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No, where are you REALLY from?
What can seem like a harmless question can actually be hurtful. 2,000 people across social media shared their #WhereImReallyFrom experiences in this entirely audience-sourced story.
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Teen narrowly escapes death after smoking synthetic marijuana
Emily Bauer was a normal 16-year-old "full of light and laughter" until her family said she had serious side effects from smoking synthetic marijuana, which landed her on life support.
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Flint family uses 151 bottles of water per day
How many bottles of water does it take this family of three to live just one day in Flint, Michigan? I tallied the number of bottles the Luster family used at the height of the water crisis and sorted how each bottle was used into categories.
Features
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She says a pilot raped her, and now she's afraid of running into him at an airport
It took 4 years, 3 miscarriages and 1,616 shots to make this baby
Off the News
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A woman journeys back to her wrecked home after Michael. This is her chronicle
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Women have abortions for many reasons aside from rape and incest. Here are some of them
With long lines at a Popeyes, a teen and others encouraged people to register to vote
Science
A huge, strange-looking fish washed up on a California beach. Scientists say it's a first
A physicist is writing one Wikipedia entry a day to recognize women in science
Kentucky is using 'shocking' boats to show just how bad its Asian carp problem is