Molly
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“All my life, I dreamed about having siblings somewhere."
He thought he was an only child for most of his life. But decades after being adopted, this 75-year-old learned he has a handful of siblings – and he met them just in time for the holidays.
He thought he was an only child for most of his life. But decades after being adopted, this 75-year-old learned he has a handful of siblings – and he met them just in time for the holidays.
‘A Christmas miracle’: New York man meets his biological family 75 years after being adopted | CNN
An adopted man spent all 75 years of his life thinking he was an only child, only to discover he had several biological siblings waiting to welcome him to the family.
www.cnn.com
December 26, 2024 at 1:40 AM
“All my life, I dreamed about having siblings somewhere."
He thought he was an only child for most of his life. But decades after being adopted, this 75-year-old learned he has a handful of siblings – and he met them just in time for the holidays.
He thought he was an only child for most of his life. But decades after being adopted, this 75-year-old learned he has a handful of siblings – and he met them just in time for the holidays.
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"In 2024, I have focused on building an environment around me that can help sustain a healthier, happier relationship with food and my body. I gifted myself peace — and here is how I did it," writes Madeline Holcombe | Personal Essay
Here’s the gift I have given myself this year. I hope you get it, too | CNN
Cutting out the shame around diet culture can be hard to do when it is everywhere. Here is how CNN writer Madeline Holcombe quieted the noise.
www.cnn.com
December 25, 2024 at 1:57 PM
"In 2024, I have focused on building an environment around me that can help sustain a healthier, happier relationship with food and my body. I gifted myself peace — and here is how I did it," writes Madeline Holcombe | Personal Essay
🌟 On this special Christmas Eve, may everyone feel the warmth of love and the blessing of peace. Let's cherish the people around us and welcome a better tomorrow together! Happy Christmas Eve to everyone! 🎉🎁
December 25, 2024 at 1:10 AM
🌟 On this special Christmas Eve, may everyone feel the warmth of love and the blessing of peace. Let's cherish the people around us and welcome a better tomorrow together! Happy Christmas Eve to everyone! 🎉🎁
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A spirited Yuletide brouhaha has broken out among a cadre of North Coast communities, each staking a claim to the title of the world’s tallest living Christmas tree. What’s followed has ranged from good-natured competition to straight-up beefs.
A Christmas tree war is brewing among 3 California towns
The North Coast's Christmas tree war is brewing as Ferndale, Sequoia Park Zoo and the Skunk Train battle for the title of tallest living Christmas tree.
www.sfgate.com
December 24, 2024 at 7:16 PM
A spirited Yuletide brouhaha has broken out among a cadre of North Coast communities, each staking a claim to the title of the world’s tallest living Christmas tree. What’s followed has ranged from good-natured competition to straight-up beefs.
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A front page for the ages.
December 24, 2024 at 1:12 PM
A front page for the ages.
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Under a new expansion, families in 35 of Oregon’s 36 counties have full access to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, which gifts books every month to children from birth until age five: www.kptv.com/2024/12/18/d...
Dolly Parton's 'Imagination Library' expands in Oregon
A local organization is partnering with country music icon Dolly Parton to improve literacy rates in Oregon.
www.kptv.com
December 21, 2024 at 10:32 PM
Under a new expansion, families in 35 of Oregon’s 36 counties have full access to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, which gifts books every month to children from birth until age five: www.kptv.com/2024/12/18/d...
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Dental Association (ADA) endorse water fluoridation.
The CDC has recognized water fluoridation as one of the ten great public health achievements of the 20th century.
The CDC has recognized water fluoridation as one of the ten great public health achievements of the 20th century.
December 22, 2024 at 3:17 PM
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Dental Association (ADA) endorse water fluoridation.
The CDC has recognized water fluoridation as one of the ten great public health achievements of the 20th century.
The CDC has recognized water fluoridation as one of the ten great public health achievements of the 20th century.
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President-elect Donald Trump’s team is assessing multiple options to fulfill his long-promised pledge to end birthright citizenship, sources said, teeing up a legal fight with the expectation that the Supreme Court would ultimately have to rule on the matter.
Inside the Trump team’s plans to try to end birthright citizenship | CNN Politics
President-elect Donald Trump’s team is assessing multiple options to fulfill his long-promised pledge to end birthright citizenship, according to two sources familiar with the discussions, teeing up a...
www.cnn.com
December 22, 2024 at 2:37 PM
President-elect Donald Trump’s team is assessing multiple options to fulfill his long-promised pledge to end birthright citizenship, sources said, teeing up a legal fight with the expectation that the Supreme Court would ultimately have to rule on the matter.
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"We are sort of not valuing young people reading, even if we kind of think that we do. And we lament the loss of it. We aren’t actually setting up schooling and admissions in a way that shows that we actually do value just reading for reading’s sake." @rosehorowitch.bsky.social
Why Reading Books in High School Matters
You’ll understand when you’re older.
www.theatlantic.com
December 21, 2024 at 12:52 AM
"We are sort of not valuing young people reading, even if we kind of think that we do. And we lament the loss of it. We aren’t actually setting up schooling and admissions in a way that shows that we actually do value just reading for reading’s sake." @rosehorowitch.bsky.social
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California's minimum-wage hike for fast-food workers has been a clear success, Rogé Karma writes, and yet it has been portrayed as a failure. That is a testament to how quickly economic misinformation spreads—and how hard it is to combat once it does:
The California Job-Killer That Wasn’t
The state raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers—and employment kept rising. So why has the law been proclaimed a failure?
www.theatlantic.com
December 22, 2024 at 4:09 PM
California's minimum-wage hike for fast-food workers has been a clear success, Rogé Karma writes, and yet it has been portrayed as a failure. That is a testament to how quickly economic misinformation spreads—and how hard it is to combat once it does:
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"The stock market is reflecting that it knows I am going to be president soon."
--Donald J. Trump
--Donald J. Trump
The Dow plunged more than 1,100 points on a disappointing outlook from the Federal Reserve, extending its losing streak to 10 days — the longest such stretch since 1974, when Gerald Ford was president.
Dow plunges more than 1,100 points and marked its longest losing streak since 1974 | CNN Business
The Dow plunged Wednesday on a disappointing outlook from the Federal Reserve. In the process, the blue-chip index extended its losing streak to 10 days — the longest such stretch since Gerald Ford wa...
www.cnn.com
December 19, 2024 at 2:07 PM
"The stock market is reflecting that it knows I am going to be president soon."
--Donald J. Trump
--Donald J. Trump
I don't understand why husbands do such things to their wives. He should stay in jail forever.
All 51 defendants in the Gisèle Pelicot rape trial were found guilty on Thursday. Most of the men received sentences of eight to 10 years, less than the 10- to 18-year terms that the public prosecutor had recommended.
Here's what to know about them.
Here's what to know about them.
Who Are the 51 Men Convicted in the Gisèle Pelicot Rape Trial?
Most of the accused received sentences of eight to 10 years, less than the 10- to 18-year terms that the public prosecutor had recommended.
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2024 at 2:13 PM
I don't understand why husbands do such things to their wives. He should stay in jail forever.
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RFK Jr's idea that childhood vaccines are "overloading" the immune system is wrong.
(The article does have one fault in failing to note the considerable testing of the Covid vaccines despite accomplishing this over a short time period.)
Medsky
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/h...
(The article does have one fault in failing to note the considerable testing of the Covid vaccines despite accomplishing this over a short time period.)
Medsky
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/h...
Are Childhood Vaccines ‘Overloading’ the Immune System? No. (Gift Article)
Vaccines today are more efficient and contain far fewer stimulants to the immune system than some used decades ago.
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2024 at 3:06 PM
RFK Jr's idea that childhood vaccines are "overloading" the immune system is wrong.
(The article does have one fault in failing to note the considerable testing of the Covid vaccines despite accomplishing this over a short time period.)
Medsky
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/h...
(The article does have one fault in failing to note the considerable testing of the Covid vaccines despite accomplishing this over a short time period.)
Medsky
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/h...
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Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.
December 18, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.
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Gallup finds a 24-point decline in Americans' confidence in their judiciary since 2020 – among the largest such decreases worldwide. Other countries where confidence in the courts has plummeted include Myanmar, Venezuela, Croatia, South Africa and Syria. news.gallup.com/poll/653897/...
December 17, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Gallup finds a 24-point decline in Americans' confidence in their judiciary since 2020 – among the largest such decreases worldwide. Other countries where confidence in the courts has plummeted include Myanmar, Venezuela, Croatia, South Africa and Syria. news.gallup.com/poll/653897/...
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"Star Trek II" and "Dirty Dancing" are among the 25 films selected for preservation this year in the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry, the library announced on Tuesday. Here are the other new additions.
‘Star Trek II’ and ‘Dirty Dancing’ Join National Film Registry
The movies, along with “Uptown Saturday Night,” “Mi Familia” and “The Social Network,” are among the 25 selected by the Librarian of Congress.
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2024 at 1:16 PM
"Star Trek II" and "Dirty Dancing" are among the 25 films selected for preservation this year in the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry, the library announced on Tuesday. Here are the other new additions.
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Disney agrees to $233 million wage theft settlement for Anaheim’s theme park employees
Disney agrees to $233 million wage theft settlement for Anaheim’s theme park employees
If approved, $179.6 million will go to tens of thousands of Disney workers denied raises under the city’s Measure L wage ordinance
www.ocregister.com
December 17, 2024 at 5:00 AM
Disney agrees to $233 million wage theft settlement for Anaheim’s theme park employees
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Police ID girl, 15, as alleged Wisconsin school shooter who killed student and teacher, injured 6 abc7.la/3ByxCRy
Police ID girl, 15, as alleged Wisconsin school shooter who killed student and teacher, injured 6
The shooting at a Wisconsin Christian school happened in a study hall, and was reported to police by a second-grader, police say.
abc7.la
December 17, 2024 at 7:47 AM
Police ID girl, 15, as alleged Wisconsin school shooter who killed student and teacher, injured 6 abc7.la/3ByxCRy
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Under Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian government set up a vast network of prisons and torture chambers that swallowed up tens of thousands of people.
This is the story of one man who made it out. Listen to "The Daily."
This is the story of one man who made it out. Listen to "The Daily."
Syria Unearths Years of Atrocities
After the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, tens of thousands have been released from his brutal prisons. This is the story of one man who made it out.
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2024 at 11:21 AM
Under Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian government set up a vast network of prisons and torture chambers that swallowed up tens of thousands of people.
This is the story of one man who made it out. Listen to "The Daily."
This is the story of one man who made it out. Listen to "The Daily."
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Argentina has come out of a deep recession in a major victory for the country’s unorthodox President Javier Milei, who has spent the past year enacting sweeping — and painful — reforms in Latin America’s third-largest economy
Argentina exits recession in win for libertarian president Milei | CNN Business
Argentina has come out of a deep recession in a major victory for the country’s unorthodox President Javier Milei, who has spent the past year enacting sweeping — and painful — reforms in Latin Americ...
www.cnn.com
December 17, 2024 at 11:34 AM
Argentina has come out of a deep recession in a major victory for the country’s unorthodox President Javier Milei, who has spent the past year enacting sweeping — and painful — reforms in Latin America’s third-largest economy
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While you were sleeping, South Korean President Looney Yoon was impeached and removed from office over his botched, short-lived martial law stunt.
December 14, 2024 at 5:59 PM
While you were sleeping, South Korean President Looney Yoon was impeached and removed from office over his botched, short-lived martial law stunt.
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An entangled humpback whale was spotted off the coast of Newport Beach, and after an unsuccessful attempt to free the animal, rescue crews say it's a tricky task. ³ https://abc7.la/4fjnH03
December 14, 2024 at 11:00 PM
An entangled humpback whale was spotted off the coast of Newport Beach, and after an unsuccessful attempt to free the animal, rescue crews say it's a tricky task. ³ https://abc7.la/4fjnH03
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I heard RFK Jr. is floating the banning of the polio vaccine so seems like a good time to remind folks that RFK Jr. was vaccinated with this same vaccine & therefore is at no risk of harm himself
Kinda like when he publicly was against the covid vaccine yet privately required his guests to have it🙃
Kinda like when he publicly was against the covid vaccine yet privately required his guests to have it🙃
December 14, 2024 at 2:21 AM
I heard RFK Jr. is floating the banning of the polio vaccine so seems like a good time to remind folks that RFK Jr. was vaccinated with this same vaccine & therefore is at no risk of harm himself
Kinda like when he publicly was against the covid vaccine yet privately required his guests to have it🙃
Kinda like when he publicly was against the covid vaccine yet privately required his guests to have it🙃
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#Earthquake Update: A magnitude 1.39 earthquake took place 11 km S of Tehachapi, CA at 7:37:05 AM. #micro
For details from the USGS:
For details from the USGS:
M 1.4 - 11 km S of Tehachapi, CA | 41001896
2024-12-14 15:12:05 (UTC) | -118.441°N 35.037°W | 9.4 km depth
earthquake.usgs.gov
December 14, 2024 at 3:42 PM
#Earthquake Update: A magnitude 1.39 earthquake took place 11 km S of Tehachapi, CA at 7:37:05 AM. #micro
For details from the USGS:
For details from the USGS: