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Huffington Post Popular News: 5 Ways To Ensure Your Halloween Chocolate Is Conflict Free

As you stock up on sweets for your local trick-or-treaters, make sure no child was put at risk to produce the chocolates you hand out.

According to Stop the Traffick, an anti-trafficking group, 1.8 million children are subjected to backbreaking labor on West African cocoa farms, from which 70 percent of the world's chocolate derives. Kids are taken from their parents with promises of honest work and money for their family and then forced to endure harsh labor and physical abuse, according to a 2001 exposé.

"The beatings were a part of my life," Aly Diabate, a freed slave from Mali, said. "Anytime they loaded you with bags and you fell while carrying them, nobody helped you. Instead, they beat you and beat you until you picked it up again."

Huffington Post Popular News: She Saved Taxpayers $1 Billion

While Mitt Romney and Barack Obama battle nationally for the right to occupy the White House for the next four years, perhaps the second most contentious significant race in the entire country is occurring in Massachusetts. That is where the Democratic Party's candidate for Senate, self-described advocate for the middle class Elizabeth Warren, faces off against Republican Scott Brown. Polls show the race is close, and the bitterness of the rhetoric matches the polling.

Huffington Post Popular News: Conan: 'It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown' Is Too Mean For Kids (VIDEO)

Conan is right. "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" is a lot meaner than we remember it. Today's kids probably can't handle this stark look at the cruelty of life.

Huffington Post Popular News: Superstorm Sandy: New Jersey, New York, East Coast Assess Hurricane's Wrath (Photos, Live Updates)

NEW YORK -- People in the coastal corridor battered by superstorm Sandy took the first cautious steps Wednesday to reclaim routines upended by the disaster, even as rescuers combed neighborhoods strewn with debris and scarred by floods and fire.

But while New York City buses returned to darkened streets and the New York Stock Exchange prepared to reopen its storied trading floor, it became clear that restoring the region to its ordinarily frenetic pace could take days – and that rebuilding the hardest-hit communities and the transportation networks that link them together could take considerably longer.

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Huffington Post Popular News: Smithsonian Reopening After Escaping Major Damage From Hurricane Sandy

WASHINGTON -- The Smithsonian Institution's museums and National Zoo are reopening on the National Mall after shutting their doors for two days because of superstorm Sandy.

Wednesday's reopening will come as welcome news to tourists visiting Washington who found few businesses open as the storm passed through.

Huffington Post Popular News: Food Informants: A Week In The Life Of Jenny McCoy, Pastry Chef For Cisse Trading Co.

Food Informants is a week-in-the-life series profiling fascinating people in the food world. We hope it will give you a first-hand look at the many different corners of the food industry. Know someone who would make a great Food Informant? Tell us why.

Jenny McCoy is a New York City-based professional pastry chef turned home baker. She's the co-founder of Cissé Trading Company, a cookbook author, culinary instructor and authority on all things sweet.

Read on to learn how she is juggling a new baking business while traveling around San Francisco for work (and some fun).

Huffington Post Popular News: Hurricane Sandy Looting, Fights Plague South Brooklyn (PHOTOS)

Water that had risen six feet high hadn't completely drained away from the streets of Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y., yet looters had already rifled through the remains of vulnerable shops on Mermaid Avenue.

At about 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, workers arrived at Mega Aid Pharmacy to find that not only had Hurricane Sandy obliterated the building's interior the night before, but thieves had broken in and gone through more than 10,000 pharmaceutical items. Most of the stolen goods were prescription meds.

"The water went away and these people started walking down the streets and just robbed stores," a frustrated worker at the pharmacy, who wished to remain anonymous, told HuffPost Crime.