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Overnight News Digest February 18, 2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-02-18
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Chicago Sun-Times: Trump’s Friday firings leave EPA Chicago office down dozens of scientists, staff by Brett Chase
In her short time at the Environmental Protection Agency, Nyla McCranie helped a central Ohio woman who complained that someone was burning lithium batteries near her rural home, creating an air pollution hazard. A scientist who is part of an environmental justice team in Chicago, McCranie put the woman in touch with the agency’s enforcement officials earlier this month, and the problem is being dealt with, she said. “She called us because she didn’t know where else to turn,” McCranie said of the woman. On Friday, less than three months after she started at the EPA, McCranie lost her job as part of President Donald Trump’s mass firing of federal employees. McCranie, who moved to Chicago after working at a nonprofit in Alabama, was a probationary employee who lacked the job protections of veteran union workers. She was one of dozens of EPA scientists and other staff in Chicago to lose their jobs Friday.
The New York Times: Kennedy Relatives Say DOGE Cuts Forced Temporary Closure of J.F.K. Library by Kate Selig
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston was abruptly closed to visitors on Tuesday, and the federal agency that operates the site did not provide any explanation for the sudden disruption. Members of the Kennedy family said that Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency had fired members of the library’s staff, forcing the temporary closure. Kennedy’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, wrote in a social media post that an official with the National Archives and Records Administration, which oversees presidential libraries, had instructed the Kennedy Library to fire probationary staff members. “This is a direct attack on our past to rewrite a new future — yet another example of stealing history from the American people,” Mr. Schlossberg wrote in a statement. “It has nothing to do with government efficiency.”
ABC News: Georgia woman sues IVF clinic after she says she gave birth to another family’s child by Mary Kekatos
A Georgia woman is suing a fertility clinic after an in vitro fertilization (IVF) mix-up allegedly led to staff implanting the wrong embryo and to her giving birth to another couple's biological child. Krystena Murray, 38, of Savannah, said she selected a sperm donor who looked like her "with dirty blonde hair and blue eyes." She became pregnant and delivered a baby in December 2023, according to the lawsuit. However, Murray, who is white and who, according to the complaint, had a white sperm donor, was shocked when she gave birth and the baby boy she delivered was African American, the suit states. Murray bonded with the baby and wanted to keep him, despite knowing that the clinic, Coastal Fertility Specialists (CFS), had likely implanted somebody else's embryo, according to the lawsuit. She requested a DNA test which confirmed her fears that the baby was not genetically related to her. When Murray contacted the clinic, staff alerted the baby's biological parents of the mix-up, according to the lawsuit.
MSNBC: Why a judge ordered a hearing in the Eric Adams case after Emil Bove’s dismissal motion by Jordan Rubin
Guardian: Pope Francis has double pneumonia as tests reveal ‘complex’ medical situation by Angela Giuffrida
Pope Francis has been diagnosed with double pneumonia after further tests showed a continuing “complex” medical situation, the Vatican said in a statement on Tuesday. The pontiff, 88, underwent a chest X-ray, which “demonstrated the onset of bilateral pneumonia that required further pharmacological therapy”. Antibiotic cortisone therapy to treat an earlier-diagnosed polymicrobial infection of the respiratory tract “makes the therapeutic treatment more complex”. The pope was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Friday after suffering from the respiratory tract infection, which he referred to as bronchitis on several occasions, for more than a week.
AlJazeera: Prosecutors in Brazil charge ex-President Bolsonaro over alleged coup plot
Brazilian authorities have charged the country’s far-right former president, Jair Bolsonaro, and dozens of his supporters with attempting to stage a coup to overturn his 2022 election loss, the country’s top prosecutor has announced. Prosecutor General Paulo Gonet said on Tuesday that he had filed charges with Brazil’s Supreme Court against Bolsonaro and 33 other people, including some former ministers and an ex-navy chief. “The responsibility for acts harmful to the democratic order falls upon a criminal organisation led by Jair Messias Bolsonaro, based on an authoritarian project of power,” the charging document stated. Bolsonaro, a former army captain who served as president from 2019 to 2022, is unlikely to be arrested before his trial unless Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who is overseeing the case, deems him a flight risk. The indictment marks the first time Brazilian authorities have charged the right-wing populist leader with a crime, and represents a new blow to the 69-year-old, who had been plotting his increasingly unlikely political comeback.
DW: Making sense of Egypt's alleged military buildup near Israel by Cathrin Schaer
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