There is nothing to prevent sex offenders and others with criminal records from becoming alcohol and drug counselors in California, even though such roles give them direct contact with people, including teens, at their most vulnerable.
Schools are working to curb the sale of junk food and tighten their nutritional standards. But those health efforts are undermined when students can leave campus at lunch to eat whatever they want.
The Center for Investigative Reporting has launched a new application programming interface for the data we’ve gathered on the Department of Veterans Affairs' benefits claims backlog. We would love to see developers and data analysts explore new ways to visualize and localize the information.
Dance therapy, known as “bailoterapia,” is taking hold as a force for women’s health, an affordable alternative to fitness clubs with fancy treadmills.
While recently embedded with U.S. Marines assigned to train Afghan soldiers and police in Afghanistan, filmmaker Ben Anderson found the country ill-prepared to take over its own security.
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