or ignoring it. GINNI…

Author J.K. Rowling earned praise from conservatives on Twitter this week over her response to a critic who asked how the Harry Potter creator “sleeps at night.””I read my most recent royalty cheques and find the pain goes away pretty quickly,” Rowling tweeted in response to a user who was presumably referencing the author’s controversial statements about transgender individuals in recent years that many on left have deemed as “hate speech.”The tweet, which was retweeted over 25,000 times and liked over 234,000 times, earned positive reactions from many conservatives on Twitter including radio host Larry O’Connor.”England still has a queen,”…

If you’ve looked at your portfolio lately, 2022 may not seem like a “sweet spot” for much of anything. The S&P 500 is down more than 22% since the beginning of the year, putting it firmly in bear market territory — defined as a decline of 20% or more from recent highs.But a “sweet spot” is exactly what Jeffrey Hirsch, a market historian and publisher of the Stock Trader’s Alamanac, says investors can take advantage of now.Hirsch sees the market’s decline in the first three quarters of 2022 not as a negative but as a potential entry point for investors.…

close Video A woman has died after storms in Tennessee knocked down a tree that landed on the car she was driving.A Tennessee Highway Patrol preliminary report says 22-year-old Laurel Flaherty from Massachusetts died after the incident Wednesday in Williamson County.TENNESSEE FIREFIGHTERS FIND DEAD BODY IN REMAINS OF GATLINBURG BUILDING THAT WAS DESTROYED IN FIREBelmont University President Greg Jones says Flaherty was a first-year law student at the Nashville school after completing a bachelor’s degree in social work there in May. “We are all devastated by today’s news, and we have reached out to her family, faculty and classmates to…