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The Trump Administration Is Trying to Revoke the ‘Roadless Rule.’ The Public Won’t Have Much Time to Weigh In

The Trump Administration Is Trying to Revoke the ‘Roadless Rule.’ The Public Won’t Have Much Time to Weigh In

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is giving the public just three weeks to weigh in on a key step of its attempt to scrap the Roadless Rule, which protects almost 59 million acres of forest land from road construction and timber harvesting. The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) published a notice Friday seeking comment on its intention to develop an environmental …

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Public Health Officials Report Increase in Valley Fever Cases in Riverside County  

Public Health Officials Report Increase in Valley Fever Cases in Riverside County  

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. (KESQ) – Riverside University Health System — Public Health (RUHS-PH) officials are alerting the public to an increase in Valley fever cases in Riverside County. Valley fever, or coccidioidomycosis, is a lung infection caused by inhaling fungal spores found in soil and dust, particularly in dry, windy conditions. The spores can be carried in the air when …

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Windows 11 25H2 update hits its last stop before release to the general public

Windows 11 25H2 update hits its last stop before release to the general public

Microsoft’s fifth major iteration of Windows 11 is nearing its release to the general public—the Windows Insider team announced today that Windows 11 25H2 was being put into its Release Preview Channel, the final stop for most updates before they become available to everyone. That’s around two months after the first Windows builds with the 25H2 label were released to …

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LISTING OF DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH PRESS RELEASES – LA County Department of Public Health (.gov)

LISTING OF DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH PRESS RELEASES  LA County Department of Public Health (.gov) Los Angeles County reports rise in flea-borne typhus cases  KTLA Santa Monica reports Typhus outbreak as County cases surge  Santa Monica Daily Press Public Health warns of rising flea-borne typhus cases amid Santa Monica outbreak  NBC4 Los Angeles Flea-borne typhus cases rising in LA County  FOX 11 Los Angeles Source …

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers ask judge to ban top Trump admin. officials from making “baseless public attacks”

Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers ask judge to ban top Trump admin. officials from making “baseless public attacks”

Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia asked a judge on Thursday to bar top Trump administration officials — including Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi — from making “baseless public attacks” against their client, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador earlier this year. The motion was filed in Nashville federal court less than a week …

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Trump Officials Threaten Denver Public School Funding Over Transgender Bathroom Policy – The New York Times

Trump Officials Threaten Denver Public School Funding Over Transgender Bathroom Policy  The New York Times Trump administration threatens to sanction Denver schools over gender-neutral school bathrooms  Politico US Education Department says Denver school’s all-gender bathrooms violate Title IX  AP News Education Department threatens sanctions against Denver schools over all-gender bathroom  The Hill Trump Administration Issues New Threat to Denver Public School District  Newsweek Source link

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The unexpected value of communicating science to the public

The unexpected value of communicating science to the public

Rust, N. C. Our memory is even better than experts thought. Sci. Am. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/our-memory-is-even-better-than-experts-thought/ (2021). Sutton, R. S. & Barto, A. G. Reinforcement Learning (MIT Press, 2018). Bellman equation. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellman_equation. Jaegle, A., Mehrpour, V. & Rust, N. Visual novelty, curiosity, and intrinsic reward in machine learning and the brain. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 58, 167–174 (2019). CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  …

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Global distribution of research efforts, disease burden, and impact of US public funding withdrawal

Global distribution of research efforts, disease burden, and impact of US public funding withdrawal

Data sources Life science publications We extracted life science research publications from the parsed PubMed XML database. Trained librarians associate articles indexed in PubMed with MeSH terms, which constitute a controlled vocabulary for the categorization of biomedical research topics. These terms formed the basis for linking publications to specific diseases in our analysis. Previous studies have also used alternative approaches …

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Office of Public Affairs | Two Self-Professed Religious Leaders Who Used Physical and Psychological Abuse to Coerce Victims to Solicit Tens of Millions in Donations Federally Charged and Arrested

Office of Public Affairs | Two Self-Professed Religious Leaders Who Used Physical and Psychological Abuse to Coerce Victims to Solicit Tens of Millions in Donations Federally Charged and Arrested

A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Michigan returned a ten-count indictment against two defendants for their alleged roles in a forced labor and money laundering conspiracy that victimized individuals in Michigan, Florida, Texas, and Missouri. The two defendants, David Taylor, 53, and Michelle Brannon, 56, were arrested today in North Carolina and Florida in a nationwide takedown …

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