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CHICAGO (AP) -- A lawsuit challenging a penny-per-ounce tax on sweetened beverages sold in the Chicago area was dismissed Friday by a judge who also dissolved a temporary restraining order that had stopped it from being implemented....
BRENTWOOD, N.Y. (AP) -- Talking tough on illegal immigration and violent crime, President Donald Trump appeared Friday to advocate rougher treatment of people in police custody, speaking dismissively of the police practice of shielding the heads of handcuffed suspects as they are being placed in patrol cars....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump will sign a package of stiff financial sanctions against Russia that passed Congress with overwhelming support, the White House said Friday. Moscow has already responded, ordering a reduction in the number of U.S. diplomats in Russia and closing the U.S. Embassy's recreation retreat....
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Saturday the second flight test of an intercontinental ballistic missile demonstrated his country can hit the U.S. mainland, hours after the launch left analysts concluding that a wide swath of the United States, including Los Angeles and Chicago, is now in range of North Korean weapons....
Nashville, Tenn., Jul 28, 2017 / 02:54 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Tennessee Judge Sam Benningfield has rescinded his controversial order offering reduced sentences to prisoners who would undergo sterilization procedures.“We are glad to have learned that (the policy) has been canceled,” said Rick Musacchio, director of communications for the diocese of Nashville. He also referred to the policy as “problematic.”“The Catholic position on birth control is well-known,” he told CNA July 28.Benningfield had issued the order on May 15 which offered 30 days credit from jail time to men who would undergo a vasectomy or women who would receive a Nexplanon arm implant, which prevents pregnancies for up to four years. Benningfield serves in Sparta, Tennessee, about an hour and a half east of Nashville.The July 26 order rescinding the previous order, signed by Benningfield and posted on the ACLU website, stated that “(t)hose inmates who have demonstrated to the...
Nashville, Tenn., Jul 28, 2017 / 02:54 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Tennessee Judge Sam Benningfield has rescinded his controversial order offering reduced sentences to prisoners who would undergo sterilization procedures.
“We are glad to have learned that (the policy) has been canceled,” said Rick Musacchio, director of communications for the diocese of Nashville. He also referred to the policy as “problematic.”
“The Catholic position on birth control is well-known,” he told CNA July 28.
Benningfield had issued the order on May 15 which offered 30 days credit from jail time to men who would undergo a vasectomy or women who would receive a Nexplanon arm implant, which prevents pregnancies for up to four years. Benningfield serves in Sparta, Tennessee, about an hour and a half east of Nashville.
The July 26 order rescinding the previous order, signed by Benningfield and posted on the ACLU website, stated that “(t)hose inmates who have demonstrated to the court their desire to improve their situations and take s rious and considered steps toward their rehabilitation by having the procedures or agreeing to have same will not be denied the credit. You will be awarded the 30 days jail credit promised whether you ultimately receive the procedures or not.”
County officials stated that since the program began, 32 women had received the implant and 38 men were awaiting the surgery, as of July 21.
In a statement given to SpartaLive.com and published on July 21, Benningfield stated that his goal had been to help children whose parents were repeat offenders and prevent the conceptions of drug-addicted infants. He said the order “is in no way a eugenic program” and that all procedures were “reversible.” He also noted that “(n)o male under 21 may participate” and that there was a 30-day waiting period before the procedure.
“It’s unclear to me how the original policy as it was apparently implemented in this small Tennessee county was intended to help children,” Musacchio said.
It is not clear how many, if any, underwent surgery. The American Civil Liberties Union also opposed the measure, calling it unconstitutional.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A wide array of Wisconsin environmental regulations would be waived in an effort to speed up construction of a $10 billion Foxconn electronics factory under a proposal Gov. Scott Walker unveiled Friday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House sits two miles from the U.S. Capitol, but this week, it might as well have been a world away....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States punished Iran on Friday for launching a satellite-carrying rocket into space by hitting six Iranian entities with sanctions targeting the country's ballistic missiles program....
LONDON (AP) -- Charlie Gard, the terminally ill British baby at the center of a legal and ethical battle that attracted the attention of Pope Francis and U.S. President Donald Trump, died Friday. He was one week shy of his first birthday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- John McCain seemed poised to be the savior of the GOP health bill when he returned to the Capitol despite a brain cancer diagnosis....
