Texasโ child welfare agency blocked from investigating many more parents of trans teens
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Fridayโs injunction applies to all members of PFLAG, an LGBTQ advocacy group with more than 600 members in Texas.
Experts find early ocher mine in Mexican underwater caves
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About 8,000 years ago, rising sea levels flooded the caves, known as cenotes, around the Caribbean coast resort of Tulum. Had these early inhabitants fallen in, or did they go down intentionally seeking shelter, food or water? At least one reason, Meacham said, was to prospect and mine red ocher. Pelton agreed that among the first inhabitants of the Americas, ocher had an especially powerful attraction. Red ocher mining seems especially important during the first period of human colonization ... you find it on tools, floors, hunt sites, Pelton said.