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New England Aquarium biologists and volunteers attach a Kemp's ridley sea turtle with a satellite tag at the Sea Turtle Hospital in the New England Aquarium's Animal Care Center in Quincy, Massachusetts, on July 10, 2024.

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  • Animals

Sea turtles are getting trapped in cold waters. This team gets them back to safety

Turtles are ending up in the cold waters of Cape Cod Bay. Here's how the New England Aquarium is warming them up and nursing them back to health.

December 06, 2024
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  • Claire Murashima and
  • Michel Martin
An abortion rights demonstrator holds a sign near the U.S. Capitol during the annual Women's March to support Women's Rights in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 8, 2022.

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  • Arts & Life

Microfeminism: The next big thing in fighting the patriarchy

People are sharing the different tactics they use help to uplift women in small ways.

December 06, 2024
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  • Alana Wise
The Life Kit team pose using tips from Stephanie Yeboah and David Suh

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  • Photography

Want a great photo of yourself? Try these confidence-boosting poses

Anyone can be photogenic. It just takes practice. A model and a posing coach share postures and movements to help you get more comfortable in front of the camera.

December 06, 2024
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  • Margaret Cirino
Smoke from fighting billows in the edges of the town of Hama, Syria, Tuesday Dec. 3, 2024.

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  • News

Concerns over Trump's crypto promises. And, gift ideas for 5 personality types

President-elect Donald Trump has promised to make the U.S. the planet's "crypto capital." Here's why critics are concerned. And, gift ideas this holiday season for five personality types.

December 06, 2024
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  • Brittney Melton
A wanted poster is set up for an NYPD press conference after United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot this week.

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  • National

The manhunt for the New York CEO's shooter enters its third day

The manhunt for the person who fatally shot the head of one of the country's largest health insurers in New York City entered its third day Friday as police parsed newly discovered clues.

December 06, 2024
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  • Ayana Archie
The ray spider is about the size of a grain of sand, yet it weaves a web with a twist to help it catch its prey.

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  • Science

Slingshot spiders rely on good vibrations to catch supper

The tiny ray spider uses launches its web to grab its prey out of the air. Though common practice in the superhero world, this ability is actually unusual in spiders.

December 06, 2024
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  • Ari Daniel
From left: Biden 1, the Pope, Biden 2.

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  • National

Who or what else did President Biden pardon? Find out in the quiz!

Also in your grab bag of weekly trivia: martial law, bitcoin, the first lady's holiday décor, a Kennedy who's not RFK Jr., brain rot and the popemobile.

December 06, 2024
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  • Holly J. Morris
New Zealand's highest peak, Aoraki, centre, is seen in the Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park, on Aug. 17, 2020.

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  • World

3 climbers from the U.S. and Canada are believed to have died in New Zealand

Three mountain climbers — two from the U.S. and one from Canada — missing for five days on Aoraki, New Zealand's tallest peak, are believed to have died in a fall, the authorities said Friday.

December 06, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, left, and NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Hammock Koch, in 2023 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Their mission to go around the moon has been delayed until at least April, 2026.

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  • Science

NASA delays Artemis II human moon mission once again as it wraps up heat shield investigation

The mission to take four astronauts on a trip around the moon and back, previously targeting a launch at the end of 2025, has been delayed until at least April, 2026.

December 06, 2024
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  • Brendan Byrne
Rodney Scott, former chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, speaks following a border tour with former Vice President Mike Pence, Monday, June 13, 2022, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)

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  • National

Trump nominates Rodney Scott to lead Customs and Border Protection

Rodney Scott at CBP and Caleb Vitello at ICE would work alongside Stephen Miller, who was named deputy chief of staff for policy and Tom Homan, also tapped to be a "border czar."

December 06, 2024
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  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
Panels in MGM Resorts' Mega Solar Array are shown after it was launched on June 28, 2021 in Dry Lake Valley, Nevada. The project sits on 640 acres of desert about 30 miles north of the Las Vegas Strip in the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone.  (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

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  • National

Some rural Nevadans want Trump to stop the state's solar energy boom

Backlash against massive solar energy farms drove strong rural turnout in Nevada may have helped flip the presidential vote there to Republican for the first time since 2004. But it's not a given Trump will derail President Biden's plans for more Nevada solar.

December 05, 2024
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  • Kirk Siegler
French lawmakers debate in the National Assembly in Paris Wednesday. A majority of legislators voted to oust Prime Minister Michel Barnier, forcing him to resign.

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  • Europe

France's toppled government adds to the European Union's bigger political problems

The political instability in France — and simultaneously in Germany, where the governing coalition collapsed a month ago — could have wide-ranging consequences.

December 05, 2024
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  • Willem Marx
People watch the waves come in at Ocean Beach in San Francisco after an earthquake was felt widely across Northern California on Thursday.

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  • National

A powerful 7.0 earthquake strikes off Northern California coast

A powerful earthquake struck off the Northern California coast, triggering tsunami warnings that were later canceled. Several aftershocks continued to rattle the area off Eureka. 

December 05, 2024
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  • Alana Wise
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield was under scrutiny for its plans to impose time limits on anesthesia coverage.

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  • Health Care

Anthem reverses plans to put time limits on anesthesia coverage

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield was under scrutiny for planning to put time limits on anesthesia care. On Thursday, the large health insurer said it had decided not to proceed with the policy change.

December 05, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Jared Isaacman at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, earlier this year. The billionaire astronaut with close ties to SpaceX has been nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to run NASA.

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  • Politics

Trump chooses billionaire astronaut Jared Isaacman to run NASA

Earlier this year, Isaacman became the first private citizen to conduct a spacewalk. But his longstanding ties with Elon Musk's company SpaceX raise possible conflicts of interest.

December 05, 2024
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
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