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Topless Advocates Push Their Cause In Courts

Courts in two states uphold laws against bare breasts SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A judge refused to overturn part of Utah's lewdness law Tuesday in a blow to a woman who's fighting criminal charges after her stepchildren saw her topless in her own home. Judge Kara Pettit sided with prosecutors who argued that lewdness is commonly understood to include women's breasts in American society, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. Judges should not second-guess what lawmakers have...

U.S. Drinking Water Widely Contaminated With ‘Forever Chemicals’

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The contamination of U.S. drinking water with man-made “forever chemicals” is far worse than previously estimated with some of the highest levels found in Miami, Philadelphia and New Orleans, said a report on Wednesday by an environmental watchdog group. The chemicals, resistant to breaking down in the environment, are known as perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. Some have been linked to cancers, liver damage, low birth weight and other health problems. The findings here...

Bedbug City: USA’s Most Bug-Infested Place

CHARMING! (Not) | Orkin has just released its annual rankings of the worst cities in the United States for bed bugs. Topping the list – the urban harbor known as Charm City. Jan 13, 2020 CEO WORLD – Baltimore was just ranked as the worst city in the United States for bed bugs, according to an annual list by pest control company Orkin, followed by Washington DC, Chicago, and Los Angeles. The list is based on treatment data...

Union Bosses Fight New Food Safety Rules

Outdated food inspection standards cost consumers money and divert resources from more efficient food safety tools Jan 9, 2020 | Food Safety News – A federal judge in St. Paul is scheduled, on Jan. 27, to consider the government’s motion to dismiss a last-ditch attempt to stop the modernization of swine inspection procedures. Unions led by the United Food and Commercial Workers sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture Oct. 7, 2019, over the Food Safety and Inspection...

Schools Bar 500 Unvaxxed Kids | 6,000 Measles Deaths In Congo

"The fact that any child dies from a vaccine-preventable disease like measles is frankly an outrage and a collective failure to protect the world's most vulnerable children." Dr. Tedros Ghebreysus, Director-General of the WHO District enforces no-excuses vaccine policy; parents called to pick up their kids Jan 9, 2020 Fox News – Hundreds of students in Seattle were barred from class on Wednesday over outdated vaccination records. District superintendent Denise Huneau said an estimated 565 students in the...

Cosmo Writer: Start Sex Ed While Kids Are In Diapers

Sex Ed Should Begin Before Potty Training – Agree Or Disagree? Comment below. Jan 3, 2020 OPINION | By Jennifer Gerson Insider.com – One day, your toddler will point to a pregnant woman, cock their head, and ask, "How did that baby get into that lady's tummy?" You might think it's too soon to start teaching your innocent preschooler about sex at that point, but it's not. In fact, some experts say, it might even be on the later side. "Human...

Prison For Chinese Doctor Who “Edited” Baby Girls

Was a Chinese court justified in jailing the doctor who edited the genes of two baby girls while they were still embryos? Comment below. Dec 30, 2019 (CNN)A Chinese scientist who helped create the world's first gene-edited babies has been sentenced to three years in prison. He Jiankui shocked the world in 2018 when he announced that twin girls Lulu and Nana had been born with modified DNA to make them resistant to HIV, which he had...

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