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Starbucks' controversial Unicorn Frappuccino may be ruining the days of all the baristas forced to make it, but it's also getting a lot of attention on Twitter and Instagram.

Now, other food brands appear to have gotten jealous, because Hidden Valley is teasing a unicorn product nobody asked for: unicorn ranch dressing.

On Friday, the Hidden Valley Ranch Twitter account posted an animated GIF of a bottle of pink and purple ranch dressing with a unicorn horn, in front of a backdrop covered in fireworks and rainbows.

"When all your friends start dressing up like a unicorn, don't give up on your dreams. #UnicornRanch #UnicornFood," the account posted.

When all your friends start dressing up like a unicorn. Don't give up on your dreams. #UnicornRanch https://t.co/rgPmcPWSeV
- Hidden Valley (@HVRanch) April 21, 2017

People are responding to the idea, but not with enthusiasm.

@HVRanch Literally no one asked for this
- Carol Bale (@CarolBale) April 22, 2017

@HumanoidGustav @HVRanch oh jeez they have unicorn ranch now?
- fegg (@Feggulicious) April 24, 2017

Most of the responses are along the lines of, "No, just no," or "Stop trying to make #UnicornRanch happen" and "Can't we just have normal food?"

But a couple people do seem interested in the idea of rainbow-colored ranch dressing.

At least one Twitter user asked if it was going to be real, and the Hidden Valley Ranch account indicated that it was possible, but extremely unlikely.

"18 million tweets and we'll consider it," Hidden Valley Tweeted back.

18 million tweets is a lot, and so far the post only has less than 300. But one should never underestimate the Internet's ability to hold onto a trend.

If this keeps up, we could all be dipping our carrot sticks into swirled, purple dressing in a month or two.

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Starbucks' controversial Unicorn Frappuccino may be ruining the days of all the baristas forced to make it, but it's also getting a lot of attention on Twitter and Instagram. Now, other food brands appear to have gotten jealous, because Hidden Valley is teasing a unicorn product nobody asked for: unicorn ranch dressing.

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Most of us modern parents worry at some point (maybe daily!) whether we are parenting our kids the right way. At a time when we see countless examples of helicopter parenting and entitled children who can't cope with setbacks, there are plenty of reasons to be asking ourselves if we're firm enough with our kids.

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But a new study in the journal Child Development shows how being too firm, to the point of being harsh -- which includes yelling, hitting and shoving and using other verbal and physical threats as punishment -- could negatively impact our children's ability to succeed in high school and college.

Previous research has showed how hitting children can lead to them to be more aggressive and to suffer from mental health issues such as depression and anxiety, which could ultimately result in learning difficulties.

But Rochelle Hentges, a postdoctoral psychology fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, believes her and her colleagues' study is the first to explore how harsh parenting can impact a child's educational achievement in the long term based on how it affects relationships with peers, sexual behavior and delinquency.

The study involved following more than 1,500 students in a large county in Maryland near Washington over a nine-year period, from seventh grade until three years after the students were expected to graduate high school.

Students were given a questionnaire and were asked whether their parents yelled at them, hit them and/or shoved them to get a sense of how much physical or verbal aggression they experienced. They were also asked about their own relationships with peers, sexual activity and delinquency such as shoplifting.

The children who said in the seventh grade that they experienced harsh parenting were more likely to say in the ninth grade that their peers were more important to them than following their parents' rules or doing homework. These kids were more likely to engage in risky behaviors by the 11th grade, which included more sexual activity for girls and hitting and stealing for boys.

These students were then more likely to drop out of high school or college.

Harsh parenting in the seventh grade was indirectly related to educational achievement three years after high school, the study found.

"If you're in this harsh or unstable environment, you're kind of set up to look for immediate rewards instead of focusing on the long-term outcomes," said Hentges, the lead author of the study. She believes there is an evolutionary response to verbally and physically aggressive parenting.

"The premise of that is like in our ancestral environment, if you had this unstable or high-danger environment, it wouldn't make sense for you to put a lot of time and resources toward something that might be in the future if you're not going to live to see that future."

Harsher parenting also leads children to have less attachment to their parents and come to overly rely on their peers, said Hentges.

"When you have this type of parenting, from a very early age you are basically kind of getting this message that you are not loved, and you're getting this rejection message, so it would make sense to try and find that acceptance elsewhere," she said. "So that's kind of why you go toward these peers and you're trying to get validation from them, and if that means that you're going to engage in behaviors that maybe you wouldn't do normally just to get that validation, then you're going to do that."

Hentges and her colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh factored out other issues such as race, income level, test scores and GPA, parental education levels and how much students valued education to try to home in on the impact of harsh parenting on the student's ultimate educational success or failure.

There are some limitations to the study. The research is based on reports only from students, not teachers or parents, and considered students from one geographic area. Because it's a longitudinal study that followed young people for many years, it was a challenge to track them, especially as they got older. Their data offered limited information in some areas, such as early sexual behavior and how peers interact.

The researchers were focused on middle childhood and adolescence but note that future research might consider at what point harsh parenting and dangerous neighborhoods began to impact educational outcomes.

"Research conducted with younger children will greatly aid in our understanding of this phenomenon," they wrote in the study.

Implications for parents

The study's findings certainly have implications for parents, said Hentges. Trying to eliminate or reduce any verbal or physical aggression would allow kids to grow up in a more supportive environment, which could then reduce their over-reliance on their peers and the chances or engaging in risky behaviors. Even if you can't target the parenting, you can try to take steps to interrupt kids' extreme dependence on peers and risky sexual behavior and delinquency, which can impact overall educational achievement, she said.

What's also key for parents and educators is recognizing why kids are doing what they are doing to try to stop it. If you understand that they might be reacting based on an evolutionary theory -- that when faced with a high-danger situation, they are going to focus on short-term gains as opposed to long-term outcomes -- strategies should follow suit.

For students with warm supportive parents, telling them that education is critical to their long-term success will likely motivate them, but that message might not work for students who are struggling in their day-to-day lives, she said. Making school more rewarding and fulfilling in the short-term for these students, such as through peer-to-peer learning and hands-on projects and experiences, might be more effective.

"If you can make education rewarding in the short term and in the immediate, that might actually promote higher engagement, which would relate to higher educational attainment in terms of getting a high school degree and going to college," she said.

Hentges' study didn't look at whether the parents who were more likely to yell, hit or shove their kids experienced that same kind of parenting when they were young. Other research does show that parents, even those who pledge to parent differently from the way they grew up, tend to repeat what they know.

What parents need to realize, no matter how they were raised, is that being too tough could have negative consequences, she said.

"For people who say that we're not strict enough, I think that it's very important to recognize there's a difference between being harsh and being firm," Hentges said. "Rules are great, but they need to followed up with in a warm and supportive environment. ... Permissive parenting where there are no rules is bad as well."

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Betsy DeVos was confirmed by Mike Pence

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Betsy Devoss is the new leader of the department of education.

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Now, with Betsy DeVos confirmed as education secretary, observers are waiting to see how her advocacy for school choice will translate into national policy, including her support for charter schools.

Despite steady growth over the years, charter schools remain controversial. Here's a look at the charter school landscape the new administration has inherited.

What are charter schools?

What little President Trump has said about his education plan includes a proposal to funnel billions into "school choice" programs, including charter schools.

In her home state of Michigan, DeVos is a forceful proponent of charter schools. She and her husband have lobbied for them and other nontraditional alternatives.

Charter schools are publicly funded and independently run, in some cases operated by for-profit companies. Sometimes, that means they don't have to follow the district's rules, even though they may receive funding from them. They often don't hire unionized teachers -- a distinction that has put them at odds with teacher unions.

Advocates say that freedom lets charter schools sidestep policies that lock troubled schools into a cycle of failure, and allows for a more flexible, innovative curriculum. Critics say they lack proper oversight and accountability.

As far as DeVos is concerned, charters are "an extension of public education," not "anti-public education," said Matt Frendewey, national communication director for the American Federation for Children, the school choice advocacy group DeVos co-founded. She resigned as chairwoman in November.

Critics, however, say the promised outcomes don't always live up to the hype. Charter school administrators have too much unchecked power, they argue, while money is siphoned from the poorest school districts to benefit charters at the expense of the area's other public schools, where the majority of children remain.

Some studies determined that charter schools are not necessarily better, as a rule.

"We believe that the chance for the success of a child should not depend on winning a charter lottery, being accepted by a private school, or living in the right ZIP code," said Lily Eskelsen García, president of the National Education Association, the largest teacher's union, in a statement after DeVos was nominated in November.

Charter schools answer to the local bodies that oversee them, known as authorizers. In some states, it's the local school district; in others, it's an independent organization created by state law.

DeVos has faced criticism in Detroit over the lackluster performance of charter schools she championed in Michigan.

A Detroit Free Press investigation, for example, found that charter school students in Michigan tended to score lower on achievement tests than students at more traditional schools. DeVos has been accused of pushing charter schools there despite their poor performance and lack of accountability.

"When I hear her name and I think about education, I think about choice without quality," Tonya Allen, president and CEO of the Skillman Foundation, part of a coalition to fix Detroit schools, previously told CNN.

The AFC disputes the methodology of the Detroit Free Press investigation, Frendewey said. While the situation in Detroit isn't perfect, he called it misleading to pin all its failures on DeVos for trying to provide "hope and options" for families who can't buy school on their own.

"Her record is one of building and challenging the education establishment and producing results for parents and students," he said.

How widespread are charter schools?

Both Democrats and Republicans, in Congress and the White House, have backed charter schools, fueling their explosive growth.

There were about 6,500 charter schools nationwide as of 2014, though not all states have fully embraced the concept. The overall result is a big disparity among states: Some have seen a flood of new charter schools, while others have barely seen a trickle.

States such as Arizona and Colorado instituted charter-friendly regulations that helped fuel their growth, while other states have much stricter rules: Iowa, where local school boards maintain control, has only a small number of approved charter schools. Currently, 43 states and Washington, D.C., have charter school laws.

Congress set up funding during the Clinton administration to aid in charter school development, and Arizona and Colorado also make use of those funds, as do other states like California.

Why charter schools caught on

Despite their controversial nature, charter schools have become wildly popular; some studies have concluded that charter schools outperform other public schools on average. Some have long waiting lists and selections are often made by lottery, with parents in failing school districts pinning hope for their children on whether they receive a charter slot.

The model has flourished because it taps into two fundamental American ideals: innovation and fairness, said educator Joe Nathan, who helped write the first charter law for Minnesota in 1992.

"Americans deeply believe this is one of our fundamental strengths, the opportunity to carry out new, innovative ideas to better society -- so long as they're responsible for the results and there's a limit to those freedoms," said Nathan, who advises districts and lawmakers on charters and other policy matters as director of Center for School Change.

Therein lies the controversy over charter schools. So what is the state of charter schools, how have they grown, and what could an infusion of $20 billion potentially translate to? Let's take a look:

Who attends charter schools?

Charter schools are more prevalent in urban neighborhoods. As a result, they have more minority students and a higher percentage of students living in poverty compared to their traditional counterparts. Nationally, 17% of students in traditional schools were African-American in 2014, compared to 27% in charter schools.

Children in these neighborhoods often have little choice in schools because of the cost of private school. Charter schools may give them their only alternative. Civil rights leader Rosa Parks famously led efforts to bring charters to inner-city Detroit as one of her last major initiatives before her death.

Because charter schools frequently do not answer to local school boards, critics allege that failing schools can fly under the radar in poor communities where parents may lack clout. On the other hand, plenty of inner-city charters have a successful track record, meeting their targets for student performance and graduation rates.

Enrollment is small by design. Most states do not permit charters to levy taxes on buildings, and they often cannot afford to buy or build new space. As a result, some charters squeeze into empty space at other schools or in shopping malls.

Research shows that children from low-income families tend to do better in smaller schools. And many charter schools perform better than their traditional counterparts. Others, still, fail to meet standards set in their contracts.

What's the outlook during a Trump presidency?

Trump's plan is likely to go beyond new funding for charter schools.

It's not clear how any federal funding would be distributed, since spending per pupil at charter schools can fluctuate wildly. Nationally, the median spent on charters was $8,866 per student. But that ranges from the District of Columbia spending about $18,000 per charter school student (thanks to legislation that AFC supported)to Idaho spending roughly $5,000.

Based on DeVos' track record and past practices, school choice supporters anticipate a mix of federal and state funds will go toward vouchers that can be used on a variety of schools, including completely private schools, religious schools or even home schooling.

Through AFC, DeVos has primarily pushed for private school choice. But the organization supports approaches set by community stakeholders rather than blanket national policies, Frendewey said. "The policies she pursues recognize the reality that every child is different and learns differently. Some children might do well in public school, others are better in private school," he said.

Details about how any new funds would be spent may not be worked out for a while. And it's possible a Trump administration could redefine current approaches to school choice altogether.

"As Trump has shown so far, we shouldn't assume just because people have been doing it this way that he's going to do it the same way," Nathan said.

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Now, with Betsy DeVos confirmed as education secretary, observers are waiting to see how her advocacy for school choice will translate into national policy, including her support for charter schools. Despite steady growth over the years, charter schools remain controversial. Here's a look at the charter school landscape the new administration has inherited.

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Starbucks is going to hire 10,000 refugees

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Starbucks says it plans to hire 10,000 refugees over five years in the 75 countries where it does business.

Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz outlined the company's plan in a memo sent to employees Sunday in response to President Trump's executive order banning travel from seven Muslim majority countries.

"We are living in an unprecedented time," Schultz wrote in the memo, which listed several actions the company says it is taking to "reinforce our belief in our partners around the world."

The refugee hiring proposal, Schultz wrote, will begin with a focus on people who have served with U.S. troops as interpreters and support personnel.

Related: GE's Jeff Immelt shares employee 'concern' over Trump travel ban

Schultz also reiterated Starbucks' support for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which helps undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children get driver's licenses, enroll in college and secure jobs. The program was created by President Obama through an executive order in 2012.

And Schultz said the company is "ready to help and support our Mexican customers, partners and their families" should any proposed trade sanctions, immigration restrictions and taxes affect their businesses.

Related: These companies wouldn't exist if it weren't for immigrants

"We are in business to inspire and nurture the human spirit, one person, one cup and one neighborhood at a time," Schultz wrote. "That will not change. You have my word on that."

Schultz is the latest business executive to weigh in on the travel ban. Earlier Sunday, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt wrote to employees that he shared their "concern" over the order, and added that GE has many employees from the countries named in the ban.

Several tech executives have also publicly denounced the travel ban.

CNNMoney (New York) First published January 29, 2017: 6:48 PM ET

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Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz outlined the company's plan in a memo sent to employees Sunday in response to President Trump's executive order banning travel from seven Muslim majority countries. "We are living in an unprecedented time," Schultz wrote in the memo, which listed several actions the company says it is taking to "reinforce our belief in our partners around the world."

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The obsession with Harambe peaked Monday after an eBay user claimed to have found a Flamin’ Hot Cheeto in the shape of the gorilla that was killed at the Cincinnati Zoo last year.
Valuestampsinc, a Burbank, Calif. user, listed the snack piece. The initial bidding started at a modest $11.99, but as of early Tuesday the bidding had increased to $99,700.

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The obsession with Harambe peaked Monday after an eBay user claimed to have found a Flamin' Hot Cheeto in the shape of the gorilla that was killed at the Cincinnati Zoo last year.

Valuestampsinc, a Burbank, Calif. user, listed the snack piece. The initial bidding started at a modest $11.99, but as of early Tuesday the bidding had increased to $99,700.

The bidding was set to end at 3:45 a.m. ET Tuesday, and later in the morning the item was pulled from the site.

The user explained in the description how they found the "one of a kind" item.

"I opened up a bag of Flamin Hot Cheetos and as soon as I looked inside I came across this unique Cheetos that looks like Harambe the gorilla," the description read. "This item up for bid is only for this unique Cheetos, bag not included. This makes a great collectible for anyone who appreciates rare items."

According to USA Today, the item sparked imitators as a listing for "Harambe Gorilla Poop" popped up on the auction site.

Harambe was killed by officials at the Cincinnati Zoo after a 3-year-old boy fell into its enclosure. The incident sparked outrage online and started a internet meme trend.

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Fireball meteor makes Midwest appearance

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The weather service in Chicago shared this clip on Twitter:

It was unclear if the meteor struck earth or burned out.

It might have even dropped into Lake Michigan, where it was briefly spotted on radar near Cheboygan, Michigan, at about 1:30 a.m. Central Standard Time.

In suburban Chicago, a Lisle, Illinois, police dashcam recorded a video that drew thousands of views and shares on Facebook.

Weather Service meteorologists in Chicago, Milwaukee and Green Bay, Wisconsin, said meteor showers are common in the area -- but a spectacular view like this is rare. People reported seeing it from Wisconsin to Illinois to Indiana.

Some in Wisconsin reported hearing a sonic boom, which is caused when a meteor enters the atmosphere, said NWS meteorologist Sarah Marquardt in Milwaukee.

Comments on social media indicated a range of responses from fear to excitement.

On Facebook, Sherry Udit wrote that she saw it in Oswego, Illinois, adding, "Thought I was just imagining things!"

And football fan Ryan Grubbs observed, "That was Matt Ryan's star crashing back to Earth ... lol."

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The weather service in Chicago shared this clip on Twitter: It was unclear if the meteor struck earth or burned out. It might have even dropped into Lake Michigan, where it was briefly spotted on radar near Cheboygan, Michigan, at about 1:30 a.m. Central Standard Time.

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Senate confirms Betsy DeVos as education secretary with Pence breaking the tie:Michigan billionaire education activist Betsy DeVos was confirmed today to serve as the secretary of education in President Trump´s administration,after Vice President Mike Pence cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate.

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Michigan billionaire education activist Betsy DeVos was confirmed today to serve as the secretary of education in President Trump's administration, after Vice President Mike Pence cast a tiebreaking vote in the Senate.

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The Senate voted on DeVos' highly contentious nomination this afternoon, and the tally was split evenly, requiring Pence to use his authority as president of the upper chamber of Congress to break the impasse. This was the first time that a vice president has broken a tie to confirm a Cabinet nominee.

Pence read the vote count 50-50 and then voted himself, rendering the tally 51-50.

The day before the vote, Democrats staged a 24-hour marathon of speeches, with more than 30 lawmakers taking to the floor to urge at least one additional Republican to vote against DeVos and block her confirmation.

"It is hard to imagine a worse choice," Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said before she read letters from constituents urging her to vote no.

DeVos stirred up vehement opposition from teachers' unions and all 48 Senate Democrats. Many cited concerns about her support of school vouchers, which critics believe will weaken public schools, and her lack of experience, since she never attended or worked in the public education system. Others cited her lack of familiarity with a landmark law protecting the education needs of disabled children.

She was panned for a gaffe during her confirmation hearing, when she hedged on an answer about guns in schools by saying they might be needed in states like Wyoming to defend against "potential grizzlies."

DeVos' nomination drew above-average negative reactions from the public, with voters flooding Senate phone lines and email accounts in recent weeks. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said his office received 14,000 calls about DeVos.

In addition to the entire Democratic caucus, two moderate Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska announced they would not support DeVos.

During a speech announcing her opposition, Collins said DeVos' focus on charters and vouchers "raises the question of whether or not she fully appreciates that the secretary of education's primary focus must be on helping states and communities, parents, teachers, school board members and administrators strengthen our public schools."

Before the confirmation vote, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee voted along party lines, 12-11, to refer DeVos' nomination to the full Senate.

ABC News' Morgan Winsor contributed to this report.

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theres a drug thats been surfacing in collage. four females were given the drug and two reported that they think they was sexually assaulted

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The school received tips about two alleged incidents, one on January 21 and the other this month, according to a campus security alert issued Monday night. These are the latest claims associated with a chilling problem that is significant on US college campuses, an extensive recent survey found.

At Northwestern, four female students may have been given a date-rape drug last month at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, campus security reports. Two of them "believe they were also sexually assaulted," the report states.

The school, which is near Chicago in Evanston, Illinois, received another report that a female student was sexually assaulted on February 2, "possibly involving use of a date-rape drug after attending an event at another fraternity house," the alert said. It is not clear where that alleged assault might have happened.

The school's Sexual Harassment Prevention Office is investigating.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon's national organization has launched an investigation into the allegations at Northwestern.

"Any form of assault or sexual misconduct by anyone, brother or not, college man or not, is completely unacceptable, and we do not tolerate actions that are inconsistent with our mission," SAE's national spokesman Brandon Weghorst said in response to a request from CNN.

"When incidents are brought to our attention, we take immediate action, and will not hesitate to take corrective actions or impose sanctions on any member or chapter that fails to follow the stringent guidelines we set forth," he said.

CNN has reached out for comment to the school's Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Association.

School: If you see something, say something

In its security alert, the university stressed its concern about its students' safety. It said anyone with knowledge about the alleged incidents should contact the school's Title IX coordinator.

"The only people responsible for sexual misconduct or any other crime are the perpetrators. It is a violation of University policy and the law to engage in sexual contact without consent, as is the use of illegal drugs," the school said.

It said the school's policy on sexual misconduct requires all employees and "non-employees with teaching or supervisory authority" to report sexual misconduct. The school listed hotline and counseling services on its security alert and urged victims to seek help.

"Anyone who observes a situation in which a member of the University community may be at risk should interrupt the chain of events or seek help. All Northwestern community members should look out for one another and ensure that everyone is safe," the school said in the security alert.

Sexual assault on campus

The Association of American Universities conducted a survey in the spring of 2015 documenting the problem of sex assault on campus.

Among female college students, 23% said they experienced some form of unwanted sexual contact -- ranging from kissing to touching to rape, carried out by force or threat of force, or while they were incapacitated because of alcohol and drugs, the survey found. Nearly 11% said the unwanted contact included penetration or oral sex.

More than 150,000 students participated from 27 universities, including some of the most prominent schools across the country. All the members of the Ivy League took part with the exception of Princeton, along with schools such as Iowa State University, the University of Florida and the California Institute of Technology.

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Arkansas passes law that allows husbands to sue a doctor to stop abortion. It prohibits dismemberment abortion, which is most common for 2nd trimester abortions.

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The law, called the Arkansas Unborn Child Protection From Dismemberment Abortion Act, was passed and signed by Gov. Asa Hutchinson, and goes into effect later this year. It prohibits dismemberment abortion, the most common procedure used in second-trimester abortions.

A clause in the law states that the husband of a woman getting the abortion can sue the doctor to stop his wife's abortion. The husband has to be the father of the child. And because there's no exemption in the law for rape or incest, a woman's rapist could theoretically file suit to stop the abortion.

The ACLU of Arkansas claims the law is unconstitutional and plans to challenge it in court before it goes into effect.

One Arkansas lawmaker said there wasn't much debate about those parts of the law.

"It was not something that was talked about on the Senate floor," state Sen. Joyce Elliott told CNN affiliate KARK. "If we cannot make headway on something like an exception for rape and incest, I think it just felt kind of fruitless to make some sense out of the rest of what was in the bill."

Elliott added, "They don't see the outrage in constantly putting the thumb on women to dictate what they can do and not do."

But another lawmaker believes husbands should have a voice in these decisions.

"I think a woman does have control over her own body, but when you have created a life, you created a life with someone else," said state Sen. Missy Irvin.

Kansas and Oklahoma passed similar abortion laws, which are tied up in the courts, according to CNN affiliate KFSM.

A few states, with conservative lawmakers emboldened by President Donald Trump's election, have passed strict new abortion laws, including Ohio, which passed a measure banning abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

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The law, called the Arkansas Unborn Child Protection From Dismemberment Abortion Act, was passed and signed by Gov. Asa Hutchinson, and goes into effect later this year. It prohibits dismemberment abortion, the most common procedure used in second-trimester abortions.

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Vice President Mike Pence cast a historic tie-breaking vote Tuesday to confirm Betsy DeVos as the next education secretary after the Senate was evenly divided over the controversial pick.

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Arkansas law lets husbands sue wives to stop abortion - even rape cases

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The law, called the Arkansas Unborn Child Protection From Dismemberment Abortion Act, was passed and signed by Gov. Asa Hutchinson, and goes into effect later this year. It prohibits dismemberment abortion, the most common procedure used in second-trimester abortions.

A clause in the law states that the husband of a woman getting the abortion can sue the doctor to stop his wife's abortion. The husband has to be the father of the child. And because there's no exemption in the law for rape or incest, a woman's rapist could theoretically file suit to stop the abortion.

The ACLU of Arkansas claims the law is unconstitutional and plans to challenge it in court before it goes into effect.

One Arkansas lawmaker said there wasn't much debate about those parts of the law.

"It was not something that was talked about on the Senate floor," state Sen. Joyce Elliott told CNN affiliate KARK. "If we cannot make headway on something like an exception for rape and incest, I think it just felt kind of fruitless to make some sense out of the rest of what was in the bill."

Elliott added, "They don't see the outrage in constantly putting the thumb on women to dictate what they can do and not do."

But another lawmaker believes husbands should have a voice in these decisions.

"I think a woman does have control over her own body, but when you have created a life, you created a life with someone else," said state Sen. Missy Irvin.

Kansas and Oklahoma passed similar abortion laws, which are tied up in the courts, according to CNN affiliate KFSM.

A few states, with conservative lawmakers emboldened by President Donald Trump's election, have passed strict new abortion laws, including Ohio, which passed a measure banning abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

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Allegations of sexual assault and the use of date-rape drugs have surfaced at Northwestern University.

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The school received tips about two alleged incidents, one on January 21 and the other this month, according to a campus security alert issued Monday night. These are the latest claims associated with a chilling problem that is significant on US college campuses, an extensive recent survey found.

At Northwestern, four female students may have been given a date-rape drug last month at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, campus security reports. Two of them "believe they were also sexually assaulted," the report states.

The school, which is near Chicago in Evanston, Illinois, received another report that a female student was sexually assaulted on February 2, "possibly involving use of a date-rape drug after attending an event at another fraternity house," the alert said. It is not clear where that alleged assault might have happened.

The school's Sexual Harassment Prevention Office is investigating.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon's national organization has launched an investigation into the allegations at Northwestern.

"Any form of assault or sexual misconduct by anyone, brother or not, college man or not, is completely unacceptable, and we do not tolerate actions that are inconsistent with our mission," SAE's national spokesman Brandon Weghorst said in response to a request from CNN.

"When incidents are brought to our attention, we take immediate action, and will not hesitate to take corrective actions or impose sanctions on any member or chapter that fails to follow the stringent guidelines we set forth," he said.

CNN has reached out for comment to the school's Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Association.

School: If you see something, say something

In its security alert, the university stressed its concern about its students' safety. It said anyone with knowledge about the alleged incidents should contact the school's Title IX coordinator.

"The only people responsible for sexual misconduct or any other crime are the perpetrators. It is a violation of University policy and the law to engage in sexual contact without consent, as is the use of illegal drugs," the school said.

It said the school's policy on sexual misconduct requires all employees and "non-employees with teaching or supervisory authority" to report sexual misconduct. The school listed hotline and counseling services on its security alert and urged victims to seek help.

"Anyone who observes a situation in which a member of the University community may be at risk should interrupt the chain of events or seek help. All Northwestern community members should look out for one another and ensure that everyone is safe," the school said in the security alert.

Sexual assault on campus

The Association of American Universities conducted a survey in the spring of 2015 documenting the problem of sex assault on campus.

Among female college students, 23% said they experienced some form of unwanted sexual contact -- ranging from kissing to touching to rape, carried out by force or threat of force, or while they were incapacitated because of alcohol and drugs, the survey found. Nearly 11% said the unwanted contact included penetration or oral sex.

More than 150,000 students participated from 27 universities, including some of the most prominent schools across the country. All the members of the Ivy League took part with the exception of Princeton, along with schools such as Iowa State University, the University of Florida and the California Institute of Technology.

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