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Starting Tuesday, Chicagoans will have to do their vaping outside as a ban on electronic cigarettes in indoor public places takes effect. The new rule, which the City Council passed in January at Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s urging, prohibits people from using e-cigarettes in restaurants, bars and most other indoor public places in the city. The measure also requires retailers to …

Adam Levine is fuming after fellow The Voice judge Blake Shelton tweeted out his phone number during a live broadcast of the hit TV show. He has since vowed his revenge. Shelton had apparently teased Levine and the rest of the judge’s panel on the Voice about some of the tweets he was planning on posting, but Levine did not …

A suspected gunman is dead and six people injured after a shooting at a FedEx facility near the Cobb County Airport on Tuesday morning. Officers received a call about an active shooter shortly before 6 a.m. at 1675 Airport Road in Kennesaw, Georgia. FBI bomb technicians and agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also responded.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt step out for a lovely date night on the town to see Japanese singer Miyavi perform at the Troubadour on Sunday evening (April 27) in Los Angeles.

The high school graduation rate in the US has hit an all-time high: 80 percent. That means four out of five students who started high school successfully graduated in four years. And progress is accelerating, driven by gains from black and Hispanic students since 2006. Still, the national figure, released today for the 2011-12 school year, hides signification variation among …

If you’re a teenage athlete, or the parent of one, you probably live in fear of a torn anterior cruciate ligament, one of the knee’s key stabilizing ligaments. A torn ACL often requires surgical repair. But so-called neuromuscular training programs can cut the risk of a serious ACL injury and should be recommended to at-risk young athletes, especially girls, according …

About one in three U.S. adults say they did not visit the dentist at some point in the past 12 months. The 64.7% in 2013 who said they did visit the dentist at least once in the previous year is essentially unchanged from the rate found in 2008. Women are more likely than men to report visiting the dentist annually.

A new study conducted by researchers at Marcus Autism Center, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine indicates that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are more than four times more likely to experience general gastrointestinal (GI) complaints compared with peers, are more than three times as prone to experience constipation and diarrhea than peers, and complain …

A stranger hacked into a family’s baby monitor and began shouting at their child via its built-in camera, FOX19 has reported. The report states that a hacker had gained access to the camera due to a firmware vulnerability, with the hacker shouting at the baby to “wake up” before the child’s father Adam Schreck entered the room. Adam states that …

A judge declined to issue a protective order against Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Paul Simon and his musician wife, Edie Brickell, following an alleged domestic dispute Saturday night, because the couple said they aren’t a threat to each other.

Researchers have completed a study that may link young girls that have been called “fat” and obesity as they grow older. Over 2000 young girls were part of the study. At age 10, the girls answered the question, “have any of these people told you that you were too fat: father, mother, brother, sister, best girlfriend, boy you like best, …