Starting this week (Armed Forces Day), the National Park Service and BLM (Bureau of Land Management) will start issuing free annual passes (which normally costs $80) for military families.
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Once a year, About 800 doctors and medical workers donate their time for a once-a-year free health clinic organized by the non-profit CareNow.
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Keenia Williams, a 22 years old woman from San Francisco, was driving her kid to school when she witness the crash on the 101, she stopped her car and dragged the driver away from a fire which started near him.
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A dozen of college campuses across the U.S. and Canada, including Cornell and Stanford, will no longer supply disposable plastic water bottles, instead there will be some “hydration stations”, where students and faculty can refill their own bottles.
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August of this year is the first month since the US-led invasion in 2003 that no US soldiers were killed in Iraq. The data is displayed by icasualties.org, which tracks US fatalities in Iraq every month.
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McDonald’s is planning to on Tuesday that it will begin serving a healthier happy meal, including a fruit or vegetable with every Happy Meal sold in the U.S.
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Many USA cities are suffering heat waves during this summer and a lot of the cities from Lansing, Mich., to Boston are sending out street patrols with cold containers with water and opening cooling centers to make sure homeless residents are cared for during the heat wave.
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President Barack Obama is ending on Sep 20. the ban on homosexuals serving openly in the military. This will end a 17 year old policy of “dont ask, dont tell” .
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Since the year of 2007, and due to an increase of 65% in screening at the USA, death rates from colorectal cancer decreased in 49 states (Only Mississippi had no change in its death rate) and Washington, D.C., with the largest declines in states with the most screening.
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25 lions (13 males and 12 females) rescued from Bolivian circuses and were brought to a wildlife sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado (35 miles northeast of Denver).
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