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Department of Foresty begins preparing for wildfire season (Statesman Journal)
9th Circuit Court upholds panel ruling, Title X rule goes into effect (Life News)
Senate Republicans get $3,500 bill for walkout (OPB)
Baby with spinal bifida born healthy after experimental surgery in the womb
To address his spina bifida, surgery was performed on Baby Royer while he was still in the womb. His story gives hope to the families of babies in the womb that suffer from that birth defect. Royer was born in January after a surgery was completed in the womb in...
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Young man mentored by police officer who arrested him
Over six years ago, Rameil Pitamber was a 17-year old honor student who was dealing with the death of his father. “I was lost. I had a lot to prove. And I felt like to prove it, I had to be tough,” Pitamber said, as reported by CBS News. “I was a follower, and one...
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103-year-old Julia Hawkins competes in 100-meter dash, says to appreciate sunsets and music
103-year-old Julia Hawkins likes to have a flower in her hair—even while she is running a 100- meter dash. Two years ago, when Hawkins was 101, she ran the 100-meter dash in 39.62 seconds. They dubbed her the “Hurricane.” Hawkins made another appearance this week in...
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Pampers and Koala Kare to install 5,000 changing tables in men’s restrooms
Pampers has decided to aide dads all over the U.S. who have found themselves unable to find a baby changing station in men’s restrooms. Multiple dads have posted photos depicting their babies on the floor of men’s restrooms because there was no changing table. Several...
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Loggers, farmers and ranchers protest HB 2020 at the Capital, show support for the ‘Oregon Eleven’
Eleven Republican senators have continued their walkout protest that is in its eight-consecutive day. Meanwhile, hundreds of loggers, farmers and ranchers assembled on the Capital steps on June 27. They were protesting a greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade bill and...
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Re-introduced bill strives to make adoption more feasible for families
A bi-partisan bill has been reincarnated by lawmakers that would make adoption more affordable for families throughout the country. The bill would revive the refundable portion of the present adoption tax credit, Senator Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) announced in a press release...
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Four Oklahoma teenagers save elderly woman from fire
Ninety-year-old Catherine Ritchie from Sapulpa, Oklahoma, had been living in the same house for 58 years. That changed when her bed caught fire several weeks ago. “I was getting ready for bed in the bathroom, and I turned around, and my bed, the head of my bed, was...
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Climbers stranded for days on Mount Rainier rescued by helicopter
Four climbers were rescued from Mount Rainier on June 6 after calling 911 on June 3. One of the climbers, Yevgeniy Krasnitskiy of Portland, told reporters “Don’t mess with Rainier.” Krasnitskiy said this when he described the harrowing conditions that the four of them...
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World’s smallest surviving micro-preemie discharged from hospital
A little girl was born weighing only as much as an apple. A hospital in San Diego revealed that the girl is believed to be the tiniest surviving micro-preemie in the world. She weighed only 8.6 ounces when she was born in December. The girl, who nurses called “Saybie”...
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Democratic Louisiana governor signs ‘heartbeat’ bill
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, broke the status quo on May 30 by signing a bill that would protect the unborn when a fetal heartbeat is detected. “I call on the overwhelming bipartisan majority of legislators who voted for it [the bill] to join me in...
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Gov. Mike Parson of Missouri signs bill protecting the unborn after eight weeks
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson signed a pro-life bill on May 24 that protects babies in the womb after eight weeks of pregnancy. “By signing this bill today, we are sending a strong signal to the nation that, in Missouri, we stand for life, protect women’s health, and...
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Woman rescued from Hawaii forest after being lost for 16 days
A woman was retrieved from a Hawaii forest after being lost for more than two weeks. She said that she had to choose between life and death in order to stay alive, as reported by ABC News. “There were times of total fear and loss and wanting to give up, and it did...
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D-Day secret revealed by DNA test
In Ludres, France, Andre Gantois had lost hope, after decades of searching. Gantois, a retired French postal worker, thought he would die before he found out who his father was. He knew his father was a U.S. serviceman, who had struggled across France in the aftermath...
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