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‘Climate free fall’: why the biggest risk to our economies has yet to be recognized 0
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- July 14, 2026
I have studied climate tipping points.1 for more than 20 years, and I am increasingly concerned that scientists have overlooked the most dangerous aspect of these for societies. The possible collapse of important parts of the Earth system (from ice sheets to ocean circulations) will profoundly alter the planet’s warming and tilt it irreversibly toward
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What to know about Trump’s order to reduce the size of 2 national monuments in Utah 0
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- July 14, 2026
SALT LAKE CITY — Reviewing actions from his first term that were reversed, President Donald Trump announced Monday that he will shrink the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah. The Republican’s actions undo proclamations by his predecessors that deemed sites worthy of preservation under the Antiquities Act, a 1906 law that gives
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Minnesota prosecutors obtain long-withheld evidence in protest shooting deaths 0
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- July 13, 2026
Minnesota prosecutors announced Monday that they have obtained key evidence in their ongoing investigations into the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti during protests against a federal immigration crackdown in the state earlier this year. “Through the cooperation of our federal partners, we have obtained the hard drives of evidence previously withheld in
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This microbiologist endured a four-year court battle over COVID-19 testing 0
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- July 13, 2026
When the COVID-19 pandemic began to sweep the world in February 2020, Linda Guamán, a microbiologist at the UTE University of Quito, was ready to serve her country. Ecuador announced its first case on February 29 and the disease spread rapidly. Guayaquil, the country’s largest city, was especially hard hit. Hospitals, funeral homes and mortuaries
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The rise of evidence-based medicine and the ‘mavericks’ who defended it 0
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- July 13, 2026
Analyzes of the scientific evidence led doctors to recommend that babies sleep on their backs.Credit: Yamaguchi Haruyoshi/Corbis/Getty Beyond Credibility: How Evidence Shows What Really Works Helen Pearson Princeton University. Press (2026) Consolidating the use of evidence in health and public policy has required decades of challenging work. Fifty years ago, doctors used to think that
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Who could replace Lindsey Graham? South Carolina’s next steps after the death of the senator 0
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- July 13, 2026
CHARLESTON, South Carolina — The death of Sen. Lindsey Graham, who was running for a fifth term when he died over the weekend, began a tumultuous new chapter in South Carolina politics during a year that has already been filled with turmoil. As the conservative state’s senior senator and influential ally of President Donald Trump,
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