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The 27-year-old model, who has more than 650,000 followers on TikTok, has been documenting her health struggles in a series of social media posts since going public with her AIDS diagnosis in March. In August, Tew revealed to her TikTok and Instagram followers that she had undergone eye surgery, after her illness caused significant sight loss. Tew took to her TikTok account over the weekend to share that while she had made her way to the doctor’s office for a check-up, the “coughing and hacking” of another patient led to her swift departure....

Heidi has in fact contemplated suicide many times - not because she’s different, she says, but because of the unrelenting efforts to make her normal. When she was 3 months old, doctors opened her belly to inspect her reproductive system. At 7 months, they went back in to remove her ill-formed testes. As a 5-year-old, she returned to the hospital for an overnight stay and woke up with what she recalls as a painful itch between her legs....

Almost 10% of all breast cancers diagnosed in the United States are related to genetic mutations. Some genetic mutations are inherited, while others are somatic, meaning that they are due to gene changes over the course of one’s lifetime that don’t get repaired. Gene Mutations Related to Breast Cancer Women and men who have mutated versions of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are at higher than average risk of developing breast cancer....

The real explanation for Abu Ghraib, according to many Berkeley students, has something to do with the ease with which this president turns the world into his enemy. Berkeley liberals have always chafed at the heavy-handed moralism implicit in the Bush worldview. Since Bush launched the war on terror three years ago, his war-rally rhetoric has implied that anyone outside of his narrow ideological domain is America’s sworn enemy. But Abu Ghraib makes the stakes seem higher....

This article will discuss genital warts and genital herpes, including the causes of these infections, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. Causes Genital warts and genital herpes can be passed through direct skin-to-skin contact. However, they are caused by different viruses. Genital Warts Genital warts are a form of sexually transmitted infection. They are caused by a virus called human papillomavirus (HPV). HPV is spread by direct physical contact with someone infected with HPV who has the virus on their skin....

Whether it’s by injury, poor play or tumult surrounding him, the veteran quarterback has been dealt gut punches his entire NFL career. But one punch, one very, legitimate strike, actually altered his NFL career irrevocably. MORE: Geno Smith career timeline from NFL Draft to Seahawks On Aug. 11, 2015, Smith was (right) handed — literally, handed — a punch from the hands of Jets defensive end IK Enemkpali, opening the door for backup quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick to take the job and run with it....

George Conway, along with several other Twitter commenters, claimed a potential acquisition of Fox News would make a huge impact in the upcoming election, and billionaire Bloomberg was just the person capable of taking over the news network. In a tweet on Friday, Tom Wright, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institute, suggested Bloomberg, who already owns the Bloomberg News empire, should buy the right-leaning Fox News, which has been notoriously loose with fact-checking and criticism of Trump....

Trump took to Twitter on Sunday to encourage supporters to watch Fox News host Sean Hannity’s upcoming appearance on The Mark Levin Show. Hannity “stated about the Impeachment Hoax, ‘This is outrages [sic] lying, corruption and propaganda. Should never be allowed to happen,’” the president tweeted. In response, Conway criticized the president for being “so dumb that he doesn’t know how to spell ‘outrageous.’” “This isn’t the first time he’s made this specific mistake, so you can’t chalk it up to the slip of a finger,” the conservative attorney added....

Lonergan, 50, has been under a Title IX investigation since a July article in The Washington Post revealed he created an offensive environment by routinely abusing his players verbally and emotionally. MORE: Coaches behaving badly The Post interviewed several former players and staffers for the story. One player said he had to seek therapy after his time with the program. “I don’t think the guy should be in sports,” one former player said....

“People have torn down a statue of George Washington at 57th and Sandy in NE Portland. @fox12oregon,” wrote a reporter for FOX 12 Oregon, Drew Reeves, on his Twitter account. A U.S. flag was seen burning at the head of the statue before it was toppled using a rope. Another U.S. flag was seen burning over the statue after it was toppled on the ground, according to video footage and images shared on social media....

“When they go there, it’s not going to look good,” Laraque said Monday on his afternoon sports radio show in Montreal, via the Canadian Press. “They’ll get demolished. This is the last place the Stanley Cup should be.” Laraque, who spent parts of two seasons with the Penguins during his 12-year NHL career, including their 2007-08 Cup Final run, was responding to Trump’s profane speech against NFL players who have been protesting racial injustice during the national anthem before games....

On Monday, prosecutors charged Littlefair with paying operation “Varsity Blues” mastermind Rick Singer and Mikaela Sanford, Singer’s employee, about $9,000 to have someone take online courses for her son. The latest parent to be implicated in the scandal since the first indictment in March, she agreed to plead guilty on the same day she was charged and instead of facing 20 years in prison, prosecutors recommended four months. “My client has taken the earliest opportunity to take responsibility for her conduct,” Littlefair’s attorney Kenneth Julian told Newsweek....

Gator hunting is allowed in Texas, Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina–and now Georgia’s getting in on the action with its first-ever recreational season starting Sept. 13. The state has a meager alligator population of about 200,000, so only 180 lucky hunters got a permit–more than 2,000 people applied–which allows them to catch one reptile during the two-week open season. Laws vary by state, but you can’t shoot a free-swimming gator–you have to catch it before killing it....

Savannah Mayor Van Johnson announced during a news conference Monday that everyone would be required to don a mask when they are inside with people not in their immediate family circle. The mandate doesn’t apply to schools and colleges, Johnson said. However, he urged the institutions to enact similar measures to curtail county infection rates that nearly tripled in the past two weeks, the Associated Press reported. Transmission rates in Chatham County are as high as they were in March after the Department of Public Health documented a surge in cases at the end of last week....

According to Athens-Clarke County police spokeswoman Hilda Sorrow, Wiggins was pulled over Sunday night for speeding after he was clocked driving 52 miles per hour in a 35 mph zone. Sorrow says the arresting officer's routine check on Wiggins' license found Wiggins failed to appear in court on an earlier charge, resulting in the license being suspended. There was no available information on the earlier charge. MORE: Top 10 for 2014 | ACC in the BCS era | College football icons...

Fulton County is a largely Democratic region, and GOP lawmakers asked the state board last month to look into how the area handled elections and said they want to make sure county election officials abided by state voting laws. The three-person review panel approved by the state board consists of Stephen Day, appointed as a Democrat to the Gwinnett County election board; Ricky Kittle, appointed as a Republican to the Catoosa County election board; and the general counsel for the secretary of state’s office, Ryan Germany....

The National Guard members will be “trained medical personnel,” according to a statement from Kemp’s office, and they will assist fellow health care professionals at several hospitals across the state. “These guardsmen will assist our frontline healthcare workers as they provide quality medical care during the current increase in cases and hospitalizations, and I greatly appreciate General [Thomas] Carden and his team for their willingness to answer the call again in our fight against COVID-19,” Kemp said in a statement....

Eighty two-year-old Haddock resident Tom Slagle spotted a kingsnake—a type of constrictor—devouring a venomous timber rattlesnake. Slagle managed to capture a footage of the event. In the video, the bottom half of the rattlesnake can be seen protruding from the kingsnake’s mouth. The kingsnake continues to move its jaws around the rattlesnakes body, swallowing it whole. The video was reposted to Facebook by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR), with the caption: “Kingsnake vs....

Greyson Lambert, a transfer from Virginia, will take the field Saturday against Louisiana-Monroe in Athens. He beat out Brice Ramsay and Faton Bauta for the job. MORE: Top 10 Georgia Bulldogs of all time | SEC, Big Ten poised for greatest chapter yet “There may be other or others who get in the game, but right now the thing that I know that (Lambert will) start the game,” Richt said, via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution....

In a statement on Thursday afternoon, Perdue’s campaign said the senator was “notified that he came into close contact with someone on the campaign who tested positive for COVID-19.” “Both Senator Perdue and his wife tested negative today, but following his doctor’s recommendations and in accordance with CDC guidelines, they will quarantine. The Senator and his wife have been tested regularly throughout the campaign, and the team will continue to follow CDC guidelines....