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• See Photos of Juneteenth Celebrations Across the U.S.

  19-06-2025 19:02 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: CBS News - U.S. NewsPeople across the U.S. are celebrating Juneteenth today—a federal holiday that marks the end of slavery in the United States after the Civil War. Also called Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, Juneteenth falls annually on June 19, the date in 1865 when the last enslaved groups in Texas were officially freed. Communities have paid homage to that date for well over a century. Here's how towns and cities across the U.S. have celebrated Juneteenth...
  
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• Ear Wax Reveals Parkinson's Disease Biomarkers

  19-06-2025 19:01 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google News - HealthMost treatments for Parkinson's disease only slow disease progression. Early intervention for the neurological disease is therefore critical to optimize care, but that requires early diagnosis, which has proven difficult. Now, researchers in Hangzhou, China, have developed a system that detects Parkinson's with 94% accuracy based on AI analyses of a person's ear wax. The results appear in the American Chemical Society journal Analytical...
  
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• Trump Administration Ending LGBTQ Suicide Hotline in July

  19-06-2025 08:17 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsThe U.S. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline will no longer offer a specialized service for LGBTQ callers, as of July 17. The Trump administration issued a stop-work order to the nonprofit Trevor Project, which has operated the specialized 988 LGBTQ suicide lifeline since 2022. Mr. Trump signed legislation in 2020 establishing the specialized service, which has thus far received about 1.3 million calls, texts, and online chat messages.
  
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• What Farmers' Adaptation to Climate Change Means for the Future of Food

  19-06-2025 08:16 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Canadian Broadcasting Company - Top Stories NewsThink food prices are high now? By the end of this century, climate change could significantly cut production of six staple food crops around the world, a new study finds. And certain crops in higher-income regions—such as corn and wheat in the U.S. Midwest and wheat in Canada's prairies—could see some of the bigger losses compared to crops in developing countries, according to the report, published Wednesday in the journal Natu
  
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• U.S. Supreme Court Delivers Major Blow to Transgender Rights

  19-06-2025 08:16 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: PBS HealthThe U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a stunning setback to transgender rights. The justices' 6-3 decision in a case from Tennessee effectively protects from legal challenges many efforts by President Donald Trump's Republican administration and state governments to roll back protections for transgender people. Another 26 states have laws similar to the one in Tennessee.
  
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