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More than one in four high school students in the U.S. use e-cigarettes, as teen vaping rates surged to yet another record despite efforts to control the epidemic, according to new federal data. Among high school students, 27.5% reported using an e-cigarette in the previous 30 days, up from 20.8% in 2018, according to preliminary results from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s annual National Youth Tobacco Survey. Fruit, menthol and mint flavors were by far the most popular flavors, with more than 60% of teens who vaped saying they used them. The rapid rise in teen e-cigarette use...

Grozny, September 4, Interfax - More than one million people attended a rally in Grozny on Monday to protest against the "genocide of Muslims" in Myanmar, the organizers reported. "More than one million people have participated in the rally," the organizing committee told Interfax. "The public event passed without incident," the organizers said. The rally took place under a banner with the slogan "No to genocide of Muslims in Myanmar" on the stage in downtown Grozny. The leaders of the Chechen Republic took part in the rally. As reported earlier, rally participants adopted a decision to petition Russian President Vladimir...