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Today's forecast tells us to expect a partly cloudy sky with some light winds and a top of 16 degrees. It should be a generally sunny weekend with temperatures reaching 18 and 17. However, some showers are possible tomorrow night and highly likely on Sunday.
Let's get into today's headlines:
Veterans become collateral damage
'A wreckage and a joke'
Long-awaited home sweet home
You can likely remember the Canberra man who set the internet on fire when he was jailed in the US after overstaying his visa for 90 minutes.
Well, it's a happy ending to Baxter's story. He has been granted bail and allowed to return to Australia.
In a court in upstate New York, Immigration Judge Steven Connelly gave Baxter Reid 120 days to leave the country, Finbar O'Mallon reports.
Do you have a heart problem?
About 100 people who had a dissolvable heart stent implanted at Canberra Hospital have been told to talk to their GP. Photo: Nic Walker
If you do, you may be one of the 100 Canberrans that have been urged to talk to their doctor after a national recall of a dissolvable heart stent linked to a higher risk of heart attacks and blood clots.
Heart stents are catheter tube implants that help unblock arteries, and a new type that dissolves into the body was recently recalled. Why?
Because it "showed an elevated rate of major adverse cardiac events." Daniel Burdon has the details.