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The New York City Council has approved Avonte’s Law. With this legislation, the Town Hall will install audible alarms in the city’s public schools. This law was inspired by the disappearance and death of a 14-year-old with non-verbal autism who ran out of his Queens school. The bill,  passed unanimously, will require alarm installation on the exterior doors of city schools catering to students grades pre-K through fifth, and schools with special needs programs. The bill was named after Avonte Oquendo, who walked out of his Long Island City school while class was in session, and went missing in October 2013. His remains were found in January along the East River. At least eight other New York City children went missing from school since then, spurring the introduction of the bill.  Among them was a 4-year-old boy in Brooklyn who wandered away from school and walked home without a coat on a bitterly cold winter day. The ...

Today, in London, July 22th of 2013, thousands of Britons broke into song and dance outside the palace gates. Officials announced that the future king was born at 4:24 p.m., weighing 3.75 kilograms, at central London's St. Mary's Hospital. He was the Prince William and Kate Middleton’s son. The royal tradition keep a terse statement that announced only the time of birth, the infant's gender and that mother and child were doing well. It gave no information about the baby's name. "Her Royal Highness and her child are both doing well and will remain in hospital overnight," it said. William also issued a brief statement, saying "we could not be happier." Kingdom’s press aides had talked about preserving Kate Middleton's "dignity" throughout the pregnancy. The way the birth was handled showed that the palace's impressive stagecraft could give the royals a bubble of privacy even in the age of Twitter and 24-hour news bro...