The Alabama Supreme Court recently ruled that frozen embryos stored in test tubes should be considered children. Since the ruling, health systems around the state have paused their in-vitro fertilization treatments, impacting hundreds of families.
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In a recent back-and-forth between New York City Council and the city’s Mayor Eric Adams, the NYC Council voted to override Adams’ veto on two criminal justice bills. According to ABC7, the decision passed in a 42-9 majority, a greater approval than when the bills were initially passed.
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The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service announced that this October was the warmest in global recorded history, with the average surface air temperature being 0.85ºC higher than that from the past 30 years. While the change may not seem significant, global average temperatures have risen by 1.43ºC above pre-industrial temperatures, an increase dangerously close to the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global temperatures to 1.5ºC. If this benchmark is surpassed, the United Nations predicts increasingly severe climate impacts.
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With the 2024 presidential election a year away, new polls are predicting who may win in the upcoming election. Although polls may not be the best at foreseeing election results, as demonstrated by the 2016 presidential election, these new predictions are raising alarms for both Democrats and Republicans.
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By Briana Keenan and Aliyah Siddiqui Staff Writer and Nation and World Editor With the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, students around campus have ...
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The Biden administration is once again trying to provide debt relief to the millions of U.S. citizens who have student loans. On Oct. 4, President Joe Biden announced that 125,000 Americans will be approved for $9 billion in debt relief. This announcement comes after the Supreme Court struck down Biden’s former loan forgiveness program and as student debt repayments restart.
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The second-longest writers strike is finally over after 148 days of negotiations. While the new contract will need to be ratified by members in early October, the end of the strike will allow writers to return to work and bring back some much-missed shows.
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The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has been declared illegal again by a U.S. judge. According to KFF, 580,000 people in the U.S. are DACA recipients as of 2022. While the program remains intact for now, the case over DACA may end up in the Supreme Court. Despite the wide use of DACA, the program has faced scrutiny for years.
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A common ingredient used to treat decongestion in many cold syrups has been announced as ineffective, according to a panel of experts. According to many studies, the ingredient, phenylephrine, works just as well as a placebo when taken in its oral or liquid form.
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France recently declared a ban on long robes in state schools. While this announcement may seem inconspicuous, the ban is a continuation of France curtailing Muslim women’s rights while secularizing the country. Gabriel Attal, France’s education minister, specifically stated that abayas, long, loose dresses often worn by Muslim women, and kameez, the male equivalent, were no longer allowed in schools, according to AP. According to Attal, these pieces of clothing are in violation of France’s 2004 ban against religious symbols in public schools.
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