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Texas doctor convicted of sexually assaulting patient gets probation

A former Houston doctor convicted of sexually assaulting a patient while she was tethered to machines and receiving treatment for asthma won’t serve any prison time and will instead serve 10 years’ probation.

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Italian officials told of bridge weakness months before collapse

Engineering experts determined in February that corrosion of the metal cables supporting the Genoa highway bridge had reduced the bridge’s strength by 20 percent — a finding that came months before it collapsed last week, an Italian newsmagazine reported Monday.

School year begins at Texas school where gunman killed 10

Students in Santa Fe, Texas, will begin a new school year Monday with additional security measures in place following a mass shooting in May that left 10 people dead.

Pope condemns abuse crime, says church abandoned ‘little ones’

Pope Francis has issued a letter to Catholics around the world condemning the “crime” of priestly sexual abuse and cover-up and demanding accountability, in response to new revelations in the United States of decades of misconduct by the Catholic Church.

Husband of pregnant woman detained by ICE on way to hospital

A California woman said Saturday that she had to drive herself to the hospital and give birth without her husband after he was detained by immigration agents.