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Too much stress can double the risk of infertility in women, scientists have found. Researchers said those who displayed high levels of stress were half as likely to conceive within a year. They suggested that simple relaxation methods such as going for a daily 20-minute walk may increase the chance of becoming pregnant. The links between […]
The only known letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. to civil rights hero Rosa Parks is going up for sale. Page Six reports: In the correspondence dated April 12, 1960, King candidly writes: “I have been intending to answer your very kind letter of March 14 for several days . . . Your very kind words […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The star of the television show “Judge Joe Brown” has been arrested and charged with five counts of contempt of court in Tennessee, court officials in Memphis said Monday. Shelby County Juvenile Court officials said the 66-year-old Brown was sentenced to five days in jail after causing an outburst Monday in […]
HONG KONG (AP) — Investigators are closer to solving an international aviation mystery thanks to a British communications satellite and classroom physics. A masterful analysis of a handful of faint signals sent from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 to an Inmarsat satellite led officials to conclude that the Boeing 777 crashed in a remote part of […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency may be getting out of the business of sweeping up and storing vast amounts of data on people’s phone calls. The Obama administration this week is expected to propose that Congress overhaul the electronic surveillance program by having phone companies hold onto the call records as they do […]
CHICAGO (AP) — An operator of a Chicago public-transit train that jumped the tracks and scaled an escalator at one of nation’s busiest airports Monday may have dozed off, the president of a Chicago transit union said. The woman said she had worked extensive overtime recently and was “extremely tired” at the time of the […]
Did you know that the nation’s very first radio show premiered on August 20, 1920…in Detroit? Listen below as The D.L. Hughley Show’s Jasmine Sanders counts down…
According to KTRK, A mother and her sister are facing charges after a one-year-old child allegedly drank six shots of vodka. Shadreon Sade Jefferson, 17, and Shamara…
ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — The search for survivors of a deadly Washington state mudslide grew Monday to include 108 names of people who were reported missing or were unaccounted for, but authorities cautioned the figure likely would decline dramatically. Still, the size of the list raised concerns the death toll would rise far above the […]
Instead of just talking about it like adults, maybe even discussing the pros and cons of it, a Brooklyn man decided to abort the baby his girlfriend was carrying, by slipping abortion pills to her as they had sex in a Crown Heights apartment. Due to his actions, the woman delivered a 3-month-old stillborn fetus, […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A long-awaited museum dedicated to the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will open to the public at the World Trade Center site on May 21, officials announced Monday. The opening will follow a May 15 ceremony and a six-day dedication period during which the museum will be open around […]
In the latest addition of “umm, that’s racist,” meet Sen. Frank Ruff of Virginia, a GOP state senator who invoked the racial slur “tar baby” to…
