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Month: August 2022

Florida teen battling brain-eating amoeba to be transferred to Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago

By ABC7 Chicago Digital Team via WLS Click here for updates on this story     CHICAGO (WLS) — A 13-year-old boy with a rare brain disease will be brought to Chicago from Florida. He will check into the world-class rehabilitation center Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. Caleb Zieglebauer has been fighting a brain-eating amoeba. Caleb visited a beach

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Lack of air conditioning leaves Bell High School students sweating in classrooms through heat wave

By Christiane Cordero via KABC Click here for updates on this story     BELL, California (KABC) — Two weeks into the school year, Bell High School is already testing the patience of students and staff. Temperatures are expected to climb well into the 90s, and air conditioning in some classrooms doesn’t work. Student Maydalene Montesdeoca says

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McDonald's is one restaurant that opposes the passage of California's fast food bill.

McDonald’s is fighting California’s fast food bill

By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business California lawmakers want more control over how fast food chains treat workers. Restaurants, including McDonald’s, are fighting back. Earlier this week, the state’s legislature passed AB 257, a bill that would create a fast food council to “establish sectorwide minimum standards on wages, working hours, and other working conditions,” for

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Florida sues FDA over ‘delay’ of low-cost drug importations

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida has sued federal health officials, accusing them of stalling the state’s plan to import lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Food and Drug Administration at a news conference Wednesday.

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