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Not 1, but 2 loon chicks hatch on Albany’s Songo Pond
The Bethel Citizen - Maine
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July 15, 2025
ALBANY TOWNSHIP — What started as anticipation for the birth of just the second loon chick to hatch on Songo Pond in the past 40 years turned into double the excitement this past weekend when two chicks arrived. Last week, loon advocate Bill Lowe...
Senate Appropriators Reject Trump’s NSF Cuts
Inside Higher Ed
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Sen. Jerry Moran, Republican of Kansas, proposed sending $9 billion to the National Science Foundation. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Signs that Congress intends to push back on the Trump administration’s wholesale slashing of federal budgets emerged...
Annabelle doll handler Dan Rivera dies while touring US with toy
The Independent
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July 16, 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...
Raising Alarm About a Consolidation of Power, Delegates Reject Bylaw Change
United Church of Christ - Ohio
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July 15, 2025
With speakers raising the alarm about a consolidation of power, voters at the 35th General Synod rejected a proposed revision to the UCC Constitution and Bylaws which would have changed the Associate General Minister positions from being elected...
Mercy's Dr. Rebecca Cerrato Recognized with American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society's 2025 Women's Leadership Award
Newswise
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July 15, 2025
Newswise — (Baltimore, MD – July 15, 2025) -- Rebecca A. Cerrato, M.D., FAAOS, board certified orthopedic surgeon at The Institute for Foot and Ankle Reconstruction at Mercy Medical Center and Director of The Institute’s Fellowship Program, has...
Paranormal investigator, Annabelle doll handler, Dan Rivera, dies while on tour with doll
B98.5 - Georgia
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July 15, 2025
GETTYSBURG, Pa. — One of the people charged with handling the Annabelle doll, the real-life haunted toy made famous by “The Conjuring” movie series, has died. Dan Rivera was on tour in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, with the cursed doll at the time of...
‘Enough is enough’: Congressman wants to turn off taxpayer money tap for schools defying Trump on women’s sports
WorldNetDaily
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July 15, 2025
Republican Kentucky Rep. Andy Barr will introduce legislation that requires schools and higher education institutions to “ensure biological fairness” in women’s sports as a condition of receiving federal funding, the Daily Caller News Foundation...
New director of Colby institute raises conversation about AI
Morning Sentinel - Maine
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July 13, 2025
WATERVILLE — With the appointment of a top IBM executive to lead its Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Colby College — like other colleges and universities across Maine — is continuing to lean into the use of artificial intelligence in...
Top youth innovators recognized in National 4-H Artificial Intelligence Challenge
Farm Forum - South Dakota
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AMES, Iowa – The National 4-H Artificial Intelligence Challenge has announced its 2025 national winners, recognizing extraordinary youth innovators using artificial intelligence to tackle real-world challenges. This first-of-its-kind competition...
The Effects of Sexual Stealthing
Psychology Today
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The term stealthing most commonly refers to the removal of a condom during sex without the knowledge or consent of one's partner. While stealthing often entails a man taking off a condom when engaged in sex, it can also involve lying about having...
Herbal medicine meets modern medicine: A synergy shaping healthcareâs future
Natural News
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July 14, 2025
Integrating herbal therapies with conventional treatments can enhance health outcomes, particularly in cancer care. Specific herbs like oregano and turmeric synergize with antibiotics and chemotherapy, reducing drug side effects and improving...
Trump’s Policies Have US States Eyeing Offshore Wind Power From Canada and Elsewhere
Mother Jones
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July 15, 2025
Wind farm in Nova Scotia, Canada.Education Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This story was originally published by Canada’s...
House conservatives urge Senate to pass Trump's spending cuts without changes
Fox News
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Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, on the Trump administration cutting taxpayer-funded benefits to illegal immigrants, planned layoffs for the State Department and the push to codify DOGE cuts. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: A...
Word from the Smokies: Eastern box turtle’s path to state symbol status
Asheville Citizen Times - North Carolina
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the most biodiverse places in the world, so it’s no surprise that many of the plants and animals chosen as symbols of the two states it straddles — North Carolina and Tennessee — are found within its...
Gloucester County, Va., Responds to Ransomware Attack
Government Technology
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July 8, 2025
A recent ransomware attack in Gloucester County, Va., has compromised residents’ personal information and officials are monitoring its aftermath amid a state and federal investigation. The county’s Information Technology Department (ITD) detected...
Kentucky joins lawsuit against Trump Administration’s freeze on education funding
WBKO - Kentucky
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July 14, 2025
FRANKFORT, Ky. (WBKO) - Today, Gov. Andy Beshear announced that he and leaders from 23 other states and the District of Columbia are challenging the Trump Administration over its decision to freeze $6.8 billion in education funding. The lawsuit...
Word from the Smokies: The eastern box turtle’s path to state symbol status
The Smoky Mountain News - North Carolina
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Mockingbirds and cardinals, fireflies and dogwoods, opossums and passionflowers have all found a place of honor in state statutes over the years, as have raccoons, tulip poplars, zebra swallowtail butterflies, Southern Appalachian brook trout,...
How much Trump's ‘big beautiful' bill could raise electricity costs in every U.S. state over the next 10 years
NBC Connecticut
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July 14, 2025
Electricity prices are expected to surge higher throughout the next decade due to energy policy changes in President Donald Trump's "big beautiful" bill, according to a new analysis from Energy Innovation, a non-partisan energy and climate think...
A Year With the Seals review – what to know about the elusive sea creature
The Guardian
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July 14, 2025
‘There is no creature born, even among the greater apes, which more resembles a human baby in its ways and its cries than a baby grey seal,” wrote the ecologist Frank Fraser Darling in 1939. Seals’ large eyes, the five digits of their flippers,...
Americans say they want a third party. Musk may find it a tricky liftoff.
Christian Science Monitor
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July 15, 2025
“Ad Astra Per Aspera,” Elon Musk posted Saturday on X. That’s Latin for “To the stars through hardships,” an apt motto for many of the multibillionaire’s endeavors – be it the Grok chatbot that made headlines last week for spewing anti-Semitism to...