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Bail reform supporters are launching a six-figure ad buy to boost swing district Democratic state senators endangered by the sharp spikes in violence and robberies tied to their passage of the soft on crime measures.  “These ads are asking New Yorkers to bury their head and pretend like all is safe in our city,” Staten Island Councilman Joe Borelli, a spokesman for the Save Our State PAC that is firmly anti-bail reform, told The Post Friday. “Every single Democrat on the ballot should be asked over and over whether they want to commit themselves to maintain the chaotic status quo,”…

Party of 6! Heather Dubrow and Terry Dubrow haven’t let their lives in the spotlight keep them from raising their four children: Nick, Max, Kat and Coco. The Real Housewives of Orange County star met the Botched personality on a group date in the ‘90s. Heather recalled during a November 2015 of her “Heather Dubrow’s World” podcast that she initially thought Terry “wasn’t really” her type. After he complimented her kissing skills, however, she was hooked. The duo tied the knot in 1999 and three years later, they began expanding their family. The couple welcomed twins, son Nicholas and daughter…

Daddy Cohen! Andy Cohen is a proud father of two, welcoming his first child, Ben, in 2019 and second baby, Lucy, in 2022. The Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen host announced he was set to become a parent during a December 2018 episode of the talk show that featured OG Housewives. “After many years of careful deliberation, fair amount of prayers and the benefit of science, if all goes according to plan, in about six weeks time, I’m going to become a father thanks to a wonderful surrogate who is carrying my future,” he revealed to a shocked…

Fake German heiress Anna Sorokin was freed from an upstate prison Friday and promptly headed to Manhattan after spending more than a year behind bars, law-enforcement sources said. The 31-year-old con artist — who became the subject of the Netflix show “Inventing Anna” — was released from the Orange County Correctional Facility in Goshen and driven in a white van to FBI headquarters in lower Manhattan to fill out paperwork, the sources said. As she was processed for release, Sorokin was asked to produce forms detailing who she’ll be staying with and where under the terms of her home confinement,…

CNN  —  A judge in Cincinnati announced Friday he will issue a preliminary injunction against a new Ohio law that prohibits abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, according to the ACLU of Ohio. “As a result of the ruling, abortion up to 22 weeks of pregnancy will remain legal while litigation continues,” the organization said in a statement. Senate Bill 23 was passed in 2019 and took effect when the US Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June. The law bans abortions performed after early cardiac activity is detected – typically around six weeks into…

Next week NHS England will send booster jab invites as emails, letters and texts to six million eligible people who are either clinically at risk from Covid or aged over 75The elderly are driving a worrying surge in Covid-19 infections with many still not having had an autumn booster. The Office for National Statistics found that the current coronavirus wave is being driven by over-70s unlike earlier waves which started in the young. Latest swab testing data shows rising infections in England are behind the recent spike with an estimated 1.3 million people in the UK having the virus in…

The NFL Players Association agreed to change concussion protocols and is urging the NFL to accept the changes before Sunday’s games.”We would like these changes to go into effect before this weekend’s games to immediately protect the players and hope the NFL accepts the change before then as well,” the NFLPA said Friday in a statement. The outcry comes after Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa suffered a concussion on Sept. 29 that sent him to the hospital just four days after he was put into concussion protocol because he wobbled to the turf after a tackle.Tagovailoa and the Dolphins said…

The WHO also issued a medical product alert asking regulators to remove Maiden Pharma goods from the market.The deaths of dozens of children in The Gambia from kidney injuries may be linked to contaminated cough and cold syrups made by an Indian drug manufacturer, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters that the UN agency was conducting an investigation along with Indian regulators and the drugmaker, New Delhi-based Maiden Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Maiden Pharma declined to comment on the alert, while calls and Reuters messages to the Drugs Controller General of India went unanswered.…

The first round of voting in Brazil’s presidential election has failed to yield an outright winner, leading to a runoff on October 30. Leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, popularly known as Lula, went into election day on Sunday as the projected frontrunner, with recent opinion polls giving him a commanding lead over far-right President Jair Bolsonaro – and even a first-round victory. Lula, a former president credited with building an extensive social welfare programme during his eight-year tenure starting in 2003, obtained 48.4 percent of valid votes, falling short of the overall majority he needed to avoid a run-off.…

In the wake of Hurricane Ian, the living have struggled to account for all the dead.Overwhelmed by the number of bodies to autopsy and thrown into a political debate over precisely how many lives the storm has claimed, many medical examiners in the hardest-hit parts of Florida are facing extraordinary challenges in accounting for all of the storm’s victims.In Charlotte County, the longtime chief medical examiner was three days from retirement with no permanent replacement chosen yet when Ian hit on Sept. 28.With many roads still flooded and impassable, in stepped Dr. Russell Vega, the chief medical examiner in neighboring…