The Daily Populous

Thursday June 13rd, 2024 day edition

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A "beloved" antelope choked to death on the plastic cap of a snack pouch over the weekend, a Tennessee zoo announced.

Lief, a 7-year-old sitatunga antelope, died Saturday, Brights Zoo said on Facebook.

The animal choked on the cap of a squeezable fruit sauce pouch that the zoo said is not allowed on its grounds in Limestone, about 85 miles northeast of Knoxville.

A sitatunga antelope can live up to around 22 years in human care, according to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo.

Lief “still had a lot of life to live,” Brights Zoo said.

“Some ask why we don’t allow squeezable pouches into the zoo.

Replying to one comment, the zoo said it doesn't believe anyone will take responsibility for Lief's death. »

Paul Ryan says Trump puts himself "above the Constitution," calls him "unfit for office"

Authored by salon.com

When Fox News host Neil Cavuto asked Ryan, who voted for Trump in 2016, what “put him off,” Ryan said it is a “contribution of things” but namely Trump’s lack of moral principles.

It’s not the first time Ryan has made his contempt for Trump known.

He called Trump a “populist, authoritarian narcissist,” who thinks in an “authoritarian way,” in an interview last year. »

US man who drugged daughter and friends at sleepover sentenced to prison

Authored by theguardian.com

An Oregon man who drugged his daughter and her friends with fruit smoothies laced with a sleeping medication after they didn’t go to bed during a sleepover was sentenced to two years in prison.

He said he planned a fun sleepover last summer for his daughter and three of her friends, all then age 12, but they didn’t go to bed by 11pm as he wanted.

“No decent parent feels the need to drug their own child and her friends,” one of the girl’s mothers told Meyden during sentencing. »

Federal court permanently blocks Florida's law against trans health care

Authored by advocate.com

A federal court has permanently blocked Florida from enforcing its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors and restrictions on the care for trans adults.

Florida was the first state to pass a law restricting access to health care for transgender adults.

“I’m so grateful the court saw how this law prevented parents like me from taking care of our children.”. »

Four Tops singer says hospital put him in straitjacket after not believing he was in Four Tops

Authored by nbcnews.com

Instead, a doctor ordered a psychological evaluation, and he was restrained for at least an hour and a half, it says.

The suit accuses the hospital and two staffers — a nurse and a security guard — of negligence, racial discrimination, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

However, his treatment was delayed because hospital staffers didn't believe he was part of the famed Four Tops group. »