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Yahoo
08-07-2025
- Yahoo
1 in custody after west Las Vegas valley shooting
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Police took a person into custody after a shooting in the west Las Vegas valley. On Monday, around 3:30 p.m., police responded to the 7400 block of Saybrook Point Drive near Vegas Drive and Tenaya Way after a report of a man who was shot. One person was taken for medical treatment, and the suspect was taken into custody. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
23-06-2025
- Yahoo
Motorcyclist taken to trauma center following crash with vehicle in Buchanan
BUCHANAN, Wis. (WFRV) – A motorcyclist was taken to a trauma center following a crash with a vehicle in Outagamie County on Saturday night. According to the Town of Buchanan Fire and Rescue, crews were called to the corner of Cty Tk KK and Loderbauer Road around 9:55 p.m. on June 21 for reports of a motorcycle and vehicle crash. First responders immediately began treatment on the motorcyclist who was found lying in the roadway. The victim was then taken to a local trauma center for treatment. 53-year-old man in Wisconsin hospitalized for life-threatening injuries after being trapped under farm equipment The driver of the vehicle reportedly declined medical treatment. No additional information was provided. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Irish Times
18-06-2025
- Health
- Irish Times
US supreme court upholds Tennessee ban on certain transgender treatments for minors
The US supreme court on Wednesday upheld a Tennessee law prohibiting some medical treatments for transgender minors, rejecting arguments that it violated the Constitution and shielding similar laws in more than 20 other states. The ruling, which came amid the Trump administration's fierce assaults on transgender rights, and follows a decision by the court five years ago to protect transgender people from workplace discrimination. The vote was 6:3, with the court's three liberal members in dissent. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, acknowledged the 'fierce scientific and policy debates about the safety, efficacy and propriety of medical treatments in an evolving field'. 'The voices in these debates raise sincere concerns; the implications for all are profound,' he said. READ MORE He said these questions should be resolved by 'the people, their elected representatives and the democratic process'. The Tennessee law was enacted in 2023, amid a sweeping national pushback to expanding rights for transgender people. Since then, controversies about military service, athletes, bathrooms and pronouns have played a role in president Donald Trump's second-term agenda. The law prohibits medical providers from prescribing puberty-delaying medication, offering hormone therapy or performing surgery as treatment for the psychological distress caused by incongruence between experienced gender and a person's biological sex. The doctor and three families who sued to challenge the Tennessee law said it discriminated based on sex and transgender status in violation of the Constitution's equal protection clause. They noted the law specified that those prohibited treatments were allowed when undertaken for reasons other than gender transition care. In a measure of the shifting politics around transgender issues, the Biden administration intervened on their side. After Mr Trump took office, his administration issued an executive order directing agencies to take steps to curtail surgeries, hormone therapy and other gender transition care for youths under 19. And in February, his administration formally reversed the government's position in the case and urged the justices to uphold the law. The briefs in the case before the supreme court surveyed the medical evidence, with the challengers stressing that major American medical associations support the prohibited treatments as crucial for alleviating the psychological distress of many transgender youths. Tennessee's brief countered that scientific uncertainty meant legislatures rather than courts should decide what treatments are available to minors. — The New York Times . 2025 The New York Times Company
Times
13-06-2025
- Health
- Times
After two years, a shriek of joy from the Ukrainian prisoner's wife
They came in ambulances, not coaches. The first to emerge were pushed in wheelchairs up the ramp to the hospital door; the next walked slowly up on their own, their sunken eyes passing over the crowds thronging below. These Ukrainian prisoners of war, the wounded, the sick and the disabled, were the latest to be released in a series of prisoner swaps with Russia, the only concrete measure agreed at negotiations overseen by the Americans that began in Istanbul last month. There were no joyful reunions. All those swapped for their Russian counterparts were immediately ushered into the hospital by waiting medical staff. President Zelensky welcomed them home as heroes but said 'all require medical treatment' being 'severely wounded and seriously ill'. A day earlier, Russia and Ukraine exchanged the bodies of 1,200 each of their fallen after an ugly war of words over who was holding up proceedings. After a prisoner exchange fell through last week, Russia drove refrigerated lorries to the border and flung open the doors to show piled up body bags containing dead Ukrainian soldiers — a move denounced by Zelensky as 'a dirty political and propaganda game'. The exchanges, which restarted this week with the youngest prisoners of war from both sides, have become magnets of desperate hope and grief for the families of the missing. Outside the hospital mothers, fathers, sisters, wives, girlfriends and children jostled to hold up photographs of their loved ones, calling out names, battalions and where the missing were last seen. Suddenly there was a scream from the crowd. 'Denys, Denys!' a young woman shouted, holding her toddler daughter. It was the first she had learnt that her husband, missing in action for two years, was alive. Medical staff caught her as she collapsed and was put into a wheelchair. She was the only family member allowed inside as the soldiers underwent examination and debriefing before their transfer to rehabilitation. The walking wounded, who arrived later by bus, were less willing to be rushed inside. Shaven-headed, they stood on the ramp outside the hospital door, blinking in the sunlight as their eyes raked over the photographs of their missing comrades held aloft by the crowds. One sadly shook his head as he looked at face after face. Another held out his hands and studied each photograph closely. 'Yes,' he said. 'This one I know.' At the sight of a returned prisoner at a fifth floor window, the crowd surged, shouting out for information. From the window, he shouted the phone number of his former cellmate's mother which he had memorised to let her know he was still alive. 'He is from Azov,' he shouted. 'He was in my cell.' Ukraine nor to the International Committee of the Red Cross, which is tasked under the Geneva Convention with facilitating communications between PoWs and their families. • 'They want to destroy everything' — the families fleeing Putin's brutal offensive 'These men are not just in a very bad condition, they have been held incommunicado for up to three years,' said Petro Yatsenko, spokesman for Ukraine's Co-ordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War. 'They do not know anything that has happened in the war. They don't know if Ukraine is completely broken.' EPA On their medical treatment in captivity, he cited one prisoner released earlier this week, who told a Russian military doctor he was experiencing excruciating pain in his foot. 'The doctor said, 'Show me where' and he showed him and the doctor beat him right in that place,' he said. 'The doctor did that.'
Times
12-06-2025
- Health
- Times
No joyful reunions for prisoners of war brought back to Ukraine
They came in ambulances, not coaches. The first to emerge were pushed in wheelchairs up the ramp to the hospital door; the next walked slowly up on their own, their sunken eyes passing over the crowds thronging below. These Ukrainian prisoners of war, the wounded, the sick and the disabled, were the latest to be released in a series of prisoner swaps with Russia, the only concrete measure agreed at negotiations overseen by the Americans that began in Istanbul last month. There were no joyful reunions. All those swapped for their Russian counterparts were immediately ushered into the hospital by waiting medical staff. President Zelensky welcomed them home as heroes but said 'all require medical treatment' being 'severely wounded and seriously ill'. A day earlier, Russia and Ukraine exchanged the bodies of 1,200 each of their fallen after an ugly war of words over who was holding up proceedings. After a prisoner exchange fell through last week, Russia drove refrigerated lorries to the border and flung open the doors to show piled up body bags containing dead Ukrainian soldiers — a move denounced by Zelensky as 'a dirty political and propaganda game'. • Ukraine urges US to 'force Russia into peace' after drone barrage The exchanges, which restarted this week with the youngest prisoners of war from both sides, have become magnets of desperate hope and grief for the families of the missing. Outside the hospital mothers, fathers, sisters, wives, girlfriends and children jostled to hold up photographs of their loved ones, calling out names, battalions and where the missing were last seen. Suddenly there was a scream from the crowd. 'Denys, Denys!' a young woman shouted, holding her toddler daughter. It was the first she had learnt that her husband, missing in action for two years, was alive. Medical staff caught her as she collapsed and was put into a wheelchair. She was the only family member allowed inside as the soldiers underwent examination and debriefing before their transfer to rehabilitation. The walking wounded, who arrived later by bus, were less willing to be rushed inside. Shaven-headed, they stood on the ramp outside the hospital door, blinking in the sunlight as their eyes raked over the photographs of their missing comrades held aloft by the crowds. One sadly shook his head as he looked at face after face. Another held out his hands and studied each photograph closely. 'Yes,' he said. 'This one I know.' At the sight of a returned prisoner at a fifth floor window, the crowd surged, shouting out for information. From the window, he shouted the phone number of his former cellmate's mother which he had memorised to let her know he was still alive. 'He is from Azov,' he shouted. 'He was in my cell.' Russia provides no official information on prisoners of war, neither to Ukraine nor to the International Committee of the Red Cross, which is tasked under the Geneva Convention with facilitating communications between PoWs and their families. • 'They want to destroy everything' — the families fleeing Putin's brutal offensive 'These men are not just in a very bad condition, they have been held incommunicado for up to three years,' said Petro Yatsenko, spokesman for Ukraine's Co-ordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War. 'They do not know anything that has happened in the war. They don't know if Ukraine is completely broken.' On their medical treatment in captivity, he cited one prisoner released earlier this week, who told a Russian military doctor he was experiencing excruciating pain in his foot. 'The doctor said: 'Show me where' and he showed him and the doctor beat him right in that place,' he said. 'The doctor did that.' The first time many of those released had seen any news of the war it was Russian state media, screened to them in anticipation of their release.
