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How Old Is Too Old to Start Strength Training?
Aging is one of the greatest threats to your freedom and independence you'll ever know, only because of what it does to your muscles.
The body's hormones that are responsible for maintaining muscle mass decline with age. Older adults tend to be less active and eat less protein, important to keep muscles strong, we face more challenges as we get older
There is a powerful remedy: lifting weights
Fox News settles blockbuster defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems
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'Stand Your Ground' Linked To Increase In Homicides
If a stranger attacks you inside your own home, the law has always permitted you to defend yourself. If an altercation breaks out in public, the law requires you to try to retreat. At least, that's what it used to do.
In 2005, Florida became the first of nearly two-dozen states to pass a "stand your ground" law that removed the requirement to retreat.
https://www.npr.org/2013/01/02/167984117/-stand-your-ground-linked-to-increase-in-homicide
12-year-olds can't buy cigarettes — but they can work in tobacco fields
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https://www.npr.org/2023/04/17/1168824035/child-labor-tobacco-legal-dangerous
Watch Live: Space X to launch Starship, the world's largest rocket
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https://www.npr.org/2023/04/17/1170355237/watch-live-spacex-launch-starship-rocket
Abortion rights supporters around the country & in the nation's capital are holding rallies Saturday & Sunday against the decision by a Texas judge to reverse the FDA's approval of a key abortion drug.
Portions of U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk's nationwide injunction blocking mifepristone's approval would have gone into effect on Saturday had the SCOTUS not stayed the decision.
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Scholastic wanted to license her children's book — if she cut a part about 'racism'
Maggie Tokuda-Hall was thrilled when she first saw the offer from the publishing giant to publish her 2022 children's book Love in the Library.
A love story set in a World War II incarceration camp for Japanese Americans & inspired by her grandparents, about the improbable joy found "in a place built to make people feel like they weren't human."
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https://www.npr.org/2023/04/15/1169848627/scholastic-childrens-book-racism
Tracking the States Where Abortion Is Now Banned
Most abortions are now banned in 13 states following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Georgia also bans abortion at about six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed ban on abortions after 6 weeks of pregnancy; not in effect yet pending review by the FL Supreme Court.
In many states, the fight over abortion access is still happening.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/us/abortion-laws-roe-v-wade.html
Fear of pregnancy: One teen's story in post-Roe America
In a state that bans abortion, anxiety about rape and getting pregnant drove this teen to start on birth control, though she's not having sex.
"I feel, after everything happened," she explains – with Roe v. Wade overturned and the six-week ban taking effect – "I just wanted to be a little in control."
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https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/04/15/1169085610/birth-control-abortion-rape-teen
