(BUCKEYE VALLEY, Ariz.) — A woman was stung more than 75 times by a swarm of bees while participating in a family photo shoot in Arizona on Sunday, fire department officials said.
Arizona Fire & Medical Authority said crew members responded to calls in the Buckeye Valley area of bees attacking a mother and her two kids.
The mother saved her children by placing them in her car, resulting in her taking the brunt of the stings, fire officials wrote on Facebook.
“The mother’s quick thinking saved the children from being stung,” Arizona Fire & Medical Authority said.
The unidentified woman was sent to the hospital with more than 75 stings and has recovered, officials said.
Fire officials used foam to calm the bees down and rescue the children, according to officials, who also posted a partial video of the incident on Facebook.
Arizona Fire & Medical Authority officials urged the public that getting inside to a safe place is important if they are attacked by bees.
“Run in a straight line, cover your face, and get to shelter. Never get into water and do not fight the bees,” officials wrote.
Experts have previously provided tips to ABC News about what to know about bee stings, saying people should run if a bee “bumps into” them, since it isn’t an accident; if there’s no attack yet, hold your breath; and don’t flail your arms or swat at bees.
ABC News’ Joyeeta Biswas contributed to this report.
(CLEVELAND, Texas) — Five people, including an 9-year-old boy, were killed Friday night at their Texas home by a neighbor who was armed with an AR-15-style rifle, police said.
A manhunt was underway Sunday for the suspect, identified by authorities as 38-year-old Francisco Oropeza.
The victims included three women, a teenager and a 9-year-old child.
Two female victims were discovered in the bedroom lying on top of two surviving children, authorities told ABC News.
Wilson Garcia, who owned the home, told ABC Houston station KTRK that his wife and son were among the victims.
Here is what’s known about the victims so far:
Diana Velazquez Alvarado, 21
In an interview with ABC News, Velasquez Alvarado is described by her longtime partner Jefrinson Josué Rivera as a “warrior.” The two were together for six years.
“She gave everything for her children,” Rivera said. “She never had issues with anyone. She was happy, humble and caring. She was so attentive to her children, her friends, and to me.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott previously described the victims as undocumented; however, Rivera said his partner was a lawful permanent resident.
Jose Jonathan Casarez, 18
Obdulia Molina Rivera, 31
Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25
Daniel Enrique Laso Guzman, 9
Daniel’s school district, Cleveland Independent School District, held a vigil in his honor and hosted crisis counselors for staff and students.
“Cleveland Independent School District is heartbroken learning the news concerning the death of one of our students. At this time, we cannot elaborate with information due to the ongoing investigation of the horrendous tragedy,” the school said in a Facebook post.
ABC News’ Peter Charalambous contributed to this report.
Katy Perry and Lionel Richie will be absent from the judges table on American Idol next weekend because they’re set to perform at King Charles III’s coronation concert. Fellow judge Luke Bryan teased to Entertainment Tonightthat Sunday’s live show will have two “big-time” fill-in judges. “The people that we have filling in, contestants have used their songs many, many times,” he says. “A lot more than mine!”
Wedding bells will be ringing for Miley Cyrus’ mom. Tish Cyrus is engaged to Prison Break actor Dominic Purcell. “A thousand times…. YES,” Tish wrote in an Instagram post over the weekend, showing off her new diamond. The couple went Instagram official last November. Tish and Miley’s dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, announced their divorce last April. Billy Ray got engaged to Australian singer Firerose in November.
Taylor Swift rarely referenced her relationship with Joe Alwyn publicly, and now that their relationship is over, she’s apparently scrubbed one of those rare mentions from social media. Fans noticed Taylor removed an Instagram video in which she explained that her relationship with Joe was the inspiration behind her song “Lavender Haze.”
Katy Perry and Lionel Richie will be absent from the judges table on American Idol next weekend because they’re set to perform at King Charles III’s coronation concert. Fellow judge Luke Bryan teased to Entertainment Tonightthat Sunday’s live show will have two “big-time” fill-in judges. “The people that we have filling in, contestants have used their songs many, many times,” he says. “A lot more than mine!”
Wedding bells will be ringing for Miley Cyrus’ mom. Tish Cyrus is engaged to Prison Break actor Dominic Purcell. “A thousand times…. YES,” Tish wrote in an Instagram post over the weekend, showing off her new diamond. The couple went Instagram official last November. Tish and Miley’s dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, announced their divorce last April. Billy Ray got engaged to Australian singer Firerose in November.
Taylor Swift rarely referenced her relationship with Joe Alwyn publicly, and now that their relationship is over, she’s apparently scrubbed one of those rare mentions from social media. Fans noticed Taylor removed an Instagram video in which she explained that her relationship with Joe was the inspiration behind her song “Lavender Haze.”
After releasing his album Jackman on Friday, Jack Harlow has unveiled the first music video for the project — for the song “They Don’t Love It.” In the clip, he takes viewers on a tour of his hometown, Louisville, Kentucky.
Take your first peek at Halsey opposite Mia Goth in the new movie MaXXXine. A24 shared a pic from the horror sequel on Twitter Monday.
Game of Thrones veteran Pedro Pascal is reportedly getting back into the swords-and-armor business. Deadline is reporting that The Last of Us and The Mandalorian star might be the next big name to join Oscar winner Ridley Scott‘s anticipated Gladiator sequel.
The project has already attracted two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington, as well as recent nominees Paul Mescal and Barry Keoghan. The former plays the main character, Lucius, the now-grown son of Connie Nielsen‘s Lucilla, who was the sister of Joaquin Phoenix‘s murderous Emperor Commodus in the 2000 blockbuster.
Nielsen will reprise her role for the follow-up, which is slated for a November 22, 2024, release.
(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. government risks defaulting on its debts — for the first time in history — “as early as June 1,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wrote in a letter to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other top lawmakers on Monday.
“It is imperative that Congress act as soon as possible to increase or suspend the debt limit in a way that provides longer-term certainty that the government will continue to make its payments,” Yellen wrote.
The government hit its debt ceiling in January and has been employing “extraordinary measures” since then to keep its bills paid, according to Yellen.
“It is impossible to predict with certainty the exact date when Treasury will be unable to pay the government’s bills, and I will continue to update Congress in the coming weeks,” she wrote on Monday.
The House Republican majority has said they won’t raise the limit further without a compromise from Democrats on spending and the government budget — which President Joe Biden has rejected, saying the ceiling should be raised without strings attached, as has happened before.
With the potential June 1 deadline looming, the president called all four congressional leaders on Monday afternoon and invited them to a May 9 meeting on the debt limit, multiple sources familiar confirmed to ABC News.
ABC News’ Allison Pecorin and Rachel Scott contributed to this report.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Tim Bachman, guitarist and one of the co-founders of the Canadian band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, passed away Friday, April 28, at age 71. Well, now his brother and bandmate Randy Bachman has broken his silence for the first time since the news hit.
“I haven’t posted because my heart has been heavy but the news has announced my brother Tim passed this weekend,” he shares on social media. “I am the last of my family on this side with all my memories of our life growing up in Winnipeg. So grateful for that.”
He adds, “I’m sure my parents welcomed him home with my other 2 brothers who have passed in quick succession since the pandemic. I was the oldest. Rest in Peace, Timmy with mummy, daddy, Gary & Robbie.”
Randy, Tim and their other brother Robbie were in BTO together. Robbie passed away in January at the age of 69.
As the hero said in Deadpool 2, “Never underestimate a man with a mustache.” As proof, Rob Delaney will reportedly reprise his role as the decidedly non-super-powered Peter in Deadpool 3.
The character, who auditions for Deadpool’s X-Force team after seeing an ad in the blockbuster, and only brings to the table his mustache and “both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes,” will appear in the anticipated third film, Deadline is reporting.
Delaney joins Hugh Jackman in his first foray into the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the November 2024 release, along with returning ‘Pool players Karan Soni (Dopinder), Leslie Uggams (Blind Al), Morena Baccarin (Vanessa) and Stefan Kapičić (Colossus), and newcomers Emma Corrin from The Crown and Succession Emmy winner Matthew Macfadyen.
(NEW YORK) — Hospitals in Missouri and Kansas violated federal law last summer when they refused to provide an emergency abortion to a woman who went into premature labor at nearly 18 weeks and risked developing a life-threatening infection, according to initial findings in a government investigation by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The investigation, which is the first of its kind, underscores the persistent legal confusion in several states that ban abortions but carve out exceptions when a patient’s life is at risk. Abortion rights advocates say there’s no clear standard on when a health condition is serious enough to intervene and that doctors are often unclear on how to treat medical complications in a way that won’t violate anti-abortion statutes.
In the case of Mylissa Farmer of Joplin, Missouri, she was told she risked developing an infection and other serious complications if she remained pregnant after her water broke, investigators found, but at least two hospitals denied providing her with an abortion because of concerns it could violate state abortion laws.
“Since (last year’s Supreme Court decision), there’s been a lot of legal chaos and confusion and we really applaud that this is decisive action” by the government, said Michelle Banker, director of reproductive rights and health litigation at the National Women’s Law Center and Farmer’s lawyer.
Patients are “really being forced to wait until they are on the brink before hospitals will intervene,” Banker added. “And what this decision makes clear is that federal law does not allow hospitals to put patients in that impossible scenario.”
Last August, after Farmer arrived at a Missouri hospital, the doctors there said her fetus had a “very low” chance of survival and that an abortion was necessary to prevent her from developing sn infection and other problems due to her medical history, according to federal findings.
But because the fetus still had a heartbeat and Farmer remained stable at the time, the legal staff at Freeman Health System in Joplin, Missouri, determined that delivering the fetus at such an early point in the pregnancy would violate anti-abortion laws, investigators said.
“She expressed concern of infection with ruptured membranes,” according to a federal report on Farmer’s case. Doctors at the hospital “discussed that unless delivery becomes emergent, we are unable (to) help her deliver due to current state law while fetus has a heartbeat, even (though) the fetus is not viable.”
Farmer then drove three hours to the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City. While abortion is legal in Kansas, Farmer had arrived there the night of Aug. 2 — the same day the state was voting on whether to amend its constitution to allow for abortion bans.
According to Farmer’s complaint, the hospital’s legal counsel told the doctor not to deliver the fetus prematurely or surgically remove it because it would be ‘too risky in this heated political environment to intervene.'”
The Health and Human Services Department’s CMS, which works with hospitals to administer Medicare and Medicaid dollars, says it found that Farmer’s treatment at both hospitals violated a federal law known as Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act, which requires that hospitals provide stabilizing care to patients showing up in emergency rooms. Neither hospital responded immediately to requests for comment.
A CMS spokesperson said the hospitals are now “taking steps” to demonstrate compliance with the law. If compliance remains in question, the hospitals could risk losing access to the Medicare program and eventually being fined.
The Biden administration last year issued guidance to hospitals that abortions should be considered stabilizing care, although anti-abortion rights advocates say this position is unnecessary. They argue that hospitals can’t be forced to grant access to abortion, although the Lozier Institute has called on state medical boards and other oversight groups to offer hospitals more detailed guidance.
States with abortion bans still allow terminations “in those rare and heartbreaking circumstances when it is necessary to save the life of a pregnant woman,” the Lozier Institute, which opposes abortion rights, wrote in an online post earlier this year.
“Physicians can make this determination based on their ‘reasonable medical judgment,’ a standard very common in the medical profession and used for any case involving medical malpractice litigation,” the group added.
Still, other medical experts say it’s not clear how sick a patient must be to qualify for an abortion and warn that doctors still fear running afoul of state laws.
In a letter to hospitals this week, Health Secretary Xavier Becerra told administrators they must under law “continue to require that healthcare professionals offer treatment, including abortion care, that the provider reasonably determines is necessary to stabilize the patient’s emergency medical condition.”
