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Michelle Duggar — best known for birthing 19 children and going on to star on TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting — recently recorded a robocall that recycles transphobic myths in an attempt to drum up opposition to a nondiscrimination ordinance being considered in Fayetteville, Ark.

Consumer Reports is issuing a warning to pregnant women about eating certain kinds of fish. According to researchers, many popular types of fish contain high levels of mercury, which can be dangerous to a fetus or infant.

New research shows that administering the Salk inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) to people who have previously been immunized with the Sabin live-attenuated oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) can boost their immunity against the poliovirus.

An Oklahoma City police officer has been arrested and accused of sexual battery and rape. Daniel Ken Holtzclaw was arrested around 3 p.m. on Thursday after a judge approved a probable cause arrest warrant.

Santa Barbara county health officials have issued an arrest warrant for a 24 year old man who has tuberculosis but stopped taking his prescription. The officials have declared that the man poses a community health hazard.

Authorities located the body of a Russian student who went missing several days ago at Grand Teton National Park at around 1:30 P.M. on Friday.

A former teacher at a Montana Catholic school who was fired for being pregnant and unmarried is suing the school district.

A Chicago purse snatcher’s selfie earned him a jailhouse mug shot, authorities said.

Leatha Kaye Slauson, 30, of Atlantic Iowa is facing charges linked to an allegation that she solicited money and widespread attention by claiming her 5-year-old daughter had terminal cancer. The child is not sick

A central Florida man has been charged with murder in the death of his baby daughter, who authorities say was left in the man’s truck for at least four hours.

A former rapper fighting with the Islamic State (Isis) in Syria is believed to be one of several British jihadists under investigation following the beheading of James Foley.