Congress extends ALS funding, but families still fighting for care cost progress
Congress passed the ACT for ALS extending research funding beyond the end of the decade, but patients are still battling for progress with at-home car costs.
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Congress passed the ACT for ALS extending research funding beyond the end of the decade, but patients are still battling for progress with at-home car costs.

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The pope rode through St. Peters Square in the popemobile Wednesday, greeting crowds in his first open public appearance there since being released from Romes Gemelli Hospital. He was recently treated to remove a cancerous nodule from one of his lungs and is now recuperating at t...
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DONALDSONVILLE, La. ( Aging Untold )— A historic hall that once provided refuge for Black families and performers during segregation is getting new life through a major restoration project. True Friends Hall, built in the late 1800s in Donaldsonville, served as a cornerstone of t...
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President Vladimir Putin agreed Wednesday to resume trilateral negotiations with Washington and Kyiv on ending the war in Ukraine, a Kremlin official said. Putins foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov told reporters after a meeting between Putin and U.S. President Donald Trumps en...
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Learning a new sport can be intimidating, but it helps when the athletes you look up to are the ones doing the teaching. Members of the Nashville Predators spent a Monday afternoon introducing some of the team's youngest fans to street hockey no ice required. "I know that some of...
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The Metro Nashville Council voted to accept $4.2M from the Tennessee Department of Homeland Security for more school resource officers.
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WSMV 4 News (NBC affiliate) · Oct 21, 2026

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A motorcyclist was taken to the hospital by helicopter after a collision with a pickup truck.Deputies with the Christian County Sheriff's Office responded to a...
FOX 17 WZTV Nashville (local news) · Oct 21, 2026

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Firefighters were called to a home on Barclay Square Drive off Una Antioch Pike around 5 a.m.
WKRN News 2 (ABC affiliate) · Oct 21, 2026

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A large family is left without a home after a fire forced them to evacuate in Antioch in the early morning hours. The Nashville Fire Department responded to the call just after 5 a.m. and arrived to find flames coming from the home on Barclary Square Dri...
WSMV 4 News (NBC affiliate) · Oct 21, 2026