South Korean inquiry to look into 237 more foreign adoptions suspected to have laundered origins
South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission will investigate 237 more cases of South Korean adoptees who suspect their family origins were manipulated to facilitate their adoptions in Europe and the United States.
South Korea's truth commission to probe foreign adoptions
South Koreaโs Truth and Reconciliation Commission will investigate the cases of dozens of South Korean adoptees in Europe and the United States who suspect their origins were falsified or obscured during a child export frenzy in the mid- to late-1900s.
New COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations still falling in Texas
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) โ New Texas COVID-19 cases took a solid dip in their total on Friday, according to the state case count. The Texas Department of State Health Services reported 3,521 new cases Friday, 852 fewer than the day before. The addition of 53 previously unreported cases brought the stateโs pandemic total to 2,739,385. The state also reported the fewest number of COVID-19 hospitalizations since Oct. 10 at 3,752 as of Thursday, the most recent total available. Johns Hopkins University researchers say the 158 new COVID-19 deaths reported Friday raised the stateโs pandemic death toll to 47,193.
Supreme Court rejects Trump election challenge cases
FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2020 file photo, the Supreme Court is seen in Washington. The Supreme Court will take up challenges to controversial Trump administration policies affecting family-planning clinics and immigrants, even though the Biden administration has announced it is reviewing them. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON โ The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a handful of cases related to the 2020 election, including disputes from Pennsylvania that had deeply divided the justices just before the election. The cases involved an appeal of a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision requiring election officials to receive and count mailed-in ballots that arrived up to three days after the election. Republicans had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to put that extension on hold ahead of the election.
Houston Health Department now doing lab testing for suspected coronavirus cases
HOUSTON โ The Houston Health Department laboratory announced Wednesday that it will now conduct COVID-19 testing for cases that meet the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention testing criteria. The test results are considered a โpresumptive positive,โ and are being sent to the CDC lab in Atlanta for confirmation. Results from specimens collected by medical providers from suspected cases are expected to arrive in Houston for testing within 24 hours. I am gratified the CDC has approved local COVID-19 testing in our Houston Health Department lab,โ said Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. If a test comes back positive, that test would be sent to the CDC lab for further confirmation, but local testing is considered actionable.