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UK Approves Controversial '3-Parent Baby' Law, US Considering - TWC News

07-02-2015 23:47

UK Approves Controversial '3-Parent Baby' Law, US Considering
TWC News
MATTHEWS—A controversial In Vitro Fertilization procedure is giving hope to hundreds of families across North Carolina. Earlier this week, British lawmakers voted to allow scientists to create babies using the DNA of three people, which could prevent ...

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US says Massachusetts violated disabled mother's rights by removing child

07-02-2015 20:52

Federal government says state’s child welfare department needs to compensate her and allow her to prove she can care for daughter, or it could face a lawsuitShe was 19, a brand-new mother with a developmental disability. Two days after giving birth to her daughter, the state took the infant away and placed her in foster care.Massachusetts child welfare officials contend that the young woman couldn’t properly care for a newborn and insist they acted in the child’s best interests. But the fe

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Smoke and mirrors: the stealth approach that aims to put cigarettes out for good

07-02-2015 09:30

Smoking’s never been banned, and probably it never will be — but Bristol’s move towards ‘official tutting’ is meant to achieve the same goal. So will it work?Just one person around here looks shiftier than me. I would put her in her 20s. She’s standing in the colonnade with a yellow pouch of tobacco, peering out into the main square and taking pains not to be seen from it. But I’ve seen her. That bright ski coat is a problem. Yes, she admits. She’s seen the signs. No, she won’t

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A retired manager gets £108,000 a day. So why can’t football pay the living wage? | Ian Jack

07-02-2015 09:00

After three years of lobbying by the Living Wage Foundation, only Chelsea is set to pay staff fairly. Never mind that Alex Ferguson has earned more than £2m for 20 days’ work a year as a “global ambassador” since retiring in 2013Nowhere is the greed, selfishness and staggering inequity of modern business more vividly illustrated than in English football’s Premier League. To them that hath, more shall be given. And to them that hath nowt? Who cares? In a blog last week, the Guardian foot

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Few convictions under UK terror law that served... - Caledon Enterprise

07-02-2015 00:03

Few convictions under UK terror law that served...
Caledon Enterprise
MONTREAL — New laws to jail promoters of terrorism and seize or silence jihadi propaganda have stirred up controversy but led to few actual convictions in a country that served as one of the models for Prime Minister Stephen Harper's latest salvo ...

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