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NEW YORK — Discriminating in opposition to somebody due to weight with regards to work, housing or in public lodging can be barred in New York City below a invoice handed Thursday by the City Council. The measure would amend metropolis regulation so as to add weight and peak to the listing of identifiers w...

The U.S. is going through “an acute escalation” in psychological and behavioral well being incidents, particularly amongst kids, in response to a nationwide survey of county governments. The National Association of Counties, a nonprofit based in 1935 to symbolize the nation’s elected county officers and st...

SALISBURY, Md. — Thousands of ladies dwelling in rural, jap Maryland have few choices after they’re searching for somebody to ship their infants. The native hospital doesn’t have an obstetrics physician on employees so most girls on this area, flanked by sprawling farm fields and vintage shops, flip to the...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A boycott by Republican state senators in Oregon threatens to derail lots of of payments, together with on gun management, transgender healthcare and abortion rights, as a deadline looms that would additionally upend the protesters’ political futures. Democrats management the Statehouse ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Situationships. “Sneaky links.” The “talking stage,” the flirtatious getting-to-know-you part - usually achieved by way of textual content - that may result in a hookup. High faculty college students are having much less sexual activity. That’s what the research say. But that doesn’t imply ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Officials in Missouri’s largest metropolis accepted a decision Thursday to declare it a sanctuary for folks looking for or offering gender care, defying state lawmakers who voted a day earlier to ban such take care of minors and prohibit it for some adults. Democratic Mayor Quinton Lucas...

ORLANDO, Fla. — More than 74 million guests got here to the Orlando, Florida, space final 12 months, a benchmark simply in need of pre-pandemic ranges, tourism officers stated Thursday. The variety of vacationers was 25% higher than it was in 2021, when central Florida was nonetheless recovering from the b...

ATLANTA — To practice extra Black docs, the federal authorities must bolster funding and make extra coaching slots obtainable for traditionally Black medical faculties, leaders of these universities advised U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday. “Our HBCU medical schools are the backbone of training Black doc...

WASHINGTON — U.S. well being regulators on Friday authorized a brand new sort of drug for girls coping with uncomfortable sizzling flashes attributable to menopause. The Food and Drug Administration authorized the once-a-day capsule from Astellas Pharma to deal with moderate-to-severe signs, which might em...

DALLAS — A 26-year-old lady from Texas was shot and killed by her boyfriend after getting an abortion in one other state, Dallas police stated. He was jailed on a homicide cost as of Friday. Texas banned abortions after roughly six weeks of being pregnant in September 2021. But almost all abortions have be...