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Massachusetts case probes the role schools play in teen suicide prevention
Christina worried when she found her 16-year-old boyfriend, Jacob Goyette, drunk and crying at school in the spring of 2018.
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Researchers explore a drug-free idea to relieve chronic pain: green light
Ann Jones tried everything short of surgery for her chronic migraines, which have plagued her since she was a child.
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Opinion: Should it be illegal to sleep outside?
A woman lived in her car in front of our apartment building for a couple of weeks.
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American Samoans’ citizenship status still in limbo after judge issues stay
John Fitisemanu woke up early Friday morning, got dressed and finally completed one of the tasks on a more than 20-year-old to-do list: He registered to vote.
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More Americans are dying at home rather than in hospitals
For the first time since the early 1900s, more Americans are dying at home a trend that reflects more hospice care and progress toward the kind of end that most people want.
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Anti-Semitism order raises tough issue of defining prejudice
President Donald Trump’s order to expand the scope of potential anti-Semitism complaints on college campuses is raising the stakes of an already tense battle.
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Paid parental leave: How Republicans learned to love a Democratic priority
Many Republican lawmakers oppose the parental leave provision. But since it is part of the must-pass defense bill, there's not much they can do about it.
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House panel presses toward historic Trump impeachment vote
Though split sharply along party lines, the panel is expected to send the charges to the full House for it to take pre-Christmas action next week.
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Warren gets campaign effort going in Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Warren's campaign is moving to become the first in the Democratic presidential primary to hire field staff and open field offices in Pennsylvania.
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Why the crack epidemic and ‘tough on crime’ still linger
Two New Jersey reporters found that blacks are still arrested at higher rates for cocaine than whites are for opioids.
Air Date: December 12, 2019
Listen 14:19Trump slams Philly DA Krasner as ‘worst district attorney’
It’s not the first time the feds have come out against the city prosecutor.
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From Philly to Sandy Hook, vigil remembers those slain by gun violence
For the fifth year, Broad Street Ministry holds a vigil remembering gun violence victims and the anniversary of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
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Impeachment witness: Trump poses election ‘danger’
Democratic and Republican lawyers from the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees will give presentations to the House lawmakers on Monday in the impeachment inquiry.
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Watchdog report: FBI’s Russia probe justified, no bias found
The findings undercut President Donald Trump’s claim that he was the target of a “witch hunt.”
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Supreme Court leaves Kentucky ultrasound law in place
The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a Kentucky law requiring doctors to perform ultrasounds and show fetal images to patients before abortions.
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