Current public perceptions of American Muslims are distinctly unfavorable.
Nearly 1-in-5 Americans would deny Muslim American citizens the right to vote, new report finds →
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What’s killing America’s teens? Inside CDC’s new mortality report →
America is witnessing a troubling increase in deaths among its children and teens, according to a new mortality report from the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The report, which was released Friday, is based on information from death certificates filed in all 50 states and Washington, D.C.
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Read MoreMuslims in America, by the numbers →
Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. In fact, if current trends continue, Muslims will surpass Christians as the world’s largest religious group in the second half of this century, according to the Pew Research Center.
As of 2010, there were an estimated 1.6 billion Muslims around the world, making up the majority of the population in 49 countries.
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Read MoreCan police legally obtain your DNA from 23andMe, Ancestry? →
The DNA you send in the mail through genetics kits and ancestry programs like 23andMe and Ancestry can be used by police in a criminal investigation, but it doesn’t happen very often.
Recently, Joseph James DeAngelo, the man authorities suspect is the so-called Golden State Killer responsible for at least a dozen murders and 50 rapes in the 1970s and 80s, was arrested more than three decades after the last killing.
And according to the Sacramento County district attorney's office, investigators used information from an online genealogical site to determine whether the DNA from one of the crime scenes was a match, the Associated Press reported.
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Read MoreMajor depression diagnoses in US up 33 percent since 2013, study finds →
Over the past five years, diagnoses of major depression in the United States have risen by at least 33 percent.
That’s according to a new report from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, for which analysts assessed the BCBS Health Index built from billions of claims for more than 41 million commercially insured Americans annually.
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Read MoreWhy are Americans so lonely? Massive study finds nearly half of US feels alone, young adults most of all →
Do you experience bouts of loneliness? You’re not alone. In fact, a new nationwide survey from health insurer Cigna found that nearly half the country is in the same boat.
The online survey of 20,000 adults consisted of self-reported responses to a series of 20 statements or questions. Analysts used the well-known UCLA Loneliness Scale to calculate respondents’ loneliness scores, which range from 20 to 80.
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Read MoreBlack infants in US more than twice as likely to die as white infants now, study finds →
Black women are three to four times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women, according to the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
And a new analysis from the New York Times using the most recent government data revealed that black infants today are more than twice as likely to die as white infants.
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Read MoreBlack boys fare worse than white boys in 99 percent of America, massive study finds →
New research from the United States Census Bureau, Stanford University and Harvard University reveals that even if black boys come from wealthy families, they’re still more likely than their white counterparts to live in poverty as adults.
In fact, even when both groups grow up in the same neighborhoods, black boys fare worse than white boys in 99 percent of America. And the disparity is even greater in neighborhoods promising low poverty and good schools, researchers said.
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Read MoreA 7-year-old Pakistani girl was raped and killed — and the country is demanding #JusticeForZainab →
Protesters in the Pakistani city of Kasur took to the streets for the third day Friday over the rape and murder of 7-year-old Zainab Amin, whose body was uncovered on a pile of garbage this week, days after she was reported missing.
According to an autopsy report, Zainab was sodomized and strangled to death. Dr. Quratulain Atique, who did the autopsy, told CNN that there were torture marks on her face and her tongue was “crushed between her teeth.”
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Read MoreOpioids now kill more Americans than guns or breast cancer, CDC says →
For the second year in a row, U.S. life expectancy has dropped, a trend largely attributed to the surge in fatal opioid overdoses, federal health officials reported Thursday.
More than 63,000 Americans died of drug overdose in 2016 — and 42,249 of those deaths involved opioids, according to a new analysis from the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Read MoreFrom Weinstein to Lauer: A timeline of 2017's sexual harassment scandals →
In October, the New York Times published allegations of sexual harassment and assault against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
And since then, multiple high-profile men in media, politics and other industries have faced allegations ranging from inappropriate behavior to forced sexual misconduct to rape.
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Read MoreWhy are more black women dying of breast cancer compared to white women? →
According to Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black women under 60 years old are more likely to die from breast cancer than white women in the same age group. In fact, data from 2015 showed black women had a 39 percent higher breast cancer death rate.
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Read MoreMore than 146,000 deaths could be avoided each year — here are the 5 leading causes of preventable death →
In 2016, more than 146,000 people in the U.S. died from preventable causes, such as car accidents, drug overdoses among several others. And according to a new report from the National Safety Council, states just aren’t doing enough to protect their residents or to improve safety on the roads, in the community and home or in the workplace.
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Read MoreU.S. Alzheimer’s deaths up 55 percent, CDC says →
An estimated 5.4 million Americans are affected by Alzheimer’s disease, making it the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S.
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Read MoreDo dads treat daughters better than sons? Emory study finds striking differences in treatment of children →
New research from Emory University scientists finds that fathers may play favorites when it comes to their children.
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Read MoreMore older Americans are embracing a new relationship trend called ‘living apart together’ →
Over the past three decades, the divorce rate among adults 50 years and older has doubled.
But a new trend called “living apart together” (LAT) is gaining popularity and helping adults form new partnerships later in life, according to research from the University of Missouri.
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Read MoreHow dangerous are energy drinks, really? Study finds link to serious heart problems →
With more than 500 products on the market, more and more people are purchasing energy drinks to combat daytime sleepiness or increase performance.
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Read MoreCan this plastic-eating bug save our planet? →
Of the 300 million tons of plastic produced globally each year, only 10 percent is recycled, according to the World Watch Institute.
A chunk of the rest ends up polluting landfills and oceans, ultimately blighting communities and damaging marine ecosystems.
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Read MoreAtlantans react to nonstop road, highway nightmares: 'Our city is crumbling’ →
“Welcome to Atlanta where the playas play and the highways collapse like every day.”
That’s just one way Atlantans have been describing their home city following a series of seriously unfortunate infrastructure fails.