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Medication Mix-Up Leaves Knee Surgery Patient Paralyzed

26 août 2026 à 05:03
A patient was unable to move from the sternum down after a routine knee-replacement operation at a Nashville hospital this month. The hospital said she had been given the wrong anesthetic.

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Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown in Nashville said it ordered an emergency halt to all remaining operations scheduled for Aug. 14 after officials noticed serious adverse reactions in four patients.

U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk

21 août 2026 à 10:02
Samuel Tunick, who faces a felony charge for deleting his phone’s data during an airport customs search, called the government’s peering into people’s private lives “creepy.”

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Samuel Tunick faces a felony charge for deleting his phone’s data during an airport customs search last year.

Chinese Start-Up Lands Reusable Rocket for the First Time

19 août 2026 à 17:49
The milestone by the private company, LandSpace, could put China closer to challenging SpaceX’s rule in lower-cost spaceflight.

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Penn State Fraternity Members Are Charged in Cocaine Trafficking Case

18 août 2026 à 17:13
More than a dozen current and former students from two fraternities were part of an operation that involved packaging drugs at fraternity houses, the authorities said.

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Administrators at Pennsylvania State University said that they are investigating the current and former students who were charged in trafficking cocaine.

Ex-Officer Held in New Orleans Mass Shooting Plot Is Freed Without Charges

13 août 2026 à 18:00
Law enforcement officials had said that Christopher Gillum, a former police officer in North Carolina, planned to attack a large festival. He was released without charges.

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A crowd at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans in May. A former North Carolina police officer was arrested and accused of targeting the festival.

Mike Fincke, NASA Astronaut Whose Health Scare Led to I.S.S. Evacuation, Has Retired

13 août 2026 à 12:59
Mike Fincke spent 459 days in space across four missions, the fourth most time of any NASA astronaut.

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The NASA astronaut Michael Fincke last month at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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