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Joanne Obrien is a writer and editor who covers politics, health, business, parenting, and finance for Religious Freedom News. When she's not writing about the latest political developments or how to make your own laundry detergent, she enjoys reading fiction and spending time with her family.

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How to Provide a Healthier, Happier Childhood for Your Son

According to Dr. Meg Meeker, boys today grow up in a world that is often at odds with their natural instincts to be curious and to explore. They’re taught to be cooperative and passive, to stay safe and avoid risks. What’s more, parents don’t always recognize how dangerous social media, popular entertainment, and marathon gaming

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Social Security overpayment policy is in effect today. What to know.

Some Social Security recipients could soon find themselves in the crosshairs of a policy that advocates for seniors say could cause financial hardship for many older Americans. Starting today, the Social Security Administration will begin clawing back overpayments from the retirement program by taking 100% of a beneficiary’s monthly check until the money is repaid,

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Trump Turns Homelessness Response Away From Housing, Toward Forced Treatment

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — President Donald Trump is vowing a new approach to getting homeless people off the streets by forcibly moving those living outside into large camps while mandating mental health and addiction treatment — an aggressive departure from the nation’s leading homelessness policy, which for decades has prioritized housing as the most effective way

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With Few Dentists and Fluoride Under Siege, Rural America Risks New Surge of Tooth Decay

Brett Kelman In the wooded highlands of northern Arkansas, where small towns have few dentists, water officials who serve more than 20,000 people have for more than a decade openly defied state law by refusing to add fluoride to the drinking water. For its refusal, the Ozark Mountain Regional Public Water Authority has received hundreds

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