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Monday July 29th, 2024 night edition

image for A woman who took an abortion pill was charged with murder. She is now suing prosecutors

A woman who took an abortion pill was charged with murder.

A Texas woman who self-managed her abortion is suing prosecutors and a local sheriff after she was held in jail for two nights on a murder charge that was ultimately dismissed.

Lizelle Gonzalez, a Star County, Texas, resident, filed a civil rights complaint alleging that hospital staff provided her private information to prosecutors and the county sheriff who later charged her with murder, according to court documents.

Under Texas' multiple abortion bans, it is not a crime for a woman to obtain or seek abortion care for herself; the abortion bans target physicians and anyone who aids a woman in obtaining or seeking an abortion.

Gonzalez is alleging the prosecutors and the sheriff violated her Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights and is seeking over $1 million in damages.

State law prohibits physicians from providing abortion care and places civil and criminal penalties on anyone who aids a woman in obtaining abortion care unless the mother's life is at risk.

An activist seen holding a placard that says protect safe, legal abortion during the protest in Dayton, Ohio, May 19, 2019. »

Donald Trump Issues World War III Warning if He Isn't President

Authored by newsweek.com
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Donald Trump told attendees at a conservative conference on Friday that he can "prevent World War III" if he returns for a second term in the White House.

During his address on Friday, which was broadcast in full by the conservative-leaning Right Side Broadcasting Network, Trump said: "I will prevent World War III, nobody else is going to say that, we are closer today to World War III than we've been since the Second World War.

During the event, Trump said his election in November could prevent the outbreak of World War III. »

New antidote for cobra bites discovered

Authored by sydney.edu.au
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Scientists at the University of Sydney and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have made a remarkable discovery: a commonly used blood thinner, heparin, can be repurposed as an inexpensive antidote for cobra venom.

Current antivenom treatment is expensive and does not effectively treat the necrosis of the flesh where the bite occurs.

PhD student and lead author, Tian Du, also from the University of Sydney, said: “Heparin is inexpensive, ubiquitous and a World Health Organization-listed Essential Medicine. »

‘Monster’ oyster weighing over 5 pounds harvested off coast

Authored by republicanherald.com
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The 'monster' oyster, which weighs 2.5kg (5.5lb), was discovered on Mersea Island, Essex by the oyster cultivators Richard Haward's Oysters.

Tom Haward said he was fascinated after his company retrieved the huge mollusk, weighing 2.5kg (5.5lbs) along the coast of Mersea Island, Essex.

The oyster is 1.5 inches (4cm) short of the largest oyster recorded by the Guinness World Records, discovered in Denmark at 13.97 inches long. »

Hamas sends hostage torture video with direct warning to Israeli minister

Authored by telegraph.co.uk
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Hamas is filming the torture of Israeli hostages in an attempt to force Israel to ease conditions for Palestinian prisoners.

In one video, members of the terrorist group directly address Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s national security minister who controls prison policy, two Israeli officials told The Telegraph.

The video shows hostages being tortured while Hamas warn that harsher conditions for Palestinian prisoners held in Israel are affecting the well-being of hostages in Gaza. »