{"id":33529,"date":"2024-09-25T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/wednesday-headlines-hand-foot-and-house-disease#id33249"},"modified":"2024-09-25T13:50:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T13:50:00","slug":"wednesday-headlines-hand-foot-and-house-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wednesday-headlines-hand-foot-and-house-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday headlines: Hand, foot and house disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hezbollah launches its first long-range missile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/israel-intercepts-missile-fired-at-tel-aviv-as-fighting-escalates-ac9f8d17?st=ihrHEo&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\">at Tel Aviv.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The Wall Street Journal [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Was Israel&#39;s detonation of the pagers an act of terrorism? &#8220;To kill civilians in a mass operation that entails their deaths is neither a tragedy <a href=\"https:\/\/zeteo.com\/p\/israel-pager-detonation-lebanon-terrorism\">nor an accident.<\/a>&#8220;<span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Zeteo<\/span><\/p>\n<p>American religious conservatives are working with Russia to push laws criminalizing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/africa\/russia-and-u-s-religious-conservatives-see-common-foe-in-africa-gay-rights-53edee87?st=2FrafC&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\">homosexuality in Africa.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The Wall Street Journal [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kamala Harris says she would support ending the Senate&#39;s filibuster in order to reinstate federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/09\/23\/nx-s1-5123955\/kamala-harris-abortion-roe-v-wade-filibuster\">abortion protections.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ NPR<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the year after Roe fell, pregnancy-related criminalizations outpaced any other period in US history, with 210 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/pregnant-women-prosecuted-supreme-court-abortion-1235111112\/\">women prosecuted.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Rolling Stone<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Can MAGA appointees shift Georgia&#39;s electoral outcomes? 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