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Efforts to relax pot rules gaining momentum in US

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 05:24
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Catharine Leach is married and has two boys, age 2 and 8. She has a good job with a federal contractor and smokes pot most every day....
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Efforts to relax pot rules gaining momentum in US

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 05:24
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Catharine Leach is married and has two boys, age 2 and 8. She has a good job with a federal contractor and smokes pot most every day....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Efforts to relax pot rules gaining momentum in US

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 05:24
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Catharine Leach is married and has two boys, age 2 and 8. She has a good job with a federal contractor and smokes pot most every day....
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Homeless teen bound for Harvard

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2025-05-17 05:24
Asked to give advice for other students, Dawn Loggins says: Don't let your situation define you.
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Flood-risk villagers return home

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-17 05:24
Villagers evacuated because of the risk of flooding from a reservoir have been told it is safe to return to their homes at Pennal in Gwynedd.
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8 killed in Nigeria blast, police clash

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2025-05-17 05:24
A deadly explosion rocked a church in Jos, Nigeria, Sunday. There appeared to be a large number of casualties, including children.
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Bolt unhurt following car crash

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-17 05:24
World 100m record holder Usain Bolt escapes uninjured after car accident on Sunday, his publicist says.
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Greene: Bobby Vee's bravest song

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2025-05-17 05:24
As the '60s pop star faces down Alzheimer's he has shared his resolve to celebrate life and create new memories with his family.
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Teens' first step in long grief journey

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2025-05-17 05:24
Dozens of teens gather in a big-city hotel for a holiday weekend. But it's not all fun and games: They're here because someone close in the military -- a parent or sibling -- is dead. For many, it's the first step toward healing.
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Resort ride fall girl 'critical'

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-17 05:24
A four-year-old girl is critically ill in hospital after "falling from height" at Chessington World of Adventure.
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Lawmakers: Justice must move fast on leaks inquiry

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 05:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The heads of the House and Senate intelligence committees say the Justice Department must move quickly and ignore politics in investigating possible unauthorized disclosures of classified information....

Lawmakers: Justice must move fast on leaks inquiry

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 05:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The heads of the House and Senate intelligence committees say the Justice Department must move quickly and ignore politics in investigating possible unauthorized disclosures of classified information....
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Mobile money plan stumbles at start in Haiti

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 05:24
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Getting money in Haiti can be a harrowing experience: Bank branches are few, most of them are in the capital and a simple transaction can take half a day. Cash machines are scarce as well, and often broken or empty. And then there are the thieves who often wait nearby in hopes of finding a mark....

Wallenda to take on Niagara Falls on tightrope

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 05:24
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) -- Nik Wallenda can't visit a new place without envisioning a wire strung high above his head: Linking buildings, landmarks, nations. Even as a 6-year-old at Niagara Falls with his parents, he pictured walking a tightrope over the raging, whitewater maw....
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Wallenda to take on Niagara Falls on tightrope

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 05:24
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) -- Nik Wallenda can't visit a new place without envisioning a wire strung high above his head: Linking buildings, landmarks, nations. Even as a 6-year-old at Niagara Falls with his parents, he pictured walking a tightrope over the raging, whitewater maw....
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Wallenda exuberant after wire walk across Falls

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 05:24
NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario (AP) -- There was "wind coming from every which way," mist so powerful it clouded his vision and an unfamiliar wire beneath him, but daredevil Nik Wallenda didn't let that stop him from becoming the first person to walk on a tightrope across the Niagara Falls....
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Town robbed of trust

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2025-05-17 05:24
A dusty New Mexico town struggles for survival after its mayor, police chief and village trustee admit running guns to the Mexican drug cartels.
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Study: Children fare better in traditional mom-dad families

Two studies released Sunday may act like brakes on popular social-science assertions that gay parents are the same as — or maybe better than — married, mother-father parents.

"The empirical claim that no notable differences exist must go," Mark Regnerus, a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin, ...

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