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Voter turnout among young people is historically low in the United States. And there is indication that a relatively small percentage of young voters could cast their ballot in November.
O direcionamento dos receptores de progesterona no cérebro pode ser um caminho para o alívio da enxaqueca em algumas pessoas.
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O número de pacientes que receberam prescrição de terapia hormonal despencou após 2002, devido a descobertas que os especialistas questionaram desde então. Com uma melhor compreensão, mais e mais pessoas estão usando esses tratamentos.
U.S. President Joe Biden and Donald Trump participate in the CNN Presidential Debate on June 27, 2024.
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The Supreme Court conceded that it should not have taken up the case to begin with.
At the end of her professional career, Lynn Conway was professor emerita of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan.
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Researchers found a sharp rise in calls to US poison centers about magic mushrooms coincided with their decriminalization in several US cities and states.
Activists on both sides of the abortion battle are gearing up for it to be a major issue in the 2024 election.
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The more ambivalent a person is about a political issue, the more likely they are to support violence and other extreme actions relating to that issue.
Actor Halle Berry, standing in front of U.S. senators, proclaims that she’s in menopause.
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The number of patients prescribed hormonal therapy plummeted after 2002, due to findings experts have since questioned. With better understanding, more and more people are using these treatments.
Police drag away a tent from a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Irvine on May 15, 2024.
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Framing dissent and poverty as a menace to public order can threaten fundamental rights, particularly when it’s used to justify the deployment of predictive technology.
Everyone wants to raise kind children, but telling kids to be nice gets you only so far − young people need to practice those skills with their peers.
Canadian police and television reporters gather outside the rapper Drake’s Toronto mansion after a shooting there in May 2024.
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Since rap’s emergence, artists have boasted about themselves in ways that were funny and sometimes violent, vulgar and sexist. The popularity of the music and its exploitation can be dangerous.