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Structural engineers say Japan was prepared for this week's earthquakes

Why didn't more buildings fall during the magnitude 7.6 earthquake that struck Japan this week?

Wendy and Robert Jackson have been married for 15 years and now are social distancing at home.

He's Immunocompromised. She's An ER Doctor. They Are Living Together, Apart

Wendy Jackson, a pediatric emergency doctor, is working through the coronavirus crisis. Her husband, Robert, had a kidney transplant four years ago. They keep 6 to 8 feet between themselves at home.

In both urban and rural areas, about 40 percent of women surveyed were currently married to a member of the opposite sex. Only about 30 percent of the rural women of childbearing age had no children, versus roughly 41 percent of urban women.

Rural And City Women A Little Different In Age At First Sex, Number Of Kids

In a recent national survey, nearly 80 percent of women living in rural areas reported having experienced sexual intercourse by age 18, compared with 68.6 percent of women in cities.

Workers with the Living United for Change in Arizona organization canvas a south Phoenix neighborhood in October to advocate for the passage of Proposition 206, which would increase the state's minimum wage. The measure was approved on Tuesday.

4 States Opt To Raise Minimum Wage; 7 Loosen Marijuana Laws

California and Washington passed stricter gun control measures, Nebraska and Oklahoma both passed measures backing the death penalty, and Colorado became the sixth state to legalize assisted suicide.

A nurse fills a syringe with Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday.

J&J Says A Booster Shot For Its Vaccine May Have Big Benefits

Johnson & Johnson said that when it gave study participants a second jab after six months, their antibody levels were nine times higher than they were 28 days after a first dose of the COVID vaccine.

Steve Bannon, once former President Donald Trump's chief strategist, is pictured in August 2018. The Justice Department has charged him with criminal contempt of Congress.

Justice Department charges Steve Bannon with criminal contempt of Congress

Federal prosecutors charged Steve Bannon over his defiance of a subpoena from the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol siege.

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