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UN predicts world population to rise to 9.7B in 2050

The new population projections indicate that nine countries will be responsible for more than half the projected population growth between now and 2050.

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New York ends religious exemption to vaccine mandates

New York eliminated the religious exemption to vaccine requirements for schoolchildren Thursday, as the nation’s worst measles outbreak in decades prompts states to reconsider giving parents ways to opt out of immunization rules.

50 years after Stonewall, LGBT rights a work in progress

The June 1969 uprising by young gays, lesbians and transgender people in New York City, clashing with police near the Stonewall Inn, was a vital catalyst in expanding LGBT activism nationwide and abroad.

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