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POINTERS
DETAILS EMERGE AROUND
CONGRESSMAN’S MEDICAL LEAVE
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HUFFINGTON
8.19.12
U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) has bipolar disorder,
the Mayo Clinic announced on Monday. The congressman
has been on medical leave for more than two months, and
he is being treated for bipolar II, which involves milder manic
episodes than bipolar I. His father, the Rev. Jesse Jackson,
told the AP, “I’m glad he’s getting the treatment he needs
and is responding well.”
“PREGNANT MAN”
FACES DIVORCE
DILEMMA
Thomas Beatie is having more
trouble getting divorced than
he had getting pregnant. The
transgender man, who retained
his female reproductive organs,
made headlines when he gave
birth to three children. Now he
is seeking a divorce from his
wife, Nancy, but an Arizona judge is questioning the validity of their marriage since the
union involved two vaginas and same-sex marriage is not legal in the state.
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GUNMAN’S PARENTS
REACT TO SHOOTING
The man who killed two people and wounded four before he
was shot to death by police near the Texas A&M University
was a “ticking time bomb” and “deeply troubled,” according to
his mother and stepfather. Thomas Caffall bragged about gun
purchases on Facebook in the months before the shooting. His
mother, Linda Weaver, told The Huffington Post, “The minute I
saw the TV I knew it was him. I’ve been that worried about him.”