Experts say when meeting your partner’s family for the first time, put your phone away, offer to help, and try to monitor quirks like loud laughs.
Author: Saleen Martin, USA TODAY
In Colorado election, voters legalize psychedelic mushrooms for medicinal purposes
Voters in Colorado said yes to regulated access to natural medicine for those 21 and up, including plants or fungi that impact mental health.
Florida police mistook the cane in a legally blind man’s pocket for a gun and arrested him
A legally-blind Florida man filed a complaint with the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office after deputies arrested him with a cane in his back pocket.
Frozen pizza for dinner? Grabbing ‘ready to eat’ meals puts you at risk of early death, study finds
Ultra-processed, ready-to-eat foods like hot dogs and frozen pizzas might lead to premature death, according to a new published study.
Out-of-control China rocket booster crashes into Pacific Ocean after hurtling toward Earth
“Over 88 percent of the world’s population lives under the reentry’s potential debris footprint,” wrote Aerospace in an update about the landing.
‘Life imprisonment’: Stealthing bill to criminalize sex trend passes in South Australia
The bill will make it illegal to stealth or remove condoms during sex without consent. According to a 2018 study, the act impacts both women and men.
‘Queen of Tsavo,’ the famous elephant with iconic tusks, dies in Kenya
Dida, a matriarch at Tsavo East National Park in Kenya, lived to be 60 to 65 and died of old age on Oct. 31.
NYC will pay men exonerated in Malcolm X’s killing $36 million, admitting ‘grave injustices’
The city of New York agreed to pay $26 million for the wrongful convictions in Malcolm X’s 1965 assassination. The state will also pay $10 million.
Is your child wearing a puffy coat in the car seat? Experts say you’re doing it wrong.
Experts say to reduce risk of injury, take coats off children before securing them in car seats. Then, put the coats over the children like blankets.
Christmas Eve ‘marsquake’ rocked Red Planet, left massive crater – and exposed chunks of ice
After the “marsquake,” NASA captured footage of a crater, and boulder-sized blocks of ice astronauts can use for drinking water and agriculture.