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Facebook screens posts for suicide risk, and health experts have concerns
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Black Media Shut Out of COVID 19 Vaccination Advertising By Biden Administration
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Why May matters for the future of the Senate
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Highland Park gunman admitted to firing on parade crowd and contemplated attack in Madison, Wisconsin, officials say
The gunman in Monday's massacre at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, admitted he carried out the attack, killing seven and wounding dozens of others, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Hacker to Trump: Fix Your Security Settings on Twitter
The same hacker who breached five hundred ISIS accounts on Twitter has a message for President Trump: change your security settings ASAP.
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President Donald Trump said Apple's going to build three new plants right here in the US. Apple says, well, hold on a minute. Here's what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door.
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Women’s Health: Supporting Community-Based Efforts to Help Families Eat Healthy Food
May is Women’s Health Month and it's never too early or late to make healthy changes so you look and feel your best! You can take control of your health and help others in your family too!
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Uber's CEO Is Just So Misunderstood
Over the years, Uber's CEO has been described as arrogant and a "bro-y alpha-nerd" -- along with plenty of more colorful terms not fit to print here. And that was before Uber's endless string of PR crises kicked off this year.
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Top 10 Prince Albums You Haven’t Heard (But Should)
Prince was an enormously prolific artist, releasing 39 studio albums in his too short lifetime. That’s more than any modern artist including those who’ve been around even longer like Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder AND Aretha Franklin.
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Cops use murdered woman's Fitbit to charge her husband
A masked intruder barged into his Connecticut home, he said, tied up and tortured him and -- when his wife came home -- shot and killed her.
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5 Things for Wednesday, April 26: Sanctuary Cities, Russia, Obamacare
A new study says saturated fats don't clog arteries. So go ahead and fry up that bacon guilt-free while you catch up on the 5 things you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door.
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Mila’s Journey: One Woman’s Fight Against Colon Cancer
“This has got to be a joke,” thought Jamila Barefield. Yes, a very crude and ill joke that someone was playing on her. But there were no lights, no cameras, or studio audience. It was just her lying in a bed surrounded by four blank walls with tubes everywhere staring blankly in the face of a doctor. And in a very cold, disconnected matter, the doctor parted his lips and utter three horrific words, “You have cancer.”
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Suspicious devices sent to Clintons, Obamas, CNN NY offices
Authorities have intercepted suspicious devices intended for former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and the Florida office of Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was evacuated Wednesday after a suspicious package was mailed there.
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Cambridge Analytica: Nigeria, Kenyan opposition to probe firm's alleged role in their elections
Officials in Nigeria and Kenya are looking into whether data-crunching firm Cambridge Analytica tried to interfere with elections in their countries by organizing rallies and orchestrating whole campaigns to sway public opinion away from certain candidates.
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Chris Froome: Tour de France Champion Failed a Drug Test
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Warmer Arctic Temperatures Are the 'new normal,' Report Finds
Arctic temperatures are continuing to rise while sea ice declines, a new report has found, with the region showing no sign of returning to its "reliably frozen" state.
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After Bruno Mars Is Accused of Cultural Appropriation, Black Celebrities Come to His Defense
Bruno Mars found himself caught in a heated debate about cultural appropriation over the weekend after an activist accused the "24K Magic" star of being a culture vulture profiting off of traditionally black music.
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Tax on millionaires boosts California mental health services, study finds
A statewide tax on the wealthy has significantly boosted mental health programs in California's largest county, helping to reduce homelessness, incarceration and hospitalization, according to a report released Tuesday.
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Giving new moms paid leave is essential. But so is helping them return to work
Lauren Reynolds was excited to return to work after having a baby. But she was also terrified to leave her 4-month old daughter. "You spend 12 weeks trying to keep the baby alive and function normally," she said. "I was excited and scared for what it meant for me and my family."
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Weinstein Company files for bankruptcy and says victims can speak out
The Weinstein Company, the studio co-founded by disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, has filed for bankruptcy and torn up legal contracts that kept sexual harassment victims from speaking out. The company said late Monday that it will release victims of, and witnesses to, Weinstein's alleged misconduct from any non-disclosure agreements.
