Author: William Wan
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Pain turns political in Parkland after school shootings
PARKLAND, Fla. – On a day when Parkland began burying its young dead, a dozen people stood on a street corner holding up “More Gun Control” signs as passing drivers honked and shouted in support. “Look what we started,” said Carlos Rodriguez, 50, who was on his way to work when he stopped to join…
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States to try new ways of executing prisoners. Their latest idea? Opioids.
The synthetic painkiller fentanyl has been the driving force behind the nation’s opioid epidemic, killing tens of thousands of Americans last year in overdoses. Now two states want to use the drug’s powerful properties for a new purpose: to execute prisoners on death row. As Nevada and Nebraska push for the country’s first fentanyl-assisted executions,…
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Grilled cheese sandwich suspected in New York boy’s death
New York City officials have closed a preschool in Harlem where a young boy with a severe food allergy died after being given a grilled cheese sandwich. Investigators were at the preschool on Thursday to review the sequence of events. Elijah Silvera’s family said staff knew the 3-year-old was severely allergic to dairy products. Elijah…
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Trump administration narrows Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate
The Trump administration issued a rule Friday that sharply limits the Affordable Care Act’s contraception coverage mandate, a move that could mean many American women would no longer have access to birth control free of charge. The new regulation, issued by the Health and Human Services Department, allows a much broader group of employers and…
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Study shows Ravens have complex reasoning skills
For centuries, we told ourselves that we are special – that what separates humans from animals is our ability to reason. But that belief has been badly undermined given evidence showing apes also have the intelligence to use tools, solve complex problems and even plan for the future. Now the latest indignity: Ravens can do…
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Focus, China forge unlikely alliance on abstinence
BEIJING • If all goes according to plan, this fall a girl somewhere in China’s Yunnan Province will tell her boyfriend she can’t have sex with him. And he’ll have an abstinence program from the United States to thank.In Yunnan schools this year, teachers are being trained with a sex education curriculum created by the…