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Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a history of repeatedly sharing unfounded conspiracies that man-made chemicals in the environment could be making children gay or transgende

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a history of repeatedly sharing unfounded conspiracies that man-made chemicals in the environment could be making children gay or transgender and causing the feminization of boys and masculinization of girls.

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Texas’ TikTok ban hit with First Amendment lawsuit

Texas’s ban on TikTok at state institutions violates the First Amendment, claims a lawsuit filed Thursday by a group of academics and civil society researchers.

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Why Republican lawmakers are going after Target

Republicans are escalating their legal threats against Target, pressuring the company to remove merchandise for transgender customers and backtrack on its initiatives to hire minorities and diversify vendors.

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Biden slams Tuberville’s block of military promotions as ‘irresponsible’ and ‘jeopardizing US security’

President Joe Biden said Thursday that Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville is being “irresponsible” and jeopardizing national security by blocking military promotions over his objections to the Defense Department’s reproductive health policies.

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Blue states see ‘shield laws’ as bulwark against Republican efforts to restrict abortion and gender-affirming care

As Republican lawmakers have pushed restrictions on abortion and gender-affirming care in recent months, Democratic-led states have increasingly responded by passing so-called shield laws to protect people who undergo such care against the possibility they could one day face prosecution.

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Pence says he supports banning abortions for nonviable pregnancies

Former Vice President Mike Pence said abortion should be banned when a pregnancy is not viable, according to the Associated Press.

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Nearly 5 million kids might miss out on food assistance if these states don’t act by Friday

Nearly 5 million children in eight states could lose out on some extra funds for food unless their state officials sign up for a federal relief program by Friday.

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House adopts controversial amendments as defense bill passage hangs in the balance

The House voted Thursday evening to adopt several controversial amendments pushed by conservative hardliners to a critical national defense bill as the fate of the must-pass legislation hangs in the balance.

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DeSantis campaign urges patience for breakout moment with eye toward first debate

Facing a long summer of running from behind former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is for now resisting calls to dramatically change course in his presidential campaign, instead targeting the first debate in late August as his opportunity to alter the trajectory of the race.

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CDC facing major funding cuts, with direct impact on state and local health departments

Last month, a local health department in Texas received notification that a pregnant woman living in the area had tested positive for syphilis and had fallen behind on her ob/gyn care. It was a troubling situation, one that has become increasingly common as sexually transmitted infection cases surge both locally and nationally.

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What is a derecho and why is it so destructive?

A derecho is a significant, potentially destructive weather event that is characterized as having widespread, long-lived, straight-line winds associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms.

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MLB two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani entering ‘uncharted waters’ on brink of record-breaking contract

Shohei Ohtani has always bet on himself – and it’s about to reap huge rewards.

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Elizabeth Holmes could be released from prison two years earlier than expected

Disgraced former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes could be out of prison nearly two years earlier than expected, according to the projected release date posted by the Bureau of Prisons.

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Opinion: The 2023 Atlantic Hurricane Season is predicted to be near-normal, but here is why that is not entirely good news.

Every year, the Northern Hemisphere region of the Atlantic Ocean embraces the annual hurricane season that officially starts on June 1 and ends on November 30. This period has been adopted by convention; it’s when most tropical cyclogenesis occurs in the Atlantic. Though the formation of subtropical or tropical cyclones is possible at any time of the year, as was the case this past mid-January, we witnessed the formation of an unnamed subtropical storm, marking the earliest start of an Atlantic hurricane season since Hurricane Alex in 2016.

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Unlocking the Future of Public Health: PVAMU leads Texas students in informatics boot camp

Prairie View A&M University students are learning, alongside other students from institutions across Texas, how to make public health information technology more fair, inclusive and equitable. The ultimate goal of public health information technology, also known as public health informatics, is to use information, computer science and technology to promote the health of the overall population and prevent diseases and injuries.

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Mayor Turner Releases Three-Year Update for Resilient Houston and the Climate Action Plan

The City of Houston has released a combined update detailing the impressive progress made on major initiatives of both Resilient Houston and the Climate Action Plan after three years of implementation.

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Suspect in custody in New York’s long-unsolved Gilgo Beach killings, sources say

A New York architect is in custody for the Gilgo Beach murders, an unsolved case tied to at least 10 sets of human remains discovered since 2010 in suburban Long Island, according to two law enforcement sources.

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House passes defense bill after adopting controversial amendments targeting abortion policy and other issues

The House voted Friday to pass a sweeping defense policy bill following contentious debate and the adoption of controversial amendments that touched on hot-button social issues.

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Manchin won’t back Biden’s Labor secretary nominee

Julie Su, President Joe Biden’s pick to be the next Labor secretary whose nomination has been stalled for months, now faces opposition from a key Democrat: Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia.

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Biden slams Tuberville’s block of military promotions as ‘irresponsible’ and ‘jeopardizing US security’

President Joe Biden said Thursday that Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville is being “irresponsible” and jeopardizing national security by blocking military promotions over his objections to the Defense Department’s reproductive health policies.