Health workers in Brazil are searching through junkyards and on rooftops to find mosquitos in order to combat the dengue outbreak.
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Health workers in Brazil are searching through junkyards and on rooftops to find mosquitos in order to combat the dengue outbreak.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The small team of state public health workers slalomed between auto parts strewn across a Rio de Janeiro junkyard, looking for standing water where mosquitoes might have laid their eggs. These were initiatives across the country aimed at controlling the increase of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne illness, during Brazil’s peak

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Fourteen states, led by the GOP, have rejected federal funding to provide meals for underprivileged children during the summer. Here's the reason why.
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Fourteen states, led by the GOP, have rejected federal funding to provide meals for underprivileged children during the summer. Here’s the reason why.

Families with children of school age who have lower incomes may receive assistance from the national government to cover their grocery expenses during the summer, except if they reside in any of the 14 states that have declined to participate in the program this year. The rejections are based on various reasons, all coming from

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Prior to Russia's potential threat from satellites, there existed events such as Starfish Prime, nesting dolls, and robotic arms.
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Prior to Russia’s potential threat from satellites, there existed events such as Starfish Prime, nesting dolls, and robotic arms.

If Russia were to deploy nuclear warheads to destroy American satellites, it could have catastrophic consequences such as causing failures in your home’s electrical and water systems, halting air, rail, and road transportation, and rendering your cellphone inoperable. The following are some of the causes of concern this week regarding reports of Russia potentially developing

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11 sea turtles that were previously cold-stunned have been released back into the Atlantic Ocean after receiving rehabilitation in Florida.
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11 sea turtles that were previously cold-stunned have been released back into the Atlantic Ocean after receiving rehabilitation in Florida.

Eleven Kemp’s ridley sea turtles that were cold-stunned have been released back into the Atlantic Ocean by employees of Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Florida. The aquarium announced on Thursday that the turtles, who had been undergoing rehabilitation for two months, were recently set free near Cape Canaveral. The group of 16 turtles originally came from

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A study conducted in the United States has discovered that a higher number of fatalities occur from smoking drugs rather than injecting them.
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A study conducted in the United States has discovered that a higher number of fatalities occur from smoking drugs rather than injecting them.

According to a recent study by the government, smoking has overtaken injecting as the most prevalent method of drug use in cases of overdose in the United States. The study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday is considered the largest investigation into how Americans consumed the drugs that ultimately caused

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Iowa's abortion providers have received guidance on how to handle the temporarily halted 6-week ban, in case it is ultimately upheld.
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Iowa’s abortion providers have received guidance on how to handle the temporarily halted 6-week ban, in case it is ultimately upheld.

The Iowa Supreme Court recently approved guidelines for abortion providers in response to the state’s ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The strict abortion law is temporarily suspended while Governor Kim Reynolds appeals the lower court’s decision to halt its main components. However, the medical board has been told to proceed with creating

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