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Lee had just been dumped when she found out she was pregnant. With no car, no job and no support, the 23-year-old — who asked that her last name be withheld for medical privacy — ended up at the virtual clinic Hey Jane, where she was quickly assessed and prescribed abortion medication. Four months later, thousands of Californians in a similar situation have been holding their breath as the U.S. Supreme Court weighed a case that could rewrite the rules of care in more than two-thirds of U.S. abortions, limiting access to a popular drug even in states where it…
It took six countries, 18 years, and a litany of lies, but Natalee Holloway and Stephany Ramirez both have justice. Throughout the tabloid frenzy, the international headlines, the years of rumors and myths of stranger danger and child trafficking, there was only ever one real main suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. The Alabama teen, who vanished from a beach in Aruba while on her senior high school trip in 2005, became one of the most famous missing persons cases of the decade. But despite the relentless media attention focused on her abduction, the likely perpetrator seemed to evade…
Halo Infinite developer 343 Industries reveals The Yappening 2 event, which features a new map and the return of a fan-favorite mode. Halo Infinite will host “The Yappening 2” event featuring a new map, a free Operation Pass with all-new rewards, and much more this month. Longtime Halo fans may also look forward to the reintroduction of Gruntpocalypse in Halo Infinite, more than 13 years after it was first featured in Halo Reach. 343 Industries continues to support Halo Infinite with new updates and content in 2024, with the most recent update implementing the Easy Anti-Cheat system for the PC…
Authorities in Russia’s Far East on Monday called off a rescue effort for 13 workers trapped deep underground in a collapsed gold mine and declared them dead.The miners got trapped on March 18 at a depth of about 400 feet when part of the mine collapsed in the Zeysk district of the Amur region, about 3,000 miles east of Moscow.About 200 rescuers used powerful pumps to try to take out water that flooded the mine, posing a challenge to the salvage operation. In this photo taken from video released by Russia Emergency Situations Ministry press service on Monday, March 25,…
The Nickelodeon alum released a lengthy statement where he claimed that he was also ‘groomed and molested’ when he was a pre-teen by a friend’s stepfather, after the ‘Quiet on Set’ documentary. Image Credit: Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic Matthew Underwood has come forward, claiming that he was “sexually harassed and then assaulted” by his former agent in an Instagram post on Thursday, March 28. His post comes just days after the final episode of the bombshell documentary Quiet on Set was released, detailing allegations of abuse and workplace misconduct from young stars on Nickelodeon. Matthew, 33, is best known for playing Logan Reese on the…
The 2024 Tour of Flanders was far from the day Team SD Worx-Protime had hoped for. They started the race with World Champion Lotte Kopecky, defending champion and top favourite, eyeing a third consecutive Ronde victory – in the rainbow jersey, no less. But in the end, the team finished off the podium with Kopecky in fifth place, Demi Vollering eighth, and Lorena Wiebes 11th.Like the year before, the Koppenberg was the climb that influenced the race the most. In 2023, Kopecky, Wiebes, and Marlen Reusser were three out of four riders in a front group after the steep cobbled…
While the world has watched Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s love story with curiosity and intrigue, Kylie Kelce has gotten a front-row seat to the romance.Kylie Kelce, who is married to Travis Kelce’s brother, retired Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, says it’s been a joy to witness the relationship up close. “Ultimately, if Trav is happy, we’re happy. We are always cheering on Uncle Trav. It’s such a treat to be able to do that on and off the field. But it’s been amazing,” she said April 1 on TODAY during an interview with co-anchors Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb.Travis…
A preserved baby mammoth has been discovered by gold miners in the Klondike gold fields, located within the traditional tribal territory of the Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin in the Yukon, Canada. Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin Elders named the mammoth calf “Nun cho ga”, meaning “big baby animal” in the Hän language, and has been described as the most complete mammoth found in North America. The specimen is a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), an extinct species of mammoth that lived during the Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch. The species are among the most studied of any prehistoric animal thanks to other specimens…
Black Caesar gained infamy as a pirate and served on the Queen Anne’s Revenge, the flagship commanded by Edward Teach, more commonly known as Blackbeard. Little is known about Caesar’s early life, with many narratives being nothing more than literary inventions, but according to several sources he was a tribal chieftain before being captured by slavers. Upon escaping his captivity, Caesar was said to lure merchant ships passing through the Florida Keys, posing as a shipwrecked sailor and robbing his rescuers at gunpoint. Overtime, he formed a group of pirates and attacked ships on the open sea, avoiding capture when…
Tel-Aviv University Archaeologists from Tel Aviv University have uncovered the mystery surrounding extensive Paleolithic stone quarrying and tool-making sites: Why did Homo erectus repeatedly revisit the very same locations for hundreds of thousands of years? The answer lies in the migration routes of elephants, which they hunted and dismembered using flint tools crafted at these quarrying sites. Everything They Needed The research, published in the journal Archaeologies, was led by Dr. Meir Finkel and Prof. Ran Barkai of Tel Aviv University’s Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures Prof. Ran Barkai explains: “Ancient humans required three things:…