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Two upstate New York communities are rallying to replace an autistic teen’s bicycle, which was stolen from his front yard.

An Egyptian national was sentenced to 212 years in federal prison Thursday for killing his two autistic children in a staged car accident so he could collect money off their life insurance policies.

Jenna Roman started a GoFundMe in February to search for a specific brand of waffles for her ten-year-old son with autism, who has been struggling with eating challenges since he was eight months old.

Pop star Sia has apologized and deleted her Twitter account in response to woke backlash over her debut feature film Music. The Golden Globe-nominated film features a scene in which an autistic girl is physically restrained. Controversy also kicked up over the casting of Maddie Ziegler, a non-autistic actor, who plays an autistic character in the movie.

An Israeli police officer who killed an autistic Palestinian man in Jerusalem’s Old City after mistaking him for a terrorist in a fatal shooting that rocked the country in late May will be charged with second-degree murder, the Police Internal Investigations Department announced on Wednesday.

A Texas mom said her family was removed from a Southwest Airlines flight Monday because her three-year-old autistic son would not wear a mask.

The Center for American Liberty, a non-profit dedicated to protecting the civil rights of Americans, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order barring most schools in the state from reopening because of the spread of the coronavirus.

A flight attendant and a young man with autism in Keller, Texas, have become close friends thanks to their shared love of airplanes. 

A little girl in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, used scripture recently to calm her autistic sibling who felt anxious about the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. 

The Washington Post claims hormone treatment to delay puberty is “reversible,” in an article critical of a South Dakota proposed law that would criminalize treating transgender young people with medical treatments or surgery.

A single dad in Belton, Texas, got a huge surprise recently after he asked people to send Christmas cards to his son, who has special needs.

A Florida mother claimed that a neighbor’s Christmas light display inspired her nonverbal daughter with autism to speak her first phrase.

‘Woke’ doctors offering hormones and sex-change surgery for individuals who claim to be transgender may be committing medical malpractice.

Community members in East Nashville, Tennessee, are showing a bullied autistic student that there are still many good people in the world.

The Lancet Countdown, an arm of the Lancet scientific journal associated with its controversial report linking autism and vaccines, has issued a report on the threat of climate change based on more controversial data from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk claimed during a recent appearance on an artificial intelligence podcast that his AI tech startup Neuralink could implant chips into human brains which could “solve a lot of brain-related diseases,” listing schizophrenia and autism as examples.

Neighbors in Fairview Park, Ohio, have stepped up to replace an autistic man’s bicycle that was stolen from him November 5. 

Audrey and Richard McIntosh are fighting to change the Title IX process in higher education after their son was expelled from college.

A nurse decided to do more than was required of her when she met a young man in need of a heart transplant in December of 2018.

A mother went viral after she encouraged parents with autistic children to carry blue trick-or-treat buckets for autism awareness at Halloween.

A 23-year-old blind singer with autism was crowned the winner of America’s Got Talent on Wednesday against the runner up Detroit Youth Choir.

A grandfather and his grandson who was born blind recently mailed a very special gift to the White House.

A photo of a little boy’s kind gesture towards his classmate on their first day of school is taking the internet by storm. 

A Florida woman is breaking barriers as she will become the first beauty pageant contestant in the state of Florida with autism.

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar told reporters on a conference call on Monday that the recent measles outbreak in the United States was “completely avoidable.”

A missing two-year-old Summit County, Ohio, resident was safely recovered on Monday after an all-night search.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on Monday that 626 cases of measles had been reported in 22 states.

In New Jersey we find a story about a pack of 13-year-old boys that will renew your faith in man.

A Florida woman diagnosed with autism at the age of three has become the first openly autistic person to pass the Florida Bar and become a licensed attorney in the state.

A Kentucky teacher was caught on video dragging a nine-year-old autistic boy down the hallways of an elementary school.

Conservative activist Ashton Whitty talks about her strange childhood as the daughter of West coast liberal parents and being just about the only Trump fan at Berkeley.

Five people in Louisiana are facing federal charges for keeping their autistic relative in a cage and forcing her to eat her mother’s ashes, authorities announced Thursday.

President Trump issued a proclamation declaring April 2, 2018, “World Autism Awareness Day” to recognize the accomplishments of those with autism in the U.S. and around the globe.

Nancy MacLean, a history professor at Duke University, -argued in a recent lecture a “shocking” amount of libertarians are on the “autism spectrum.”

If you put this stuff in a screenplay, Hollywood would throw it out. However, when it comes to the world’s most instantly recognizable baseball player, it’s just Tebow being Tebow.

An illegal immigrant, along with another man, is accused of kidnapping and repeatedly raping a woman with autism while holding her against her will.