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The change would bar the staff of reproductive health groups from providing abortions or referring patients to abortion clinics or risk losing federal family planning funds.
He says there’s a crisis in masculinity. Why won’t women — all these wives and witches — just behave?
The Hamptons may be known for its party circuit, but it is also a haven for boaters, many of whom want to be able set sail straight from home.
A string of seven consecutive appearances in the N.B.A. finals by James-led teams is in jeopardy, and no solutions are presenting themselves.
“I’ve always kind of felt like eventually it was going to happen here, too,” one student said after the massacre at Santa Fe High School.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 16, 2018, covering May 18, 2018.
Post Malone
J. Cole
Leon Bridges
Cardi B
Shinedown
2018A school shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas kills ten people.[†]
On May 18, 2018, a school shooting occurred at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, United States, in the Houston metropolitan area. Ten people – eight students and two teachers – were fatally shot, and thirteen others were wounded. Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a 17-year-old student at the school, was taken into custody. The shooting is the eighth-deadliest school shooting in the United States.
2018Cubana de Aviación Flight 972 crashes in Santiago de las Vegas after takeoff from José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba, killing 112 of the 113 people on board.[†]
Cubana de Aviación Flight 0972 was a scheduled domestic flight operated by Mexican charter airline Global Air on behalf of Cubana de Aviación, from José Martí International Airport, Havana, Cuba, to Frank País Airport in Holguín, Cuba. On 18 May 2018, the 39-year-old Boeing 737-201 Adv. operating the route crashed shortly after takeoff, near Santiago de las Vegas, 19 kilometres from Havana city centre. Of those on board, 112 died and one passenger survived with critical injuries. There were initially four survivors, but three of them later died at a local hospital. Most of the passengers on board were Cuban nationals, although the crew was entirely Mexican.
In 2018, the world population was approximately 7,729,902,781 people[†]