Lawmaker Heike Heubach, front center, the first deaf member of the Bundestag, sits between members of the faction of the German Social Democrats (SPD) at the start of a meeting of the German federal ...

Heike Heubach became the first deaf lawmaker in the German parliament. She replaced Uli Grötsch, a member of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats from Bavaria. Heubach, with a background in ...

LUMBERTON, Texas — A 9-year-old deaf German Shepherd is recovering after being severely burned in a house fire Wednesday morning in Lumberton. Sam, the dog owned by Ashlee Sauers, suffered burns to ...

BERLINBERLIN — The German parliament on Thursday welcomed its first deaf lawmaker, who took her place in a moment that the house’s speaker described as historic. Heike Heubach, 44, narrowly missed out ...