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The climate clock reached three years, meaning we're nearing a critical time to slow the effects of climate change before they become irreversible. Scientists, activists and business owners are feeling the effects in Ohio, and some are offering solutions.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford has unveiled a giant billboard reading: "Lake Ontario — Now and Always." But tech giant Google has said it is renaming the lake for U.S. users, as President Trump demanded.
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In a test, popular AI chatbots mostly debunked falsehoods spread by other countries and avoided uncritically spreading falsehoods better than search engines. AI summaries above search results fared worse.
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Neither Republican Vivek Ramaswamy or Democrat Amy Acton have been ever been elected to political offices.
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Researchers and advocates are applauding the changes that Meta agreed to make for minors on Instagram and Facebook. Cutting kids off at night and during the school day are two big changes.
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The great Dolly Parton died earlier this week and tributes have poured in from across the country. Fans are mourning the loss of a country music icon who not only changed the musical landscape but gave back to communities with her Imagination Library program and donations to develop the Moderna COVID vaccine.
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President Trump says his administration has entered a sweeping agreement with Venezuela that could give the U.S. access to vast amounts of the South American country's untapped oil reserves, at cost.
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Right now, the Ohio Revised Code says very little about surrogacy, which was really only legalized through a 2007 decision by the state’s highest court.
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Bhutanese immigrant communities in Ohio, including in Akron, Cleveland and Columbus, are reacting to news of the death and destruction of catastrophic floods along the Nepal-Tibet border and looking for ways they can help with relief efforts.
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Instead of collapsing, the Iranian regime has dug in its heels and taken an even harder line.