Congress restricts Medicaid abortions in 1981 bill
Congress approves a $13.2 billion spending package with a rider banning Medicaid abortion funding for non live‑threatening pregnancies this year. The measure, opposed by some who say 10,000 poor women would be affected, leaves future funding to renewal.
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Muslims suspected in stabbing of James Earl Ray
In Oak Ridge Tennessee inmates from a Black Muslim group are believed to have stabbed James Earl Ray, who pleaded guilty to killing Martin Luther King. Ray, beaten and stabbed in Brushy Mountain Penitentiary, remained in stable condition with wounds to head chest and arm as his wife voiced outrage at the incident.
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