“At 9 at night they came to take me (from the house) and took me to a big water tank. They pushed by head in the tank and when I was about to drown, let me out and asked me questions, but I said I didn’t know anything,” Ixpatá said.
Catherine’s Rose by Harkness Roses named after Britain’s Princess of Wales on display at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)British actress Joanna Lumley is photographed at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
British actress Joanna Lumley is photographed at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)Drag artist Ula Lah performs as Mother Nature at the Babylon Beat indoor Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)Drag artist Ula Lah performs as Mother Nature at the Babylon Beat indoor Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Chelsea Pensioners Jack McCabe, left, and Tony Manley, right, look at the hat worn by Claire Myers-Lamptey designed by Mathew Eluwande for Nature Recovery, for communities to embrace re-wilding at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)Chelsea Pensioners Jack McCabe, left, and Tony Manley, right, look at the hat worn by Claire Myers-Lamptey designed by Mathew Eluwande for Nature Recovery, for communities to embrace re-wilding at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Cordelia Bellew walks through a garden displaying James Doran-Webb Driftwood Sculptures at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Cordelia Bellew walks through a garden displaying James Doran-Webb Driftwood Sculptures at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)sought to immediately halt
, alleging that it would decimate public health infrastructure across the country. The money, allocated by Congress during the pandemic, supported COVID-19 initiatives andThe federal government argued that because the pandemic is over, the states no longer need the money. But McElroy, who granted a temporary restraining order last month in the case, wrote in her decision that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services doesn’t have the power to decide that money isn’t necessary anymore.
She went on to say that the agency ignored multiple requirements that govern how block grant programs are terminated, calling the federal government’s argument for how it handled the situation “puzzling.”McElroy wrote that the federal government’s decision to rescind the money isn’t just an economic loss — “ample evidence” provided by the states shows that it will decimate “key mental health, substance abuse, and other healthcare programs ... worsening public health outcomes and placing their residents at risk.”