Pregnant women are increasingly using marijuana for morning sickness, study finds. That’s not good.; Tabloid columnist wrote that a Disneyland-bound Muslim family had al-Qaeda ties. She was dead wrong.; Nearly 50 people dead from alcohol poisoning after drinking bath oil in Siberian city; Jewish leaders in Richard Spencer’s home town targeted in posting on neo-Nazi website; Colorado mother left toddler in freezing, snow-covered car for 7 hours, police say; Applause and anger greet 9-year-old transgender girl on January cover of National Geographic; Feds indict two men in alleged $6 million ‘porno-trolling’ extortion scheme; Miners found a huge 3,100-carat diamond roughly a century ago. A new study reveals how it formed.;
 
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Famed poker pro with ‘remarkable’ $9.6 million scheme has to pay it back, judge rules
His winning spree came from baccarat — a game of chance associated with high rollers and would-be James Bonds.
Pregnant women are increasingly using marijuana for morning sickness, study finds. That’s not good.
The data presents potentially serious medical concerns because of previous studies linking marijuana exposure to problems such as lower birth weight.
 
Tabloid columnist wrote that a Disneyland-bound Muslim family had al-Qaeda ties. She was dead wrong.
Mail Online has retracted her column, apologized and will pay the family about $165,000 in damages.
 
Nearly 50 people dead from alcohol poisoning after drinking bath oil in Siberian city
Authorities have declared a state of emergency.
 
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Jewish leaders in Richard Spencer’s home town targeted in posting on neo-Nazi website
Jewish leaders in Whitefish, Mont., are getting death threats after a call to action put out by a neo-Nazi website, seeking to help support Richard Spencer's parents, who reside in the town and own a business there and who have come under pressure by some in the community.
 
Colorado mother left toddler in freezing, snow-covered car for 7 hours, police say
His mother was arrested on a felony child abuse charge, the Denver Post reported. The 2-year-old boy was treated for "severe" hypothermia and frostbite but is expected to live.
 
Applause and anger greet 9-year-old transgender girl on January cover of National Geographic
Avery is the latest transgender woman — though among the very youngest — to be featured on a magazine cover in recent years.
 
Feds indict two men in alleged $6 million ‘porno-trolling’ extortion scheme
Ex-attorney Paul R. Hansmeier is accused, along with another man he used to share a law practice with, of buying copyrights for pornographic films, uploading the films to file-sharing sites, then suing people who downloaded them.
 
Miners found a huge 3,100-carat diamond roughly a century ago. A new study reveals how it formed.
Supersize diamonds are created hundreds of miles deeper than the typical gem, scientists found.
 
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