A Shocking Story from Indonesia In 2010, the world was stunned by the story of two-year-old Ardi Rizal, an Indonesian toddler who had become a chain smoker, lighting up to 40 cigarettes a day after ...

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A hundred toys were given to Hartford area children from a partnership with Hartford HealthCare and the Mattel Children’s Foundation. In all, “Mattel donated 1,000 toys to children and families across ...

In 1966, hundreds of students and teachers at Westall High School witnessed an object descend and hover near their campus.

LOUISVILLE, Ky (WDRB) — One of the unintended consequences of Indiana’s higher cigarette tax is that more smokers are crossing the Ohio River to buy their cigarettes in Kentucky. Lee Peterson lives ...

More than 100 children took a "fantasy flight" to the North Pole, where they met Santa in a trip of a lifetime. Trump bashes late director Rob Reiner, drawing immediate backlash A Massive New Study of ...

Smokers who use cigarettes and vape devices interchangeably might not be doing themselves as much of a disservice as once feared, a new study says. These "dual users" are more likely to eventually ...

Imagine that your child has been kidnapped and taken far away. That child is scared, and you can offer no comfort. You don’t know if your child is being tortured, abused or militarized, but you know ...

The Department of Environment (DoE) has declared all its offices 100% smoke-free to protect non-smokers from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke. From now on, all activities of the department will ...

Christian Solidarity Worldwide, a UK-based human rights organization, has welcomed the release of 100 schoolchildren, who were among 303 children abducted on Nov. 21 from St. Mary’s Catholic Primary ...