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Published by AFP New York (AFP) – New York’s first legal recreational marijuana dispensary opened on Thursday in the heart of Manhattan. More than 100 people crowded into the dispensary in New York City’s East Village, run by the nonprofit Housing Works, a group dedicated to fighting homelessness and AIDS. “The first legal adult-use cannabis […]

Published by BOOM Live By BOOM Team Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother, Heeraben Modi passed away on Friday, aged 99. Heeraben Modi was admitted to a hospital in Ahmedabad on Wednesday after she fell ill. “A glorious century rests at the feet of God… In Maa, I have always felt that trinity, which contains the

Published by OK Magazine Though former President Donald Trump may have riled rioters ahead of the January 6 Capitol Attack, advising protesters to “fight like hell,” a judge recently ruled the insurrectionists who stormed the U.S. government building in 2021 are still legally responsible for their actions as they likely knew they were breaking the

Published by PsyPost New research published in the Journal of International Women’s Studies provides evidence that there are significant differences in the manifestation of post-traumatic stress disorder among combat veterans and sexual assault victims. The authors of the new paper argue that more research is needed to specifically examine PTSD among sexual assault victims. Common

Published by OK Magazine Though Donald Trump left the White House a few years ago, he’s still thinking about his time there. On Tuesday, December 27, the 76-year-old posted an opinion piece on Truth Social, which argued that his wife, Melania Trump, 52, did a better job at decorating the White House for Christmas than

Published by AFP Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – A fresh barrage of Russian missile strikes battered Ukraine on Thursday, wounding at least five people including a teenager and cutting electricity in the west. On Thursday morning, blasts were reported across the vast country including in the Ukrainian capital, the second city Kharkiv in the east and

Published by OK Magazine This year, Prince Harry spent the holidays cozied up with Meghan Markle in California, but according to an account in Tina Brown’s The Palace Papers, the Duke of Sussex caused quite a stir during one of the Christmases he spent with ex-girlfriend Cressida Bonas. According to an insider, the former couple

Published by uPolitics.com Retired Pope Benedict is “very sick,” according to Pope Francis, but remains stable. Pope Francis asked for prayers for the 95-year-old former pope at the Vatican on Wednesday. “I want to ask you all for a special prayer for Pope Emeritus Benedict who sustains the Church in his silence. He is very

Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – The world is getting warmer, winters included. The United States, however, has experienced severe winter storms in recent years, and experts are taking a closer look at the link between these extreme cold events and climate change. While the link between global warming and heat waves is very direct,