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Battle Over Pesticide Pits Demand For Proof Against Precautions For Health

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Claudia Angulo and her four children live in Orange Cove, California, a corner of Fresno County known for its citrus. She says when planes fly over the orange grove next to their apartment building and spray pesticides on the trees, she and her family experience headaches , exhaustion and difficulty breathing. But Angulo is concerned about an even more serious health problem in her 11-year-old son Isaac. When she was pregnant with him, she worked at a packing house, handling freshly picked citrus . After Isaac was born, Angulo says she noticed his development seemed slow and strange. “I saw that he didn’t play the same as other kids,” she says. “He didn’t learn the same.” She says his behavior was aggressive and antisocial. And she tells a story about the time he even threatened suicide — when he was only four years old. When he was five, a doctor diagnosed with him ADHD. Angulo says several other pregnant women she worked with at the packing house also had children who developed behav...

What it’s like to stay at President Trump’s boyhood home in Queens, New York – now an Airbnb rental

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By the dawn’s early light, I searched the kitchen of Donald Trump’s childhood home in Queens for a coffee mug. There were none to be found, so I drank my coffee from a President Donald J. Trump Childhood Home insignia water glass and fixed myself a bowl of Wheaties from one of the five boxes on the counter. It had been a restless night. I had fallen asleep in the bedroom where, according to a plaque on the wall, “ President Donald J. Trump was likely conceived.” I awoke Sunday in the darkness feeling as if I’d been chasing a ghost. President Donald Trump in his childhood home in Queens." /> A cardboard cutout of President Donald Trump in his childhood home in Queens. Photo: New York Times. New York City practically abounds in presidential dwellings. There’s the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace in Manhattan, where young Teddie’s red velvet reading chair is on display. There are several unremarkable apartments where Barack Obama lived as a Columbia University undergraduat...

Study: Arsenic poisoning a risk for 50M in Pakistan

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – A South Carolina high school student charged after filming a deputy tossing another student across a classroom is suing the school district and the sheriff’s department. Attorneys for Niya Kenny filed the lawsuit Tuesday accusing the Richland County Sheriff ’s Department and the Richland Two School District of false arrest, defamation and negligent supervision. Kenny was charged with disturbing schools after she tried to intervene in the October 2015 incident. The student tossed from her chair by Deputy Ben Fields also was charged with disturbing schools. Charges against both were dropped, and Fields was fired. State and federal prosecutors have declined to prosecute Fields. Kenny’s lawsuit says she was arrested after she “protested the assault” of the other student and was wrongly expelled. Share this: Related Posts Advertisement