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Health & Safety

Florida becomes second state to ban fluoride in public water

6:54am May 16, 2025

by Tristan Wood

Florida has become the second state in the country — after Utah — to ban fluoridation of public water systems.

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Sweden's Really Old Eel Dies

The 155-year-old eel died at home, in a well in the small fishing village where he'd been living since 1859.

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Exotic Dancers Protest Outside Church

For years, a local church held protests outside a club in central Ohio where the dancers worked. On Sunday, six dancers, dressed for work, showed up to demonstrate outside the church.

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Items Up For Sale At Unclaimed Baggage Center Reflect Trends

by Emily Ochsenschlager

It has been called the lost luggage capital of the world. Bags and suitcases that can't be reunited with their owners end up in northern Alabama at the Unclaimed Baggage Center.

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Obama Goes To Martha's Vineyard But Issues Don't Take A Vacation

by Cokie Roberts

President Obama and his family are enjoying what the White House is describing as a working vacation on Martha's Vineyard as American airstrikes continue to hit selected Iraqi targets.

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World News

Kurdish Forces Reclaim 2 Iraqi Cities Taken By Sunni Extremists

For the latest news out of Iraq, Steve Inskeep talks to Washington Post reporter Loveday Morris and Wladimir van Wilgenburg, a correspondent for the news website Al-Monitor.

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Tourists Pay To Be Locked Up In Budapest's Cellars

Many escape-room games have sprung up in the Hungarian capital recently. The tourists playing the game have to find their way out by solving a series of mysterious clues.

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BuzzFeed Receives $50 Million Investment

BuzzFeed is expected to use the funds from a venture capital firm to add a number of new content sections and expand news coverage. Earlier, Disney was interested in purchasing BuzzFeed.

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World News

West Africa's Ebola Outbreak Declared International Emergency

by Nurith Aizenman

On Friday, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak an international public health emergency that requires an extraordinary response.

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World News

Turkey's Presidential Election Not Immune From Neighboring Turmoil

Turks vote Sunday in their first direct presidential election. The vote's backdrop is the advance of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. David Greene talks to Milliyet columnist Asli Aydintasbas.

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World News

Islamic Militants Surge Across Nothern Iraq

David Greene gets the latest on the advance of the Islamic State and the humanitarian crisis in Iraqi Kurdistan from Wladimir van Wilgenburg, a reporter for the website Al-Monitor in Erbil.

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Sports

With 50 Games Left Till Playoffs, Few MLB Teams Out Of Contention

by Tom Goldman

In the dog days of summer, Major League Baseball's regular season has nearly 50 games left. Fans have their eyes on postseason play, and every division has tight races.

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Runaway Toddler Slips Through White House Gate

Secret Service agents scrambled and the White House was put on lock down. A spokesman joked that they do want to interrogate the young man when he learns to talk.

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