A research paper that raises questions about the safety of abortion has been retracted. The research is cited in a federal judge’s ruling about the abortion pill mifepristone.
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Utah is pushing back against ever-tightening EPA air pollution standards
The Biden administration is unveiling new, stricter pollution standards for American cities such as Salt Lake City, Utah, which have long struggled with chronically dirty air.
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What is ‘domicide,’ and why has war in Gaza brought new attention to the term?
Israel has destroyed tens of thousands of residences in Gaza since war broke out last October. A U.N. official says the widespread or systematic destruction of homes should be considered a crime.
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A year after Turkey’s earthquake, hundreds of thousands of people remain in shelters
This week Turkey marked one year since the earthquake that killed more than 53,000 people in the country and left over 3 million homeless. Critics say the government hasn’t met its promise to rebuild.
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How dining hall activism inspired Dartmouth basketball players to fight for a union
Dartmouth forward Cade Haskins was working at the campus snack bar when other student dining workers successfully unionized. It got him thinking about how a union could benefit the basketball team.
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Reversal: Guinness awards record to French man who made Eiffel Tower from matchsticks
Guinness World Records at first rejected a tower replica that Richard Plaud made from more than 700,000 matchsticks. But on further review, the organization said it might have been too “heavy-handed.”
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Tucker Carlson, the fired Fox News star, makes bid for relevance with Putin interview
The right-wing provocateur flew to Moscow to interview the Russian president, becoming the first American to do so since the invasion of Ukraine. They spoke for two hours.
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Climate scientist Michael Mann wins defamation case against conservative writers
Michael Mann, a prominent climate scientist, has been awarded more than $1 million in a case more than a decade in the making.
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Senators ask CEOs why their drugs cost so much more in the U.S.
The Senate HELP committee questioned pharmaceutical CEOs about how much more Americans pay for the same drugs sold for less in Canada, Japan and Europe.
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Snoop Dogg and Master P sue Walmart and Post for trying to sabotage their cereal
The rappers say that Walmart and Post Consumer Foods neglected their cereal brand and intentionally hid it in stockrooms to prevent it from being sold to customers.
