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A lot of people think illegal immigrants are a drain on the...

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By: William A. Nelligan

Katie Couric's "the perky one?" Steve Schmidt's "rotund?" I'm 17 years old and high school isn't much of a distant memory...

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By: Denise Tejada

On October 24th a 15-year-old student from Richmond High School in Richmond, California was gang raped, brutally beaten, and robbed after a homecoming dance. According to Richmond police the victim was...

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By: Reginald Dwayne Betts

Monday the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases concerning juvenile incarceration. The ruling could determine if it should be unconstitutional to sentence juveniles to life without...

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By: Ashley Stewart

When I graduated from college and began answering job ads, I was under the impression I was pursuing the only viable path--get an entry level job with one of the "big"...

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By: King Anyi Howell

From a young age, women in my family began telling me... "You better not bring home no white girl!" And that was before I even started dating. Little did they...

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By: Nate Hadden

Before she was old enough to legally drink alcohol, Denise Tejada bought a house in the San Francisco Bay Area, one of the most expensive real estate markets in the country....

Originally published as part of Generation Invincible, Youth Radio's series exploring health care issues facing the under-thirty crowd.

By: Molly Adams

"So what do you do?" is a question people ask a lot when you're fresh out of college. I'm...

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By: Lauren Silverman

They say to start saving when you're young. After my 21st birthday I took this advice and made a commitment to cut down on spending.

Unfortunately, beginning to save and...

A Youth Radio investigation finds that the U.S. Navy's report on hazing in its Bahrain Canine Unit omitted the suicide of the unit's leading Petty Officer, who feared she had become the scapegoat for widespread abuse.

On January 16, 2007, Petty Officer Jennifer Valdivia was found dead in a small...

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By: Emily Beaver

Youth Radio reached out to young doctors and medical students around the country to get them to weigh in on the health care debate. They talked about how health insurance impacts...

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By: Ali Zafar

Rippling-golden sand dunes and rocky fields surround the sleepy city of Al Kharj, located in the Riyadh province of Saudi Arabia.

Everything shuts down here five times a day when the...

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By: King Anyi Howell

The new California budget includes more than 14 million dollars of cuts to state parks. Although an official list of the parks to be closed won't be available until after...

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By: Rachel Krantz

So I was wondering the other day--(and I'll spare you why)--why it is that humans kiss. I mean really, why is it almost always the first romantic step? Is it just...

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By: Rachel Krantz

In the Persian Gulf, on the island of Bahrain, the U.S. Navy has a special division made up of bomb-sniffing dogs and the sailors who handle them. The Bahrain Military Working...

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By: Brandon McFarland

Chris Brown's first interview since he beat up Rihanna, will air this Wednesday night on Larry King Live. America is eager to hear from the R&B stars mouth exactly three things:...

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By: Rachel Krantz

I've broken up with Facebook officially only once. But we've definitely had a love-hate relationship from the beginning--at first I refused to join up, then I surrendered, only to become...

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By: Orlando Campbell

Michael A. Aczon is a San Francisco Bay Area based entertainment lawyer, and manager with over twenty-five years of experience in the entertainment industry. I interviewed Aczon, who has worked with...

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By: Arash Afghahi

Growing up, I didn't feel a strong connection to Iran. I wasn't born there and I've only visited once in my life.

As a kid, I remember tuning my dad out...

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By: Asha Richardson

Students going to college in the fall are starting to reach out to future dormmates. And that means creating some new traditions.

Amanda Thompson found out she got into...