The Daily Populous

Thursday May 4th, 2017 night edition

House Republicans Are on the Cusp of Passing Their Health Care Bill
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House Republicans now on the cusp of passing their health care bill.

"Health care experts, however, say the amount is too little to address the needs, and several patient advocacy groups have come out against the bill.".

Afterwards, the GOP opponents on NBC's whip count moved from 21 (they can afford only 22 defections) to 16 now.

The 16 Republicans who are against the renewed House health-care bill (it was 21 yesterday):.

It would reduce the deficit by $150 billion over 10 years (down from $337 billion in an earlier estimate).

That's compared to a combined 21% who said they had a "great deal" of confidence or just "some" confidence. »

In Trump’s America, Rape Is a Preexisting Condition
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An amendment in the GOP health-care-reform bill will allow states to deny coverage for preexisting conditions, including sexual assault.

Under Obamacare, preexisting conditions were guaranteed to receive coverage — among them, sexual assault.

In addition to rape, postpartum depression, cesarean sections, and surviving domestic violence are all considered preexisting conditions. »

Man who threw boiling water on gay couple will spend 40 years in prison
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A Georgia man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison after throwing a pot of boiling water on young gay couple as they slept.

A jury has convicted an Atlanta truck driver accused of pouring boiling water over two gay men as the couple slept in February.

[‘We were just burning’: Ga. man poured boiling water over gay couple as they lay in bed, police say]. »

Printing bricks from moondust using the sun's heat
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Porter, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Bricks have been 3-D printed out of simulated moondust using concentrated sunlight – proving in principle that future lunar colonists could one day use the same approach to build settlements on the moon.

"This was done on a 3-D printer table, to bake successive 0.1 mm layers of moondust at 1000°C.

The video will load shortly Bricks have been 3-D printed out of simulated moondust using concentrated sunlight. »

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