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Feb 12 2025POLITICS

USAid's Shake-Up: What Happened to the Overseas Aid Agency?

Last week, Paul Martin, the federal watchdog overseeing the US Agency for International Development (USAid), was suddenly fired. This happened after he released a report saying that the agency's work had been disrupted. The report highlighted some serious issues. It said that a big reduction in sta

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Feb 12 2025ENVIRONMENT

The Path to Clean Energy - and the Roadblocks

A lot of people might think everything is doomed if someone in power opposes cleaner energy and pushes coal, but amazingly, it is not that simple. Let's start from the big picture. The United States has been making huge progress in producing electricity from wind, sun, and even cleaning up gas.

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Feb 12 2025HEALTH

How Past Traumas Shape Present Choices: ACEs and Unexpected Pregnancies

Let's dive into a disturbing truth. Many people's choices of pregnancy may be highly influenced without us thinking. Adverse childhood experiences how so? These are traumatic events like abuse, neglect, or family dysfunction that stick with us. New interviews showed that people who went through

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Feb 12 2025SCIENCE

The race to create functional kidney organoids is heating up with new technology

Kidney organs made in labs could be a game-changer for people with kidney diseases. Think about it— having a new kidney grown just for you, no waiting lists or ethical dilemmas. This could be the future, but we're not there yet. Scientists are working hard to make these lab-made kidneys work just li

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Feb 11 2025HEALTH

Fixing Broken Knees: A New Hope for Damaged Cartilage

Cartilage in joints like knees can get damaged easily, and unlike other parts of the body, it doesn't fix itself. This is a big problem, especially for athletes, people with injuries, and those suffering from conditions like osteoarthritis. Traditionally, treating cartilage damage has been tricky. I

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Feb 11 2025CELEBRITIES

Pete Davidson Teams Up With Reformation for Fancy New Clothes

In a surprising move, sustainable clothing brand Reformation has teamed up with one of Hollywood's most famous guys, Pete Davidson. This is not a romantic relationship, but a partnership to create some fancy new clothes. Sponsored sweatshirts with a very fancy name and boxer briefs with a n

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Feb 11 2025BUSINESS

Business doors open for buyers of Rivian’s two electric vans

Ford is known for trucks and Tesla for sports cars but Rivian is making a name for itself in electric vans. This company is set to cash in profitability through a fresh cross-selling approach- directly taking its electric vans out on the market for businesses. Rivian vans happen to be very functi

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Feb 11 2025OPINION

How Power Often Takes Over Dietary choices

For many years the choices we make about diet seemed personal. Over time however that idea gets challenged . What happens when a choice about food consumption is not made by individuals? What role does state involvement play? Who decides what choices are? Let's not make any mistake politica

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Feb 11 2025SCIENCE

Earth's Inner Core: A Mysterious Shape-Shifter

Deep within the Earth, tucked away 1, 500 miles below the surface, lies a massive ball of iron and nickel. This is the planet's inner core, a region that scientists once assumed to be perfectly solid and stable. However, recent research has thrown this belief into question. About the size of Califor

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Feb 11 2025POLITICS

A Tale of a Revealing Double Take

Enter Donald Trump, making quite the choice in his presidential term. He took some bold steps with his pardon. For starters, Trump cleared a former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich of his crimes. He landed a parden, not an easy thing to understand. Trump originally meted out a new sentence just te

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