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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just announced plans to reconsider current regulations prohibiting the use of CBD — short for cannabidiol, a non-intoxicant component of cannabis —...
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A remote spot in northern Nevada has been named to the list of international dark sky sanctuaries.
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New York City used to be a perilous place. In the 1970s and ‘80s, there were between 1,444 and 2,246 murders in the city every year, and between 2,875 and 5,706 rapes. Rates of robbery, burglary,...
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Every year on September 10, residents of Gibraltar gather in Casements Square to celebrate their national holiday. Part of the festivities used to be the simultaneous release of some 30,000 red and...
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You may want to reconsider eating those fiber-rich strawberries. And maybe think twice before adding two of the always so popular vegetables to make a smoothie “green.” Yes, we are talking about...
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Almost 85% of public high school students in the United States now graduate with a regular diploma within four years of starting ninth grade — a record high — according to a study by the National...
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Free food for something you already do anyway? Yes, please! Long gone are the days when you just spammed your friends’ Instagram feeds with photos of your boring juice and salad for lunch. Now they...
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ThinkstockPew Research has released a new study of how people in other countries view the United States. The figures are shockingly low in some nations and moderately high in others. The Pew study is...
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A tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico could become a hurricane by the weekend and make landfall on the Florida panhandle.
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Hurricane Maria, called "potentially catastrophic" by the National Hurricane Center, has been raised to Category 5 as it heads for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
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North Korea is not backing down. Flouting international condemnation, the isolated rogue nation fired a ballistic missile over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido Friday.
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The pace of FBI firearm background checks so far this year is down drastically, by about 9%, from 2016. Through June 30, the FBI has performed 1.2 million fewer firearm background checks than in the...
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Floyd "Money" Mayweather and Connor McGregor, both highly esteemed fighters in their own right, have been dancing around and toward each other over the past year, working to what is one of most...
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The California Senate passed a bill this month that provides a number of protections to immigrants in the state in light of recent crackdowns by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The legislation...
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Divorce rates dropped 25% from 1980 to 2015. However, in several areas, led by Washington, D.C., the rates are still high. According to The Bowling Green State University National Center for Family...
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