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'Dancing doctor' accused of filming music videos during surgeries says she was being 'safe,' patients consented

ABC News(ATLANTA) -- A Georgia doctor, whose medical license was suspended after she was accused by patients of recording music videos during surgeries without their consent, says she was “safe” and the patients in her videos had agreed to participate.“The videos were pre-consented, staged, and done at a safe interval,” Dr. Windell Davis-Boutte told ABC News in an exclusive interview. “Many [of the videos], most of them [were recorded] after the fact, during recovery, which was planned by me and the patient. So I would ...

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'Roseanne' spinoff 'The Conners' will premiere in the fall without Roseanne Barr

Adam Rose/ABC(LOS ANGELES) -- ABC has greenlit a spinoff series of the now-canceled "Roseanne" -- without the show's embattled star.On Thursday, the network announced that much of the cast of "Roseanne," including John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Sara Gilbert, Lecy Goranson and Michael Fishman, are set to reprise their iconic roles in the new show, currently named "The Conners" as a working title.Roseanne Barr will have no financial or creative involvement in the new series, according to the network."The Connners" will air on Tuesdays at 8 ...

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Koko the gorilla dies: 'She taught me so much,' trainer says

The Gorilla Foundation/Koko.org(NEW YORK) -- Koko, the western lowland gorilla who learned sign language and became a pop-culture phenomenon, has died at the age of 46, the group that cared for her announced Thursday.The Gorilla Foundation, headed by Dr. Francine "Penny" Patterson, the animal psychologist who taught Koko sign language, announced that the famed super-simian died in her sleep Tuesday morning at the organization's preserve in Woodside, California."I'm totally aware of how blessed and magical my life has been with her," an emotional Patterson, 71, ...

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There’s a new mosquito-borne virus in town, and you may have it

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Another disease to blame on mosquitos, in addition to Zika, dengue, chikungunya? The list of viruses infecting humans through pesky mosquito bites continues to increase: Keystone virus has joined the ranks.What is Keystone virus? It’s from a family of viruses known as the Bunyaviridae group. These viruses have been associated with encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain that can be fatal.Where does it come from? The virus was first isolated in 1964 in samples from mosquitoes in Keystone, Florida. Little is known ...

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'I acted to protect my family and others': Pastor who shot Walmart gunman dead

KOMO-TV(OAKVILLE, Wash.) -- The pistol-packing pastor who gunned down a man allegedly on a carjacking rampage that left three people shot in Tumwater, Washington, on Father's Day, says he acted to "protect my family and others."David George, a pastor at an Assembly of God Church in Oakville, Washington, and a paramedic for the town's fire department, broke his silence after being cleared of any wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of Tim Day, 44, who police said was on a one-man crime spree."I carry a firearm ...

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House rejects conservative immigration bill, delays vote on second measure

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The House of Representatives rejected a conservative immigration proposal Thursday and delayed a planned vote on a GOP compromise measure until Friday in another setback for House Republican leaders hoping to take up immigration reform and tout their solution to the ongoing family separation crisis.The House of Representatives rejected a conservative immigration proposal Thursday and has delayed a planned vote on a compromise version until Friday.By a vote of 193 to 231, the House defeated the Securing Americas Future Act of 2018, with ...

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John Bolton heads to Moscow to plan potential Putin-Trump summit

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump may finally get his wish – a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin – as his National Security Adviser John Bolton heads to Moscow to discuss a potential meeting between the two leaders, a National Security Council spokesperson confirmed Thursday.This would be the first formally-arranged meeting between Trump and Putin after they talked on the sidelines of two international summits in 2017, and it comes after the president's repeated calls for stronger ties with Russia and warm words for Putin.But ...

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