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US suspends all food aid for millions in Ethiopia after investigation finds 'widespread' theft 06/08/2023 05:19pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United States Agency for International Development said Thursday it has suspended all food aid to Ethiopia, Africa's second most-populous country, after an internal investigation found donated food intended for millions of hungry people there was being diverted on a “wi Supreme Court rules for nursing home patient's family, declines to limit civil rights lawsuits 06/08/2023 03:08pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for the family of a nursing home resident with dementia that had sued over his care, declining to use the case to broadly limit the right to sue government workers. The man's family went to court alleging that he was given drugs to keep him eas Pope drinks liquids, makes brief call after surgery to remove intestinal scar tissue, repair hernia 06/08/2023 02:24pm • ROME (AP) — Pope Francis drank liquids, received the Eucharist and even made a brief phone call Thursday on his first full day recovering from a three-hour operation to remove intestinal scar tissue and repair a hernia in his abdominal wall, the Vatican said. The 86-year-old Francis rested “exte Voting activist killed during Freedom Summer in Mississippi believed country should be integrated 06/08/2023 12:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Schwerner doesn’t remember how he learned that his younger brother Michael, nicknamed Mickey, was missing in Mississippi along with colleagues Andrew Goodman and James Chaney. What he remembers is that as soon as the family heard the news, they were certain of the young m Australian man sentenced to 9 years in prison for gay American's 1988 manslaughter 06/08/2023 09:30am • SYDNEY (AP) — An Australian man who admitted killing a gay American by punching him off a cliff top in Sydney in 1988 was sentenced on Thursday to nine years in prison, ending the victim's family’s 35-year battle for justice. Scott Phillip White, 52, had pleaded guilty in the New South Wales sta UNICEF says 300 trapped children rescued from a Sudanese orphanage after 71 others died 06/08/2023 01:19am • CAIRO (AP) — About 300 infants, toddlers and older children have been rescued from an orphanage in Sudan’s capital after being trapped there while fighting raged outside, aid officials said Thursday. The evacuation came after 71 children died from hunger and illness in the facility since mid-Apr Brewers' Adames returns less than 2 weeks after getting hit in head with liner while in dugout 06/07/2023 08:30pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Brewers shortstop Willy Adames returned to action less than two weeks after getting hit on the head by a foul ball while sitting in a dugout. Adames started at shortstop and batted second on Wednesday night against Baltimore after getting activated earlier in the day. Ad What Is Bright Line Eating? 06/07/2023 08:00pm • Some people looking to lose weight initially have success on a diet but eventually drift off the plan, and the weight piles back on. This yo-yo effect is common and is the reason why many dietitians say that diets don't work. One person, however, claims to have the solution to this ongoing problem, Cancer centers say US chemotherapy shortage is leading to treatment complications 06/07/2023 05:43pm • A growing shortage of common cancer treatments is forcing doctors to switch medications and delaying some care, prominent U.S. cancer centers say. The National Comprehensive Cancer Network said Wednesday that nearly all the centers it surveyed late last month were dealing with shortages of carboplat Newer heart transplant method could allow more patients a chance at lifesaving surgery 06/07/2023 05:09pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Most transplanted hearts are from donors who are brain dead, but new research shows a different approach can be just as successful and boost the number of available organs. It's called donation after circulatory death, a method long used to recover kidneys and other organs but no Pope Francis has scar tissue removed, hernia repaired during 3-hour abdominal surgery 06/07/2023 04:25pm • ROME (AP) — Pope Francis underwent successful surgery Wednesday to remove intestinal scar tissue and repair a hernia in his abdominal wall, the latest maladies to befall the 86-year-old pontiff who had part of his colon removed two years ago. The Vatican said there were no complications during the What kind of surgery did Pope Francis have, and why? 06/07/2023 03:43pm • LONDON (AP) — Pope Francis emerged from a three-hour abdominal surgery at a Rome hospital on Wednesday evening, with no known complications, the Vatican said. The procedure was necessary to repair a painful hernia the pontiff developed, linked to a 2021 operation to remove a significant portion of A look at Pope Francis' health over the years 06/07/2023 01:26pm • Pope Francis has had three hospitalizations since he was elected pope in 2013, and underwent major surgery as a young man to have part of one lung removed. In between, the 86-year-old pontiff has suffered from bouts of sciatica, or nerve pain, that have made walking and standing difficult. More rec Polish prosecutors and ombudsman investigate death of pregnant woman in hospital 06/07/2023 01:21pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Prosecutors and the patients’ ombudsman in Poland are investigating the death of a pregnant woman at a hospital, amid the family’s accusations that the doctors kept them in the dark as to the danger and didn't take proper steps to save her. The death last month of the 33- Condition of PSG goalkeeper Sergio Rico improving after accident with horse in Spain 06/07/2023 11:45am • SEVILLE, Spain (AP) — Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper Sergio Rico is improving after a head injury sustained when he was hit by a horse in Spain 10 days ago, doctors said Wednesday. Rico remained in serious condition in an intensive unit, but doctors said the injury was progressing favorably. The 2