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Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly Robin Vos speaks during a press conference after Gov. Tony Evers delivered his state budget address at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wis., on Feb. 15, 2023. After years of opposition to any form of marijuana legalization in Wisconsin, Republican lawmakers are now working privately to build support for a medical marijuana program that could win bipartisan backing and be enacted into law later this year. (Samantha Madar/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)

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Wisconsin GOP lawmakers working on medical pot legalization
By SCOTT BAUER - Associated Press
Thu,04/20/23-9:47AM , 125 Reads
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This image provided by Mattel, Inc., Tuesday, April 25, 2023, shows its first Barbie doll representing a person with Down syndrome. Mattel collaborated with the National Down Syndrome Society to create the Barbie and "ensure the doll accurately represents a person with Down syndrome," the company said. (Mattel, Inc. via AP)

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Mattel introduces first Barbie with Down syndrome
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS - Associated Press
Tue,04/25/23-4:48PM , 125 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Toy company Mattel revealed its first Barbie doll representing a person with Down syndrome on Tuesday.

Mattel collaborated with the National Down Syndrome Society to create the Barbie and “ensure the doll accurately represents a person with Down syndrome,” the company said.
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People are silhouetted against the sky as the sun sets Wednesday, May 11, 2022, in Kansas City, Mo. According to a report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday, April 27, 2023, the first years of the pandemic saw a huge decline in high school students having sex. Teen sex was already becoming less and less common before COVID-19. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

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Pandemic sent high school sex to new low, survey finds
By MIKE STOBBE - AP Medical Writer
Thu,04/27/23-12:08PM , 125 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — The first years of the pandemic saw a huge decline in high school students having sex, according to a government survey.

Teen sex was already becoming less and less common before COVID-19.
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This image provided by Hope Edelman, shows a motherless group being led by Edelman and Claire Bidwell Smith. There are many kinds of support today for children who have lost their parents. (Hope Edelman via AP)

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Daughters without moms find support in each other's grief
By TRACEE M. HERBAUGH - Associated Press
Wed,05/10/23-10:35AM , 125 Reads
When my mother died suddenly 30 years ago, I was 13. I'd spend the next 20 years attempting to understand what it means not to have a mother.

And I did this basically alone.
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