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Skip to main content Currently Reading He helped win a case against a 'Tiger King' regular. Now this Yale law grad says the Constitution protects owls. FacebookTwitterEmail Asher Smith, right, and representatives of Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge, an accredited sanctuary based in Eureka Springs, Ark., rescue a female lion, Mauri, from Tim Stark’s Indiana facility, Wildlife in Need. Mauri was one of 25 big cats rescued in September 2020 as a result of court orders in Smith’s litigation against Stark.Contributed photo Asher Smith is a Yale Law School graduate who helped secure the rescue ...

AIDS first came to the world's attention with a June 5, 1981, report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about five cases of Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) among young gay men in Los Angeles. A second report on cases of PCP and Kaposi sarcoma in New York City and California followed a month later. The disease that would come to be known as AIDS was first mentioned in the Bay Area Reporter in a July 2 Health Shorts column about "Gay Men's Pneumonia" — potentially linked to poppers — buried on page 34. Dr. Robert Boland's gay health column in the August 13 issue was headl...

Thank you, Madam President. The United Kingdom welcomes the engagement of the United States of America with the Universal Periodic Review process and its commitment to promoting and protecting human rights, both at home and around the world. We welcome the US’ acceptance of two of our three recommendations. Namely, the recommendation to work with State and local government on best practice for police use of force and improving the relationship between law enforcement and the communities which they serve. We are also pleased by the US’ acceptance of our recommendation to clarify its approa...

  Share Source: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin When you think of International Women's Day, do you think of that as an excuse to celebrate taxpayer funded abortions abroad? Democrats do.  On Tuesday, Democratic Reps. Jan Schakowsky, Marilyn Strickland, Barbara Lee, Jackie Speier, Ayanna Pressley, Diana DeGette, and Norma Torres introduced HR 1670, or, the "Abortion is Health Care Everywhere Act." Naturally, these abortion advocates tied funding abortions abroad using taxpayer dollars to celebrating International Women's Day, which was the day before.  The legislation in question would repeal t...

House Democrats Push Bill to Force Americans to Fund Abortions Overseas 11 Mar 2021 House Democrats introduced a bill Tuesday that would repeal the Helms Amendment, forcing American taxpayers to fund abortions overseas. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D) introduced the bill, dubbed the Abortion Is Health Care Everywhere Act (H.R. 1670), that would repeal the Helms Amendment, a longstanding provision that has prohibited taxpayer funding of abortions abroad. “Unsafe abortion is a global health crisis,” Schakowsky tweeted, citing the pro-abortion rights Guttmacher Institute which, she stated, “estima...