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Cops Change Their Story After An Officer Kills a Teen Outside a Party

Police in a Dallas suburb have changed their story on the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of a teenager outside a house party over the weekend.

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7 Hand Exercises to Prevent Arthritis & Carpal Tunnel

If you work on a computer all day, do a lot of texting or work with your hands, you probably complain about wrist and hand pain on a weekly (if not daily) basis.

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Criminal Charges Recommended in Death of Prisoner Who Had No Water for a Week

Jurors recommended criminal charges be filed against seven employees of the Milwaukee County Jail in the death of 38-year-old inmate Terrill Thomas.

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Lone Star Family Health Center Congratulates Representative Brady on Healthcare Award

At a meeting last week, the Lone Star Family Health Center (LSFHC) Board of Directors signed a letter of congratulations for U.S. Representative Kevin Brady on his receipt of the 2017 Distinguished Community Health Defender Award from the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC). This award recognizes elected officials that advocate for health center funding, co-sponsor important legislation, and engage with the health centers in their districts.

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5 Things for Tuesday, May 2: Obamacare, Trump, Sex Assaults

If you're planning a summer trip, take note: The State Department just issued a travel alert for all of Europe. Here are the 5 things you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door.

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Maroon & Gray Affair Raises Over $800,000 for Scholarships

Texas Southern University recognized outstanding students and alumni

Texas Southern University held its inaugural Maroon and Gray Affair on April 29 at the Marriott Marquis Houston and raised in excess of $800,000 in scholarship money for deserving TSU students. More than 1,100 people were in attendance. Texas Southern’s award-winning Ocean of Soul marching band opened the evening with a thunderous performance. Nephew Tommy, comedian and radio personality on The Steve Harvey Morning Show, and Melinda Spaulding from Fox News Houston served as the masters of ceremonies.

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People with Pre-existing Conditions Watch Health Care Debate Closely

Valerie Daniel is nervous about the GOP health care bills making their way through Congress.

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Zero Waste Isn't Just For Hippies Anymore

It has concrete floors, high ceilings and neon lights. And it's tucked away in Brooklyn's coolest neighborhood, Williamsburg, where alternative lifestylers, work-from-homers and celebrities pay an arm and a leg for apartments just one stop from Manhattan on the L train.

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AboutThatCar.com: 2017 Mazda6 Grand Touring

As soon as they dropped off the 2017 Mazda6, we were headed down Hwy 14 to connect with I-94 West and on to Chicago. Once we were clear of the expressway like traffic, we set the car’s adaptive cruise control on 78 mph and settled in for what turned out to be an uneventful drive.

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Low-Dose Aspirin Linked To Lower Breast Cancer Risk, Study Says

Among women who took a low-dose aspirin regularly, there was a 20% reduction in certain cancer risk

Low-dose aspirin is not recommended for everyone, however

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Beyond the Rhetoric: Cuba is making Big Progress

We just completed our fifth trip to Havana, Cuba. Each time we go we learn increasingly about this unique culture. The best thing I see in Cuba is the void of race consciousness. We, America, are obsessed with it. Cubans come in all shades – just like the United States but it is clear one’s race means nothing. They value the content of one’s character. Yes, just like Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech.

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John Legend To Receive Social Justice Award

John Legend is expected on a Massachusetts college campus this week to receive a social justice award.

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Three-Time GRAMMY Winner NE-YO Invests in Holberton School for Full-Stack Engineers

NE-YO joins school’s Board of Trustees; commits to promote greater diversity in tech industry

The idea of a coding school that charges no upfront tuition was intriguing to Ne-Yo. The Grammy Award-winning artist is certainly not the first musician to invest in Silicon Valley, but he’s one that wants to put his talents and money into helping to solve the diversity challenges facing the tech industry.

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iBuyBlack Card Launched in Philadelphia to Offer Discounts to Supporters of Black-Owned Businesses

African-American business owners in Philadelphia gathered last week to launch a discount card to encourage the community to spend their money at local Black-owned businesses, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.With an iBuyBlack card, which costs $10, shoppers receive discounts up to 15 percent at participating Black-owned businesses. About 80 companies currently participate in the program, which has the support of a wide coalition that includes local elected officials.

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A Hacker Is Holding Season 5 Of ‘OINTB’ For Ransom

When Netflix refused to pay the anonymous hacker, they leaked five episodes of the new season online.

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Dubai Introduces Its Own Font, Lauding Free Expression It Does Not Permit

Dubai has long had a taste for the finer things in life. The influential Persian Gulf city has been home to the world’s tallest building, a hotel that offers guests private butlers and 24-karat-gold iPads, and even a bakery that sold gold-laced cupcakes for roughly $1,000 each.

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Interpol Add Turn On the Bright Lights Anniversary Shows

They’ll perform the album in its entirety in NYC and L.A.

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The Transformation of Morris Chestnut: From Movies to Muscle

Handsome Hollywood star and sex symbol, Morris Chestnut, has been making ladies swoon since his appearance in Boyz N The Hood back in 1991. Fast forward nearly 30 years and the handsome actor is married and has been for over twenty years and has two grown children in college now. But Morris doesn’t have your typical “dad-body” with love handles and a beer belly–well, at one time he actually did.

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Arsenic-polluted Water Linked to Cancer in India

Millions of people in Bihar, India, are showing symptoms of arsenic poisoning, which can be linked to cancer, due to consumption of contaminated drinking water.

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Rethinking Antibiotic Use in Early Pregnancy: Some Linked to Miscarriage

When used in early pregnancy, many classes of common antibiotics are associated with an increased risk of miscarriage, according to a study published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.