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Germany’s Cabinet is set to decriminalize possession and allow members of “cannabis clubs” to buy the substance for recreational purposes.

The state of Texas wants Planned Parenthood to repay millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursements, upsetting the abortion business that may be hit with more fines.

A jury has awarded a judgment of more than a billion dollars to a Houston woman who became the victim of “revenge porn.”

A church on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, hosted what it called the “World’s Largest Baby Shower” on Sunday and gave supplies to more than 1,100 mothers in need.

 A woman was severely injured when a not-so-cute otter attacked her as she tubed on a river recently near Bozeman, Montana.

A man who stopped to help car accident victims late Sunday in Baltimore City, Maryland, died when he fell from a bridge at the scene.

Missouri has joined the growing list of states installing Safe Haven Baby Boxes, which are secured incubators where mothers in crisis can surrender their newborns.

Citizens are in awe of a group of lifeguards in Flagler Beach, Florida, who performed an incredible rescue August 5.

A teenager who got her college degree before her driver’s license is inspiring others to pursue their dreams.

The White House is asking Congress to spend another $24 billion fighting Russia in Ukraine — but just $800 million to fight fentanyl and other lethal drugs in U.S. communities.

Tens of thousands of doctors in England walked off the job Friday, as their pay dispute with the government looks to continue.

A 37-year-old Vancouver woman says a hospital clinician proposed medically assisted suicide when she sought help for depression.

A woman in Houston, Texas, who recently celebrated her 114th birthday, is now the oldest person living in the state, and her family members are grateful for her presence in their lives.

While 76 percent of U.S. college students reported feeling enjoyment much of the prior day, majorities also reported feeling stressed (66 percent) and worried (51 percent), in addition to being lonely and sad. 

Pro-abortion groups have begun the push for a ballot measure in Arizona ahead of next year’s election that would enshrine the right to abortion into the state constitution. 

The baby girl, who is the fourth baby surrendered at the fire station in the past 16 months, already has a new home.

An ice cream company in Brooklyn, New York, is recalling some of its products because of potential listeria contamination.

Cassidy rebuked the Biden administration for transforming a bipartisan effort to support pregnant women in the workplace into a rule that would make employers facilitate their employees’ abortions.

With the failure of Issue 1 in the Ohio special election, a youth-oriented pro-life organization is looking to galvanize young voters ahead of the state’s November election, when abortion on demand will be on the ballot.

Planned Parenthood is pushing back on the proposed ban because the organization is worried imposing an age requirement could eventually lead to laws limiting abortions for minors.

Elon Musk’s brain chip startup, Neuralink, has successfully raised $280 million in a funding round led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, just months after securing approval for its first in-human clinical trial. However, the company’s success is overshadowed by allegations of rushed and botched animal experiments. Regardless of its animal mishaps, most Americans think getting a brain chip is a bad idea.

A plurality of U.S. voters believe states should “ban all gender transition treatments for minors and stop discussion of gender ideology in all public schools,” a recent YouGov poll found. 

President Joe Biden’s pro-abortion White House is celebrating the failure of a ballot measure called Issue 1 in the Ohio special election.

Nonagenarian Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) fell at her California home on Tuesday and was “briefly” hospitalized, her office has confirmed to multiple outlets.

In the Ohio special election on Tuesday night, Issue 1 — a measure that would have raised the threshold to pass amendments to the state constitution from 50 percent plus one to 60 percent — failed, with media outlets calling the election less than two hours after polls closed.

The Biden administration is working to transform a bipartisan effort to support pregnant women in the workplace into a rule that would make employers facilitate their employees’ abortions.

A doctor in New York City is facing charges after he allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted multiple women and filmed those instances with his cellphone.

British scientists have begun developing a new swath of vaccines in order to combat an unknown future pandemic, dubbed “Disease X”.

Twenty-five-year-old Charles Gregory was enjoying a fishing trip early Friday off the coast of St. Augustine, Florida, when he found himself in dire need of help.

The passage of Issue 1 has extra significance, because if Ohioans vote “yes” and Issue 1 passes by a simple majority then a radical abortion amendment will likely have a harder time passing in November.

In a surprise reversal, the R&B artist Ne-Yo has retracted his earlier apology over his comments about transgender children, saying he stands by his original comments condemning parents who allow their children to undergo irreversible sex-change procedures.

The share of fathers taking up the role of stay-at-home dads has increased by several points since the late 1980s, data analysis by Pew Research Center shows.

Singer Ne-Yo, best known for his hit R&B song “So Sick,” bashed parents who transition children who declare themselves transgender. 

Britain’s National Health Service will start offering transgender treatments to children as young as seven-years-old in its new gender clinic.

A family and a New Jersey community are grieving the loss of a young police officer who died suddenly on July 23.

Los Angeles County reported the first deaths from flea-born typhus in nearly three decades last year, as concerns continue about the effects of persistent and growing homelessness on public health.