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By Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech About 300,000 children and teens were legally married in the United States between 2000 and 2018, according to data from Unchained at Last, a nonprofit that works to help women and girls in forced marriages. Laws prohibiting minors to marry have struggled to pass. Only 10 states have a law prohibiting people under 18 from marrying. |
By Jonathan Rizk No-Shave November and Movember are exactly what they sound like: For 30 days, people let their facial or body hair grow out. The trend was started in 2003 by two men from Australia who wanted to grow mustaches. A year later they tied their feat to fundraising for prostate cancer, and the trend soon spread around the world. |
By Marc Sternfield and Addy Bink SmartAsset, a financial tech company, has released a list of the fastest-growing cities with populations over 100,000 in the United States. Southwestern cities, many of them desert suburbs, dominated the top of the list. Over 120 cities analyzed saw a dip in population between 2017 and 2022. |
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By Marc Sternfield Invasive and destructive Mediterranean fruit flies were found at a home in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angles. The California Department of Food and Agriculture quarantined 69 square miles of metro L.A. in response. Now officials plan to release sterile male fruit flies in the area, to reduce the population of the invaders. |
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By Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech A new survey from the Commonwealth Fund found that health care is unaffordable for many Americans, including those with employee-sponsored insurance. Americans struggled to pay for health care even if they purchased insurance on their own, such as on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces. The cost is forcing many Americans to forgo needed health care. |
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