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Aid groups weigh how much more they can help if FEMA reduces its disaster response
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Volunteers with the humanitarian nonprofit Team Rubicon are accustomed to filling in the gaps of disaster recovery — they chainsaw downed trees after wildfires, muck out flooded homes and rebuild roofs blown off by hurricanes.
But with concern and confusion over how the federal government will respond to disasters this sum ... (full story)
Appellate panel reverses decision in sealed eviction record case
An Ohio appellate panel reversed a municipal court’s ruling that denied a Lancaster woman’s effort to seal the eviction record filed against her by the owner of a rental property.
A three-judge panel of the Fifth District Court of Appeals reversed the Fairfield County Municipal Court holding that the rules governing ... (full story)
Southern Baptist public policy arm survives challenge to its conservative credentials
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DALLAS (AP) — Southern Baptist representatives fended off two efforts recently to move the staunchly conservative body even more sharply to the right, giving a vote of confidence to its public-policy agency and defeating a proposed constitutional ban on churches with women pastors.
The votes came just before the adjournmen ... (full story)
Inside the legal fight over the telehealth clinics that help women defy abortion bans in their home states
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Every month, thousands of women thwart abortion bans in their home states by turning to telehealth clinics willing to prescribe pregnancy-ending drugs online and ship them anywhere in the country.
Whether this is legal, though, is a matter of debate. Two legal cases involving a New York doctor could wind up testing the shield la ... (full story)
What are people asking about COVID-19 – and what do doctors wish patients knew?
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In the first days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was full of questions.
Dr. Jeffrey Hsu recalls the fear of the unknown as he and other health professionals confronted a virus they didn't understand, much less know how to treat.
"It was quite scary," said Hsu, a cardiologist and an assistant professor-in-resid ... (full story)