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  • PoliticsYahoo News

    House passes bill that could ban TikTok. Here's what happens next.

    The legislation requires TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell it within 180 days or risk TikTok being banned from U.S. app stores and web hosting services.

    6 min read
  • USYahoo News

    A Michigan school cut a 7-year-old biracial girl's hair, but she won in the end

    Yahoo News spoke to Jurnee Hoffmeyer about hair discrimination — a day before Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed the Crown Act into law, making Michigan the 20th state to ban discrimination based on natural hair texture in the workplace and at school.

    4 min read
  • BusinessYahoo News

    Utah is the 1st state to limit kids’ access to social media. Experts break down FAQs about new law.

    Utah has become the first state to pass legislation seeking to limit teenagers' access to social media sites last week. Republican Gov. Spencer Cox said he signed the two bills in order to protect the state’s youth from the harmful effects of the platforms.

    6 min read
  • NewsJennifer O'Neill

    New Law Gives Parents More Flexibility at Work

    For California parents, the days of having to choose between their jobs and tending to childcare or school-related needs are over. 

  • NewsBeth Greenfield

    ‘Game Changer’ School Is First to Allow Students Right to Medical Marijuana

    A severely autistic teenager has inspired a major law change requiring school districts to allow minors under medical marijuana care to receive those treatments on school property. “We didn’t think it would ever happen,” Lora Barbour, the mother of that teen —16-year-old Genny Barbour of Maple Shade, N.J., pictured above — told CBS Philly this week. “A godsend.” STORY: Parents Sue School Over Daughter’s Right to Medical Marijuana Lora and her husband, Roger, an attorney who represented their c

  • NewsJennifer O'Neill

    Preventing the No. 1 Killer of Teenagers in America: Unsafe Driving

    Yet the reality is that more than 2,600 of young adults aged 15 to 19 years old were involved in fatal accidents in 2013 —and another 130,000 were injured, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).  STORY: The Teen Driver Risk Parents May Not Understand  So in recognition of this week’s National Teen Driver Safety Week, Michelin commissioned a study of more than 1,000 adults about driving and the safety advice they’ve received — and offered — to shed some light on