Thursday 26 May 2016

Evening Edition: Researchers discover dangerous bacteria in Pa. resistant to last-resort antibiotics

Paul Ryan is in another fight he doesn't want — this time over gay rights; Trump is just borrowing the GOP brand. He'll resist bending to party leaders.; In Brazil's political crisis, a powerful new force: Evangelical Christians; Baylor to fire football coach, demotes president Kenneth Starr amid team's allegations; Oklahoma's abortion, transgender bills called political 'smokescreen'; As Iraqi offensive unfolds, civilians trapped in Fallujah face multiple threats; Muslim Scouts pursue an American tradition — in an America wary of Muslims; Teen in Manassas 'sexting' case sues authorities who wanted photos of his genitalia; Donald Trump’s campaign chief just made an amazing admission about his candidate; The Fix: Here's how 'yuge' a Trump-Sanders debate would have been.; Don Rickles was politically incorrect before it was incorrect. And at 90, he's still going.; After 70 years of waiting, WWII 'Memphis Belle' gunner revisits England. And dies quietly there.; Is 10,000-steps goal more myth than science? Study seeks fitness truths through our phones.;
 
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Researchers discover dangerous bacteria in Pa. resistant to last-resort antibiotics
For the first time, researchers have found a person in the United States carrying a deadly bacteria with a gene that makes it resistant to antibiotics of last resort, an alarming development that the top U.S. public health official said could mean "the end of the road" for antibiotics.
Paul Ryan is in another fight he doesn't want — this time over gay rights
Several Republican House members were deeply upset after Georgia GOP Rep. Rick Allen offered a prayer at a private meeting implying that those who supported LGBT rights "on the floor last night" went against the teachings of the Bible, according several sources in the room.
 
Trump is just borrowing the GOP brand. He'll resist bending to party leaders.
The presumptive nominee is all about himself and sees no reason to change. After outlasting the other 16 candidates, why should he now listen to those telling him to run for president any other way?
 
In Brazil's political crisis, a powerful new force: Evangelical Christians
Just as the Rev. Jerry Falwell's "Moral Majority" emerged as a force in the U.S. in the 1980s, Brazilian evangelical leaders have gone from the political sidelines to the center. Their movement is not a coordinated effort to take power, they insist, but a grass-roots backlash against secularism, homosexuality and changes introduced during 13 years of Marxist-inspired Workers' Party rule.
 
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Baylor to fire football coach, demotes president Kenneth Starr amid team's allegations
The Texas university suspended coach Art Briles with the intent to fire him and moved Starr to university chancellor amid criticism for how they handled several sexual-assault allegations filed against a number of players.
 
Oklahoma's abortion, transgender bills called political 'smokescreen'
Even some Republicans in the GOP-run state say that the debates over hot-button issues are a distraction from an estimated $1.3 billion budget shortfall.
 
As Iraqi offensive unfolds, civilians trapped in Fallujah face multiple threats
Officials fear that the ongoing operation designed to break the Islamic State's grip on the city will further endanger its estimated 50,000 civilians, who are already facing dire conditions.
 
Muslim Scouts pursue an American tradition — in an America wary of Muslims
As Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts in Northern Virginia pursued service projects, earned merit badges and sold cookies, a troubling conversation with deep national implications rumbled nearby.
 
Teen in Manassas 'sexting' case sues authorities who wanted photos of his genitalia
The intense police pursuit of the 17-year-old sparked a national uproar. The lead detective was later accused of child molestation and committed suicide.
 
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Donald Trump’s campaign chief just made an amazing admission about his candidate
What does the GOP's presumptive nominee really think about his proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S.? It appears everything is a negotiation. Everything can be adjusted.
 
The Fix: Here's how 'yuge' a Trump-Sanders debate would have been.
Last night on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Donald Trump seemed to accept a challenge from Bernie Sanders. And the prospect of an actual, real-life Trump-Sanders debate seemed possible, if only for a few hours.
 
Don Rickles was politically incorrect before it was incorrect. And at 90, he's still going.
His peers? Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead (Buddy Hackett, Alan King, George Carlin, Joan Rivers — even Garry Shandling, who was almost 25 years his junior). Rickles is one of the last of the old-time stand-ups standing. These days, he's a sit-down comedian.
 
After 70 years of waiting, WWII 'Memphis Belle' gunner revisits England. And dies quietly there.
Just outside the bunker where Churchill famously said, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few," Melvin Rector quietly passed away.
 
Is 10,000-steps goal more myth than science? Study seeks fitness truths through our phones.
Health experts know that exercise saves lives. "What we don't know is what is the right dose," one says.
 
 
     
 
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