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Excitement Builds In Texas For First Varsity High School Water Polo Season
Water polo is about to get much bigger in the state of Texas. After decades of play as a high school club sport, water polo will make its debut as an official varsity high school sport in the Lone Star State in the fall of 2022 after receiving approval from the University Interscholastic League (UIL) back in October 2019.
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Fed makes history with second massive rate hike in as many months
What seemed unfathomable just six months ago -- a 75-basis-point rate hike by the Federal Reserve -- has now happened twice in a row.
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How Pride events nationally are responding after a White supremacist group allegedly planned to riot in Idaho
With Pride celebrations scheduled throughout the month in cities big and small across the country, organizers and police departments are taking a close look at their safety plans.
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Transgender women banned from playing in women's international rugby league matches
The global governing body for rugby league has banned transgender women from playing in women's international matches until further notice.
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New poll reveals how parents are doing on fireworks safety
Setting off fireworks is a tradition for many families on summer holidays like July Fourth and Canada Day, but it can have dangerous consequences -- particularly for young people.
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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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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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Biden-Harris Administration to Provide 804,000 Borrowers with $39 Billion in Automatic Loan Forgiveness as a Result of Fixes to Income Driven Repayment Plans
Discharges are the result of updated counts of progress toward student loan forgiveness
The Department of Education (Department) today will begin notifying more than 804,000 borrowers that they have a total of $39 billion in Federal student loans that will be automatically discharged in the coming weeks. In total, the Biden-Harris Administration has approved more than $116.6 billion in student loan forgiveness for more than 3.4 million borrowers.
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NAREB's 2023 State of Housing In Black America Report Finds Shortage of Housing Inventory Adds to
Among Factors Restricting Black Homeownership are Lower Wealth and Median Incomes, Unfavorable Housing Market Conditions, Shortage of Housing Stock, and Institutional Bias
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Root of teen empathy begins with secure relationships at home, study finds
Teenagers who have close, secure relationships with their families are more likely to extend empathy to their peers, according to a new study.
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US task force recommends expanding high blood pressure screenings during pregnancy
Everyone who is pregnant should be screened for disorders such as gestational hypertension and preeclampsia with blood pressure monitoring throughout the pregnancy, the US Preventive Services Task Force recommended Tuesday.
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Dallas Zoo says tamarin monkeys that went missing for a day are healthy and uninjured
The emperor tamarin monkeys that disappeared from the Dallas Zoo earlier this week but were recovered by police in an abandoned home on Tuesday are healthy and uninjured, the zoo said.
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Fisk University made history as the first HBCU gymnastics team
Naimah Muhammad was first introduced to gymnastics at the age of nine when her parents signed her up for a community gym in Rochester, New York.
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Lunar lander rights itself after suffering an ‘anomaly’ en route to the moon, but future is still unclear
Just hours after launching from Florida toward the moon early Monday morning, the first US lunar lander to take off in five decades is in jeopardy. The spacecraft was able to put itself into the correct position after suffering what was likely a propulsion issue while on its way to the moon — but it’s not yet clear whether the lander will be able to finish its mission.
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‘We’re hemorrhaging money’: US health clinics try to stay open after unprecedented cyberattack
For more than two weeks, a cyberattack has disrupted business at health care providers across the United States, forcing small clinics to scramble to stay in business and exposing the fragility of the billing system that underpins American health care.
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Pediatricians Warn About Dangers of Kids Using Marijuana
My kids are in elementary school, a little young for the "weed talk," but I wonder whether the fact that recreational pot use is now legal in a number of states will complicate things once we start having those conversations.
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Biden says in Poland that the stakes of Ukraine war go well beyond its borders
President Joe Biden told American troops on a deterrence mission near the border with Ukraine that the consequences of the raging conflict 50 miles away could extend around the world.
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Students and administrator recall the day Ethan Crumbley shot up their Michigan school
A 17-year-old girl testified Friday she “just prayed” and covered her head during Ethan Crumbley’s mass shooting at Michigan’s Oxford High School, which left four students dead and seven others wounded in 2021.
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They met on an airplane to Egypt then fell in love
If everything had gone according to plan, they would probably never have met. But Mafalda Feliciano's original British Airways flight from Brazil was overbooked, so she was bumped on to another -- and then fate played its hand.
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Family rifts seem on the rise. Here's why they happen and how to cope
Each week, Sheri McGregor gets hundreds of emails from parents shut out of their children's lives. Every story is different, she said. What the parents have in common is a profound sense of isolation. "They say, 'I thought I was the only one,'" said McGregor, founder of a website for estranged parents who lives in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada mountains. "A lot of these people have been suffering alone for years. ... You feel like you're the only one, so you don't tell other people."
