LOS ANGELES — Early one recent morning, Brandon Robinson decided to cross a dead-end street in downtown Los Angeles. It seemed safe enough, although the red figure on the pedestrian sign was illuminated. The neighborhood was quiet, and there was almost no car traffic. Still, it was something of a risk. For nearly a century,…
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Can I get a Real ID regardless of where I live? Real ID-compliant licenses and identification cards are now being issued in all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia and the majority of U.S. territories. American Samoa is not yet issuing them. What do I need to get a Real ID? Each…
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CVS and Walgreens, two of the nation’s largest retail pharmacy chains, said on Wednesday that they had reached tentative agreements to pay about $5 billion each to settle thousands of lawsuits over their role in the opioid crisis, a development that could signal the beginning of the end of years of opioid litigation. Since 2013,…
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Thanksgiving, for a lot of us, means a glistening table practically buckling under the weight of the food: a burnished bird, overflowing side dishes, every kind of pie and several bottles of wine. But with food costs soaring and continued supply chain issues, this year’s feast might look a little different. How do you create…
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The Federal Election Commission, which oversees campaign finance law including political advertising, does not have specific regulations for influencers, meaning they are not subject to the same rules as traditional advertisements like TV and radio ads, which mandate disclosure of who paid for the content. Political action committees must report how they spend their money,…
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Amy Pittman was thrilled about her first pregnancy. She immediately downloaded a pregnancy app, and she was charmed when it showed her baby had grown from the size of a lavender bud to the size of a chocolate chip. When she miscarried, she deleted the app and the chocolate chip avatar, but the internet never…
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Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Growing up in Brazil during an era when supermodels felt like the country’s major export, Karoline Vitto didn’t exactly see herself represented on the runway. The favored body type of the time was, as she describes it, “this hourglass figure, where…
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Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Growing up in Brazil during an era when supermodels felt like the country’s major export, Karoline Vitto didn’t exactly see herself represented on the runway. The favored body type of the time was, as she describes it, “this hourglass figure, where…
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To celebrate how Laguna Beach influenced fashion trends back in the ’00s, we’ve gathered a roundup the most iconic outfits from the show that you probably forgot about. This list mostly focuses on Seasons 1 and 2, since most fans agree Season 3 just wasn’t the same without Lauren Conrad and Kristin Cavallari. Advertisement –…
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Researchers warned an expert panel of the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday that flawed readings on devices measuring oxygen levels in the blood — especially among Black and dark-skinned patients — might have contributed to deaths during the coronavirus pandemic. Panelists, in turn, urged the federal agency to raise accuracy standards and to alert…
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