Like many parents, Arielle Roth has concerns about her children’s screen time at school. But unlike her peers, she’s in a position to influence the issue at nearly every school in America. Roth heads an obscure federal agency within the Commerce Department that serves as the president’s top polic...
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- Tracking a cool fall weekend ahead for the Borderland, with temperatures running about 5 to 8 degrees below normal through Monday. Saturday starts with some clouds, fog and low clouds in parts of the region. Those clouds should gradually clear by midday, ...
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Por Isa Mudannayake, CNN Aumenta la indignación a medida que el caso de una estudiante de la Universidad de Cornell, presuntamente violada en grupo en una casa de fraternidad en 2024, sigue acaparando la atención nacional, mientras la gobernadora del estado de Nueva York ha prome...
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Planning a vacation isn’t anywhere near as fun as grabbing your passport and going away, so the concept of outsourcing the hard graft to AI bots like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude may sound ideal. This shortlist from Bodog highlights some of AI’s most spectacular fails, and it might...
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An estimated 11% of U.S. adults now take a GLP-1 medication for weight loss, up from 3% in 2024, according to Gallup’s 2026 polling . In August 2026, Toast surveyed 850 U.S. adults who currently take a GLP-1 and buy at least one restaurant meal a week. The survey asked what chang...
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Student loan debt affects millions of borrowers. Although it can be a burden, it’s also an opportunity to establish a positive credit history. Making progress towards paying down your student loan debt is possible no matter where you start. This guide from Freedom Debt Relief cov...
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The professor of political science remembers the neighbors emptying the waste from thousands of birds onto fields. She and her brother would break out into rashes. An Independent voters organization co-founder and farm owner remembers his dad, who raised beef cattle and hogs, cal...
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Food-rescue organizations are investing in processing facilities to meet growing demand while finding innovative ways to reduce waste. Second Harvest estimates that Canada wastes about 46.5% of its food. In an effort to reduce this figure, the nonprofit — which is one of Canada’s...
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In Los Angeles, in Mumbai, in Kuala Lumpur and in several other cities around the planet, autonomous plastic-eating robots are taking over the waterways. They are, in one form or other, chomping up and extracting masses of the manmade garbage. This may sound like a far-flung scen...
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The world has become hotter and, in many places, drier than ever before in recorded history. Just this summer, as some U.S. states battled over rights to the Colorado River, major reservoirs were at historically-low levels . In Puerto Rico, extended drought exacerbated an infrast...
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Roughly seven in 10 people (69%) say improving their finances would have the biggest impact on their overall happiness, and more than half (56%) say the right tools and guidance could make managing money less stressful. Note: This study was conducted among 1,006 U.S. adults ages ...
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When two Oglala Lakota scouts heard drilling was expected to begin on Pe’ Sla, the sacred prairie in the Black Hills of South Dakota, they set out on back trails. They needed to find out where. That’s when they saw a deer break ahead, and a red-tailed hawk soar above them — less ...
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Most homeschoolers now piece together a variety of classes and outings for their kids. In the north Pittsburgh area, that often includes enrolling in Roots Learning Academy . Known as a hybrid program, Roots serves roughly 150 families who split their time between home instructio...
