Earlier this month, a Texas judge ruled that mifepristone, one drug in the two-drug pill that makes abortion more accessible, should be outlawed, the latest in a string of moves to further restrict access to abortion. Since Roe v. Wade was overturned last June, many have compared the present moment to the era before Roe , when thousands of women died trying to obtain an abortion under unhygienic and dangerous circumstances. As someone who has studied abortion during the era it was outlawed,
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photograph by Jennifer Sandlin Dr. Bronner's—the "All-One" soap company—turns 75 this year. The Bronner family began making soap in Germany in 1858, and Emanuel Bronner founded the company in 1948. I've been a huge fan of Dr. Bronner's since I was in college and I first bought some liquid peppermint soap to take on a camping trip. Like everyone else, I was fascinated by the wacky labels, which explicated Dr. Bronner's Moral ABC: "Absolute cleanliness is Godliness! Teach the Moral ABC
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From one cousin to another, congratulations were in order from LSU's Angel Reese to UConn's Jordan Hawkins.
The college basketball stars won their respective championship games, with LSU defeating the University of Iowa 102-85 on April 2 and the University of Connecticut topping San Diego State University 76-59 the next day.
Hawkins shared on TODAY what his cousin texted him after Monday's win, and how they planned to celebrate as a family.
"(She) said she was proud of me," he told Hoda, Craig
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Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan announced proudly in August that 100,000 people had applied for her state’s free college program, Michigan Reconnect.
The program, which covers community college tuition for Michigan residents aged 25 or older to get them to go back to school, was “a gamechanger”, Whitmer said, “not only for the people enrolled in the program, but also for their families, small businesses and the state”. More than 24,000 of those applicants have enrolled in
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Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Stacy Kim is an Instagram nano influencer based in California. Stacy Kim
Smaller accounts on Instagram can still make money as influencers. "Nano" influencers, who have fewer than 10,000 followers, earn revenue from brand deals. An influencer with as few as 2,300 Instagram followers has landed deals.
If you're worried your Instagram account is too small to even think about making money as
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The mental health impact of the pandemic was so severe that it prompted a “second midlife crisis” for the over-50s, with women worst affected.
A study has found that just before the second national lockdown began, those born in Britain in 1958 and 1970 were experiencing higher levels of psychological distress, on average, than they had ever experienced in adulthood before, surpassing previous peaks in their early 40s. Data collected over four decades from more than 16,000 British-born adul
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The Alibaba cofounder Jack Ma has joined Tokyo College, which is run by the University of Tokyo. Ma will be conducting research and teaching about sustainable agriculture and food production. A former English teacher, Ma has been lying low for two years after he angered regulators in China. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. Jack Ma, the cofounder of Alibaba, has taken up a
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Susan Greenstein Prescott in high school. Susan Greenstein Prescott
This story is part of the My Unsung Hero series, from the Hidden Brain team, about people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else. When Susan Greenstein Prescott was a high school senior, her English teacher, Fred DiMeo, gave her a terrifyi
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Blake Resnick, the founder and CEO of Brinc Drones, is now worth $100 million, per Bloomberg. Resnick founded drone-maker Brinc Drones in 2019 and grew it to a $300 million operation. Brinc is backed by OpenAI founder Sam Altman and former acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. There's a newly minted centimillionaire — and he's just 23.
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