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Michael Roppolo

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A @RITtigers grad working for @cbsnews and @48hours who enjoys history, food & all things #Italian. **All tweets/opinions are my own. RTs not endorsements.**
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"Disabled" is often seen as a bad word. People with disabilities are working to flip the script.

"Disabled" is often seen as a bad word. People with disabilities are working to flip the script.

CBS News — Disabled isn't a bad word. That's the message writer Melissa Blake wants to send this Disability Pride Month as she advocates to change people's misconceptions about people with disabilities. "So often we try to dance around, you know, just the word itself. So people will say 'special needs,' the 'differently-abled,' said Blake.
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"Is Hollywood ready?": "CODA" stars and real-life CODAs on portrayals of the Deaf community

"Is Hollywood ready?": "CODA" stars and real-life CODAs on portrayals of the Deaf community

CBS News — Actors from the Oscar-winning movie speak about the push for disability portrayal on the big screen and accessibility for the Deaf community.
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They say their children are being denied transplants because of their disabilities. A new federal...

They say their children are being denied transplants because of their disabilities. A new federal...

CBS News — A patient with disabilities can be denied life-saving organ transplants because of those disabilities, and parents often fear the worst. Families have won protections in many states - including 14 in the last year. But more than three decades after the Americans with Disabilities Act - which prohibits discrimination based on a person's disability - became federal law, advocates say inequities persist in health care.
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Netflix star Ryan O'Connell on portraying the "desire and humanity" of disabled relationships

Netflix star Ryan O'Connell on portraying the "desire and humanity" of disabled relationships

CBS News — Award-winning actor, writer and producer Ryan O'Connell is definitely not shy when it comes to portraying authentic disabled experiences on the TV screen. His show, "Special," has tackled dating, ableism, relationships - and yes, sex. "Society has castrated disabled people," O'Connell told CBS News on a Zoom call.
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COVID cases in New York group homes under scrutiny after nursing home controversy

COVID cases in New York group homes under scrutiny after nursing home controversy

CBS News — In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration issued a memo instructing hospitals and group homes to "expedite" the release of asymptomatic group home residents back to their communal living sites. The order may have had terrible consequences.
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Coronavirus pandemic highlights challenges facing deaf and hard of hearing patients in health car...

Coronavirus pandemic highlights challenges facing deaf and hard of hearing patients in health car...

CBS News — Nearly half of all Americans say they have delayed receiving medical care since the coronavirus pandemic began, according to a recent survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. But for the 48 million Americans with hearing loss, the pandemic has its own set of challenges.
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Authorities say the cause of a Philadelphia teacher's death was suicide, but her parents say it w...

Authorities say the cause of a Philadelphia teacher's death was suicide, but her parents say it w...

CBS News — Forensic experts are still at odds as to how Ellen Greenberg died of 20 stab wounds nearly a decade after the 27-year-old was found dead in her locked apartment. Could new technology help in the search for answers?
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Former priest convicted in murder of Texas schoolteacher dies in prison

Former priest convicted in murder of Texas schoolteacher dies in prison

CBS News — John Feit, 87, died two years after his conviction in the 1960 murder of Irene Garza.
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U.K. police officers fired over 2013 arrest that left man paralyzed

U.K. police officers fired over 2013 arrest that left man paralyzed

CBS News — Julian Cole was 19 when he was arrested outside a U.K. nightclub and suffered severe injuries that left him paralyzed.
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Cop who told Uber driver not to record gets demoted

Cop who told Uber driver not to record gets demoted

CBS News — What they didn't know was that Jesse Bright was a defense attorney - moonlighting as a driver to make some extra cash in an effort to pay off his student loans.
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Americans not confident Big Bang or evolution is real, poll shows

Americans not confident Big Bang or evolution is real, poll shows

CBS Newspath — Almost four in ten people say they are not confident in the average temperature of the world is rising, or that life on Earth evolved through natural selection, and about a third doubted that the Earth was 4.5 billion years old.
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Researchers envision a fully sustainable New York City

Researchers envision a fully sustainable New York City

CBS Newspath — Like former mayor Michael Bloomberg, a group of researchers envision a sustainable New York City -- with bikes, planting new trees, reducing citywide greenhouse gas emissions -- but that's where the similarities end.
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Deaf rapper, 'Switched at Birth' actors now mainstream stars

Deaf rapper, 'Switched at Birth' actors now mainstream stars

Fox News — Musician Sean Forbes and actor Sean Beardy are some of the deaf and hard-of-hearing entertainers succeeding in mainstream music and TV.
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FOIAed again: 'Gun map' newspaper seeks more info on firearms owners

FOIAed again: 'Gun map' newspaper seeks more info on firearms owners

Fox News — The suburban New York newspaper that created a firestorm when it published the names and addresses of gun permit holders requested more data.
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Snowden case shows 'top secret' clearance checks not foolproof

Snowden case shows 'top secret' clearance checks not foolproof

Fox News — With an estimated 1.5 million Americans holding the Top Secret clearances, it is a virtual certainty that Snowden is not the only one with a pass that the government can't trust.
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Humans in 100,000 years: What will we look like?

Humans in 100,000 years: What will we look like?

Fox News — Homo sapiens have slowly evolved over thousands of millennia, but what happens when modern technology comes into play?
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