Teachers at a Pittsburgh public school assigned reading homework to first graders about running from the cops. The district swears the assignment was not part of their regular curriculum but the product of a company MORE
In a letter sent home with students, and Indiana school has informed parents they want students to stop “dating;” the kids are 5th graders. “To combat students having broken hearts, we have implemented a zero MORE
Conservative leaders are circulating data to White House staff that claims adults who vape will turn on President Trump if he follows through with his planned ban on flavored e-cigarettes, Axios has learned. Between the lines: The MORE
A Navy official has confirmed that recently released videos of unidentified flying objects are real, but that the footage was not authorized to be released to the public in the first place. Joseph Gradisher, the MORE
The number and rate of abortions across the United States have plunged to their lowest levels since the procedure became legal nationwide in 1973, according to new figures released Wednesday. The report from the Guttmacher MORE
More than 1 in 16 women consider their first sexual experience to be rape, a study published Monday found. In a survey of 13,310 American women from 18 to 44 years old, about 6.5 percent reported their first sexual MORE
Scientists have discovered two gargantuan radio bubbles at the center of the Milky Way, near the galaxy’s supermassive black holes. These never-before-seen structures are believed to have formed during a “staggeringly powerful” eruption about seven MORE
Astronomers have for the first time discovered water in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a distant star. MORE
According to four government officials, Trumps’s latest, brilliant idea will focus on cleaning up CA’s homeless problem, primarily Los Angeles’ ‘Skid Row.’ It’s unclear exactly how the administration would implement or accomplish this or even MORE
What story sums up our political and media worlds on 9/9/19? This one: Brave government employees are standing up to Trump’s unbelievable claims about Hurricane Dorian and insisting on truth. Trump repeatedly said that Alabama MORE
Vaccine opponents in California appealed to another “Jen” today: Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of Gov. Gavin Newsom, in a desperate attempt to urge Mr. Newsom to veto bills restricting fraudulent vaccine exemptions. The anti-vaxers MORE
Former top officials of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are assailing the agency for undermining its weather forecasters as it defends President Donald Trump’s statement MORE
A recent advisory from the Centers for Disease Control is warning Americans of the hazards of contact with chickens, including the risk of catching salmonella. This year alone, the CDC has recorded 1,003 cases of MORE
Federal and state investigators have identified vitamin E in cannabis vaping products taken from patients experiencing mysterious lung illnesses. MORE
Today CNN and some other sources around the web shared a story about too much junk food causing a teenager to go blind. The study was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine MORE
NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have released several spectacular and terrifying images of Hurricane Dorian captured from space. In the past few days, the two agencies have been monitoring the hurricane, MORE
Former New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski became emotional Tuesday morning when describing his decision to retire from the NFL in March. “I want to be clear to my fans. I needed to recover. I was MORE
Next month marks one year since an upset, though collected, Christine Blasey Ford recalled one of the most horrible nights of her life before the world—and one year since Brett Kavanaugh, angry and pursed, denied MORE
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: A US city is facing a public health crisis, after years of denying that it had a problem with lead in its drinking water supply. In 2016, MORE
A unnamed, Catholic nurse at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, Vt filed suit against the hospital in 2018 alleging it forced her to participate in an elective abortion. In 2017, the MORE
All food service workers in Alabama are being urged to get vaccinated as the Hepatitis A outbreak in Alabama has spread to 25 counties. The Alabama Department of Public Health said there are 132 confirmed MORE
When the World Health Organization declared in 2000 that the United States had eliminated measles, it was hailed as one of the biggest public health achievements in the nation’s history. Now there’s a “reasonable chance” MORE
Health officials in Michigan have issued a warning to residents as they investigate three possible human cases of a deadly mosquito-borne illness.The disease, known as Eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEE), causes brain inflammation, which can MORE
A federal judge blocked Missouri’s law banning abortions after eight weeks, one day before the law was to go into effect. In May, Missouri passed the “Missouri Stands for the Unborn,” act, another attempt states MORE
A new invasive species of tumbleweed that can grow up to six feet in height is taking over parts of California—and scientists are warning it could spread even further as climate change makes its growing MORE