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Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Linda Cohn Makes Tear-Jerking Announcement on Tuesday
The cast and crew of Sportscenter has been a mainstay in tens of millions of American households over the past few decades, producing legends of the broadcasting world including Stuart Scott, Linda Cohn, Scott Van Pelt, Dan Patrick and others. Cohn, known for her light-hearted, sweet demeanor and encyclopedic sports knowledge, has been one of the show's most popular and well known anchors for years. Advertisement On Tuesday, the longtime Sportscenter anchor made a major announcement about the show's future that had fans reacting in the comments section. Sportscenter anchor Kevin Negandi (L), Florida basketball coach Todd Golden and sports journalist Hannah Storm at the Dick Vitale Gala on May 2, 2025. © Thomas Bender/Sarasota Herald-Tribune / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images "Ended too soon. The LA Sportscenter is no more. We said goodbye Monday Night," Cohn said on her X page, tagging ESPN's Neil Everett and Stan Verrett in her post. "Best trio since Rush," one fan said in the comments. "Does this mean we get another show of three to four ex professional players yelling at each other?" another asked sarcastically. "Legends," reporter Steve Wyche added underneath the picture with three raised hands emojis. A video of Sportscenter anchors signing off over the course of the show's history was shared on X by ESPN. "One of the best crews in the game will be missed!" a fan said. Advertisement "Sportscenter not gonna be the same without Stan and Neil," another fan added. Another shared a photo of the time he got to sit at the Sportscenter anchor's desk on X after hearing the news. "Love the Sportscenter crew's heartfelt goodbye gesture always," another fan added. "We will miss all of them! Thank you Stan and Neil for keeping me informed ever since I was a young boy in elementary school and now an adult!' Related: Phoenix Suns CEO Facing Lawsuit Involving Indiana Fever's Sophie Cunningham
Epoch Times
26-05-2025
- Health
- Epoch Times
NSW Parliament Passes Bill to Allow Nurses, Midwives to Prescribe Abortion Drugs
After extensive debate and review, the Abortion Law Reform Amendment (Health Care Access) Bill 2025 passed the NSW Parliament on May 14, with 65 votes in favour and 20 against. The bill marks a significant step in expanding access to abortion services in regional and rural NSW. Introduced by Greens MP Dr Amanda Cohn, the bill allows nurse practitioners and endorsed midwives to prescribe and provide medical abortion drugs for pregnancies up to nine weeks—a role previously limited to doctors. Cohn, who led the reform, said the bill would help address gaps in reproductive care for women outside metropolitan areas. 'This bill is about access,' she said. 'It's about ensuring women outside our cities can get safe, legal, timely reproductive healthcare.' Currently, only doctors can prescribe MS-2 Step—the medication used for medical abortions—making access in regional areas difficult. Cohn argued the bill was necessary to 'end abortion deserts' in rural NSW. Related Stories 5/14/2025 5/13/2025 The legislation also gives the health minister authority to direct public hospitals to provide abortion services. However, a clause that would have required 'conscientious objectors' to refer patients elsewhere was removed during negotiations. This clause was heavily criticised by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott who said it would be 'cancelling faith in public life,' and force those with religious beliefs to act Abbott spoke at a protest outside NSW Parliament House on May 7 attended by hundreds of individuals. Final Debate Sees Push For Stricter Conditions Despite the bill's broad support from parliamentarians, its final debate saw several MPs attempt to introduce stricter conditions. Some MPs proposed that only nurse practitioners and midwives with further years of experience should be permitted to prescribe abortion medication. Others argued for mandatory counselling alongside any termination procedure. Alister Henskens, the member for Wahroonga, and Joe McGirr, member for Wagga Wagga, were among those calling for these changes. However, Independent MP Alex Greenwich opposed the stricter conditions, saying they had not been consulted with the nursing profession, and risked undermining the bill's intent. 'It essentially seeks to add two years' experience, in addition to the extensive training nurse practitioners and endorsed midwives have already undertaken,' Greenwich said. He noted that nurses in Australia must already complete 5,000 hours of practice in their specialty before they can apply to become a nurse practitioner. Once endorsed, they are required to undertake additional professional development, and be governed by legal and clinical standards. Health Minister Opposes Training Requirement Health Minister Ryan Park also opposed the proposed training requirement, saying it would create barriers to access. 'Stipulating specific training requirements is not appropriate to do via legislation,' he said. He added that no other health service sets clinical training standards in legislation, and warned that such a move could set an unworkable precedent, putting NSW out of line with national practices.
Boston Globe
24-05-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Marthe Cohn, a Jewish spy in Nazi Germany, dies at 105
Her spying earned her France's Croix de Guerre and was credited with saving the lives of Allied troops pressing in on the Reich. And more than 50 years later, after French officials took a fresh look at her military record, she was awarded another prestigious award, the Médaille Militaire, and was named a knight in the Legion of Honor, the country's highest order of merit. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up By then, Ms. Cohn had only just begun to discuss her brief career as a spy. Her husband, an American, had learned about her espionage exploits only after they were married. For years, even her children had no idea that Ms. Cohn — a petite but energetic woman who stood no more than 4-foot-11 — once crawled across the border on her hands and knees, hiding from German sentries while bringing intelligence back to the French. Advertisement 'I just thought nobody would believe me,' she told the Los Angeles Times in 2005, explaining her years of silence. 'Spies are usually tall and good-looking. I am a very unlikely spy.' Ms. Cohn, who died May 20 at the age of 105, spent the past quarter-century sharing her story at schools and community centers across Europe and the United States, where she worked as a nurse after the war. In her final years, she served as a memory keeper for the Holocaust and the French resistance, sharing her story in a well-received 2002 memoir, 'Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany,' and in a 2019 documentary, 'Chichinette: The Accidental Spy.' 'I will bear witness,' she often told audiences, 'until my last breath.' The fourth of seven children, she was born Marthe Hoffnung in Metz on April 13, 1920. Her family was Orthodox — her maternal grandfather was a rabbi — and her parents ran a small business framing and enlarging photos. As a teenager, Ms. Cohn occasionally got into fistfights at school, brawling with Catholic classmates who made antisemitic comments about Prime Minister Léon Blum, who was Jewish. She said she inherited some of her scrappiness from her father, who once removed his belt and went after teenagers who were throwing stones at the family as they left the local synagogue. Advertisement After Kristallnacht, the Nazis' 1938 pogrom against Jews, Ms. Cohn's parents began taking in Jewish refugees from Germany, looking after penniless families that needed a place to stay for a few days as they sought a new home in France or elsewhere. Ms. Cohn recalled in her memoir that while she was horrified by the pogrom, 'never for one moment did I think that the same thing would happen to us. Not in France. … I believed in human nature. I still had confidence that good would prevail.' When World War II broke out in 1939, the family moved across the country to Poitiers, far from the German border. They remained there during the 1940 invasion and subsequent occupation, living for a time under few restrictions. Ms. Cohn said that she even worked at city hall with German officials who, admiring her accent and skill with the language, invited her to move to Germany for work, not realizing she was Jewish. Gradually, the situation deteriorated. Nazi leaders closed Jewish businesses and mandated that residents wear a yellow star in public. Ms. Cohn was approached on the street one day by one of her colleagues from city hall, who offered to provide her and her family with identity papers that were not stamped with the word 'Jew.' The documents would let them travel freely to unoccupied France. 'When I asked him how much it would cost, he started crying and he said, 'I do not want to be paid. I do this to save you,'' she recalled in an interview with the Jewish Ledger, a Connecticut newspaper. 'He gave me all the identity cards.' Ms. Cohn's sister Stéphanie was arrested before the family could leave. But Ms. Cohn, her parents and several of her siblings were able to flee and survive, with help at times from one of Ms. Cohn's brothers who worked in the resistance. She spent part of the war in Marseille, studying to become a nurse, and enlisted in the French army in 1944 after the liberation of Paris. Advertisement 'At first,' she recalled, 'they looked at my size and said, 'Little girl, go back to your mother. You don't belong in the army.'' Ms. Cohn proved persistent — 'I'm going to stay,' she said she told the officers — and was allowed to enlist as an aid worker, tasked with visiting soldiers near the front and asking what they needed. At one point, she was assigned to answer calls for a colonel who needed to step out for lunch. He apologized, telling Ms. Cohn that she would have nothing to read to pass the time, as he only had German-language books in his office. 'I said, 'That's OK, I can read German,'' she told the Los Angeles Times in 2000. 'It's as simple as that, how your life can change.' The army was looking for German-language speakers who could work as spies. Ms. Cohn underwent a brief training — she was so inquisitive, she said, that her colleagues nicknamed her Chichinette, French for 'little pain in the neck' — and was sent to Switzerland, where she tried more than a dozen times to cross the border into Germany. She eventually succeeded, crossing a field without being spotted, carrying only a small suitcase and a picture of a German prisoner of war whom she claimed was her fiancé. Advertisement Ms. Cohn used the photo to win the trust of German soldiers, asking whether they had seen her lover on the battlefield. During one encounter, she claimed to be terrified about the prospect of an Allied invasion. 'They told me not to worry,' she said in the Times interview. 'And then they told me in precisely which section of the Black Forest the German army was waiting for the Allies.' Ms. Cohn hurried back to the border to share her discovery with the French. She also revealed that German troops near Freiburg were withdrawing from the Siegfried Line, a long-fortified defensive position. After the war ended, she served as an army nurse in Vietnam, then part of French Indochina. She also continued her nursing studies in Geneva, where she met Major L. Cohn, an American medical student who had served on a Navy minesweeper during World War II. They married in 1958, moved to the United States and later worked together in Los Angeles, her husband as an anesthesiologist and Ms. Cohn as a nurse. Her husband, who survives her, said Ms. Cohn died at home in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. He did not cite a specific cause. Survivors also include their two sons, Stephan and Remi Cohn, and a granddaughter. In her public appearances, Ms. Cohn sought to draw lessons from the Holocaust, urging audiences to have sympathy for migrants who — like many Europeans Jews in the 1930s and '40s — struggle to find refuge in the United States and other countries. Asked in the documentary what message she had for people today, she replied, 'Be engaged. And don't accept any order that your conscience could not approve.' Advertisement
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
West Baton Rouge school system breaks ground on school upgrades
PORT ALLEN, La. (Louisiana First) – A multimillion-dollar school shakeup is underway in Port Allen. West Baton Rouge School Board members hosting a groundbreaking, for an effort they say will provide much need upgrades to students in the area. Shovels in hand, school leaders are breaking ground on a project they're very excited about. West Baton Rouge Schools Superintendent Chandler Smith said Cohn Elementary will transform into Cohn Intermediate School. Another part of the plan is taking place on the other side of town, finding a new purpose for Port Allen Middle School. 'Both Cohn and Port Allen Middle each have about 200 students in each school. So, combining our resources onto one campus better efficiently uses our resources we have as a school system,' said Smith. 'With this transition, we are also opening the doors for Port Allen Middle School to be reimagined as an Early College Academy, giving our high school students unprecedented access to college-level opportunities right here at home. Together, these changes reflect a forward-thinking vision, one that meets our students where they are, and takes them where they dream to go,' Smith mentioned. Smith says this will allow students to earn up to an associate's degree while still in high school.'We can't wait for this to get started this summer, Cohn is a special project for us,' he Cohn campus should be ready in about a year, and the Early College Academy is supposed to open in 2027. The school system recommended combining the two campuses because of low enrollment. West Baton Rouge school system breaks ground on school upgrades How much is in the state's checkbook? Some good news and uncertainty Two men arrested after separate deadly overdoses in Livingston Parish GOP leaders reveal changes to win over holdouts on Trump agenda bill GOP holdouts shift after Trump, Johnson offer assurances Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Advertiser
13-05-2025
- Health
- The Advertiser
NSW parliament is debating abortion again. Here's what it means for you
Abortion services could be expanded in NSW if a vote in parliament is passed this week. The legislation would allow nurses and midwives to prescribe medical terminations. Currently, only a medical practitioner could prescribe a medical abortion in NSW. The bill, introduced by Greens MP Amanda Cohn, a former medical abortion provider, was initially much broader in scope. Dr Cohn told ACM, publisher of this masthead, that although abortion was decriminalised in NSW in 2019 it was still not widely accessible. "People are still travelling hundreds of kilometres or forking out hundreds or thousands of dollars to access the private system," she said. The initial bill would have legally required doctors with moral objections to abortion to refer a patient to another practitioner. It also stipulated that abortion be provided within a "reasonable distance" of people's homes, regardless of where they lived. That's all been scrapped after failing to pass the upper house. Another section lifting some mandatory reporting requirements was not passed either. The bill in its current form allows nurse practitioners and endorsed midwives to prescribe the abortion pill MS-2 Step to women up to nine weeks in their pregnancy. The legislation passed by 25 votes to 15 in the NSW upper house on May 8 with the support of most Labor, Greens and Nationals MPs. The bill was introduced to the lower house on May 13. Labor and the Coalition are allowing MPs to have a conscience vote on the issue. Liberal leader Mark Speakman won't reveal his position on the matter. In a statement, he told ACM that abortion was a sensitive issue where people hold "strong and sincere but different views". "The joint party room is allowing a free vote so that each Coalition MP can decide based on their own conscience," he said. NSW Premier Chris Minns told reporters he would support the bill given that the conscientious objective amendment had now been dropped. He was initially against the bill. "I think stripping the conscientious objection provisions as the original Greens bill had in place was a step too far," he said. "I think it would have driven some doctors out of the profession, the opposite of what we need and want." Yes Scott Barrett (Nationals) Sue Higginson (Greens) Jacqui Munro (Liberals) Abigail Boyd (Greens) Emma Hurst (Animals Justice) Cameron Murphy (Labor) Jeremy Buckingham (Legalise Cannabis Party) Rose Jackson (Labor) Bob Nanva (Labor) Mark Buttigieg (Labor) Sarah Kaine (Greens) Nichole Overall (Nationals) Amanda Cohn (Greens) Stephen Lawrence (Labor) Peter Primrose (Labor) Anthony D'Adam (Labor) Sarah Mitchell (Nationals) Penny Sharpe (Labor) Cate Faehrmann (Greens) Daniel Mookhey (Labor) Emily Suvaal (Labor) Wes Fang (Nationals) Tara Moriarty (Labor) Natalie Ward (Liberal) John Graham Labor) No Mark Banasiak (Shooters, Fishers and Farmers) Courtney Houssos (Labor) Tania Mihailuk (Independent) Robert Borsak(Shooters, Fishers and Farmers) Mark Latham (Independent) Chris Rath (Liberal) Susan Carter (Liberal) Natasha Maclaren-Jones (Liberal) Rod Roberts (Independent) Greg Donnelly (Liberal) Taylor Martin (Independent) John Ruddick (Libertarian) Scott Farlow (Liberal) Rachel Merton (Liberal) Damien Tudehope (Liberal) Abortion services could be expanded in NSW if a vote in parliament is passed this week. The legislation would allow nurses and midwives to prescribe medical terminations. Currently, only a medical practitioner could prescribe a medical abortion in NSW. The bill, introduced by Greens MP Amanda Cohn, a former medical abortion provider, was initially much broader in scope. Dr Cohn told ACM, publisher of this masthead, that although abortion was decriminalised in NSW in 2019 it was still not widely accessible. "People are still travelling hundreds of kilometres or forking out hundreds or thousands of dollars to access the private system," she said. The initial bill would have legally required doctors with moral objections to abortion to refer a patient to another practitioner. It also stipulated that abortion be provided within a "reasonable distance" of people's homes, regardless of where they lived. That's all been scrapped after failing to pass the upper house. Another section lifting some mandatory reporting requirements was not passed either. The bill in its current form allows nurse practitioners and endorsed midwives to prescribe the abortion pill MS-2 Step to women up to nine weeks in their pregnancy. The legislation passed by 25 votes to 15 in the NSW upper house on May 8 with the support of most Labor, Greens and Nationals MPs. The bill was introduced to the lower house on May 13. Labor and the Coalition are allowing MPs to have a conscience vote on the issue. Liberal leader Mark Speakman won't reveal his position on the matter. In a statement, he told ACM that abortion was a sensitive issue where people hold "strong and sincere but different views". "The joint party room is allowing a free vote so that each Coalition MP can decide based on their own conscience," he said. NSW Premier Chris Minns told reporters he would support the bill given that the conscientious objective amendment had now been dropped. He was initially against the bill. "I think stripping the conscientious objection provisions as the original Greens bill had in place was a step too far," he said. "I think it would have driven some doctors out of the profession, the opposite of what we need and want." Yes Scott Barrett (Nationals) Sue Higginson (Greens) Jacqui Munro (Liberals) Abigail Boyd (Greens) Emma Hurst (Animals Justice) Cameron Murphy (Labor) Jeremy Buckingham (Legalise Cannabis Party) Rose Jackson (Labor) Bob Nanva (Labor) Mark Buttigieg (Labor) Sarah Kaine (Greens) Nichole Overall (Nationals) Amanda Cohn (Greens) Stephen Lawrence (Labor) Peter Primrose (Labor) Anthony D'Adam (Labor) Sarah Mitchell (Nationals) Penny Sharpe (Labor) Cate Faehrmann (Greens) Daniel Mookhey (Labor) Emily Suvaal (Labor) Wes Fang (Nationals) Tara Moriarty (Labor) Natalie Ward (Liberal) John Graham Labor) No Mark Banasiak (Shooters, Fishers and Farmers) Courtney Houssos (Labor) Tania Mihailuk (Independent) Robert Borsak(Shooters, Fishers and Farmers) Mark Latham (Independent) Chris Rath (Liberal) Susan Carter (Liberal) Natasha Maclaren-Jones (Liberal) Rod Roberts (Independent) Greg Donnelly (Liberal) Taylor Martin (Independent) John Ruddick (Libertarian) Scott Farlow (Liberal) Rachel Merton (Liberal) Damien Tudehope (Liberal) Abortion services could be expanded in NSW if a vote in parliament is passed this week. The legislation would allow nurses and midwives to prescribe medical terminations. Currently, only a medical practitioner could prescribe a medical abortion in NSW. The bill, introduced by Greens MP Amanda Cohn, a former medical abortion provider, was initially much broader in scope. Dr Cohn told ACM, publisher of this masthead, that although abortion was decriminalised in NSW in 2019 it was still not widely accessible. "People are still travelling hundreds of kilometres or forking out hundreds or thousands of dollars to access the private system," she said. The initial bill would have legally required doctors with moral objections to abortion to refer a patient to another practitioner. It also stipulated that abortion be provided within a "reasonable distance" of people's homes, regardless of where they lived. That's all been scrapped after failing to pass the upper house. Another section lifting some mandatory reporting requirements was not passed either. The bill in its current form allows nurse practitioners and endorsed midwives to prescribe the abortion pill MS-2 Step to women up to nine weeks in their pregnancy. The legislation passed by 25 votes to 15 in the NSW upper house on May 8 with the support of most Labor, Greens and Nationals MPs. The bill was introduced to the lower house on May 13. Labor and the Coalition are allowing MPs to have a conscience vote on the issue. Liberal leader Mark Speakman won't reveal his position on the matter. In a statement, he told ACM that abortion was a sensitive issue where people hold "strong and sincere but different views". "The joint party room is allowing a free vote so that each Coalition MP can decide based on their own conscience," he said. NSW Premier Chris Minns told reporters he would support the bill given that the conscientious objective amendment had now been dropped. He was initially against the bill. "I think stripping the conscientious objection provisions as the original Greens bill had in place was a step too far," he said. "I think it would have driven some doctors out of the profession, the opposite of what we need and want." Yes Scott Barrett (Nationals) Sue Higginson (Greens) Jacqui Munro (Liberals) Abigail Boyd (Greens) Emma Hurst (Animals Justice) Cameron Murphy (Labor) Jeremy Buckingham (Legalise Cannabis Party) Rose Jackson (Labor) Bob Nanva (Labor) Mark Buttigieg (Labor) Sarah Kaine (Greens) Nichole Overall (Nationals) Amanda Cohn (Greens) Stephen Lawrence (Labor) Peter Primrose (Labor) Anthony D'Adam (Labor) Sarah Mitchell (Nationals) Penny Sharpe (Labor) Cate Faehrmann (Greens) Daniel Mookhey (Labor) Emily Suvaal (Labor) Wes Fang (Nationals) Tara Moriarty (Labor) Natalie Ward (Liberal) John Graham Labor) No Mark Banasiak (Shooters, Fishers and Farmers) Courtney Houssos (Labor) Tania Mihailuk (Independent) Robert Borsak(Shooters, Fishers and Farmers) Mark Latham (Independent) Chris Rath (Liberal) Susan Carter (Liberal) Natasha Maclaren-Jones (Liberal) Rod Roberts (Independent) Greg Donnelly (Liberal) Taylor Martin (Independent) John Ruddick (Libertarian) Scott Farlow (Liberal) Rachel Merton (Liberal) Damien Tudehope (Liberal) Abortion services could be expanded in NSW if a vote in parliament is passed this week. The legislation would allow nurses and midwives to prescribe medical terminations. Currently, only a medical practitioner could prescribe a medical abortion in NSW. The bill, introduced by Greens MP Amanda Cohn, a former medical abortion provider, was initially much broader in scope. Dr Cohn told ACM, publisher of this masthead, that although abortion was decriminalised in NSW in 2019 it was still not widely accessible. "People are still travelling hundreds of kilometres or forking out hundreds or thousands of dollars to access the private system," she said. The initial bill would have legally required doctors with moral objections to abortion to refer a patient to another practitioner. It also stipulated that abortion be provided within a "reasonable distance" of people's homes, regardless of where they lived. That's all been scrapped after failing to pass the upper house. Another section lifting some mandatory reporting requirements was not passed either. The bill in its current form allows nurse practitioners and endorsed midwives to prescribe the abortion pill MS-2 Step to women up to nine weeks in their pregnancy. The legislation passed by 25 votes to 15 in the NSW upper house on May 8 with the support of most Labor, Greens and Nationals MPs. The bill was introduced to the lower house on May 13. Labor and the Coalition are allowing MPs to have a conscience vote on the issue. Liberal leader Mark Speakman won't reveal his position on the matter. In a statement, he told ACM that abortion was a sensitive issue where people hold "strong and sincere but different views". "The joint party room is allowing a free vote so that each Coalition MP can decide based on their own conscience," he said. NSW Premier Chris Minns told reporters he would support the bill given that the conscientious objective amendment had now been dropped. He was initially against the bill. "I think stripping the conscientious objection provisions as the original Greens bill had in place was a step too far," he said. "I think it would have driven some doctors out of the profession, the opposite of what we need and want." Yes Scott Barrett (Nationals) Sue Higginson (Greens) Jacqui Munro (Liberals) Abigail Boyd (Greens) Emma Hurst (Animals Justice) Cameron Murphy (Labor) Jeremy Buckingham (Legalise Cannabis Party) Rose Jackson (Labor) Bob Nanva (Labor) Mark Buttigieg (Labor) Sarah Kaine (Greens) Nichole Overall (Nationals) Amanda Cohn (Greens) Stephen Lawrence (Labor) Peter Primrose (Labor) Anthony D'Adam (Labor) Sarah Mitchell (Nationals) Penny Sharpe (Labor) Cate Faehrmann (Greens) Daniel Mookhey (Labor) Emily Suvaal (Labor) Wes Fang (Nationals) Tara Moriarty (Labor) Natalie Ward (Liberal) John Graham Labor) No Mark Banasiak (Shooters, Fishers and Farmers) Courtney Houssos (Labor) Tania Mihailuk (Independent) Robert Borsak(Shooters, Fishers and Farmers) Mark Latham (Independent) Chris Rath (Liberal) Susan Carter (Liberal) Natasha Maclaren-Jones (Liberal) Rod Roberts (Independent) Greg Donnelly (Liberal) Taylor Martin (Independent) John Ruddick (Libertarian) Scott Farlow (Liberal) Rachel Merton (Liberal) Damien Tudehope (Liberal)
