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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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  • USKTLA articles

    Hospital looking to identify woman found at downtown L.A. apartment complex

    Los Angeles General Medical Center is again asking the public’s help to identify a patient. The Boyle Heights hospital is currently treating a woman who was found unresponsive at an apartment complex in downtown Los Angeles. The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services says the woman is believed to be between 40 and 50 […]

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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

    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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  • USNY Post

    I’m super pregnant and working at a maximum security men’s prison — it’s depressing

    She's knocked up, they're locked up. And she says even the most brief interactions with the convicts had become “just uncomfortable.”

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  • OpinionCNN

    Opinion: I survived the Holocaust. What I see happening in Berkeley is frightening

    Holocaust survivor Susanne DeWitt reflects on the spike in antisemitism in Berkeley, California — her home of over six decades, and now, a place where Jewish hate has gone unchallenged in public forums, public schools and businesses.

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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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