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An unimaginable loss. Sarah Herron and fiancé Dylan Brown revealed that their newborn son, Oliver, died just hours after the Bachelor Nation star gave birth. “On January 28th, at 24 weeks old, our beautiful son Oliver Brown was born. He passed away in his dad’s arms shortly after,” Herron, 36, wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, Febraury 1, while honoring the late infant. “There are no words for the magnitude of loss and pain we’re experiencing. It’s beautiful and simultaneously tragic. He had my nose and his dad’s mouth and long fingers.” She continued, “Oliver, our IVF miracle, defied so many odds…

An upstate New York school district is on thin ice after posting a photo of a dirty snowman that the district praised as being as “diverse” as its student body. On Tuesday, the Coxsackie-Athens Central School District shared the tone-deaf image of three Coxsackie Elementary school students standing beside a snowman made from three large snowballs speckled with brown dirt, WRRV first reported.  “Today’s CE Fourth Grade Playground Fun! This snowman is just as diverse as our students!” the caption to the Facebook post read. The school district deleted the post, but screenshots of the snowman have continued to make…

Governments may have to reserve drugs and vaccines for the World Health Organization to distribute in poorer countries to avoid a repeat of the “catastrophic failure” during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an early draft of a global pandemic agreement.One of the most concrete proposals in the draft accord reviewed by Reuters on Wednesday includes a measure to reserve 20% of any tests, vaccines or treatments developed for use in poorer countries.The draft also looks set to continue a long-running argument by calling for intellectual property rights to be waived during pandemics, which advocates say would allow for wider access…

RJ Barrett’s benching certainly was notable Tuesday night, especially because of his unmistakable unhappiness over it afterward.  Still, it wasn’t the first time in recent games that the $107 million wing watched from the sidelines down the stretch, with Tom Thibodeau increasingly leaning on Immanuel Quickley and Quentin Grimes instead.  Thibodeau took the drastic step of pinning Barrett to the bench for the final 6:41 of regulation and all of overtime in Tuesday’s loss to the Lakers. The always-accessible Barrett then bolted the locker room without speaking with reporters after the game, and the Knicks had no media availability on…

A former Texas police officer was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday for sexually assaulting children going back to the 1990s.Norman Wilkerson, 59, previously pleaded guilty to first-degree aggravated sexual assault of a child and three counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child Monday in connection with the sexual abuse of children between the ages of 10 to 16 from 1998 to 2004, authorities said Wednesday. He was sentenced to 20 years on each count to be served concurrently. Wilkerson was the assistant chief of police at the Cut and Shoot Police Department at the time the charges were…

Hundreds of people crowded the halls of the Nebraska state Capitol on Wednesday for a committee hearing on a so-called heartbeat bill that would outlaw abortion at a point before many women even know they’re pregnant.The bill would ban abortions once cardiac activity can be detected in an embryo, which is generally around the sixth week of pregnancy.”This bill is about one thing: protecting babies with beating hearts from elective abortion,” Republican Sen. Joni Albrecht, of Thurston, told the Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee to kick off testimony on her bill Wednesday that drew scores of ban supporters, along…

The Arkansas House on Wednesday approved legislation preventing transgender people at public schools from using bathrooms that match their gender identity, while a legislative panel endorsed a measure restricting drag performances in the state.The bills advanced through the majority-Republican Legislature two years after lawmakers approved restrictions on transgender youth, including a ban on gender-affirming care for minors that has been blocked by a federal judge.Opponents of the bathroom bill said it’s marginalizing transgender students who are already at high risk of bullying, and said it’s a sign of misplaced priorities in the Legislature.FEDERAL APPEALS COURT BACKS FLORIDA SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT…

Susan Peters has been seeking early intervention support services for her daughter Raven for more than a year now. The 17-month-old girl lives with Cockayne Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that prevents growth at a normal rate.“Two to three children out of a million or so are born with it,” said Susan Peters, adding the disorder is terminal.“We will be very lucky if she makes it to seven years,” Peters told Global News.The nearly one and a half year old girl is only the size of a six-month-old and has all kinds of developmental and physical challenges. “It is a…

CNN  —  The transformation of George Santos began in 2019, the year he went from Anthony Devolder, just another New Yorker sharing political musings on social media, to a Republican congressional candidate with a compelling fictional resume. His improbable rise to the House of Representatives started as he joined a group of pro-Donald Trump activists at a time when the House GOP had just been defeated by a blue wave in 2018. He was young, gay and Latino, and appeared on the conservative scene as activists from more diverse backgrounds were gaining more attention and becoming influencers in Republican social…

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