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A common abortion pill will come before the US Supreme Court. Here’s how mifepristone works

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:52:34 GMT

Medication abortion is the preferred method of ending pregnancy in the U.S., and one of the two drugs used — mifepristone — will now go in front of the U.S. Supreme Court next year. Demand for the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol has grown as states have imposed bans or restrictions or seek to limit abortions after the reversal of Roe v. Wade in June 2022.Conservative groups filed lawsuits targeting mifepristone, which is the only drug approved specifically for abortion, seeking to reverse its approval or rollback policies that have made it easier to obtain. The Supreme Court will hear a case in the spring that could block mail-order access to mifepristone and impose restrictions on its use, even in states where abortion remains legal. The restrictions include shortening the window during pregnancy in which the drug can be used and requiring in-person office visits to get a prescription.Here’s a closer look at how mifepristone and misoprostol work and the legal chal...

Shohei Ohtani to be introduced at Dodger Stadium on Thursday after record $700 million deal

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:52:34 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers called a Thursday news conference to introduce Shohei Ohtani, who has not answered questions from reporters in more than four months.The two-time AL MVP agreed to a record $700 million, 10-year contract last weekend, a deal that the team announced Monday and provides that 97% of the money be deferred without interest and not fully paid until 2043.Ohtani will be introduced during a news conference in Dodger Stadium’s Centerfield Plaza starting 3 p.m. PST.A unique two-way star as both a hitter and pitcher, the 29-year-old left the Los Angeles Angels as a free agent after six years.He last spoke with reporters on Aug. 9, two weeks before a pitching injury that required surgery and will keep him off a mound until 2025. He had the operation on Sept. 19, but the nature of the surgery was not fully announced. Ohtani had Tommy John surgery on Oct. 1, 2018..Ohtani’s move from Anaheim to Hollywood has sent fans on both sides of the Pacific Ocea...

Colorado has the world's largest elk population, but it wasn't always that way

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:52:34 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Colorado has the largest elk population in the world, but it hasn't always been that way.According to CPW, there are an estimated 280,000 elk in the state, but in the early 1900s, only 40,000 elk roamed in North America. Colorado Parks and Wildlife spots rare 1 in 100,000 piebald cow elk The elk population dwindled due to unregulated market hunting, according to CPW. Now, Rocky Mountain elk are one of the greatest conservation success stories in Colorado.How elk went from dwindling to thriving in ColoradoCPW and conservation partners made it happen with rigorous studies and relocation efforts. In 1916, 50 elk were brought to Colorado from Wyoming to help re-establish dwindling herds. They were released in Idaho Springs and the Greenhorn Mountains, according to CPW."From these limited transplants, and through decades of trapping and relocation efforts by wildlife managers, elk populations have soared to the abundant herds for which Colorado is now famous," the CPW...

Broncos name Garett Bolles as Man of the Year nominee

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:52:34 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The Denver Broncos have named Garett Bolles as a nominee for the 2023 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year award.Bolles has played with the Broncos since being drafted in the first round of the 2017 NFL Draft from the University of Utah. He has played all 94 games during the seven seasons he's been on the team. Waffle House server receives $1,000 tip from Broncos player The Broncos highlighted his consistent impact on the local community, including being named the Broncos' Community Impact Award winner in 2022 and a Broncos Community Ambassador in 2021. Bolles has specifically focused a lot of attention on providing impactful mentorship to justice-involved youth, according to the Broncos."He has impacted hundreds of youth with his outreach, providing mentorship and developing a unique, in-person connection with each child," the Broncos said.He is also passionate about his foundation, the GB3 Foundation, which focuses on empowering youth with learning disabi...

Proposed Colorado license plate would help preserve historic landmarks

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:52:34 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — A historic preservation organization wants to create a new specialty group license plate that "highlights the importance of saving places."The Colorado Preservation, Inc. is a statewide nonprofit that promotes historic preservation by providing advocacy, education, outreach and preservation services, according to its website. The nonprofit wants to introduce a new specialty license plate that can be purchased to support historic landmarks across Colorado.“Colorado is fortunate to have many options for individuals to personalize their cars and show what is important to them.  While there are many options, there is not one yet that features the importance of place and the many historic landscapes, buildings, and cultures that make up communities across Colorado," said CPI Executive Director Jennifer Orrigo Charles. Starting soon, you can buy this dino-themed license plate for your car The design of the proposed license plate features the iconic white mountains w...

Painting honoring Oprah Winfrey unveiled at Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:52:34 GMT

(CNN) — Shawn Michael Warren can thank a mural for connecting him with his very famous muse.Three years ago, the Chicago artist painted Oprah Winfrey’s image as part of a mural in the city’s West Loop neighborhood, curated by the B_Line Projects to honor the media mogul whose famed talk show and production company had been based in the area.In a video Warren shared on Instagram at the time, Winfrey said when she first saw the mural it took her “breath away.”“I was so impressed by Shawn Michael Warren’s artistry, the creativity, the way he was able to capture a feeling of hope and inspiration and strength,” she said of his work.Fast forward to Wednesday in Washington, DC, where the artist and Winfrey were together to unveil a new portrait Warren painted of her for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.The painting shows Winfrey looking resplendent in a purple dress, holding an olive branch.In the audience were Winfrey’s best friend Gayle King, friend and director A...

Braintree police arrest suspects involved in gift card scam ring, recover thousands of cards in the process

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:52:34 GMT

Police in Braintree say officers arrested two suspects and recovered over 4,600 gift cards believed to have been stolen as part of a gift card scam, similar to others happening across the country.On their Facebook page, the Braintree Police Department said the arrests happened on Monday, Dec. 11, after officers were alerted to a pair of suspects who were allegedly removing gift cards from a CVS display rack on Grove Street.Police went on to locate a vehicle believed to be involved in the incident and came across four bags that were “full of Apple, Nike, Sephora and Visa gift cards.”“In total [the officers] recovered 4,617 cards,” Braintree PD stated.As a result of the investigation, authorities said YanYan Liu and Na Dong of Flushing, New York, were arrested and charged with both shoplifting as well as receiving stolen property.In their social media post, the department described the alleged incident as being similar to scams “currently happening across...

Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady for third consecutive time

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:52:34 GMT

Washington, DC (CNN) — The Federal Reserve said Wednesday it will hold interest rates steady at a 22-year high for the third consecutive meeting, as US economic growth slows and investors look toward the beginning of rate cuts sometime next year.The Fed has raised rates 11 times since March 2022 to combat high inflation, which has slowed markedly after hitting a four-decade high last summer.Still, the central bank hasn’t crossed the finish line just yet. Officials are expecting inflation to cool next year at a slightly faster pace than previously estimated, according to their latest set of economic projections released Wednesday.Some economists say the final mile of the Fed’s historic inflation fight will be the most difficult, and Fed Chair Jerome Powell and other officials say that additional rate hikes remain on the table.But Wall Street isn’t buying that. The first rate cut could come ...

Lawsuit: Ex-Harvard doctor accused of inseminating woman with his own sperm without permission

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:52:34 GMT

A former Harvard Medical School professor is accused of inseminating a woman with his own sperm decades ago and misleading her about the donor, according to a new lawsuit.In what plaintiff Sarah Depoian called “an extreme violation,” Dr. Merle Berger, an OBGYN professor at Harvard and founder of Boston IVF, one of the nation’s largest fertility clinics, is accused of inseminating her with his own sperm, leading to the birth of Depoian’s child, Carolyn Bester, in 1981.The lawsuit filed in federal court Wednesday states that Depoian and her husband went to see Berger for help conceiving a child in 1980 and that he promised, according to the complaint, “to perform an insemination using the sperm of a medical resident who resembled her husband, who did not know her, and whom she did not know. With that understanding, Ms. Depoian consented to the insemination.”The alleged action wasn’t uncovered until Bester used a home DNA test earlier this year and found that Dr. Berger was her biologi...

For 50 years, these musicians backed stars like Stevie Nicks and James Taylor. This is their story

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:52:34 GMT

Bassist Leland Sklar says there was no hesitation when drummer Russ Kunkel, guitarists Danny Kortchmar and Waddy Wachtel and himself were approached to do a documentary about their lives as four of the greatest Los Angeles session musicians of the past 50 years.He was a little surprised, though.“Never in a million years did it ever occur enter my mind that there would ever be anything like this done,” Sklar says on a recent video call with Kunkel, Wachtel, and director Denny Tedesco. “I mean, we just kind of loved playing and went to work and did what we did.“Never really thought about it moving to the level that it’s done,” he says.“Immediate Family” opens in theaters on Friday, Dec. 15. It’s a warm-hearted documentary that illustrates how these four players played a major part of many of the greatest singles, albums and tours of the last five decades. Artists such as James Taylor, Carole King, Jackson Browne, Stevie Nicks, Keith Richards, Linda Ronstadt, and Phil Collins are among...