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  Make Your Facebook Profile More Private in 6 Easy Steps

  TIME - By Victor Luckerson

  Managing Facebook’s labyrinthine privacy settings is an ongoing challenge, not least because the options available to users are constantly changing. The social network has given people increasingly granular control over where their posts are shown and what pieces of personal data are used to serve …

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  Middle Easterners descend on this idyllic Alpine town to escape the scorching summer heat

  Insider Business - Hollis Johnson

  When the temperatures on the Persian Gulf reach into the hundreds, there is one spot locals prefer to escape the heat — and it's not the beach. The sparkling lake of Zell am See in Austria has become an increasingly popular tourist destination for those seeking to avoid the scorching weather in the …

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  Kansas bill to limit welfare recipients' leisure spending criticised

  Guardian US - US News

  If governor Sam Brownback signs a new social services bill this week, Kansas will have some of the US’s most severe measures to block welfare recipients from spending the state funds at swimming pools, nail salons and movie theaters. The core of the bill turns already existing administration …

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  Apr 7, 2015
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  Kansas Becomes First State To Ban Common Form Of Abortion

  huffingtonpost.com - Samantha Lachman

  Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) signed a bill Tuesday that made his state the first to ban a procedure used for most second-trimester abortions. The …

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  Flood of Immigrant Families at Border Revives Dormant Detention Program

  NBC News - Hannah Rappleye, Lisa Riordan Seville

  Two ICE detention centers opening as new data shows family arrivals at border grew five times as fast as unaccompanied minors last year. A flood of families crossing the southwestern U.S. border illegally is prompting the Obama administration to revive a much-criticized detention program that …