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2025 American Academy of Nursing Fellows to include 16 Emory inductees
Emory University
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July 8, 2025
The American Academy of Nursing will induct 16 members of the Emory community into its 2025 Class of Fellows. The Emory inductees – faculty, alumni and administrators from the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Rollins School of Public...
Nearly half of tree species in Mexico and Central America threatened with extinction
Mongabay
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July 9, 2025
Of the more than 4,000 known tree species found only in Mesoamerica, nearly half are threatened with extinction, according a new assessment. Agriculture emerges as the primary threat across the region from both small- and large-scale farming,...
A day at ‘the Beth’ and Iran déjà vu
New Jersey Jewish News
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The last time I was under the red tile roofs of Newark Beth Israel Hospital was in the fall of 1980. Folks familiar with “the Beth,” as it is known, will recall that it has been one of the key community institutions of the Weequahic section of...
Trump's job cuts 'degrade' weather services as Florida hurricane predictions set back 'decades'
Irish Star
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July 9, 2025
02:36 ET, 09 Jul 2025 Severe staffing deficits as a result of the Donald Trump administration's cuts to federal agencies are putting significant pressure on the operations of the National Weather Service (NWS) and other federal weather...
Hot Springs FFA Earn State Points
Sierra County Sentinel - New Mexico
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Since February of this year, the Hot Springs FFA Chapter members have been competing in CDE (Career Development Events) for a spot on the State Team. The Chapter attended invitationals in Carrizozo, Las Cruces and Roswell. The following members...
Immigration Tracker: Updates on TPS, work visas and deportation rules
El Tecolote - California
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July 8, 2025
In the past six months, the Trump administration has unleashed a wave of immigration directives, rolling back key protections for immigrants and narrowing access to due process. With many of these directives now contested in court, the legal...
What is BRICS and why does it matter?
Deutsche Welle
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July 3, 2025
Leaders of the world's fast-growing BRICS economies gather in Rio de Janeiro this weekend, promising to strengthen trade and technology exchange within the bloc in the shadow of US President Donald Trump's tariff threat. Brazilian President Luiz...
Supreme court lifts order blocking Trump’s federal layoffs, paving way for mass job cuts
The Guardian
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July 8, 2025
Supreme court lifts order blocking Trump's mass federal layoffsThe supreme court has cleared the way for Donald Trump’s administration to resume carrying out mass job cuts and the restructuring of agencies, key elements of his campaign to downsize...
Supreme court lifts order blocking Trump’s federal layoffs, paving way for mass job cuts - US politics live
The Guardian
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July 8, 2025
Supreme court lifts order blocking Trump's mass federal layoffsThe supreme court has cleared the way for Donald Trump’s administration to resume carrying out mass job cuts and the restructuring of agencies, key elements of his campaign to downsize...
Longtime employee of Homestake and SURF takes to the skies in Honor Flight
Tri State Livestock News - South Dakota
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July 2, 2025
Ricky Allen, a Lead, South Dakota resident who works at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), is among those who took part in the recent Midwest Honor Flight for veterans. Article by Ollie Langley Peterson Lead, SD (July 2, 2025) —...
Sino-Russian Convergence in Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference: A Global Threat to the US and Its Allies
CEPA
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June 30, 2025
The use of AI-driven propaganda and deepfake technologies has significantly escalated the scale and sophistication of disinformation, posing unprecedented challenges from Russia and China for Western intelligence and democratic institutions....
Study reveals surge in illegal arachnid trade via Facebook in Philippines
Mongabay
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June 30, 2025
New research by wildlife trade watchdog TRAFFIC reveals a thriving online trade in live tarantulas and scorpions in the Philippines, with more than 16,000 arachnids found offered for sale on Facebook in 2020 and 2022. Most traded species are...
London’s luxury cigar scene is under threat
Spear's Magazine
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July 9, 2025
London real estate doesn’t get much more prime than the glass box that tops out the Emory, the new suite-only hotel at the eastern end of Knightsbridge. The 10th-floor eyrie is divided into two spaces, their floor-to-ceiling windows offering views...
Meet the new national police force
CNN
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July 9, 2025
A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN — The agency of mask-wearing officers who aren’t afraid to smash windows, detain lawmakers and pluck nonviolent undocumented...
What you need to know about the judge protecting Planned Parenthood’s funding
WorldNetDaily
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July 9, 2025
The Massachusetts federal judge who temporarily secured taxpayer dollars for Planned Parenthood after the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” defunding of the nation’s largest abortion provider has a career steeped in progressive politics and controversial...
Why Trump invited five African leaders to the White House
BBC
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July 9, 2025
Abdou Aziz Diédhiou & Yūsuf Akínpẹ̀lú & Brandon DrenonBBC News, Dakar & Lagos & Washington DC ShareSave Donald Trump wants to do business in Africa - and is not interested in aid US President Donald Trump began a three-day summit in Washington DC...
US and Iran have a long, complicated history, spanning far beyond Israel's strikes on Tehran
Akron Legal News
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JEFFREY FIELDS USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Published: July 1, 2025 (THE CONVERSATION) Relations between the United States and Iran have been fraught for decades – at least since the U.S. helped overthrow a democracy-minded...
Spotlighting US export controls amid BIS crackdown on semiconductors in China
Global Investigations Review
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June 30, 2025
The United States asserts jurisdiction over US origin products and technology anywhere in the world regardless of whether a US person is involved in a transaction. The principal distinction between US sanctions and US export controls is that US...
Trump wants to talk business with Africa in hopes of countering China. But a US summit excludes Africa’s big players
KTVZ - Oregon
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July 9, 2025
(CNN) — The White House is hosting an “African leaders” summit of sorts this week. But only five countries from the continent of 55 nations are welcome to join. Liberia said its president was one of five African heads of state invited by US...
Trump’s Justice Department wants to denaturalize citizens. Can he do that?
The Independent
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July 1, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...