Use of Plan B "morning after" pills doubles, teen sex rates decline in CDC survey (www.cbsnews.com)
The share of American women who say they have ever used emergency contraception after having sex has more than doubled since the so-called “morning after” or Plan B brand pills were approved to be sold without a prescription, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday....
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Kids complained for years about sexually abusive probation officers. Some of them still work for L.A. County (www.latimes.com)
Starting in the late 1990s, the complaints by young girls incarcerated at Camp Scott began to pile up — all alleging similar sexual abuse by the same man: Thomas E. Jackson, then a deputy at the Santa Clarita juvenile camp....
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‘I was terrorized’: 2020 election worker testifies at Giuliani defamation trial (www.theguardian.com)
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Video appears to show officer with knee on protestor's neck, police say it didn't happen | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)
A group of protesters that demonstrated at a rally in support of Palestinians over the weekend in Toronto say a man who was protesting was injured during his arrest — which included an officer kneeling on his neck, something Toronto's former police chief said officers are not trained to do.
Norfolk, Virginia, approves military-themed brewery despite some community pushback (www.nbcnews.com)
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US proposes replacing engine-housing parts on Boeing jets like one involved in passenger's death (apnews.com)
Federal officials are proposing modifications and additional inspections on nearly 2,000 Boeing planes in the United States to prevent a repeat of the engine-housing breakup that killed a passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight in 2018....
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Nations Agree to Transition from Fossil Fuels in Climate Summit Deal (www.voanews.com)
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Kate Cox sought an abortion in Texas. A court said no because she didn't show her life was in danger (apnews.com)
Kate Cox, whose fetus had a fatal condition, did not qualify for an abortion in Texas: not after four emergency room visits, elevated vital signs, risks of a uterine rupture and with her ability to have more children in jeopardy....
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Florida school board votes for Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler to resign (www.nbcnews.com)
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CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens hand out medical records to cops without warrants (arstechnica.com)
Lawmakers want HHS to revise health privacy law to require warrants.
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‘Like we were lesser humans’: Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture (www.aljazeera.com)
Rounded up by Israeli forces in Gaza City, Palestinians describe being stripped, blindfolded, numbered and tortured
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The Census Bureau wants to change how it asks about disabilities. Some advocates don't like it (apnews.com)
The U.S. Census Bureau wants to change how it asks people about disabilities, and some advocates don't like where things are heading.
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Voting rights groups push for answers from Mississippi election officials about ballot shortages (apnews.com)
One month after Mississippi’s November statewide election, voting rights groups say election officials in the state’s largest county have failed to provide enough information about the problems that led to polling precincts running out of ballots....
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When the Coast Guard Intercepts Unaccompanied Kids (www.propublica.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/when-the-coast-guard-intercepts…...
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Facebook and Instagram content enabled child sexual abuse, trafficking: New Mexico lawsuit (www.cnbc.com)
Meta enabled child sexual abuse, served up explicit content, and failed to disrupt trafficking on its platforms, New Mexico's attorney general said in a suit.
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DA drops most charges against Austin TX police officers accused of excessive force in 2020 protests (www.texastribune.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/austin-police-2020-protests-cri…
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Federal government is using data from push notifications to track contacts (www.washingtonpost.com)
Apple and Google had been told to keep the practice secret until Sen. Ron Wyden revealed it in a letter Wednesday.
Psychologists say they can't meet the growing demand for mental health care (www.npr.org)
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Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy to resign from Congress at year end (www.cnbc.com)
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Alabama police officer caught on video using stun gun on handcuffed man: ‘Do you want it again?’ (www.al.com)
The Reform police officer is on leave while authorities investigate the weekend arrest.
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Key Congress staffers in AI debate are funded by tech giants like Google and Microsoft (www.politico.com)
Supreme Court signals it will uphold a tax on foreign income and leave a wealth tax for another day (apnews.com)
On the first issue, conservative and liberal justices voiced concerns that ruling for a Washington state couple challenging a provision of the 2017 tax bill would threaten other provisions of the tax code....
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Students around the world suffered huge learning setbacks during the pandemic, study finds (apnews.com)
Students around the world suffered historic setbacks in reading and math during the COVID-19 pandemic, with declines in test scores so widespread that the United States climbed in global rankings simply by falling behind less sharply, a new study finds....
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