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Thaiya Spruill-Smith, 2, is currently on life support after suffering a massive brain injury, cops said.

Thaiya Spruill-Smith won’t see her third birthday.

The 2-year-old Brooklyn girl is lying in a hospital bed, being kept alive by machines after suffering a massive brain injury cops suspect her stepfather delivered.

The tot is expected to be taken off life support Saturday. Doctors told her parents that the tot has no hope of recovery.

But this might not be the only torture inflicted on li

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Robin Williams (BEN GABBE/GETTY IMAGES)

Veteran film and television comedic actor Robin Williams was found dead on Monday. He was 63.

The cause of death is believed to be suicide via asphyxiation, according to the coroner’s office in Tiburon, Calif. He was found in his home.

His publicist Mara Buxbaum said the actor had been battling depression of late.

“This is a tragic and sudden loss,” she said in a statement. “The family respectfully asks for their privacy as they grieve during this very

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Doctors say there's no hope. Her mother, with faith that God will decide, has gone to court.
The sad story of Jahi McMath, a 13-year-old girl in Oakland, Calif., who went into cardiac arrest after complications from a tonsillectomy last month and was declared brain dead on Dec. 12, has brought public attention to the difficult moral, legal and spiritual questions that all families face when a loved one is dying. A judge has ordered that after Jan. 7, Children's Hospital can take Jahi off lif
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Nailah Winkfield, the mother of Jahi McMath, along with Jahi's uncle Omari Sealy (R), speak with the media outside Children's Hospital and Research Center in Oakland, California, December 30, 2013. (REUTERS/NORBERT VON DER GROEBEN)
The family of a California girl who was declared brain dead after complications from a tonsillectomy won an 11th-hour court order on Monday, requiring doctors to keep her connected to a breathing machine for at least another week.
Under the latest court order in
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The chief of a foundation that is responsible for the International Standard Version of the Holy Bible, a trained theologian, says the family of Jahi McMath has a legitimate argument against the hospital's contention that she is "brain-dead" and her medical treatments should be halted.
She's not dead.
At least, not according to the Bible's definition, said Dr. William Welty, a Ph.D. who graduated from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and later taught New Testament Greek at Simon Greenleaf Un
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tonsillectomy-jahi-mcmath-ap-12-30.jpg?w=630The family of a California girl declared brain dead after complications from tonsil surgery was running out of time Sunday to find a new facility to take her in and keep her on a ventilator.
A judge's ruling will allow Children's Hospital Oakland to remove 13-year-old Jahi McMath from life support at 5 p.m. Monday unless her family appeals.
The family is now pinning its hopes on a New York facility after two California care homes withdrew offers to accept the teen.
Chris Dolan, the family's at
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Jahi McMath, 13, has been declared brain-dead, just days after undergoing surgery to have her tonsils removed. Her family is already devastated enough but now they are fighting the hospital, which wants to take her off life support against their wishes.
"They took away my granddaughter. That's how it feels," said Chatman.
Jahi's family, including her mother, Nailah Winkfield, huddled by her side at Children's Hospital Oakland these last several days calling on the community for prayers and se
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