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The Supreme Court conceded that it should not have taken up the case to begin with.
At the end of her professional career, Lynn Conway was professor emerita of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan.
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Researchers found a sharp rise in calls to US poison centers about magic mushrooms coincided with their decriminalization in several US cities and states.
Activists on both sides of the abortion battle are gearing up for it to be a major issue in the 2024 election.
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The more ambivalent a person is about a political issue, the more likely they are to support violence and other extreme actions relating to that issue.
Actor Halle Berry, standing in front of U.S. senators, proclaims that she’s in menopause.
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The number of patients prescribed hormonal therapy plummeted after 2002, due to findings experts have since questioned. With better understanding, more and more people are using these treatments.
Police drag away a tent from a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Irvine on May 15, 2024.
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Framing dissent and poverty as a menace to public order can threaten fundamental rights, particularly when it’s used to justify the deployment of predictive technology.
Everyone wants to raise kind children, but telling kids to be nice gets you only so far − young people need to practice those skills with their peers.
Canadian police and television reporters gather outside the rapper Drake’s Toronto mansion after a shooting there in May 2024.
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Since rap’s emergence, artists have boasted about themselves in ways that were funny and sometimes violent, vulgar and sexist. The popularity of the music and its exploitation can be dangerous.
Prejudice and stereotyping can negatively affect patient-provider communication.
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Many Black patients experience stark differences in how they’re treated during medical interactions compared to white patients.
Demonstrators protest outside the Supreme Court building shortly before the court heard arguments about mifepristone on March 26, 2024.
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EMTALA requires hospitals to provide stabilizing treatment to all patients – but Idaho is arguing that its abortion ban means it doesn’t have to allow the procedure, even if it is medically needed.
Roomsharing can be done following safe infant sleep guidelines.
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What does someone like me, who believes that the last presidential election was legitimately won by Joe Biden, say to those who think the 2020 election was stolen?
Pro-abortion rights activists rally in front of the Supreme Court on March 26, 2024, the day justices heard oral arguments about the use of mifepristone.
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