Becky Sullivan
Stories
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Science
Suicide rates fall again — but not for young adults and some people of color
Despite lockdowns, historic job losses and COVID-19, new figures from the CDC show that death by suicide dropped for a second straight year in 2020.
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Food
The strawberry Pop-Tart case is just one of more than 400 lawsuits he has filed
Attorney Spencer Sheehan has sued over not enough strawberries, little or no actual vanilla and how much lime constitutes "a hint of lime" in chips. Companies often pay to make these lawsuits go away.
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National
Prosecutors cannot call those shot by Kyle Rittenhouse 'victims,' a judge has ruled
But the defense may call them "arsonists" or "looters," the judge ruled. The criminal trial of Rittenhouse, the teenager who shot and killed two protesters in Kenosha, Wis., begins next week.
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Race & Identity
A Black museum asks to melt Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue to create new art
In 2017, debate over Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue sparked a violent neo-Nazi rally that left a woman dead. Now, a Black cultural center wants to melt it down and turn it into public art.
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Arts & Life
Alec Baldwin is cooperating with police in the prop gun shooting death on 'Rust' set
Actor Alec Baldwin shot the prop gun that killed a cinematographer during filming of the movie Rust, police said. On Friday, Baldwin expressed "shock and sadness" over the incident.
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Sports
Months after the Olympics, Simone Biles says she's 'still scared to do gymnastics'
Biles shocked the world when she withdrew from events at the Olympics this summer, citing a phenomenon called the "twisties." In an interview Thursday, she says she's still grappling with it.
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Sports
Celtics games have been turned off in China after one player's pro-Tibet tweet
Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter waded into an especially sensitive subject for the NBA with his comments advocating for a free Tibet, as China is by far the league's largest foreign market.
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Science
Researchers pinpoint when the Vikings came to Canada. It was exactly 1,000 years ago
It has long been known that the Vikings arrived in the Americas sometime before Christopher Columbus. Now, a new article in the journal Nature concludes the exact year was 1021.
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National
Prosecutors recommend probation for Breonna Taylor's ex-boyfriend
The police raid that killed Taylor was part of an investigation into Jamarcus Glover's drug dealing. Prosecutors, who once sought 10 years and an implication of Taylor, are now recommending probation.
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Technology
Complaints about spam texts were up 146% last year. Now, the FCC wants to take action
Even as the federal government has cracked down on robocalls, more than 47 billion spam texts have been sent so far in 2021, one company found, costing Americans millions.