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Almost two years after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the smaller island of Vieques still does not have a hospital. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has less than three weeks to explain to Congress why the agency has no concrete plans to help rebuild the facility. The ultimatum comes after Democratic lawmakers sent a letter addressed to FEMA’s acting administrator Peter T. Gaynor on Wednesday, seeking answers as to why “U.S. citizens still cannot access comprehensive medical care” almost two years after the hospital was shuttered due to damage caused by Maria in 2017. In the letter, the members of Congress reference the case of a 64-year-old cancer patient who waited 32 straight hours — sleeping and eating in her car — to ensure she had a spot on the ferry that takes residents from the smaller island to the mainland to reach a doctor in the capital city. About 9,000 people live in Vieques and hundreds of people commute to the mainland by boat, which is … [Read more...] about The Puerto Rican island of Vieques still has no hospital. Democrats demand answers from FEMA.

close Video Search for answers: Were there any security measures? Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Lt. Chris Olivarez joins 'Fox News at Night' to piece together a timeline of events, after a press conference Thursday appeared to contradict previous statements made by officials. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! UVALDE, Texas – A mass shooting at a Texas elementary school Tuesday left at least 19 children and two teachers dead after an armed 18-year-old entered the campus, barricaded himself in a classroom and opened fire. The suspected gunman has been identified by authorities as 18-year-old Uvalde, Texas, resident Salvador Ramos. TEXAS SCHOOL SHOOTING: LIVE UPDATES TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2022 11:32 a.m. CT – ‘Gunshots in the area’ A state trooper walks past the Robb Elementary School sign in Uvalde, Texas, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, following a deadly shooting at the school. (William Luther/The … [Read more...] about Texas school shooting timeline: Law enforcement agencies change course in details of massacre response

SAN ANTONIO —Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller experienced hours of anguish as he paid hospital visits to the surviving migrants who’d been inside a tractor trailer rig where dozens of people were found dead amid the sweltering heat. As of Tuesday afternoon, the death toll had risen to 51, according to Texas officials, in what's believed to be the worst case of human smuggling in recent U.S. history. García-Siller, the archbishop of the diocese of San Antonio, wanted to be sure the survivors knew people here were helping them, cared about them and praying for them. Seeing the condition of most of the patients,“it was very easy to picture in some way what was inside that trailer. They were asphyxiated,” he said. “That trailer was abandoned. The bottom line is that immigrants were abandoned. People. People,” he said, the emotion breaking his soft voice. “This is the experience of many immigrants coming to the States even if they cross, they experience the loneliness the … [Read more...] about ‘Abandoned’: Archbishop breaks down describing victims of deadly human smuggling

Coverage on this live blog has ended. Please click here for the latest updates. A gunman killed 19 elementary school students and two teachers Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas. The shooter was fatally shot by law enforcement officers responding to the attack at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, about 80 miles west of San Antonio, Gov. Greg Abbott said. The number of injured people was not clear Tuesday evening. SEE NEW POSTS Zelenskyy expresses condolences to victims’ families Anisha Kukreja 31d ago / 8:35 AM UTC Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy offered his condolences on Wednesday to the families who have lost their children and loved ones in the Texas school shooting. In a tweet, Zelenskyy said he was "deeply saddened by the news of the murder of innocent children in Texas." As the war in Ukraine raged on, he said the "the people of Ukraine share the pain of the relatives and friends of the victims and all Americans." … [Read more...] about Texas elementary school shooting: At least 19 children, 2 teachers killed

A young woman who thought she needed glasses was shocked when an optician suspected a brain tumour and doctors sent her for emergency surgery - saying if it had been a day later she would have died. Ellie Musgrove, 21, started experiencing severe headaches and neck pain after her 21st birthday in January 2022, but she knew it was more than just a hangover after only celebrating with two alcoholic drinks. Ellie then realised she couldn't see properly when she was plucking her eyebrows - her vision was impaired with black spots and double vision. She called her GP and was prescribed antibiotics over the phone for an ear infection, but her symptoms didn't improve, which prompted her to book an appointment with the opticians. Thinking she needed glasses, Ellie visited Specsavers with her dad, Mike, 54, a commercial landlord, on March 20, before being rushed to Salford Royal Hospital , Greater Manchester, after the optician noticed swelling of her optic nerve. Just 12 hours … [Read more...] about Woman, 21, rushed for lifesaving surgery after Specsavers warn she may have tumour

KOTA KINABALU: For the last 22 years, Chris Chu has been diligently selling newspapers and magazines without much fanfare from his small shop in Foh Sang here. But work on Thursday (June 30) had a unique and different meaning as he was about to meet a very special person. “I have been sharing about Sabah-born Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong to my family members and my daughter made a painting of her,” he said. Chu, 55, said his daughter Tania was so inspired by Penny’s life story and achievements that the nine-year-old quickly sketched a portrait of the Australian politician the night before. “We only knew she was coming in on Tuesday (June 28) night and we have never met Penny but she is my daughter’s hero. It is very outstanding for a Sabah-born person to be a senator in the Australian parliament. “It’s very special as she could even helm a higher position (one day). Everything is possible,” he said, after presenting the drawing to Wong during her visit to Foh Sang. … [Read more...] about Penny Wong is my daughter’s hero, says proud Sabahan shopkeeper

Labour MP Rosena Allin-Khan has has told Parliament of her family’s heartbreak when they feared her dad was being mistreated in a care home. The MP said her father was found “bloodied, bruised, and unconscious in suspicious circumstances” in a home they had been told was safe, with no explanation for how he got these injuries. She said: “The final nail in the coffin, and the point of no return, was when we found my father unconscious on the floor, with blood on the walls and the floor, and a carer’s set of keys left next to him. “Following this, he spent one month in hospital.” ( Image: Steve Bainbridge) Her struggle to get answers has left her worried for others in the same situation. “If two young professionals can endure what happened in the following months in pursuit of answers I fear deeply for the elderly in our community, such as the 80-year-old woman who herself is frail, who is caring for her husband with dementia, and who is too fearful to speak out.” … [Read more...] about Rosena Allin-Khan MP describes finding her dad bruised and bleeding in a care home

MIAMI (AP) — A woman whose arm and leg were shattered from mine-like projectiles shot into her apartment. A young man whose face was nearly blown away by a rocket-propelled grenade. A man whose chest and liver were obliterated from a missile strike. These were among the cases that Dr. Enrique Ginzburg, trauma medical director at Jackson South Ryder Trauma Center, encountered on his recent trip to Ukraine, where he worked side by side with local physicians performing complex surgeries on victims of Russia’s invasion of the Eastern European country. “It’s a very rewarding experience at this point in my life (...) to be able to contribute to such a humanitarian mission,” says Ginzburg, also a professor of surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. In early April, Ginzburg traveled with a small team of trauma surgeons to the Lviv Clinical Emergency Hospital in western Ukraine to provide medical support and training for Ukrainian physicians. Global Surgical and … [Read more...] about Miami trauma surgeon went to Ukraine to work on war victims

Click here to read the full article. Canada’s Fantasia International Film Festival will close its 26 th edition with a screening of July Jung’s “Next Sohee,” an interesting take on exploitation starring the Wachowski siblings’ regular collaborator, South Korean actress Bae Doona. The film, which premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week, won’t be the only title to discover on the closing night, however, with a special screening of A24’s horror comedy “Bodies Bodies Bodies” also planned. Directed by Halina Reijn and featuring Amandla Stenberg, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” breakout Maria Bakalova and Pete Davidson, the film shows a party game that leads to murder, all the while maintaining “a taut balance of uneasy tension and wicked humor,” teased the festival organizers. More from Variety Teaser of Fantasia Opening Night Film 'Polaris' Reveals Dystopian Perpetual Winter (EXCLUSIVE) 'The Artist' Director Michel Hazanavicius Unveils Debut Animation Film in Annecy … [Read more...] about Fantasia Adds ‘Next Sohee,’ ‘Final Cut,’ Other Final Titles to a Varied Lineup

“You’ll want to read this,” my wife said, handing me the Sunday Boston Globe . The cover story that week in late September 2020 was about a 62-year-old woman who had colon cancer that had metastasized. She died in a local hospital; her husband was also in poor health and could not take care of her at home. After she died, he moved into an area facility. Reading of someone so close to my own age succumbing to a highly preventable disease was a bit unsettling. The dateline, however, was the reason my wife had given me the paper. The story was from my hometown in Massachusetts, and the facility where the husband now lived was down the street from my childhood home. When I was a boy, we joked, far too easily, about “putting” people there when they got old. In later years, the joking ended when my father had to stay there briefly as his health began to fail. My brother then passed through its doors on his way to the final stop in a VA hospital. The couple in the story had struggled … [Read more...] about The Myth of the Golden Years