Tiny particles of plastic have been found everywhere — from the deepest place on the planet, the Mariana Trench, to the top of Mount Everest. And now more and more studies are finding that microplastics, defined as plastic pieces less than 5 millimeters across, are also in our bodies. “What […]
President Biden’s secretary of education released a letter calling for the end of all corporal punishment in U.S. schools. U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona sent the “dear colleague” letter to governors, chief state school officers and other school leaders nationwide on Friday calling for the end of all corporal […]
SALT LAKE CITY — Children and teens in Utah would lose access to social media apps such as TikTok if they don’t have parental consent and face other restrictions under a first-in-the-nation law designed to shield young people from the addictive platforms. Two laws signed by Republican Gov. Spencer Cox […]
BRUSSELS — European Union leaders gathered Friday to gauge the risk of a banking crisis developing from recent global financial turbulence and hitting the economy even harder than the energy crunch tied to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The deliberations by EU government heads in Brussels follow U.S. regulators shutting down […]
21Wilberforce is happy to announce that Knox Thames and Curtis L. Brown have been elected to its Board of Directors powerful straight away. New board member, Knox Thames, is an American human legal rights lawyer, advocate, and author who has focused his job to advertising the rights of spiritual minorities […]
Dr. Leah Rethy is an internal medicine resident with Penn Medicine. Kimberly Paynter/WHYY hide caption toggle caption Kimberly Paynter/WHYY Dr. Leah Rethy is an internal medicine resident with Penn Medicine. Kimberly Paynter/WHYY Dr. Leah Rethy was pregnant during the first year of her internal medicine residency at the Hospital of […]