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1969 was a year of groundbreaking change in the United States: not only was it the year of the moon landing and Woodstock, but it was also the year of the Stonewall riots and anti-war protests, a time when young people looked around and saw the sorry state of world …

An over-the-counter supplement called kratom has been linked to nearly 91 overdose deaths between 2016 and 2017, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). But many kratom advocates and those who have benefited from the supplement are questioning the report, arguing that the study is …

Way back when in 2016, the majority of Florida voters (more than 70 percent) said yes to a constitutional amendment that would make medical marijuana legal. But when then-Gov. Rick Scott — he of brutal dictatorial regime-supporting fame — signed it into law in 2017, he curbed the forms of …

If you were selected as a juror for one of the most high-profile criminal trials of the year, with a defendant who allegedly orchestrated the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, of people, you would think that you would err on the side of caution and follow the judge’s instructions …

The case of Adnan Syed gets a fresh look as it continues to evolve in the trailer for filmmaker Amy Berg’s upcoming HBO docuseries, The Case Against Adnan Syed. Syed was famously the subject of the first season of the podcast Serial in 2016, which examined his conviction for the …

As the legalization of recreational marijuana spreads across the United States, weed enthusiasts in prohibition states who rely on the black market have also enjoyed a premium selection of branded cannabis products, especially a wider variety of cannabis concentrates sold in pre-filled disposable cartridges. Some of the legal industry’s leading …

Astronomers from Harvard University have published a new research letter arguing that a mysterious object spotted in our solar system last year could have been an alien spacecraft. The unusual-looking oblong object was discovered in October 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii and nicknamed ‘Oumuamua, meaning “a messenger …

The Trump administration is poised to revoke the rights and protections guaranteed to some 1.4 million Americans who identify as transgender by redefining the legal definition of gender under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that bans discrimination in education on the basis of gender. This is according to …

Even as the majority of Americans have embraced legalizing marijuana either for medicinal or recreational use, Republican leaders on Capitol Hill have remained staunch opponents of weed. Now led by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, they’ve done everything they can to maintain the nation’s dysfunctional marijuana regulatory system, one that’s pitted …

Michelle Wolf discussed the controversy in the aftermath of her scathing White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech in a new interview where she defended the performance. “I wasn’t expecting this level [of controversy], but I’m also not disappointed there’s this level,” Wolf told NPR’s Fresh Air in an interview that will …