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Back to SearchAmazon, Target and more will stop selling water beads marketed to kids due to rising safety concerns
Three major retailers — Amazon, Target and Walmart — say they're suspending sales of water-bead products marketed to young children due to growing sa…
2 years, 6 months ago
New York removes medical debt from credit reports
Unpaid medical debt will no longer appear in New York residents’ credit reports under a bill signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on December 13. Th…
2 years, 6 months ago
Prince Harry wins phone hacking lawsuit against British tabloid publisher, awarded 140,000 pounds
Prince Harry won his phone hacking lawsuit in December against the publisher of the Daily Mirror and was awarded over 140,000 pounds ($180,000) in th…
2 years, 6 months ago
Is a floating dairy farm a solution for climate change?
The Floating Farm is one of the latest attempts to think outside the box when it comes to adapting to climate change. Mussel farms or attempts to gro…
2 years, 6 months ago
Australian hospital uses music to stabilize children’s heart rates
For the past 30 years, the Queensland Children’s Hospital has been using music therapy to stabilize the heart rate of children during and after medic…
2 years, 7 months ago
With no supermarket for residents of Atlantic City, mobile groceries bring food and produce to communities in need
In the seaside resort of Atlantic City, New Jersey, where $5 billion worth of in-person and online gambling gets done each year, there still is not a…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Dodgers gave Shohei Ohtani $700 million to hit and pitch—but also because he can sell
Shohei Ohtani’s jaw-dropping $700 million, 10-year deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers has some similarities to other contracts for the world’s biggest…
2 years, 7 months ago
Technology built the cashless society. Advances are helping the unhoused so they’re not left behind
John Littlejohn remembers the days when lots of people had a couple of dollars to spare to buy a copy of Street Sense, the local paper that covers is…
2 years, 7 months ago
Tiny urban parks provide Sydney residents with much-needed green space
In Sydney, tiny urban parks provide local residents with much-needed green space amidst the hustle and bustle of city life. These tiny inner-city par…
2 years, 7 months ago
Miyazaki’s ‘The Boy and the Heron’ is No. 1 at the box office, a first for the Japanese anime master
For the first time in Hayao Miyazaki’s decades-spanning career, the 82-year-old Japanese anime master is No. 1 at the North American box office. Miya…
2 years, 7 months ago