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CDC alerts doctors to watch for rare, serious bacterial infection with unusual symptoms
Health officials are alerting doctors to be on the lookout for certain types of rare, serious meningococcal infections that are on the rise in the United States.
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Fact-checking Trump's State of the Union address
In his second State of the Union address, President Donald Trump sought to strike a bipartisan tone of unity and progress, just weeks after the longest shutdown in US history — and with less than two weeks to go before the next funding lapse.
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is target of investigation carried out by Homeland Security team that specializes in human trafficking, source says
Homes belonging to Sean “Diddy” Combs were searched by authorities Monday because he is a target of a federal investigation carried out by a Department of Homeland Security team that handles human trafficking crimes, according to a senior federal law enforcement official briefed on the investigation.
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Misty Copeland reflects on the ‘generational trauma’ felt by Black ballet dancers
Misty Copeland has grown used to having the spotlight on her at center stage.
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Flood emergency hits Florida’s capital after storms unleash tornadoes and life-threatening flooding along Gulf Coast
Fierce storms are targeting the Ohio Valley and tracking through the Southeast Thursday, a day after deadly storms spawned damaging tornadoes and flash flood emergencies from Texas to Mississippi.
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Biden to make health care push as Supreme Court vacancy fight looms
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden intends to make a push on health care in the wake of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death as a political fight over the Supreme Court vacancy is already underway.
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A Texas Transplant Family is Celebrating National Minority Donor Awareness Month:
Please Register to be a Life-Saving Organ or Tissue Donor
August is National Minority Donor Awareness Month. This national observance (first a day and then a week) was initiated in 1996 to increase our nation’s consciousness of the need for more organ and tissue donors from multicultural backgrounds. Starting this year, this nationwide awareness push to engage and educate multicultural communities about the need for organ and tissue donors has been expanded to encompass the entire month of August.
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Tips to Excel Beyond Expectations This School Year
Books, pens, and your favorite device are in your backpack. New clothes hang in your closet. Lunches with healthy protein and nutritious sides have been planned. And your hair is done too. You are ready to go back-to-school, right? Partially right. If you have not put in any thought or effort into planning how this school year will be a success then you are not ready.
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The Reset of TSU with Dr. Lesia L. Crumpton-Young
"What is the transformative thing that I am going to do today?" is the question that Texas Southern University President Dr. Lesia L. Crumpton-Young asks herself at the start of each day. It's a question that causes her to act intentionally for a defined purpose. This is how she will approach each day of the presidency of Texas Southern University.
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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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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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Spot the ‘superfake’: Fashion brands want you to be able to identify counterfeits
To become a “master” authenticator at Fashionphile — the highest level of training to weed out designer fakes at the luxe online marketplace — takes more than 8,000 hours of rigorous schooling, according to the company. Trainees learn to quickly spot an error in the date format inside a Louis Vuitton bag, for example, or know the correct metal alloy makeup of a Cartier watch.
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Tony Bennett, crooner who sang ‘I Left My Heart in San Francisco,’ dies at 96
Legendary singer Tony Bennett, best known for singing “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” has died, according to his longtime publicist, Sylvia Weiner.
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Microsoft's Minor Update Sparks Major Frustration: Users Feel Gaslit by Their Computers
Stef Luthin squinted at her laptop screen. Something seemed off that January morning, but at first, she couldn’t pinpoint it.
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Is 50 the New 40 for Motherhood?
Janet Jackson might be the most famous symbol of a growing trend: the 50-year-old mom.
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Melania Trump Kicks Off 139th Annual Easter Egg Roll
Eggs are rolling -- nearly 18,000 of them -- Monday at the White House.
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Melania Trump Kicks Off 139th Annual Easter Egg Roll
First lady Melania Trump, hosting the 139th annual White House Easter Egg Roll, kicked off the event alongside President Donald Trump, calling it a "wonderful tradition."
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Brian d'Arcy James on The Ferryman and Being Directed by Sam Mendes
Actor Brian d'Arcy James delivers a tour de force performance as dashing and tormented Quinn Carney in the Broadway play, The Ferryman, winner of four 2019 Tony Awards including Best Play, Best Author (Jez Butterworth) and Best Director (Sam Mendes).
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The upside to dyslexia, even as a journalist
As a parent, if you were told your child would be a creative, intelligent, big-picture thinker with a strong sense of grit and resilience, you'd be happy, wouldn't you? That sounds like a great set of skills for life success, doesn't it?
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What are the UK travel rules from May 17?
As of today, going on holiday is no longer illegal for travelers from England, Scotland and Wales.