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Maine bans lottery winners from receiving food stamps
Maine has instituted a new rule that bans those who win more than $5,000 a month by gambling or the lottery from getting food stamps benefits, the state announced Tuesday.
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Lawsuit seeks to prove legality of Massachusetts physician-assisted suicide
BOSTON — A pair of Cape Cod doctors, one suffering from terminal cancer, have filed a lawsuit in Suffolk County Superior Court as part of an effort to prove that physician-assisted suicide is not a crime in the Bay State. Falmouth resident Dr. Roger Kligler, diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic prostate
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Obama State Department ‘stands in solidarity with intersex persons around the world’
(CNSNews.com) – "On the occasion of Intersex Awareness Day, the United States stands in solidarity with intersex persons around the world," the U.S. State Department announced in a press statement on Wednesday. "We recognize that intersex persons face violence, discrimination, stigma, harassment, and persecution on account
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Wikileaks: Clinton campaign planned ‘spontaneous visit’ to Planned Parenthood
(CNSNews.com) – A Wikileaks email thread released Wednesday showed Hillary Clinton's campaign strategizing with Planned Parenthood to coordinate a "spontaneous visit" to a clinic days before Cecile Richards' congressional testimony and nixing a more public event because Richards "will be highlighting how their health
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Marijuana legalization opponents take aim at stoned driving
STATE HOUSE — Legalization of marijuana would result in greater dangers on Massachusetts roadways, where authorities are ill-equipped to even know whether drivers are intoxicated by the leafy green drug, opponents of Question 4 said Tuesday. "If this ballot question passes we're asking police officers on the street
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As Trump falters, more Republicans say they’ll block Clinton
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new fundraising email from House Speaker Paul Ryan's political operation, over former Speaker Newt Gingrich's signature, seeks money for Republican congressional candidates by calling the appeal "our very last chance to stop Pelosi and Hillary." Indiana Republican Trey Hollingsworth says in
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Trump looks to Obamacare report as a comeback lifeline
DORAL, Florida (AP) — Suddenly armed with fresh political ammunition, Donald Trump and anxious Republicans across the nation seized on spiking health care costs Tuesday in a final-days effort to spark election momentum. The Republican presidential nominee, trekking across must-win Florida, insisted "Obamacare is just blowing up" after the
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How the Ouija board got its sinister reputation
By now, most have vague notions of the Ouija board horror narrative, in which demonic spirits communicate with – even possess – kids. Director Mike Flanagan furthers this trope in his new film "Ouija: Origin of Evil." Set in 1967, a widow and her daughters earn a living scamming clients
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