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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A state appeals court on Tuesday rejected a request by an eastern North Carolina eye doctor to strike down a state law that requires regulators to agree new operating rooms are needed in his region before they could be built.
A three-judge panel of the intermediate-level state Court of Appeals court ruled the state's certificate of need law doesn't violate the constitutional rights of Dr. Jay Singleton and the Singleton Vision Center when it comes to the situation the ophthalmologist wants to change.
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NAZARETH, Pa., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kitchen Magic is pleased to announce the increase of its manufacturing operations in the Lehigh Valley. The acquisition of an additional Computer Numerical Control (CNC) computer-aided machine enables the firm to increase productivity.
Pope Francis may have canceled his planned trip to Congo because of his bad knee, but he's had a visit from one of Congo’s brightest basketball stars who briefed him on his humanitarian efforts back home. The Phoenix Suns’ Bismack Biyombo had a private audience with Francis Tuesday at the Vatican hotel where the pontiff lives. The 6-foot-9 Biyombo towered over the Argentine pope, even as he stood for photos. Francis has been using a wheelchair to get around after straining ligaments in his right knee. He had to postpone a planned July 2-7 visit to Congo and South Sudan because doctors said the trip would jeopardize his therapy.
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has named a new head for the company’s troubled retail business. It's a unit that has been burdened with a glut of warehouse space after a massive expansion during the pandemic. Jassy said in a note sent to employees that Doug Herrington will become the new CEO of the consumer division. The division is also changing its name to “Worldwide Amazon Stores." Herrington has been leading the company's North American Consumer business since 2015. He replaces Dave Clark, who announced his resignation from the company earlier this month.
In another sign that the world of entertainment is returning to pre-pandemic normal, Broadway theaters will no longer demand audiences wear masks starting in July. The Broadway League announced Tuesday that mask-wearing will be optional next month onward, a further loosening of restrictions. In May, most Broadway theaters lifted the requirement that audience members provide proof of vaccination to enter venues. The policy will “be evaluated on a monthly basis as we continue to monitor the science,” according to the League, which represents Broadway producers. It also said that “audience members are still encouraged to wear masks in theaters.”
Late-night TV host Stephen Colbert has issued a blistering response to some of his crew being arrested and detained near the U.S. Capitol last week.
The Supreme Court is limiting the reach of a federal statute that requires stiff penalties for crimes involving a gun. The 7-2 decision united both conservative and liberal justices. The justices said the law can’t be used to lengthen the sentences of criminals convicted of a specific attempted robbery offense. The decision was a win for a former marijuana dealer sentenced to 30 years in prison. The justices upheld a lower court ruling saying the man should be re-sentenced. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the decision for a majority of the court.
The Palestinian Health Ministry says a man died after being stabbed by an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank. Israeli police said they did not yet know the identity of the stabber. The ministry says the man was stabbed in the chest on Tuesday. Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency, says he was 27. Israeli police say they responded to a report of “friction” between Palestinians and Israelis near the settlement of Ariel, in the northern West Bank. Recent months have seen a rise in settler violence against Palestinians as well as Israeli activists. Rights groups say Israeli security forces turn a blind eye or intervene to protect settlers during confrontations.
The state Court of Appeals has refused to strike down a state law requiring regulators first agree that new medical facilities are necessary based on population and other needs before they can be built. A three-judge panel of the intermediate-level appeals court ruled unanimously on Tuesday in the case of a New Bern eye doctor who sued in 2020 based on how he says he was unable to expand his practice. The case stems around what's called the certificate of need laws. The opinion writer says the ruling doesn't mean the rules can't be challenged in the future by someone else.
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Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has departed for Jordan after wrapping up a visit to Egypt following talks with President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi. An Egyptian statement Tuesday says the two leaders discussed a wide range of topics including ties between the two regional heavyweights and President Joe Biden’s Middle East trip next month. The two counties signed 14 investment deals worth $7.7 billion in a variety of fields including infrastructure, renewable energy and the pharmaceutical industry. Bin Salman's visit to Egypt was the first leg of his regional tour, which also includes stops in Jordan and Turkey.
Premier Mario Draghi has secured parliamentary backing to continue supporting Ukraine against Russia. He thanked senators Tuesday for their support following calls from the 5-Star Movement leadership for Italy to stop sending weapons and focus more on diplomacy. The 5-Star criticism has created tensions within Draghi’s broad-based coalition, of which the 5-Stars are a part, but the government’s stability hasn’t been in question. On the contrary, the debate has only served to highlight divisions within the 5-Stars themselves, given that their most prominent member in government, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, has openly criticized his own party for its Ukraine position.
Peta Murgatroyd revealed on Tuesday that she suffered a miscarriage in October days after testing positive for COVID-19. At the time, her husband and fellow "Dancing with the Stars" pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy was working in his home country of Ukraine.
The European Union says Ethiopia’s government must reconnect its northern Tigray region to the world as a yearlong partial blockade has left food aid for almost 1 million hungry people stuck in warehouses without the fuel to deliver it. The EU commissioner for crisis management says the recent increase in aid convoys arriving in Tigray is a positive development but adds that “more needs to be done” before the EU normalizes relations with Africa’s second-most populous country. Banking services, electricity and telecommunications remain blockaded after a year and a half of conflict between federal and Tigray forces.
Authorities say a 5-year-old boy has died after being left in a vehicle in the Houston area as his mother prepared for a birthday party and as temperatures soared past 100 degrees. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said the boy died Monday as his family was getting ready to celebrate his 8-year-old sister’s birthday. The boy, his sister and his mother went to the store to get some items for the party, and when they returned home, the mother assumed both children had got out of the car on their own. She found him unresponsive, still buckled in more than two hours later, and called 911. The boy was pronounced dead at the scene.
Turkey’s parliament has extended a mandate that allows the deployment of Turkish troops to Libya. The mandate was renewed for another 18 months on Tuesday. The authorization first came into force in January 2020 following a security and military agreement that Turkey reached with Libya’s U.N.-backed administration in Tripoli, in western Libya. It was then extended by 18 months in December 2020. Erdogan requested the latest extension citing the ongoing “political uncertainty” in Libya and “risks and threats” that could threaten Turkey’s interests in the Mediterranean and North Africa. The request said Turkish troops were continuing to provide military training and consultancy in the country.
PHILADELPHIA — The Wharton State Forest wildfire, possibly the largest fire in New Jersey in 15 years, has consumed about 13,500 acres of the Pinelands, and is 85% contained, officials from the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said late Tuesday morning.
British health officials will start offering vaccines to men who are gay or bisexual or have sex with men, who are at the highest risk of catching monkeypox, in an effort to curb the biggest outbreak of the disease beyond Africa. In a statement on Tuesday, Britain’s Health Security Agency said doctors could consider vaccination for some men who are gay or bisexual and men who have sex with men at the highest risk of exposure, whom they defined as people with “multiple partners, (who participate) in group sex or (attend) ‘sex on premises’ venues.” To date, more than 99% of monkeypox cases in Britain are among men, mostly in men who are gay, bisexual or have sex with men.
Hungary’s Kristóf Milák has set a world record in the men’s 200 butterfly at the swimming world championships. The 22-year-old Milák clocked 1 minute, 50.34 seconds to shave 0.39 seconds off the previous record he set at the last worlds in Gwangju, South Korea on July 24, 2019. Milák finished 3.03 seconds ahead of French swimmer Leon Marchand and 3.27 ahead of Japan’s Tomoru Honda. It’s Hungary’s first medal in swimming at this worlds edition and Milák is the first swimmer to win the men’s 200 butterfly at a worlds in front of a home crowd.
Multiple miscalculations, inaccurate models and a lack of understanding of just how dry things are in the Southwest resulted in a planned burn to reduce the threat of wildfire turning into the largest blaze in New Mexico's recorded history. The U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday released the findings of an investigation into a fire that ultimately displaced thousands of people and destroyed several hundred homes. It also forced a pause on the agency's prescribed fire operations nationwide. Anger and frustration have been simmering among residents and elected officials. The blaze has charred more than 533 square miles, and forecasters now are warning of post-fire flooding threats amid summer rains.
A court in the Russian capital has extended the arrest of a municipal legislator charged with discrediting the country’s military after his criticism of Russia's military action in Ukraine. Moscow’s Meshchansky District Court on Tuesday ordered Alexei Gorinov to be kept in custody pending his trial. Gorinov, a member of the municipal council of Moscow’s Krasnoselsky District, has remained in jail since his arrest in April. He was accused of discrediting the country’s military following his comments against Russia’s military action in Ukraine. Addressing the court on Tuesday, Gorinov rejected the charges and insisted that he was merely expressing his political views. He may face a fine or a prison term of up to 10 years if convicted.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens hit the conservative talk radio circuit Tuesday, arguing that a campaign video showing him storming a house with soldiers in search of “Republicans in name only” was intended to be a humorous metaphor.
A court in the Russian capital has extended the arrest of a municipal legislator charged with discrediting the country’s military after his criticism of Russia's military action in Ukraine. Moscow’s Meshchansky District Court on Tuesday ordered Alexei Gorinov to be kept in custody pending his trial. Gorinov, a member of the municipal council of Moscow’s Krasnoselsky District, has remained in jail since his arrest in April. He was accused of discrediting the country’s military following his comments against Russia’s military action in Ukraine. Addressing the court on Tuesday, Gorinov rejected the charges and insisted that he was merely expressing his political views. He may face a fine or a prison term of up to 10 years if convicted.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens hit the conservative talk radio circuit Tuesday, arguing that a campaign video showing him storming a house with soldiers in search of “Republicans in name only” was intended to be a humorous metaphor.
United Help Ukraine and PEI are conducting a handoff event in front of the Holodomor Memorial, Washington, DC on June 21
NEW YORK — Weezer is headed to Broadway.
After her 2020 hit novel “The Last Flight,” Julie Clark's new book “The Lies I Tell” is another page-turner. The book shift perspectives between Kat Roberts, an unsatisfied journalist and Meg Williams, a grifter whom Roberts has held a personal vendetta against for the past decade. Roberts wants to expose Williams for the fraud she believes her to be, which is accurate, but readers will find there's much more to Williams' motives. Associated Press reviewer Alicia Rancilio says the book is a page-turner that will make you ponder the merit of doing something wrong to make a right.
The Chicks have rescheduled a trio of performance dates after pulling out of an Indiana show on Sunday less than 30 minutes into their set.
On a recent Saturday afternoon, Baz Luhrmann is at a famous tourist attraction in Memphis, Tennessee, a place that has become quite familiar to him.
The Rolling Stones will help celebrate their 60th anniversary with an upcoming four-part docuseries on EPIX that takes turns focusing on the band’s most iconic members, with in-depth portraits of singer Mick Jagger, guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, and the late drummer Charlie Watts. “My Life as a Rolling Stone” will premiere on Aug. 7. It is directed by Oliver Murray and Clare Tavernor. The Rolling Stones are on the road with their 2022 European “Sixty” tour, but hit a wobble when Jagger tested positive for COVID-19, cancelling a few dates.
“Elvis” isn’t your ordinary biopic.
The Phoenix Suns have hired Morgan Cato as an assistant general manager and vice president of basketball operations. She becomes the first woman of color hold an assistant GM title for an NBA franchise. Cato comes to Phoenix after spending nearly a decade with the NBA league office, where she most recently worked as the associate vice president of business operations for NBA’s league operations department.
AUSTIN, Texas — Calling the police response to the Uvalde school shooting an “abject failure,” Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw gave a detailed report to the Texas Senate Tuesday, corroborating reports indicating that numerous police were inside the school within minu…
Idaho will sell at auction a 14-acre “high-end” island in Payette Lake near the vacation and second-home town of McCall in west-central Idaho. Republican Gov. Brad Little and four other members of the Idaho Land Board on Tuesday voted 5-0 to reaffirm a previous decision to sell the island, potentially this fall. The island has five lots, with one leased. State officials plan to offer the lots individually or the island as a whole and take whichever brings in the most money. The state constitution requires the Land Board to maximize financial return over the long term, and land managers say the island is underperforming.
A funeral ceremony was held Tuesday for an English soldier who was killed in France in World War I, but whose remains were only identified a century later. He was buried among so many other unknown soldiers who perished in the killing fields of northern France. He finally has a headstone with a name: Second Lieutenant xxx Wordsworth. He is the great-great-nephew of English poet William Wordsworth. A cleric led the funeral ceremony in the French town of Ecoust-Saint-Mein. Wordsworth is among several soldiers whose remains have been identified in recent years thanks to DNA technology.
A new law creating a provisional ballot system in New Hampshire faces lawsuits days after it was enacted. The ACLU of New Hampshire filed a lawsuit Tuesday arguing that the law violates the right to privacy the state added to its Constitution in 2018 because it would diminish the secrecy of ballots and tie voters’ names to the candidates for whom they voted. The law takes effect in 2023. It also faces a court challenge from the advocacy groups 603 Forward and Open Democracy Action.
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