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The patient narratives were displayed on a screen in the lobby of the new central Illinois abortion clinic on a recent weekend.One abortion seeker traveled hundreds of miles from Florida to end a 22-week pregnancy following a birth control failure."I have infant twins and my previous birth/labor was so traumatic," the patient said.

A young man was shot while riding a Red Line train near the Chinatown stop on Saturday afternoon, Chicago police said.The 21-year-old victim was on the train near the 100 block of West Cermak Road around 3:48 p.m. when a person approached him and shot him in the calf, police said.The man was taken to the University of Chicago Hospital in good condition.

Heather Mack has already spent nearly every day behind bars since her mother's bludgeoned body was found stuffed in a suitcase in the Bali resort where they'd been vacationing nine years ago, sparking international headlines and leading police on a trail that began in suburban Chicago.On Friday, Mack will undoubtedly be facing many years more in prison, as she is set to plead guilty in the federal murder conspiracy case against her in Chicago rather than go to trial in August.

Matt Zinchuk was worried.In three decades, his mom rarely missed a piano lesson.And yet, on that Monday evening in May, with students waiting at the family's Champaign home, Amy Zinchuk and her husband Michael were nowhere to be found.He called his sister, Elizabeth, in suburban St. Louis."Hey, did mom and dad leave yet?"
Elizabeth started to panic.

VIRDEN, Ill. - By all accounts, Monday, May 1, started as a beautiful morning.Clear skies.Cool.The gusting wind out of the northwest, not uncommon for a central Illinois landscape covered by vast farm fields and little else, was the only sign of what was to come.Around 10:50 a.m., Jim and Pam Dawson were about 30 miles from their home in Hillsboro, heading north on Interstate 55 to a Springfield funeral home to make arrangements for Jim's brother, who died two days earlier from a massive stroke.

The Indonesian anti-corruption investigators began hunting for the powerful local official after they caught two of his aides taking a $40,000 bribe.Their six-month investigation led them to a sprawling estate in North Sumatra, where they made a shocking discovery: 65 men locked in two cages.The captives, investigators learned, had been imprisoned under the guise of a drug rehabilitation program and forced to work as slaves at a palm plantation and palm oil factory owned by the official, Terbit Rencana Perangin-angin, and his family.

A winter storm slammed the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul with torrential rain on Friday, killing four people, leaving nine missing and prompting a helicopter search and rescue for victims wading in flooded neighborhoods, the authorities said.The storm system that struck the country was an extra-tropical cyclone.

After decades of threatening to tear off and plummet down the slope, obliterating the homes below, the mountainside near the village of Brienz, in central Switzerland, finally collapsed.Geologists had predicted in May that the long-feared landslide was imminent, and the authorities evacuated the village's roughly 85 residents.

At the end of a long stretch of sandy beach, a weathered warehouse in the port of Kalamata held the survivors of one of the worst shipwrecks in Europe in a decade.Inside, dazed men from Syria, Egypt and Pakistan, all with numbered badges around their necks, languished on tightly packed corridors of thin mattresses.

Skip to content Continue reading the main story Moscow June 16, 1:42 p.m. Washington June 16, 6:42 a.m.KYIV, Ukraine After days of reprieve, Russian missiles were fired at the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Friday, where explosions were heard as a delegation of top African officials visited the city.The blasts echoed across Kyiv before noon as Ukrainian air defenses engaged Russian missiles in the skies overhead.

At least 15 people were killed in a crash along the Trans-Canada Highway near Carberry, Manitoba, on Thursday afternoon, after a bus carrying 25 people, mostly older people, collided with a semitruck, the police said.The crash turned a mile of the highway, which runs from east to west and connects the country's provinces, into what the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Manitoba called a mass casualty collision scene.

Jack McNally, who as a police detective in 1964 made the first arrest in the most audacious jewel theft in New York City history, and who then became a private investigator for famous defense lawyers like F. Lee Bailey and worked on behalf of clients like O.J. Simpson, died on May 28.He was 89.His death was announced on the website of the Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home on Staten Island, which handled the funeral arrangements.

Britain's Boris Johnson, pictured in 2021, resigned as prime minister last year, but his policies are still felt.He resigned his seat in the House of Commons last week after receiving a draft of a report excoriating his behavior as prime minister.Toby Melville/WPA Pool/Getty Images By some measures, democracy has been in decline around the globe for more than a decade and a half, but there are encouraging signs in places you might not expect.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken makes his long-delayed visit to China beginning Sunday in the hope of slowing the downward spiral of relations between Beijing and Washington.But China's increasingly assertive, at times outright hostile, stance suggests that the visit will be as much about confrontation as detente.

A cellphone video taken by a teenage bystander showing a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, pressing his knee on the neck of a 46-year-old Black man, George Floyd, on a Minneapolis street corner on May 25, 2020, led to the largest social-justice protest movement in the United States in a half-century.

The emaciated survivors of a doomsday cult in Kenya that the authorities say ordered its followers to starve themselves to death held hands and leaned on each other as they staggered into a courtroom on Thursday to face charges of trying to kill themselves.The 65 cult members have been refusing to eat their meals at a rescue center where they are being cared for prompting the authorities to charge them with attempted suicide, a crime under Kenyan law, and adding a further twist to a case that has shocked the East African nation.

Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania said on Saturday he was confident the portion of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia that collapsed last weekend will open within the next two weeks.We are going to get traffic moving again, Mr. Shapiro said on Twitter, crediting an all hands on deck approach.Initially, he had said he expected the repairs to take months.

A Vermont man died in jail on Thursday morning while awaiting trial on federal charges that he had lured his mother on a fishing trip, killed her and sank the boat in a scheme to inherit his family's estate, the U.S. Marshals Service said.The Marshals Service, which announced the death in a statement, did not say how the man, Nathan Carman, 29, of Vernon, Vt., had died.

Police in Germany have arrested a truck driver accused in the crash in Italy last year that killed professional cyclist Davide Rebellin, Italian prosecutors said Saturday.Wolfgang Rieke is accused of road homicide and leaving the scene of a crash.Vicenza prosecutor Lino Giorgio Bruno said he was arrested Thursday in Muenster on a European arrest warrant.

Police in southern Germany are appealing for further pictures and videos taken by witnesses of an attack near Neuschwanstein castle in which an American man allegedly pushed two women down a steep slope, killing one of them.A suspect was arrested following the attack.German news agency dpa quoted police Friday saying that they have so far only received about a dozen submissions on a specially created website, but assume much more footage was taken by tourists present at the site at the time on Wednesday.

A large mass of rock slid down a mountainside above a Swiss village that was evacuated last month, stopping just short of the settlement, authorities said Friday.Brienz, in the southeastern Graubuenden region of Switzerland, was evacuated on May 12 after geology experts warned that the Alpine rock looming over the village could break loose.

A tourist died after a man attacked her and a companion near Neuschwanstein castle in southern Germany, authorities said Thursday.The incident near the popular tourist attraction close to the Austrian border happened Wednesday afternoon.Prosecutors in nearby Kempten said the two women, age 21 and 22, had met the 30-year-old suspect who also had gone to the castle as a tourist for the first time shortly beforehand.

Donald J. Trump, twice impeached as president and now twice indicted since leaving the White House, surrendered to federal authorities in Miami on Tuesday and was arraigned on charges that he had put national security secrets at risk and obstructed investigators.Mr. Trump was booked, fingerprinted and led to a courtroom on the 13th floor of the Federal District Court, where his lawyer entered a plea of not guilty on his behalf.

House Republicans are mounting an all-out campaign to attack the special counsel's investigation into former President Donald Trump and looking to use every tool at their disposal to undermine its findings from subpoenas to the power of the purse strings.House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan is exploring ways to force Jack Smith to testify or provide information about the special counsel probe of Trump's handling of classified documents, according to multiple GOP sources familiar with his thinking.

Skip to content Continue reading the main story Former President Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner whose efforts to cling to power after his defeat shook American democracy, is set on Tuesday to make his first appearance in a Florida courtroom to face federal criminal charges that he illegally retained defense secrets and obstructed justice.

Protesters stand outside of the Senate chamber at the Indiana Statehouse on Feb. 22, 2023, in Indianapolis.Darron Cummings/AP INDIANAPOLIS A federal judge issued an order Friday stopping an Indiana ban on puberty blockers and hormones for transgender minors from taking effect as scheduled July 1.The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana sought the temporary injunction in its legal challenge of the Republican-backed law, which was enacted this spring amid a national push by GOP-led legislatures to curb LGBTQ+ rights.

Dr. Mandy Cohen, former secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, will replace outgoing CDC director Rochelle Walensky.Bryan Anderson/AP President Biden has named Dr.Mandy Cohen, former state health secretary in North Carolina, to serve as the next leader of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Lilia Chanysheva gestures as she stands in a cage during a hearing in a courtroom of the Kirovskiy District Court in Ufa, Russia, June 14."I am a politician, a woman who is being persecuted by men who are her opponents," she said in her final statement to the court earlier this month.AP Photo MOSCOW A Russian court sentenced a leading associate of opposition leader Alexei Navalny to 7 1/2 years in prison on extremism-related charges on Wednesday the latest in a series of lengthy prison terms issued to political opponents of the Kremlin amid the war in Ukraine.

Image Soldiers from Ukraine's 68th Brigade resting outside of the village of Blahodatne, Ukraine, on Thursday.Credit...David Guttenfelder for The New York Times Ukraine's counteroffensive against Russia is making gains, albeit at a high cost, Ukrainian and American officials said.But after initially retaking some small settlements and villages, Ukraine's advances in the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions are better measured in yards than miles, according to independent analysts.

This undated handout image provided by Greece's coast guard on Wednesday, June14, 2023, shows scores of people covering practically every free stretch of deck on a battered fishing boat that later capsized and sank off southern Greece.AP KALAMATA, Greece With its human cargo of migrants filling every available space, the battered blue trawler was about halfway from Libya to Italy when its engine cut out in the night.

Not even death could keep Silvio Berlusconi from center stage.The post-Berlusconi era was inevitable, but it arrived on Tuesday with a shock given the leader's aura of plastic-parts immortality and his own energetic insistence, well into his 80s, that he was as young as ever.And Mr. Berlusconi, who loomed over Italian politics as prime minister and power broker for decades, still dominated the country a day after his death on Monday at 86. Mourners brought flowers to his palatial villa.

Just before 4 p.m. on April 28, 2020, Steven Kraft did as he often did on Tuesday afternoons.He left his job at a deli in Marlboro, N.Y. and headed across the Hudson River to Beacon, where he picked up his two middle-school-aged children from his ex-wife's house.He caught up with them over a fast-food dinner before returning them to their mother's home around 7 p.m.

In the unlikely, but evidently possible event you encounter what appears to be an undetonated explosive while enjoying the summer weather - as a resident in unincorporated Antioch did Thursday - authorities in Lake County encourage you to alert local law enforcement as soon as possible.A sharp object protruding from the ground caught unincorporated Antioch resident Lauren Intzekiotis' eye as her son biked around their yard, she said Thursday, and she soon unearthed what Waukegan bomb squad technicians and responding police believe was a "live and active" anti-tank rocket, seemingly from the World War II era.

A Russian activist has died in prison days after describing being tortured and expressing fear for his life, according to his lawyer, which is believed to be the first known death in custody of a Russian opponent of the war in Ukraine.Anatoly Berezikov, 40, died about a month after he was detained by the police in his home in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don and charged with misdemeanors, which he denied.

A long-awaited merger of Vodafone and Three will bring the biggest shake-up in the UK mobile market for over a decade, experts say with significant consequences for all anyone in Britain using a device.The 15bn deal will see the two firms combine to make one of Europe's biggest operators, with about 27 million customers and more than 11,500 staff.

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Brooklyn-based photographer Jon Henry has spent the last nine years in the making of his project "Stranger Fruit," a book with photos of Black mothers from every state in the country, who worry about the safety of their sons in the hands of the police.

Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams A 36-year-old man was fatally stabbed on board a Brooklyn J train Tuesday night following a heated dispute, according to police.Authorities said the victim was knifed in the chest following an argument with a straphanger at around 8 p.m. as the Queens-bound train was approaching Marcy Avenue and Broadway.

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Firefighters rescued an elderly man from a burning building in Midwood on Monday evening.According to authorities, the blaze broke out at 877 E. 23rd St. at around 10:30 p.m., and quickly engulfed the three-story residence.

Five-year-old Rood Morancy Siverne huddled close to his mother, who sat tired, yet hopeful, waiting to check in to what would become, at least for a time, their home.Rood and his parents had fled Chile and made the month-long trek north through mountains, Panamanian jungles, and the length of Mexico, until arriving at the U.S. border to claim asylum.

The federal health minister should amend the 2018 Cannabis Act to recognize First Nations' right to govern the possession, sale and distribution of cannabis on their lands, a Senate committee says.In a report tabled Wednesday afternoon, the standing Senate committee on Indigenous Peoples says many problems identified before legalization remain unaddressed, with some First Nations still blocked from the lucrative industry.

It doesn't take long after announcing a data breach for companies to become targets of class-action lawsuits.One such company, Miramar-based Managed Care of North America Dental, reported on May 26 that it suffered a ransomware breach between Feb. 26 and March 7 that affected 8.9 million individuals.

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An early morning fire damaged the historic Seth Warner home, one of Chicago's earliest residences and the oldest home in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.Firefighters were alerted to the blaze at 631 N. Central Ave.around 1 a.m.Thursday, according to the Chicago Fire Department.A firefighter was taken to an area hospital as a precaution, but no other injuries were reported, authorities said.

On June 27, 2010, the FBI arrested 10 Russian spies who lived and worked as American professionals near New York City.The case, which unraveled an intricate system of false identities and clandestine meetings, exposed one of the largest spy networks in the U.S. since the Cold War ended and inspired the show The Americans.

Neonatologist Stephen W. Patrick of Vanderbilt University Medical Center recalls one patient in particular.She was seeking care for an opioid use disorder (OUD) at the treatment facility that he runs in Nashville, Tenn.The patient came in frantic after an exchange at her first prenatal visit.The sonographer who conducted her ultrasound, she recounted, told her in a disdainful tone that she should have a home for the child lined up because drug users never leave the hospital with their babies.

A Naperville woman who worked at Neaqua Valley High School has been charged with using a credit card issued to her by Indian Prairie School District 204 to make personal purchases, officials said.Tracie Mondell, 39, of the 400 block of Gartner Road, turned herself in at the Naperville Police Department Wednesday after an arrest warrant for felony theft of governmental property was issued, a news release from the police department and the DuPage County State's Attorney's Office said.

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Two Orange County sheriff's deputies shot and killed a hatchet-wielding man they suspected was breaking into a home in Midway City on Wednesday morning, authorities said.Sheriff's officials said deputies were called to the 14000 block of Van Buren Street in a residential area near Westminster Memorial Park and Mortuary a little before 5 a.m.

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Several businesses in Santa Rosa were vandalized this week with anti-LGBTQ+ posters linking to a rap song celebrating "straight Pride," authorities said.The posters were discovered at several locations around the city, including Brew Coffee and Beer House, which is queer-owned, as well as Shady Oak Barrel House, according to their social media accounts.

Throngs of supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan have been arrested.Media columnists considered sympathetic to him have been intimidated.Key allies have resigned from his party, saying they had been threatened with criminal charges and arrests.As political tensions between Mr. Khan and the Pakistani government have flared in recent weeks and sparked violent nationwide protests, the country's powerful military has responded by launching a chilling campaign against Mr. Khan's supporters that aims to hollow out his political party ahead of general elections this fall.

Cyclone Biparjoy was crawling along the Arabian Sea with hurricane strength winds and appeared to be on a path toward the border of Pakistan and India, where the authorities have ordered tens of thousands of residents to evacuate before the storm makes landfall on Thursday.The cyclone, whose name means disaster in Bengali, had fluctuated between the equivalent of a Category 1 and Category 2 hurricane, with winds ranging from 90 to 100 miles per hour early on Wednesday.

A convicted Satanist neo-Nazi has admitted a string of fresh crimes committed after being spared jail as a teenager two years ago.Harry Vaughan, from Twickenham, south-west London, was aged 18 when he admitting 14 terror offences and two of possessing indecent images of children.The Old Bailey had heard he developed an interest in right wing extremism, Satanism, the occult, and violence after disappearing down a rabbit hole of the internet from the age of 14. Sentencing him in November 2020, Mr Justice Sweeney acknowledged the A-star student's parents were committed to helping him change for the better.

A British man who was arrested while climbing the world's fifth-tallest skyscraper in South Korea without a harness is expecting to spend the next month in jail, but is eager to climb again.George King-Thompson, 24, was wearing a parachute and planned to jump from the top of the 123-storey, 1,820ft (555m) Lotte World Tower in Seoul on Monday, but reached the 72nd floor before being detained.

People need to take greater personal responsibility to protect themselves against fraudsters, Suella Braverman said.The Home Secretary highlighted a Government target to reduce fraud by 10% from 2019 levels by the end of 2024, but said that a culture change in the public was also needed.She said the authorities needed greater powers and better technological capability to pursue online fraudsters.

The uprising began in September, after a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, died in the custody of Iran's morality police.She had been arrested on accusations of violating mandatory-hijab rules, and a gruesome photo and video of her unconscious in a hospital bed went viral, sparking outrage and grief.

For activists defending press freedom and human rights in Guatemala, Wednesday looms as a key gauge of the country's wobbly democratic health.In a courtroom in the country's capital, a verdict is expected in the trial of one of Guatemala's most high-profile journalists, a case widely seen as another sign of the deteriorating rule of law in the Central American country.

E ngland forward Marcus Rashford has reiterated calls for the "mad" football calendar to be reconsidered by authorities.The Manchester United talisman is expected to make his 62nd and 63rd appearances of the season when England round off a gruelling campaign, which included a winter World Cup, with Euro 2024 qualifiers against Malta and North Macedonia.

Image Donald Trump at his Bedminster, N.J., golf club, after his arraignment.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times Donald Trump pleaded not guilty in federal court in Miami yesterday to criminal charges that he risked disclosure of defense secrets and obstructed the government's efforts to reclaim classified documents he took while leaving office.

Regarding the article on a new book about cats (Kitty confidential: 13 secret signals all cat owners need to know from a quivering tail to aeroplane ears, 1 June), yes, they are solitary predators, which is why they should not be kept irresponsibly by so many people.An outdoor cat constantly left alone by working neighbours has just decimated fledglings emerging from a blue tit nesting box.

More than 100 people died, including many who were returning from a wedding ceremony, after a river boat transporting them capsized in the early hours of Monday in Nigeria, according to residents and the local police.The boat was sailing on the Niger River in the western state of Kwara, according to a police spokesman, Okasanmi Ajayi, who said that more than 100 people had been rescued and that the search was ongoing.

A Lake Barrington man dreamed that burglars were breaking into his home and awoke to discover that he had shot himself in the leg, the Lake County sheriff's office said Tuesday.The man is now facing firearms charges, police said.Police said they responded to the residence of Mark M. DiCara, 62, in the 100 block of Shoreline Road, at about 9:50 p.m. on April 10.

The "potentially massive impact" of lockdowns was not considered, the lead lawyer for the Covid inquiry has said.As the probe into the government's handling of the pandemic began hearing evidence, Hugo Keith KC said the UK may not have been well prepared "at all".He added that bereaved families are entitled to know if better planning may have saved lives.

Facing a ruinous economic crisis, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi recently decided it was time to hold talks with what was left of Egypt's political opposition, giving them a seat at the table after nearly a decade of repression, prison and exile.But to an authoritarian leader like Mr. el-Sisi, reconciliation only goes so far.