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His own press secretary says he made a porky.
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Senior residents leave hospitals in June and go on to start their careers, she noted. Hospitals rely on new residents to replenish their ranks. “If they don’t come on July 1, that leaves a hole in the patient care team,” Ms. Burke said. “Who’s going to pick up the slack?”
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Juneteenth offers all Christians a holy interruption — an opportunity to reckon with our nation’s history of slavery and the church’s frequent complicity in that system, and to find renewal through our rest and celebration so we can re-enlist in the ongoing liberative work of God.
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It’s a day that should spur sober reflection and renewed commitment to justice work — and that’s why it’s so important that Juneteenth becomes a holiday for all Americans and that we spend the day away from our usual daily routines to pause and treat it with the reverence and joy that it deserves.
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Juneteenth reminds us both of the necessity of that persistence and the good news of liberation — God’s ultimate desire and promise for all those suffering under the yoke of oppression.
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In this story, Jesus teaches us that unjust rulers and structures of power do not freely grant justice and liberation but can be persuaded or compelled to grant justice through our relentless will when we refuse to give up.
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I’m not being hyperbolic when I say youth without gender-affirming medical support could die by suicide. Young people could be harmed by self-medicating with black-market hormones without medical supervision.
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The bear first turned up on a trail camera as a cub in 2023 in the northern Lower Peninsula. After that, the department of natural resources was on the lookout for the elusive animal with a hard plastic lid around the neck, Norton said.
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“A natural investigator, with his empathetic face, his slow, melodic voice, and his near-tangible integrity, he would sit across from some former Klansman and draw out secrets a killer had never intended to tell a priest, much less a journalist.”
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“Many people were killed. We saw several artillery shells land around us,” he said. “What we witnessed was horrifying: human bodies flying through the air, hundreds of injured people lying on the ground. We survived by a miracle.”
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They rattled off a list of injuries: metal lodged in femur bones and the soft tissues of the hip joints, internal bleeding and severe burns. Many of those wounded had been nearby when an Israeli bomb dropped, peppering them with deadly shrapnel.
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“I’ve seen toddlers, teenagers, adults and the elderly alike. Profusely bleeding mothers were rushing in with their children injured by shrapnel,” the doctor said, adding that some parents did not realise they themselves were injured until they put their children down.
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“I loved him, and was privileged to be around his bright shining light for a little while. How we will continue without Brian Wilson, ‘God Only Knows.’”
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“If it isn’t stopped, and some of this isn’t reversed, like, immediately, a lot of Americans are going to die as a result of vaccine-preventable diseases,”
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Dr. Havers resigned, saying she could no longer continue while the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., dismantled the careful processes that help formulate vaccination standards in the United States.