Democratic House Speaker Ryan Fecteau accused Libby of violating the state’s legislative ethics code with the post, and the Maine House of Representatives censured her in February.
Hermida, whose asylum case is pending, never imagined getting medication would be so difficult, he said during the 500-mile drive from North Carolina to Florida. After hotel rooms, jobs lost and family goodbyes, he is hopeful his search for consistent HIV treatment — which has come to define his life the past two years — can finally come to an end.“Soy un nómada a la fuerza, pero bueno, como me comenta mi prometido y mis familiares, yo tengo que estar donde me den buenos servicios médicos,” he said. I’m forced to be a nomad, but like my family and my fiancé say, I have to be where I can get good medical services.
That’s the priority, he said. “Esa es la prioridad ahora.”Methodology: KFF Health News and The Associated Press analyzed data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the number of new HIV diagnoses and infections among Americans ages 13 and older at the local, state and national level. This story primarily uses incidence rate data — estimates of new infections — at the national level and diagnosis rate data at the state and county level.Bose reported from Orlando, Florida. Reese reported from Sacramento, California. AP videojournalist Laura Bargfeld contributed to this report.
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Parents in Montgomery County who object for religious reasons want to pull their children from elementary school classes that use the books.AP correspondent Julie Walker reports on a fight over LGBTQ books going to the Supreme Court.
The county school system has refused and lower courts have so farBut the outcome could be different at a high court dominated by conservative justices who have repeatedly endorsed claims of religious discrimination in recent years.