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The bizarre decision handed down last week by the Alabama Supreme Court, which ruled that frozen human embryos are people too, is the reductio ad absurdum of the antiabortion movement’s religious worship of the union of egg and sperm.The court ruled that Alabama’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act, which was enacted in 1872, long before artificial reproductive technology — let alone frozen embryos — were a gleam in anyone’s eye, applies to “all unborn children, regardless of their location.” Opinion…

I’m an animator, and after 7 years of working on feature films such as Klaus, Space Jam 2 and Sonic 2, I decided to leave the industry to work on my own project.For the past year, I’ve been making comics and videos about a firefighter called Tim who adopts a baby dragon called Bash. The series follows the day-to-day chaos that naturally accompanies the tempting yet unwise decision to adopt a fire-breathing, treasure-hoarding pet.The comic started to build an audience over the past year, aided by the live-action videos…

Over 400 wildfires are raging across Canada this week and firefighting teams have been overwhelmed by the flames. Canadian officials have asked for foreign support, and several countries have offered to send supplies and people, including the United States. As of yesterday, the U.S. has deployed more than 600 firefighters and support personnel to help on the ground emergency response teams, according to the White House.Biggest Forest Fire in New Mexico HistoryOther countries have sent emergency response teams to Canada…

The Kardashian family knows how to throw a party, and this time it was for the youngest member of the clan, Psalm West, who turned four on May 9. But the family decided to celebrate early with a fireman-themed party at Kim Kardashian's sprawling Calabasas home. US socialite Kim Kardashian arrives for the 2023 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2023, in New York. - The Gala raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. The Gala's 2023 theme is Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of…

MIDLAND, Tex. —  Slumped in front of the TV, Robert O'Donnell watched the images flash by like his own life on rapid rewind.Weary firefighters. Wounded babies. A harrowing race against the clock. The scene happened to be Oklahoma City, but it was all too familiar, a traumatic reminder of the starring role O'Donnell once played in another rescue that touched the nation’s heart.Seven years earlier, in what remains one of the top-rated news events in television history, the slender paramedic wriggled down an underground…

Pete Davidson has shared a photo of his firefighter father, Scott, who died in the 9/11 terror attacks.Sunday 11 September, marked 21 years since the tragedy and the day that Scott, a New York firefighter, was killed aged 33.He had been dispatched to the World Trade Center after a second hijacked plane hit the south tower.Davidson was seven and his younger sister Casey was three when their father died trying to save lives.The Saturday Night Live star shared a picture of Scott smiling and wearing his firefighter uniform on…

On 11 September 2001, Hollywood actor Steve Buscemi – known for his depictions of gangsters and weirdos and once described by The Guardian as a “strangely attractive shoelace” – returned to his old job as a New York City firefighter.He worked 12-hour shifts for several days alongside other firefighters, searching for survivors in the rubble of the World Trade Center.Buscemi had taken the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) civil service test when he was 18 and used to work as a FDNY firefighter in downtown…