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  • USAssociated Press

    The drug war devastated Black and other minority communities. Is marijuana legalization helping?

    When Washington state opened some of the nation's first legal marijuana stores in 2014, Sam Ward Jr. was on electronic home detention in Spokane, where he had been indicted on federal drug charges. A decade later, Ward, who is Black, recently posed in a blue-and-gold throne used for photo ops at his new cannabis store, Cloud 9 Cannabis.

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  • USLA Times

    Harbor-UCLA doctor is fired after county finds he regularly gawked at patients' genitalia

    Ataff members at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, a public hospital run by the county, told investigators that Dr. Louis Kwong sometimes looked under the surgical covers of anesthetized Black males and discussed the "genitals of the day."

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  • USFortune

    Former HGTV star slapped with $10 million fine and jail time for real estate fraud

    An investor found a property “to be a burnt-down shell with no work done on it.”

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  • USAssociated Press

    Convenience store chain with hundreds of outlets in 6 states hit with discrimination lawsuit

    The Sheetz convenience store chain has been hit with a lawsuit by federal officials who allege the company discriminated against minority job applicants. Sheetz Inc., which operates more than 700 stores in six states, discriminated against Black, Native American and multiracial job seekers by automatically weeding out applicants whom the company deemed to have failed a criminal background check, according to U.S. officials. President Joe Biden stopped by a Sheetz for snacks this week while cam

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  • HealthNY Post

    Plastic surgeons warn ‘Ozempic face’ has taken over Hollywood

    Surgeons believe that Hollywood is experiencing a spike in the side effect known as "Ozempic Face," which they claim has affected everyone from John Goodman to Sharon Osborne.

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  • WorldINSIDER

    American sniper in Ukraine says his unit prefers Soviet-era rifles because bullets are easier to find and they can take them from the Russians

    An American sniper in Ukraine said his unit prefers AK-74s over Western-provided rifles, partly because they can get ammo they need from the Russians.

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  • USAssociated Press

    Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroom

    One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to check her in. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. Complaints that pregnant women were turned away from U.S. emergency rooms spiked in 2022 after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, federal documents obtained by The Associated Press reveal.

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