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I’m a pediatrician in Michigan who created Rx Kids, one of the nation’s largest anti-poverty programs – here’s what I’ve learned about how medical schools can improve community health

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As a pediatrician at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine in Flint, Michigan, I perform well-child checks, treat asthma and discuss nutrition with families. I prescribe medicine and arrange follow-up visits.

Earlier in my career, when I would see families that struggled to pay rent, keep the lights on, feed their ...Read more

President George W. Bush reacts in a Sarasota, Fla., classroom after being told of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001. AP Photo/Doug Mills

What we remember when we remember 9/11

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Do you remember where you were and what you were doing when you learned of the September 11 terrorist attacks that occurred 25 years ago?

Do you remember what you saw on television or how you felt? Is your memory highly detailed, and are you confident that what you are remembering is an accurate recollection of those details?

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A majority of Americans say the country has turned away from its founding ideals, and more than a third believe violence may be necessary to get the nation back on track. Mint Images/Mint Images RF via Getty Images

Americans agree their democracy is in crisis – yet the solution is as simple as it is elusive

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Despite being divided on most issues, an overwhelming majority of Americans agree that their democracy is in a state of crisis or facing serious challenges.

A few of the symptoms of the problem: Close allies see the U.S. as a threat to peace. Immigration raids by poorly trained federal agents have terrorized cities. President Donald ...Read more

Late summer and early fall are a perfect time to fight weeds in the garden. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

To control weeds in your garden, late summer and early fall is the best time to make a difference

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As late summer fades into early autumn, garden care shifts from active harvesting to preparation and planning for the next growing season. Weeds can feel like an overwhelming management task as the summer species burst into flower and spread seeds.

However, late summer and early fall is the single best time for weed control that lasts...Read more

The Schuylkill River in Philadelphia flooded after heavy rains from Hurricane Ida in 2021. 
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Pennsylvania’s aging levees are under pressure from scarce funding and severe weather

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Pennsylvania has over 180 levees that span approximately 155 miles (255 kilometers) and keep its rivers from flooding. They protect about 158,000 people and US$26.2 billion in property across the state, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

However, those levees are aging, and funding to maintain and improve them is becoming ...Read more

Rates of anxiety and depression have grown since the COVID-19 pandemic – as have prescriptions for antidepressants. brizmaker/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Are too many Americans taking antidepressants?

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Drugs for treating depression are among the most prescribed category of medications in the U.S. – 1 in 6 American adults take them.

Some health researchers and advocates have raised concerns that too many patients are using antidepressants and that patients who want to stop taking them struggle to do so. One of the most prominent ...Read more

Russian drone over Moldova grounds plane carrying Zelenskyy

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s planned flight to Oslo was disrupted on Tuesday by a Russian drone as he was set to depart for the funeral of King Harald, according to Norwegian and Moldovan authorities.

It wasn’t immediately clear how close a call it was for the Ukrainian president. Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store told public broadcaster ...Read more

Scotland leader pushes independence vote after Burnham remarks

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Scottish First Minister John Swinney called for new talks with the U.K. government about Scotland’s constitutional future after Prime Minister Andy Burnham appeared to soften Westminster’s longstanding opposition to a second referendum on leaving the U.K.

Swinney, who leads a devolved government in Edinburgh, wrote to Burnham after the new...Read more

Iran and US set for extended war with neither side ceding ground

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Iran and the U.S. are digging in for a protracted war, with little sign of a near-term ceasefire or return to normal Middle East energy flows even if hostilities remain at a low intensity.

Tehran’s leaders are resolved to keep fighting despite mounting economic costs as they see the conflict as an existential threat, Bloomberg reported ...Read more

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Trump's targeted Canada tariffs offer scope and time for a deal

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President Donald Trump’s latest trade maneuver leaves the door open to compromise with Canada, even as it threatens to exacerbate the cost-of-living crisis for Americans and further sour relations with Ottawa.

A set of actions announced this week left out some of the harshest retaliatory measures, delayed others and pulled back some ...Read more

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Democrats demand Trump administration halt collection of patients' ER records

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A group of Democratic lawmakers is calling for the Trump administration to suspend a new surveillance program it quietly launched to collect the personal and identifiable health data of Americans who visit emergency rooms.

KFF Health News first reported that the Consumer Product Safety Commission — a federal agency tasked with monitoring ...Read more

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From paper trails to fusion centers: How 9/11 transformed policing in Las Vegas

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LAS VEGAS — Terry Hulse knew when he watched the horror of airliners crashing into the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001, that the months ahead were going to be challenging for the FBI in Las Vegas.

“It’s going to be all-out boots on the ground,” said Hulse, a Henderson resident who was the assistant special-agent-in-charge of...Read more

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Commentary: The country that vaccinated the world is unlearning how

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On Aug. 10, in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order telling American parents to break the measles, mumps, and rubella shot into three separate injections and to space childhood vaccines across many more trips to the doctor.

He said the change would "align the United States with other advanced and developed nations....Read more

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Trump administration tells California its key water plan is 'unworkable'

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LOS ANGELES — The huge inland body of water that is the heart of California’s water system is under major stress.

That’s why state officials say they worked for years to come up with a plan to help halt the ecological decline of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

Now that plan is under attack from the Trump ...Read more

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The market forces quietly adding thousands to patient bills

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After a failed round of in vitro fertilization this year, Anne Hug’s fertility doctor said she had a single polyp in her uterus that should be removed to improve the chance of pregnancy. Hug, a professor of radiology, learned that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says the procedure can be done in a doctor’s office with...Read more

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ICE dragged him from his doorstep in January. His elderly partner fears he'll die in detention

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LOS ANGELES -- Rafael Vela Gonzalez was a few steps away from the front door of his Silver Lake home when two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents grabbed him in early January.

The 66-year-old, originally from El Salvador, had been in the U.S. since he was a teenager. His boyish grin was a fixture in his tight-knit neighborhood for more ...Read more

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Bullets, blood and ostrich feathers: Why are they killing Mike Matson's beloved desert birds?

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NEWBERRY SPRINGS, Calif. — Two of the ostriches died instantly, hit with .22-caliber slugs fired through the fence of Mike Matson's desert ranch. The third suffered, bleeding out then collapsing some 40 feet away.

That's the body his wife Arcelia found first, one Sunday morning in June.

Matson was angry but he wasn't surprised. Months ...Read more

Many people with Tourette's suppress their tics until they can release them in a safe space. Klaus Vedfelt/DigitalVision via Getty Images

People with Tourette syndrome, like Billie Eilish, use everything in their power to suppress tics – this exhausting process is key to treatment

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Imagine trying not to blink, resisting the urge to sneeze or refusing to scratch an intense itch. For a short time, you can probably succeed, but the effort becomes increasingly untenable until the urge eventually wins.

People with Tourette syndrome describe tic suppression in a similar manner. Tourette syndrome causes tics, or ...Read more

A satellite closeup of Hurricane Lowell on Sept. 8, 2026, after it passed just west of Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands. NASA

A second hurricane just sideswiped Hawaii – why the islands’ usual force field seems to be down in 2026

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The Hawaiian Islands rarely see significant hurricane damage, but they just experienced the effects of their second hurricane in a year as Hurricane Lowell’s eyewall brushed Niihau, west of Kauai, on Sept. 8, 2026.

The hurricane brought heavy downpours, high surf and hurricane-force wind gusts that pounded both islands, knocking out...Read more

Even when the phrase was coined, the 'Bible Belt' image depicted just a portion of the region's culture. John Hayes

A journalist coined ‘the Bible Belt’ 100 years ago – it’s been oversimplifying the South ever since

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“Look No Further!” a billboard on the side of the highway beckons, drawing my gaze toward the red cover of a Bible. “You Are Worthy of Redemption!”

Not far away, another sign urges me to “Keep Christ in Christmas.” Then farther down the road a third appears: “Jesus: COMING SOON” its bright colors announce.

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