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A 15-year-old Indonesian girl who was raped by her older brother has been jailed for six months for having an abortion, an official said on Saturday.
The girl was sentenced on Thursday alongside her 17-year-old brother in a closed hearing at Muara Bulian district court on the island of Sumatra, the court spokesman Listyo Arif Budiman said.
“The girl was charged under the child protection law for having an abortion,” he said.
Her brother was sentenced to two years in jail for sexually assaulting a minor.
She was helped by her mother, who faces separate charges.
Abortions account for between 30% and 50% of maternal deaths in the country, according to a 2013 World Health Organisation report.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/21/indonesia-girl-jailed-for-abortion-after-being-raped-by-brother


July 19, 2018
President Donald Trump’s requested military parade is expected to cost about $12 million, according to initial planning estimates, the Pentagon confirmed Wednesday.
The parade was initial set for Nov. 11, Veterans Day, but now will take place Nov. 10 to accomodate international celebrations on Nov. 11 set to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. The parade costs were first reported by CNN.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/07/18/initial-cost-for-trump-military-parade-comes-in-at-12-million-dod-says/


Doctors Interrupt Patients, Stop Listening After 11 Seconds On Average, Study Says
https://www.newsweek.com/doctor-patient-visits-1035514


According to the Pew Research Center, Republican Party identification fell 3 points, to 26 percent, from 2016 to the end of 2017. The number of self-identified independents increased at the same time, from 34 percent to 37 percent, while the number of Democrats remained steady. Gallup shows a similar change: From November 2016 to November 2017, there was a 5-point drop in the number of people who called themselves Republicans, from 42 percent to 37 percent. Democratic self-identification remained unchanged at 44 percent.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/the-pro-trump-republican-base-that-many-politicians-fear-may-be-shrinking.html


Unusual weather conditions for the month of July have impacted the central and eastern states the past few days from a weather pattern not typically seen in mid-summer.
A potent southward dip in the jet stream has moved from the Midwest into the East where it will linger to begin this week and contribute to a heavy rain threat.
The National Weather Service in Tampa Bay described the unusual weather pattern best in a tweet Sunday morning: "If someone randomly showed up with this satellite image and told me to guess what month it was from...July would not be my first guess. It wouldn't be my second or third guess either."
Typically the jet stream flows in a flat west-to-east fashion near the Canadian border in July. That's why its current amplified north-to-south configuration over the eastern states is out of season.
[One of those arctic incursions we've been getting in the winter, which have been getting more frequent because of global warming. Now happening in the summer.]
https://weather.com/news/news/2018-07-22-late-july-weather-pattern-odd


July 22, 2018
A deadly heat wave is expected to continue early this week across Japan.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/deadly-heat-wave-to-grip-japan-into-early-this-week/70005554


The remainder of July will be dominated by a resurgence of heat across the northwestern United States.
The recent reprieve from the mid-July heat wave in the Northwest has come to an end as the heat intensifying over the Southwest will also expand its grip northward.
"This stretch of heat actually looks to be longer than what was experienced in mid-July," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Dan Pydynowski said. "After returning on Sunday, the heat could last right through next weekend."
Highs are expected to soar 5-15 degrees above normal daily through the final full week of July. That will translate into highs near 90 F in Seattle; 90s in Portland, Oregon; around 100 in Pendleton, Oregon, and Boise, Idaho; and the lower 100s in Medford, Oregon.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/heat-wave-to-have-firm-grip-on-northwestern-us-into-end-of-july/70005564