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What behavioral strategies motivate environmental action?
A collaborative study tested 17 strategies in an 'intervention tournament.' Interventions targeting future thinking, such as writing a letter for a child to read in the future, are the most effective ways to motivate climate action.ScienceDaily
Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding
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The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. ProPublica heard from more than 150 researchers to understand the work that’s been lost.
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Science Shattered
The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPublica what is being lost.ProPublica
Global study links consumption of ultraprocessed foods to preventable premature deaths
A study analyzing data from nationally representative dietary surveys and mortality data from eight countries (Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, United Kingdom, and United States) shows that premature deaths attributable to consumpt…ScienceDaily
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Malaysia: Wood Products Tainted by Abuse, Deforestation
Malaysia’s Sarawak state has failed to protect an Indigenous community from a timber company that logged without the community’s consent and seeks to remove them from their land.Human Rights Watch
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Trump nominates official with ties to antisemitic extremists to lead ethics agency
Trump's Now Betraying The Jewish Americans... Why Am I Not Surprised?
Trade Court Strikes Down Trump Tariffs, Threatening His Economic Agenda and Tax Cuts
The U.S. Court of International Trade on Wednesday struck down tariffs imposed on virtually every country by President Donald Trump, ruling that he exceeded the authority granted to him under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
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Judge Halts Trump Admin’s Attempt to Withhold HUD Funds From Cambridge
Once More The Battle Ends up in the Court over Trump Administrative Overreach.
The ruling comes after Cambridge joined more than 30 other towns, cities, and counties in a lawsuit against U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner. The lawsuit argues that adoption of certain policies “in exchange for Continuum of Care funds is an abuse of executive power and violates the Constitution and federal laws,” according to a city statement.
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Judge Halts Trump Admin’s Attempt to Withhold HUD Funds From Cambridge | News | The Harvard Crimson
A federal judge granted Cambridge a second temporary restraining order on Friday against the Trump administration’s attempt to tie homelessness funds to compliance with executive orders the city says violate its Welcoming City Ordinance.www.thecrimson.com
US citizen says ICE mistakenly took him into custody outside Massachusetts courthouse
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —A U.S. citizen said he was mistakenly taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents outside a Massachusetts courthouse Friday. He was later released after agents confirmed his identity. Hugo Monteiro, a 31-year-old Brazilian American from Revere, said he was taken by ICE agents outside Cambridge District Court when they confused him for another person.
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US citizen says ICE mistakenly took him into custody outside Massachusetts courthouse
A U.S. citizen from Revere was mistakenly taken into custody by ICE agents outside a Cambridge courthouse. He was released after proving his identity.Ted Wayman (WCVB)
Germany arrests self-declared 'king' and bans his extremist group
Peter Fitzek, 59, was among those arrested in morning raids across seven states on Tuesday, which involved about 800 security personnel.The government banned their group, the Reichsbürger, or "citizens of the Reich", which seeks to establish the Königreich Deutschland, or "Kingdom of Germany".
Alexander Dobrindt, German's interior minister, accused the group of attempting to "undermine the rule of law" by creating an alternative state and spreading "antisemitic conspiracy narratives to back up their supposed claim to authority".
His ministry announced the dissolution of the group, and accused it of financing itself through "economic criminal structures".
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Germany bans extremist movement and arrests self-declared 'king' Peter
Police arrest the leaders of Germany's largest Reichsbürger faction, that calls itself "Kingdom of Germany".Damien McGuinness (BBC News)
Labour and other political parties banned from four biggest UK Prides
No More Pandering To Political Parties That Are False Allies
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Labour and other political parties banned from four biggest UK Prides
Political parties, including Labour, the Conservatives, the Greens and the Lib Dems, have been banned from four major Pride events in the UK.Amelia Hansford (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)