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How would these bills change the state of gun control in the United States? And how much of a change do they actually have of passing? Here’s what you need to know. What would these bills actually do? The Bipartisan Background Checks Act seeks to extend the background checks currently required under the Brady Bill for all sales from a licensed dealer to almost all gun transfers. Instead of simply being able to sell a firearm to a friend or someone who replied to a classified ad, private citizens would be required to find a licensed firearms dealer to take control of the firearm while the background check is being conducted....

“Believe me, I never wanted to have to choose between tennis and a family. I don’t think it’s fair,” Serena said in an as-told-to essay for Vogue. “If I were a guy, I wouldn’t be writing this because I’d be out there playing and winning while my wife was doing the physical labor of expanding our family.” Serena has a 5-year-old daughter, Olympia, with her husband Alexis Ohanian, and her decision to “evolve” away from tennis centers around her daughter and her desire to have more kids....

So, you have your first “boyfriend,” and I can already feel you cringing that I put that in quotes. I think it’s great. Really. I promise I won’t scare him or embarrass you when you introduce us…that much. Though I am staring at the baby picture of you I keep on my desk as I write this, I recognize this as one of many steps you’ll take in your teen years as you cross that wobbly, swaying, terrifying rope bridge from childhood to adulthood....

The gin and tonic is also a wonderfully dynamic cocktail that begs for experimentation. In addition to varying the type of gin you use (“Tonic is a strongly-flavored enough mixer that you can get away with using even the weirdest, most innovative modern gins,” world-renowned spirits expert David Wondrich told us), you can also vary the type of tonic (we love the high-quality options from the Fever Tree or the Q Mixers brand) and garnish (peppercorns, herbs, cucumber, and even the seemingly sacrilegious lemon wedge are all fair game)....

According to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, one of the best ways to help your kid avoid childhood obesity is to encourage them to be active for at least 60 minutes per day. By creating a daily workout that involves your little ones, you can teach them that staying active is important while also helping you shed that extra weight since your bundle of joy came along. “There are tons of ways to exercise with your kids at home or outside the home....

“There’s no one size fits all model in terms of diet’s effect on testosterone,” says Jake Fantus, M.D., a clinical assistant professor in andrology at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine. When it comes to testosterone levels, the body really only has two ranges: enough, and not enough. For healthy, younger cis men with normal levels of testosterone (ranging between 300 and 1,000 nanograms per deciliter of blood), there’s little evidence that diet affects testosterone in any meaningful way....

In 2020, Disney announced its plans to revamp the signature Splash Mountain ride. Vowing to remove the racism that stems from the movie the ride was based on, the overhaul will include a new storyline following Tiana from Princess And The Frog. While there haven’t been a lot of details released about how the makeover is going, there’s a tentative reopening date reportedly for 2024. “They are making a ride—it’ll be out in 2024,” Anika Noni Rose, who voices Princess Tiana in the animated movie shared on Live With Kelly And Ryan....

1. The Florida Keys Prefer not to pull out your passport? Play it safe and beeline it to the southernmost stretch of the continental United States. In Key West — along with any of the other Florida Keys you pass through on your way to the end of the chain — an early spring day is normally in the mid-70s. Land at the international airport in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, or even West Palm Beach and rent a car to break further south still for the 125-mile-long chain of islands linked by 42 bridges along the Overseas Highway....

For stay-at-home fathers, the transition to full-time caregiving often requires a fundamental reprioritization of goals. Raised in a culture in which professional success is often used as a proxy for personal worth, stay-at-home dads, confident as they may be, are still flouting gender norms. And that takes some fortitude. It also takes communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a partner. Talk to stay-at-home dads and you will hear one common refrain: It changed my marriage....

Sure, some of the expenditures associated with children are naturally covered by inevitable adult spending on rent or mortgages and utilities. And there are some economies of scale after that. Parents don’t need to upgrade everything when they give birth — a toaster is a toaster is a toaster — and while kids do require additional food, that need increases so gradually that the additional cost is relatively negligible. So there’s some savings to be had....

The research team took a county-by-county and town-by-town approach in analyzing air quality and disease data in Massachusetts, and their results were startling. Air pollution was responsible for almost 3,000 total deaths and measurable cognitive loss and chronic disease in children in 2019. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standard for particulate air pollution is 12 micrograms per cubic meter of air. In comparison, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) acceptable standard is considerably lower at five micrograms per cubic meter....

The new study includes 2,990 children from low-income families in Tennessee who applied to the state-supported pre-K program, but didn’t make it in because there weren’t enough spots. Some of the children were then randomly selected to get into a preschool, and the others were kept on the waitlist. This long-term study followed these kids through sixth grade to see how they turned out. The results weren’t what the researchers were expecting....

After the credits roll on the finale of Loki Season 1 — Episode 6, “For All Time. Always.” — a big red rubber stamp comes out on Loki’s TVA file which simply states: “Loki Will Return in Season 2.” Prior to this, neither WandaVision nor The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was given second seasons, partially because the Marvel powers-that-be made it seem like that was never the plan. Wanda is going to hang out in Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness, while our new Captain America, Sam Wilson, will likely get his own new Cap movie, or appear in a future Avengers flick....

In Policygenius’ first annual Parents & Money: Financial wellness among American families white paper, the online insurance marketplace evaluates the financial wellness of parents of varying age, gender, and marital status. A whopping 42 percent of those surveyed said they didn’t feel financially prepared before they had children. But even of the 58 percent who said they were, 23 percent said they lacked key financial plans, such as a college savings plan and private life insurance....

According to the Texas A&M Agrilife Extension, the average price of a whole turkey is $1.35 per pound this year, up from $1.14 last year. Butter, an essential ingredient in everything from stuffing to pie, is $3.568 per pound as of September, up from $3.325 last November per the St. Louis Fed. Many of the other items on your Thanksgiving table have seen similar increases. Here’s why. Hurricane Ida shut down sugar refineries in the South....

Chronological age, or how much time a person has lived, is an important factor when it comes to pregnancy — especially for pregnant people, who have a finite number of egg cells. But it doesn’t tell the whole story. “All your friends from high school, they’re the same age, right?” says J. Richard Pilsner, Ph.D., director of Molecular Genetics and Infertility at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and lead author of the study....

When using one of these services, you simply select what you want. Then they go about selecting the best cuts from the best places in the world, flash-freezing them and shipping them post-haste. Just like that smart home system that you were skeptical about but now can’t imagine being without, these services quickly become an indispensable part of your family’s mealtimes. The 10 best meat delivery services let you browse meat (from steaks to seafood) online by cut and source....

14 Baby Boy Names to Avoid…

If you’re a musician, you haven’t gotten anywhere until you’ve figured out how to get to Sesame Street. Here’s a sampling of the very best of the show’s myriad musical guests to play for your kid, brought to you by the number 15. Maya Angelou: “My Name” Whether your kid is named for a movie character, athlete, inventor, or your great aunt Gertie, Dr. Angelou wants them to know: “If you don’t like something, change it....