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Despite recent blowups among Republicans in the Missouri Senate, the majority party remained unified Wednesday to block a Democratic effort to legalize abortion in cases of rape or incest. After Republicans opened debate on a plan to ban Medicaid funds from Planned Parenthood, Democrats responded with amendments aimed at loosening Missouri's near-total abortion ban. Missouri since June 2022 has only allowed abortions in medical emergencies. While the Democratic amendments weren't likely to pass, the minority party used the opportunity to showcase and document Republican support for what Democr......

MIAMI — Miami — ground zero in the United States for the Brazilian butt lift, the mommy makeover, breast enlargement and other plastic surgery specialties — has achieved another distinction: It is home to a cottage industry of illegally operating recovery centers for post-op patients who need to hunker down and heal, sometimes for days. Embedded in suburbia, the homes are engaged in a game of whack-a-mole with authorities, who look for vans disgorging bruised and bandaged passengers, and featuring back-alley garbage cans brimming with bandages and other medical waste. Often overcrowded and/or ......

In the first days of this year, Arelis Almarales Alberteris told her mother she was happy. She had gotten divorced the year before and left the house in a small town in Holguín, in eastern Cuba, where she had lived with René Ferias, her husband of 22 years. A few days later, at dawn on Jan. 26, Ferias attacked her with a machete and killed her. “Imagine seeing your daughter hacked to pieces by a nasty man, who had not even been her husband for over a year, because he found out that she had another relationship,” said her mother, Nancy Alberteris. On Dec. 30, 2022, Almarales, 40, had gone to th......

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ralph Yarl faced the man accused of shooting him for the first time Thursday, the final witness in a preliminary hearing in a Clay County courtroom to determine if Andrew Lester will stand trial after the teen mistakenly went to the wrong house in a Kansas City Northland neighborhood earlier this year. After evidence was presented and a dozen witnesses had testified, Judge Louis Angles ruled that prosecutors presented sufficient evidence to establish probable cause that Lester had committed a crime in the shooting of Yarl, who was 16 at the time. Angles set Lester’s arraignm......

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Andrew Lester will stand trial in the shooting of Ralph Yarl in a Kansas City Northland neighborhood earlier this year, a judge ruled Thursday. Clay County Judge Louis Angles found during a preliminary hearing that prosecutors presented sufficient evidence to establish probable cause that Lester had committed a crime. Angles set Lester’s arraignment for 9 a.m. on Sept. 20. The 84-year-old Lester is the white Kansas City homeowner who was charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action in the shooting of Yarl, who is Black, on April 13. During the hearing, prosecu......

PHILADELPHIA — Vice President Kamala Harris visited a meeting of union leaders in Philadelphia on Tuesday and said the Biden administration and organizers have “a fight on our hands” to increase pay for workers and protect them against attacks on personal rights and freedoms. “I know the leaders in this room. … You don’t give up,” Harris told the executive board of the Service Employees International Union gathered at the Sheraton in Center City. “The work you do is changing lives and improving the condition of our country and our standing when we say we have certain values and ideals about eq......