American Airlines tried to charge a mother $150 for traveling with breast milk
BY ADAM ROSENBERG From Mashable How is it that airlines keep screwing up simple things like company policy and established TSA rules? The latest travel blunder belongs to American Airlines. When Sara showed up with her husband and young son…
‘Disturbing’ video of 11-year-old handcuffed at gunpoint ‘makes me physically nauseous,’ police chief says
By MORGAN WINSOR Good Morning America From Yahoo News A police department in Michigan has launched an internal investigation into a recent incident in which an 11-year-old girl was handcuffed at gunpoint. The Grand Rapids Police Department on Tuesday released…
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AIDS care in the Caribbean is varied
From St Lucia Times (Martinique 1Ere) – 308 million euros are needed each year to finance the fight against AIDS in the Caribbean. The majority of this sum is the responsibility of countries that benefit from some international aid. But from 2018,…
Left behind: Caribbean film shows families torn apart by migration
By Alexandra Simon From Brooklyn Daily Heavy burden: Meschida Philip’s short film “Scars of my Mother’s Dream,” screening on Nov. 21, examines the trauma that children of migrating Caribbean parents carry with them. She tells a moving story. A collection…
Libyan coast guard intercepts nearly 300 migrants east of Tripoli
From Yahoo News TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s coastguard intercepted 299 migrants from sub-Saharan African countries on two rubber boats east of Tripoli on Tuesday, officials said. The migrants were intercepted near the town of Zliten by one of several coastguard…
US: Dad charged after cops find body near where toddler was left outside for not drinking milk
By Dominique Mosbergen HuffPost From Yahoo News The Texas dad police accused of leaving his 3-year-old daughter outside in the middle of the night as punishment for not drinking her milk was charged with a first-degree felony on Monday, the…
Hundreds missing amid California fires; loved ones go online
AP From Newsmax Friends and relatives desperately checked hospitals and shelters and pleaded on social media for help finding loved ones missing amid California’s wildfires, with hundreds of people unaccounted for Wednesday. “We’ve been to 17 evacuation centers. We’ve called…
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Scam – Kidnapping claim turns out to be attempt at fraud [call claimed to come from the Cayman Islands
From The Richfield Reaper It can be a parent’s worst nightmare — a phone call with someone on the other end claiming to have kidnapped a child, demanding a ransom. It’s a scenario straight out of a movie, but it…
CRISPR gene-editing could result in more successful birth rates
By Saqib Shah From engadget A first-of-its-kind study used CRISPR tech to understand human embryo development. Gene-edited human embryos are offering new insights into the earliest stages of development, and could reduce the risk of miscarriage at the outset of…
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Illinois Senator vacationing in Caribbean during Hurricane Irma shares harrowing story of survival
From Chicago NBC5 In a harrowing story of survival, Illinois State Senator Iris Martinez revealed Monday how she managed to survive after being left stranded in the wake of Hurricane Irma on a Caribbean island last week. Illinois State Sen….
