Critically ill UK teen in legal fight with NHS

38 minutes ago About sharing By Michelle Roberts Digital health editor A critically ill 19-year-old and her family are fighting the NHS in court over plans to stop more treatment and proceed instead with end-of-life care. The former A-level student wants to go to Canada for an experimental therapy which she believes might help her…

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Progressives Need to Have Real Answers on Crime

Politics / September 1, 2023 Progressives Need to Have Real Answers on Crime California shows that unless the left acknowledges the need to make communities safe while maintaining support for criminal justice reform, right-wing demagogues will latch onto the issue. Sasha Abramsky Ad Policy Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass speaks during a press conference to…

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Only a Social Movement Can Win Real Immigration Reform

Renee Saucedo speaks at a rally at the San Francisco Federal Building at the end of the migrant farmworkers’ three-day march from Petaluma. (David Bacon) / September 1, 2023 Only a Social Movement Can Win Real Immigration Reform Activists marched for three days straight, demanding that Congress finally change the immigration registry date. David Bacon…

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Welcome to the “You Do You” Pandemic

Comment / August 31, 2023 Welcome to the “You Do You” Pandemic The new Covid policy: Let them eat cake. Gregg Gonsalves Ad Policy (Tang Ming Tung / Getty Images) This article appears in the September 18/25, 2023 issue, with the headline “The ‘You Do You’ Pandemic.” Several weeks ago, two op-eds appeared in The…

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Los Angeles Is Now the Country’s Leading Union Town

Activism / September 1, 2023 Los Angeles Is Now the Country’s Leading Union Town The West Coast capital, once famous for hostility to organized labor, emerges as the epicenter of national strike action. C.M. Lewis Ad Policy Striking WGA workers march in solidarity with striking hotel workers outside the Ritz-Carlton hotel on July 3, 2023,…

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The Biden Administration Cuts and Runs From Haiti

World / September 1, 2023 The Biden Administration Cuts and Runs From Haiti After more than a century bleeding the country, installing and abetting corrupt dictators, and suppressing democracy, the US government now advises Americans to flee. Amy Wilentz Ad Policy Residents evacuate Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as gang violence continues to plague the city. (Richard Pierrin…

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Jet ski tourists shot dead off coast of Algeria

23 minutes ago About sharing File image of jet skier By George Wright BBC News The Algerian coastguard have reportedly shot dead two tourists holidaying in Morocco who strayed into Algerian waters on their jet skis. They were among four French-Moroccan dual nationals who had set off by jet ski from the Moroccan resort of…

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