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In an effort to influence state legislation, the city council of Keene, New Hampshire voted 10-4 to raise the minimum age a person may purchase, use, or possess tobacco and vaping products to 21. The former age requirement in the city was 18; the council's new ordinance is
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Life expectancy, defined as the average number of years a person born in any given year is expected to live, has fallen in the United States, according to the newest reports by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) in Atlanta, GA. (The World Health Organization defines life expectancy
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An "emergency contraception" vending machine — called a "Wellness-to-go" machine — is being installed in the "Good Life Center" in Silliman College at Yale University in New Haven CT. According to the Yale Daily News, the machine will not only dispense "condoms" and "
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The Jakarta Post is reporting that Akihiko Kondo, a 35-year-old Tokyo man, has "married" a hologram – a computer-generated projection – of his "bride." The marriage is described as "cross-dimension," the report says. The digitally-generated "bride" is "virtual reality singer" and alleged
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Former President Barack Obama, speaking at his Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago Monday night, said progressives were not succeeding in America because "we are still confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues." Though the ex-president did not make clear to whom he was referring when he
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A Maine educator who was the first-ever winner of the $1 million Global Teacher Award, the so-called "Nobel Prize for Teaching," has cited mental illness and alcoholism for actions that led to her arrest and conviction for shoplifting. According to the Portland Press Herald, Nancie Atwell, 67, of
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for a riddle-writing extortionist suspected of committing acts of vandalism and animal cruelty at a Hollis, NH farm. The FBI is offering a $10,000 award to anyone who leads the bureau to the suspect or suspects. According to spokesperson Kristen Setera of
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A veritable Who's Who in progressive politics will be on hand for "The Gathering," a three-day conference hosted by US Senator Bernie Sanders' institute. The Sanders Institute event will be held in Burlington, VT November 29-December 1. Speakers and panelists will include Sanders and his