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girlfreddy Dec 23, 2023

Mr Putin remains the only candidate to be able to register as a candidate.

He doesn’t even try to pretend anymore.

girlfreddy Dec 23, 2023

Russia bans anti-war candidate from challenging Putin

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Russia bans anti-war candidate from challenging Putin - Lemmy.World

Independent politician Yekaterina Duntsova wanted to run on a platform to end the war with Ukraine. But the electoral commission voted unanimously to reject her candidacy three days after her application, citing 100 “mistakes” on her form. Ms Duntsova said she would appeal the decision at the Supreme Court. The commission said 29 people have so far filed to run for the presidency. But after today’s decision, Mr Putin remains the only candidate to be able to register as a candidate.

girlfreddy Dec 23, 2023

Alabama mother with rare double womb gives birth to two babies in two days

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Alabama mother with rare double womb gives birth to two babies in two days - Lemmy.World

Kelsey Hatcher, 32, delivered one daughter on Tuesday, and a second on Wednesday, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Hospital. Announcing the arrival of her “miracle babies” on social media, Ms Hatcher hailed the medics as “incredible”. The girls are described as fraternal twins - with rare separate birthdays. Hatcher said the family was now back at home and could “enjoy the holidays”. She had previously expected a Christmas due date. The mother was told at age 17 she had a double uterus (uterus didelphys) - which the UAB described as a rare congenital anomaly affecting 0.3% of women. And the odds of becoming pregnant in both uteri - a dicavitary pregnancy - were even slimmer, at “one in a million”, according to the UAB.

girlfreddy Dec 15, 2023

Doctors With Histories of Big Malpractice Settlements Have Found a New Home in the Insurance Industry

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Doctors With Histories of Big Malpractice Settlements Have Found a New Home in the Insurance Industry - Lemmy.World

When Shawn Murphy’s wife died in 2009 after a botched gallbladder surgery, he presumed the doctor who performed the operation would be forced out of medicine for good. Dr. Pachavit Kasemsap, a former Air Force surgeon, had cut Loretta Murphy’s aorta during that common procedure, according to a database of malpractice payments kept by Florida insurance regulators. She never left the hospital and died just shy of her 40th birthday. Shawn Murphy was left to raise their two daughters, then 13 and 17, on his own. During the weeks that Murphy prayed for his wife to recover and the months that he fought Kasemsap in circuit court in Brevard County, Florida, he didn’t know that other families had complained that their loved ones had suffered under the same doctor’s care. Kasemsap has settled five malpractice cases for a total of $3 million, according to the Florida malpractice payment database. That includes $1 million paid to the Murphy family. In one of the cases Kasemsap settled, a patient said the doctor negligently stapled and stitched her rectum to her vagina. Kasemsap denied doing that, and in legal filings in all five cases, the doctor denied that he was negligent. The doctor’s LinkedIn profile says his last job as a surgeon ended in December 2012, months before he settled the last of those five cases. But there was one industry ready to welcome him regardless: health insurance.

girlfreddy Dec 12, 2023

Battle over creating new court centers on equality in Mississippi's majority-Black capital city

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Battle over creating new court centers on equality in Mississippi's majority-Black capital city - Lemmy.World

A federal judge is set to hear arguments Dec. 19 over the Capitol Complex Improvement District Court, which is scheduled to be created Jan. 1. The new court would be led by a state-appointed judge and prosecutors, and it would be the equivalent of a municipal court, handling misdemeanor cases. Municipal judges and prosecutors in Mississippi are typically appointed by local elected officials, but legislators who created the CCID Court said it was part of a package to fight crime. The Justice Department says the new court would continue Mississippi’s long history of trying to suppress Black people’s right to participate in government. “Just like many past efforts to undermine Black political power, (the law) singles out the majority-Black City of Jackson for loss of local control of its judicial system and ability to self-govern and enforce its own municipal laws,” wrote Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general for the department’s Civil Rights Division, and Todd Gee, the U.S. attorney for south Mississippi, in a Dec. 5 federal court filing.

girlfreddy Dec 12, 2023

Federal jury decides Google’s Android app store benefits from anticompetitive barriers

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Federal jury decides Google’s Android app store benefits from anticompetitive barriers - Lemmy.World

The unanimous verdict reached Monday came after just three hours of deliberation following a four-week trial revolving around a lucrative payment system within Google’s Play store. The store is the main place where hundreds of millions of people around the world download and install apps that work on smartphones powered by Google’s Android software. Epic Games, the maker of the popular Fortnite video game, filed a lawsuit against Google three years ago, alleging that the internet powerhouse has been abusing its power to shield its Play Store from competition in order to protect a gold mine that makes billions of dollars annually. Just as Apple does for its iPhone app store, Google collects a commission ranging from 15% to 30% on digital transactions completed within apps. Apple prevailed in a similar case that Epic brought against the iPhone app store, but the 2021 trial was decided by a federal judge in a ruling that is under appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court. But the nine-person jury in the Play store case apparently saw things through a different lens, even though Google technically allows Android apps to be downloaded from different stores — an option that Apple prohibits on the iPhone. Just before the Play store trial started, Google sought to avoid having a jury determine the outcome, only to have its request rejected by U.S. District Judge James Donato. Now it will be up to Donato to determine what steps Google will have to take to unwind its illegal behavior in the Play Store. The judge indicated he will hold hearings on the issue during the second week of January.

girlfreddy Dec 11, 2023

Elite Afghan troops face return to Taliban after UK 'betrayal'

https://lemmy.world/post/9429194

Elite Afghan troops face return to Taliban after UK 'betrayal' - Lemmy.World

The figures - gathered by a network of Afghan veterans - reveal the scale of what one former UK general calls a “betrayal” and a “disgrace”. The soldiers fled to Pakistan, which now says it will expel Afghan refugees. The UK says it has brought thousands of Afghans to safety. Gen Sir Richard Barrons, who served the British Army in Afghanistan over 12 years, told BBC Newsnight that the failure of the UK to relocate these soldiers “is a disgrace, because it reflects that either we’re duplicitous as a nation or incompetent”. “Neither are acceptable,” he said. “It is a betrayal, and the cost of that betrayal will be people who served with us will die or spend their lives in prison.”

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girlfreddy Dec 11, 2023

“It is often said ‘not all men’. But they are always men.”

girlfreddy Dec 11, 2023

Calgary traffic reporter goes viral after response to body shaming comment

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Calgary traffic reporter goes viral after response to body shaming comment - Lemmy.World

TV traffic reporter Leslie Horton has developed a thick skin over the years because of nasty feedback from viewers, but she unleashed a viral smackdown last week after she says one of them “crossed my line.” The usually unflappable host, who has been at Global Calgary since 1995, was about to give a live report on the morning show when she decided to read out a message she received during a break. “I’m just gonna respond to an email that I just got saying, 'Congratulations on your pregnancy. If you’re gonna wear old bus-driver pants, you have to expect emails like this,”’ Horton said. “So thanks for that,” she responded. "No, I’m not pregnant. I actually lost my uterus to cancer last year. And this is what women of my age look like. So if it is offensive to you, that is unfortunate. “Think about the emails that you send.”

girlfreddy Dec 11, 2023

Ontario has a rental housing enforcement unit. It investigates a fraction of cases and fines even fewer

https://lemmy.world/post/9428757

Ontario has a rental housing enforcement unit. It investigates a fraction of cases and fines even fewer - Lemmy.World

The RHEU, run by the province, is mandated to uphold landlord and tenant rights. It has the power to investigate complaints and fine individual landlords up to $50,000. It works independently from the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB). Of the ministry’s $1-billion operating expense budget for its housing program this year, $1.8 million goes to the RHEU, according to the ministry’s website. The RHEU’s budget is expected to stay the same next year. In comparison, Ontario’s animal welfare service agency, which also employs officers to enforce provincial law, has an annual budget of $21 million.