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Rise in pregnant women turned away from US emergency rooms, papers show

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 7 days ago - 20:01

Cases listed in federal documents raise alarms around emergency pregnancy care, especially in states with strict abortion laws

One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her to the hospital.

Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound, and the baby later died.

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Judge halts Texas probe into Media Matters’ reporting on X

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 15 April - 17:59

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting on February 23, 2024.

Enlarge / Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting on February 23, 2024. (credit: MANDEL NGAN / Contributor | AFP )

A judge has preliminarily blocked what Media Matters for America (MMFA) described as Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's attempt to "rifle through" confidential documents to prove that MMFA fraudulently manipulated X (formerly Twitter) data to ruin X's advertising business, as Elon Musk has alleged.

After Musk accused MMFA of publishing reports that Musk claimed were designed to scare advertisers off X, Paxton promptly launched his own investigation into MMFA last November.

Suing MMFA over alleged violations of Texas' Deceptive Trade Practices Act—which prohibits "disparaging the goods, services, or business of another by false or misleading representation of facts"—Paxton sought a wide range of MMFA documents through a civil investigative demand (CID). Filing a motion to block the CID, MMFA told the court that the CID had violated the media organization's First Amendment rights, providing evidence that Paxton's investigation and CID had chilled MMFA speech.

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Texas surgeon accused of secretly blocking patients from getting transplants

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 12 April - 19:41

Texas surgeon accused of secretly blocking patients from getting transplants

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An accomplished and prominent transplant surgeon in Texas allegedly falsified patient data in a government transplant waiting list, which may have prevented his own patients from receiving lifesaving liver transplants, according to media reports and hospital statements.

Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center halted its liver transplant program on April 3 after finding "irregularities" with donor acceptance criteria, the Houston Chronicle reported based on a statement from the hospital. At the time there were 38 patients on the hospital's wait list for a liver. Earlier this week, the hospital also halted its kidney transplant program, telling the Chronicle that it was pausing operations to "evaluate a new physician leadership structure."

Memorial Hermann has not named the surgeon behind the "inappropriate changes," but The New York Times identified him as Dr. Steve Bynon, a surgeon who has received numerous accolades and, at one point, appears to have been featured on a billboard. Bynon oversaw both the liver and kidney transplant programs at Memorial Hermann.

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Suspect in custody after truck crashes into Texas department of public safety office

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 12 April - 19:00

Crash happened at agency’s office in Brenham, Texas, about 75 miles west of Houston, and several people were seriously injured

A suspect is in custody after a commercial vehicle crashed into a Texas department of public safety (DPS) office in a rural town west of Houston on Friday, seriously injuring several people, according to the agency.

Texas DPS officials said in a social media post on X that the crash happened at the agency’s office in Brenham, Texas, located about 75 miles west of Houston. Officials said there are reports of multiple serious injuries but did not specify how many people were affected or the extent of the injuries. They also requested people avoid the area to clear the way for responding medical personnel.

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‘Extraordinary’: total solar eclipse wows watchers in north Texas

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 8 April - 20:04

The weather largely cooperated as eclipse watchers were awarded with a heavenly event as clouds parted and sun and moon merged

Ignas Barauskas almost missed it.

He bought plane tickets from his home in Lithuania to the United States about a month ago. After a series of flight delays, he landed in Dallas around midnight, ready for a once-in-a-lifetime total eclipse of the sun.

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‘I get emotional thinking about it’: US and Canada ready for total solar eclipse

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 5 April - 12:00

Cities expect huge crowds with millions gathering in 115-mile wide ‘path of totality’ for Monday’s exceptionally large and long eclipse

Should the weather gods grant their blessing, a celestial show for the ages will darken the heavens over a large swathe of the US from Texas to Maine on Monday, giving tens of millions of people a grandstand view of a rare phenomenon being billed as “the Great American Eclipse ”.

It will be another 20 years until the next total solar eclipse can be viewed anywhere in the contiguous US, lending extra incentive for many who live outside the 115-mile wide “path of totality” to travel in and experience the moments of twilight, stillness and a sudden temperature drop the event will bring.

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Elon Musk shares “extremely false” allegation of voting fraud by “illegals”

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 4 April - 20:19

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Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson yesterday issued a statement debunking claims of widespread voter fraud that were amplified by X owner Elon Musk on the social network formerly named Twitter. Election officials in two other states also disputed the "extremely false" information shared by Musk.

Musk is generally a big fan of Texas , but on Tuesday he shared a post by the account "End Wokeness" that claimed, "The number of voters registering without a photo ID is SKYROCKETING in 3 key swing states: Arizona, Texas, and Pennsylvania." The account claimed there were 1.25 million such registrations in Texas since the beginning of 2024, over 580,000 in Pennsylvania, and over 220,000 in Arizona.

"Extremely concerning," Musk wrote in a ~~retweet~~ re-X . The End Wokeness post shared by Musk suggested that "illegals" are registering to vote in large numbers by using Social Security numbers that can be obtained for work authorizations . The End Wokeness post has been viewed 63 million times so far, and Musk's re-post has been viewed 58.2 million times.

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‘You see one, you want to see them all’: 105-year-old excited for his 13th solar eclipse

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 3 April - 10:00

Laverne Biser, 105, has traveled the world to witness the phenomenon – and what might be his final one will pass directly over his Texas house

Laverne Biser has traveled to several US states as well as a handful of foreign countries to gaze at and fawn over a dozen solar eclipses . But for what the 105-year-old retired engineer realizes may be his final one on 8 April, he won’t have to go far.

The total eclipse is expected to pass over his home in Fort Worth, Texas. And he has plans to soak in the occasion – what stands to be his 13th solar eclipse – with his daughter and granddaughter in nearby Plano.

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X filing “thermonuclear lawsuit” in Texas should be “fatal,” Media Matters says

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 2 April - 20:42

X filing “thermonuclear lawsuit” in Texas should be “fatal,” Media Matters says

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Ever since Elon Musk's X Corp sued Media Matters for America (MMFA) over a pair of reports that X (formerly Twitter) claims caused an advertiser exodus in 2023, one big question has remained for onlookers: Why is this fight happening in Texas?

In a motion to dismiss filed in Texas' northern district last month, MMFA argued that X's lawsuit should be dismissed not just because of a "fatal jurisdictional defect," but "dismissal is also required for lack of venue."

Notably, MMFA is based in Washington, DC, while "X is organized under Nevada law and maintains its principal place of business in San Francisco, California, where its own terms of service require users of its platform to litigate any disputes."

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