内容摘要：Comet, a two-year-old brown Mastiff X, was found by a passer-by after being left overnight with the wounds to his abdomen in December.

Comet, a two-year-old brown Mastiff X, was found by a passer-by after being left overnight with the wounds to his abdomen in December.

Democrats, who overwhelmingly oppose the bill, have been urging the reconsideration of Medicaid cuts and spending cuts to the Affordable care Act which offers millions of Americans subsidised health insurance."No other previous bill, no other previous law, no other previous event caused so many millions of Americans to lose their healthcare. Not even the Great Depression," Pennsylvania Democrat Brendan Boyle said.

If passed, the tax cuts would cost $3.72 trillion (£2.8t) over ten years, according to congress's bipartisan Joint Tax Committee.A New Jersey man who stabbed and partially blinded novelist Sir Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday.Hadi Matar, 27, was convicted of attempted murder and assault earlier this year.

Sir Salman was on stage speaking before an audience in August 2022, when he was stabbed multiple times in the face and neck. The attack left him blind in one eye, with damage to his liver and a paralysed hand caused by nerve damage to his arm.The attack came 35 years after Sir Salman's controversial novel The Satanic Verses, which had long made him the target of death threats for its portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad.

Matar received the maximum 25-year sentence for the attempted murder of Sir Salman.

He was also found guilty of assault for wounding the person who was interviewing Sir Salman, Henry Reese, and sentenced to seven years plus three years post-release for that assault.A river campaigner is calling for a pause on planning permission for intensive chicken farms in Shropshire over concerns animal manure is contributing to water pollution.

A number of farms have been givenin recent years and four new sites

“We should be taking stock and finding out what the situation is, before we carry on giving them permission,” said Alison Caffyn, a volunteer for the Severn Rivers Trust.The National Farmers Union said it recognised there were challenges and farmers were “working hard” to prevent issues that contributed to water pollution.