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AMERICANALMANAC (Ken Jacobs) - Federal judge blocks Colorado's crackdown on Aurora ICE detention center

A Trump-appointed federal judge temporarily struck down key provisions of a Colorado law that singled out the state's only ICE detention facility for special inspections and steep fines, ruling the state likely crossed a constitutional line. Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel Domenico issued a preliminary injunction Thursday blocking the enforcement provisions of Colorado House Bill […] The post Federal judge blocks Colorado's crackdown on Aurora ICE detention center appeared first on American Almanac .

A Trump-appointed federal judge temporarily struck down key provisions of a Colorado law that singled out the state's only ICE detention facility for special inspections and steep fines, ruling the state likely crossed a constitutional line. Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel Domenico issued a preliminary injunction Thursday blocking the enforcement provisions of Colorado House Bill 26-1276, a law Democratic Governor Jared Polis signed on June 4. The measure expanded state and local oversight of immigration detention centers, but in practice it applied to just one place: the GEO Group's Aurora ICE Processing Center, Colorado's lone ICE detention facility. Fox News Digital reported that Domenico found the law discriminated against GEO based…Open

AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - At least five girls under 14 allegedly raped in Ceuta after 72,000 migrants crossed from Morocco

A hospital doctor in Spain's North African exclave of Ceuta says the facility has treated at least five girls under 14 for alleged rape, cases she links to a massive border crossing that overwhelmed the small city's shelters and left migrant children living on the streets. Dr. Susana Ascaso, an emergency physician at the University […] The post At least five girls under 14 allegedly raped in Ceuta after 72,000 migrants crossed from Morocco appeared first on American Almanac .

A hospital doctor in Spain's North African exclave of Ceuta says the facility has treated at least five girls under 14 for alleged rape, cases she links to a massive border crossing that overwhelmed the small city's shelters and left migrant children living on the streets. Dr. Susana Ascaso, an emergency physician at the University Hospital of Ceuta, known locally as HUCE, confirmed the cases to the local newspaper El Pueblo de Ceuta . She described treating "cases of rape of migrant girls" in the roughly two weeks since approximately 72,000 migrants surged across the sea border from Morocco on the final day of July. The girls are believed to have arrived during that crossing. They ended up on the streets, Ascaso said, "because there…Open

NPR (Ari Daniel) - Long a dream, it's now real: a fast and accurate TB test that doesn't need phlegm

TB tests use phlegm — not the easiest thing to get or work with. It takes time for results. And there can be false negatives and positives. A new test is more accurate and takes less than half an hour.

NPR (Ari Daniel) - Inside a rare lab that's blazing a bold trail as it hunts for new drugs

A scientist from Zambia who loves — LOVES! — chemistry runs a lab in South Africa that is being hailed for "extraordinary" work.

NYTIMES (Stephanie Nolen and Arlette Bashizi) - 4 Months Trapped in a Hospital for an Obsolete Way of Treating Their Disease

Health workers in developing countries know that isolating tuberculosis patients is an outdated and potentially harmful practice, but lack the resources to move away from it.

NPR (Gabrielle Emanuel) - TB or not TB? That is the question

A new study in "Nature Medicine" estimates 2 million people are incorrectly told they have TB each year — and clinicians miss diagnosing TB in 1 million people. Why so many misdiagnoses?