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The findings of a longitudinal study by the School of Public Health (SPH) at UC-Berkeley suggest that exposure to certain chemicals in personal care products like toothpaste that can act as hormone blockers may cause girls to begin puberty at an earlier-than-normal age. The results were published in the most
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Smithsonian reports that January 1, 2019 marks the end of 95 years of copyright protection for some well-known works, including Robert Frost's beloved poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and Winston Churchill's "The World Crisis." According to the report, at
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The Portland Press Herald (PPH) reports that the Socialist Party of Maine (SPM) has received authorization from the Maine Secretary of State's (SOS) office to begin enlisting voters to join its party ranks. The SPM must now register 5000 voters by 2020, and then get 10,000 voters
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A cybersecurity reporter and his team at Forbes used a 3D printer to replicate his head and subsequently unlocked several smartphone brands that offer facial recognition security features. Facial recognition, and fingerprint and iris detection, are known as "biometric" tools. Reporter Thomas Brewster writes that he and his
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A report issued by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) shows serious lapses in the retention of text messages at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), particularly those related to FBI agents Peter Strzok's and Lisa Page's Apple
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In a move one member of Parliament has called "insanity," schools in Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England will now teach elementary-age students that menstruation is not "gender-specific." This follows the institution of the Red Boxes program, which will provide "period products" for
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The New England Commission of Higher Education has voted to withdraw a Catholic college's accreditation as the small, private liberal arts school attempts to restructure its endowment to maintain its accreditation status. The College of St. Joseph in Rutland, Vermont, founded in 1956, has until April 1, 2019
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Andrew Balcer, referred to in some media accounts as "Andrea," has been sentenced to 40 years imprisonment by Maine Superior Court Justice Daniel Billings after the 20-year-old confessed to brutally stabbing his parents to death on Halloween Day in 2016. The sentence is less than the state maximum