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Special election for upstate New York House seat offers new test of political energy around abortion

An hour after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Democrat Pat Ryan tweeted out a video that would be his first television ad of the special election campaign to fill this upstate swing seat.

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Dreams are the best show in town. Here's why you should write them down

It has been my dream for years to host "Saturday Night Live." Literally. I've repeatedly had that dream, going back decades.

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He sat down on a bench at the airport. Then his future husband sat down next to him

James Sanford was sitting on a bench at Punta Cana International Airport in the Dominican Republic, waiting for his bag to appear on the luggage carousel.

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New study suggests Black women should be screened earlier for breast cancer

A new study on breast cancer deaths raises questions around whether Black women should screen at earlier ages.

Thanks to His New Lungs, a Pennsylvania Pharmacist is Back in the Pharmacy and Able to Celebrate National Pharmacists Day 2022

Each year, January 12th is designated as National Pharmacists Day. Transplant families throughout the nation rely on the expertise and guidance of their trusted pharmacists. One pharmacist in Pennsylvania is an incredible resource to transplant families now that he is on the other side of his life-saving double lung transplant.

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Criminal investigation into Coast Guard Academy revealed years of sexual assault cover-ups, but findings were kept secret

A secret investigation into alleged sexual abuse at the US Coast Guard Academy, the training ground for the Coast Guard’s top officers, uncovered a dark history of rapes, assaults and other serious misconduct being ignored and, at times, covered up by high-ranking officials.

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's anti-migrant plan: Many arrested, many detained, few prosecuted

The 27-year-old man tried to hold it together as he walked to his cell. It was weeks since he had been arrested. Weeks with no charges and no access to an attorney, he told CNN. Worst of all, two weeks without being able to talk to anyone on the outside, especially his wife and 7-year-old son.

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He prosecuted child sex predators; now, goes after Meta for allegedly enabling them

When Raúl Torrez, then a young prosecutor in a rural New Mexico, was preparing one of his first child abuse cases, he went to his father for advice.

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Mountain View, Hawaii: Big Island man arrested for 'heinous' abuse of 2-year-old girl

A Big Island man is facing several counts of child abuse after investigators say he physically abused and starved his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter.

Houston Ballet Announces Its 2020-2021 Season

Houston Ballet Artistic Director, Stanton Welch AM, announces the company’s lively 2020-2021 season. Houston Ballet, continuing to paint the town gold this season, will embrace the next chapter and decade in vivid color this fall.

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Fighting For The Breast Cancer Care You Need During COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new challenge for those battling breast cancer today. This hydra-headed challenge manifests across issues relating to equity, advocacy, and access to care for cancer patients as the pandemic rages.

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Deadly Ida leaves more than 1 million without power and many awaiting rescue from flooded homes

Hurricane Ida has left catastrophic damage across southeastern Louisiana, killing at least one person, leaving much of the New Orleans area without power, interrupting phone service and sending rescuers scrambling Monday to flooded homes where people were anxiously asking for help.

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Black Media Shut Out of COVID 19 Vaccination Advertising By Biden Administration

The Biden administration has “shut out” scores of Blackowned media firms from engaging in one of the nation’s biggest public health advertising campaigns: Encouraging Black Americans, the population hardest hit by COVID-19, to get vaccinated. As the pandemic has called attention to disparities in healthcare, a growing number of Black business owners say they have exposed inequities in such firms gaining access to federal advertising dollars for COVID-19 vaccination awareness efforts for Black communities.

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Five secretary of state races to watch, starting Tuesday

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Queen Elizabeth’s Legacy Through the Lens of Colonialism and Black Lives

Queen Elizabeth II’s legacy isn’t necessarily complicated, but filled with enough ambiguity and action and inaction, that it might be easy to understand why people of color might view her different that the adoring throng mourning outside of Buckingham Palace. The longest-reigning British monarch’s history on race will forever exist as part of her legacy.

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Toni V. Smith: 14 Years Later and Still Fighting

A boxer never steps into any ring ill-prepared. Muscles in their body must be trained for weeks to condition the body, build endurance, and enhance speed. The mind must be trained to focus. If a boxer believes they are stronger and faster than their opponent, they have already lost the fight. But how do you prepare for a fight when you know nothing about your opponent? There is no time to plan a strategy. It’s as if you are being sucker-punched from the get-go, leaving you confused – Is your on-the-defense mechanism to bob and weave or duck and jab? How does you prepare for the fight of your life?

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Election administrators are under attack in Texas. Here’s what that means for the midterms.

David Becker of The Center for Election Innovation & Research talks with The Texas Tribune and ProPublica about election official turnover and its impact on voting.

With the 2022 midterms less than a month away, election administrators in Texas and elsewhere continue to face a level of harassment and threats that experts say had never been experienced before the November 2020 presidential election.

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Randy Spelling Talks Aaron Spelling, Sister Tori, Addiction, Religion

Randy Spelling grew up in a 56,000 square foot Holmby Hills mansion dubbed “Spelling Manor,” and listed at the time as the largest home of record in Los Angeles County. The son of Hollywood royalty, the late mega-television producer Aaron Spelling and his wife Candy, and younger brother of 1990s 90210 television star, Tori Spelling, Randy struggled to find his own identity within a matrix of excess.

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Women's Euro 2022: Record-breaking crowds, the favorites and which players to watch

Euro 2022 looks set to be the crescendo for a record-breaking wave of support for women's football in Europe this season.

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2025 Chevrolet Equinox Stands Apart in the Autoworld

With more than 20 years of production and 3 million-plus units sold, Equinox is a long-term leader in the compact SUV segment – the market’s largest segment

Driving into the heart of the largest and most competitive segment in the industry, Chevrolet’s next-generation 2025 Equinox offers modern connectivity and new safety tech, wrapped in a head-turning design.