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  • May 19, 2025October 25, 2025

Do you struggle with anxiety or depression?

Anxiety disorders are real, serious medical conditions, just as real and serious as physical disorders such as heart disease or diabetes. Anxiety disorders are the most pervasive mental disorders i

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  • February 6, 2025October 25, 2025

What is the difference between acetaminophen, ibuprofen, naproxen, and aspirin?

For more information go (here) and (here). I’m not a doctor or offering any medical advice. This is just the answer to a question I had for myself. See your medical practitioner for advice on ove

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  • November 4, 2024November 4, 2024

Fifteen Essential Documents

Here is a list of 15 essential documents all retirees must have in order. Some of these docs are important for all of us. Get them before you need them. If you are a senior who

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  • November 3, 2023November 3, 2023

How to prevent apps from accessing your personal data

by The CREDO Team Smartphone apps can collect a whole lot of data about you: Your name and email address, location history, personal contacts, photos and videos, purchases, health and fitness data

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  • June 21, 2022June 21, 2022

Homemade Chocolate Ice Cream for Adults

(Based on Black Pepper Ice Cream from The Perfect Scoop by David Lebovitz (I’ve used this for years. It always sells out first at the church ice cream social) Ingredients: 1/2 cup whole

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  • May 20, 2022May 20, 2022

Banana Bread Snack Cakes

Ingredients 1-2/3 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 cup packed brown sugar 1/2 cup water 1/3 cup mashed ripe bananas (about 1 small, very ripe banana) 1/3 cup canola oil 1/2 teaspoon

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  • April 25, 2022April 25, 2022

15 Used Things That Can Be a Good Bargain

Books Bicycles Musical instruments Pets (get a shelter dog or cat) Vintage clothing Lawnmowers and yard care equipment Furniture China and crystal Jewelry Baby clothes Cars (low mileage leased vehi

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  • April 25, 2022April 25, 2022

Carrot Cake (I love this recipe)

Ingredients 2 cups all-purpose flour 2 cups sugar 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon healthy dash of nutmeg or to taste 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 3 large eggs, room temperature 1.5 cups can

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  • April 25, 2022April 25, 2022

How to Get Rid of Spiders Naturally, for Good

Marisa Hillman Stay Away Spiders Deterrent These plant-based sachets are made with a mix of essential oils and other botanical ingredients including rosemary oil, lemongrass oil, citronel

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  • April 25, 2022April 25, 2022

How To Do Face Yoga To Look Years Younger, According To Experts

Proponents say that a daily commitment to these stretches can improve sagging facial muscles — and there’s science to back them up. By Julie Kendrick Apr. 11, 2022, 05:45 AM EDT There

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  • April 25, 2022April 25, 2022

Fox News viewers experienced ‘changes in attitudes’ after watching CNN for 30 days: study

Alex Henderson  April 04, 2022 But according to researchers David E. Brockman and Joshua L. Kalla, Fox News viewers developed better critical thinking skills when exposed to CNN. Brockman

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  • April 4, 2022April 4, 2022

Perspectives on Ukraine

The Economist Brookings The Guardian Center for American Progress Wall Street Journal Council on Foreign Relations The New Yorker Cato New Republic Bloomberg (video) Foreign policy think tanks

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  • April 4, 2022April 4, 2022

If You Have This in Your Wallet, It Could Be Hurting Your Credit Score

By Lynnette Khalfani-Cox March 25, 2022 Credit cards can be handy financial tools that build your credit score and tide you over in emergencies. But as life changes, so do your credit nee

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  • April 4, 2022April 4, 2022

Turkey Meatloaf

Ingredients 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 large onion, chopped (1 1/2 cups) 2 garlic cloves, minced ¾ teaspoon salt, divided ½ teaspoon pepper, divided 1 ½ tablespoons Worcestershire sauce ⅓ cup

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  • April 4, 2022April 4, 2022

What White Men Say in Our Absence

By Elaine Hsieh Chou When I graduated from college, I moved to Taipei to teach ESL. One afternoon on the train, I overheard two white men discussing Asian women with an unfiltered openness ach

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NY Times

  • Immigration Agents Target Family of Deported College Student
  • Bessent Says He Divested From Soybean Farms After Ethics Office Warning
  • Presidential Power Gets Tested Before Supreme Court After Long Conservative Project to Shrink Agencies
  • 4 Takeaways From The Times’s Reporting on Biden’s Immigration Record
  • How Biden Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration

NPR

  • Light from satellites will ruin majority of some space telescope images, study says
  • Elephant seals remember their enemies
  • This High Arctic rhino may change what we know about ancient animal migrations
  • Your glitchy video calls may make people mistrust you
  • What do birds think of forest management?

The Progressive

  • The Education Experiment Gone Wrong
  • Go Tell It on the Mountain: Genocide is Wrong
  • Trump’s War on ‘Narcoterrorism’ Is a Smokescreen
  • In ‘Wicked,’ and in Life, Politics Is Messy Business
  • A Quiet Revolution Is Improving Schools

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FactCheck.org

  • Vaccine Panel, Voting to Change Hepatitis B Shot for Newborns, Shares Misleading Information
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  • Examining Trump’s Pardon of Former Honduran President Convicted of Trafficking Drugs to U.S.
  • Unpacking the FDA’s Black Friday Vaccine Memo
  • Q&A on Vetting of Accused National Guard Shooter

Snopes.com

  • 15 rumors about Erika Kirk, investigated
  • Rumor claims California law requires kids up to 16 to use booster seats. That's mostly false
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  • Did Scotland accidentally approve initiative letting people go topless in public?
  • 13 rumors about Rep. Rashida Tlaib, fact-checked

Tradeoffs

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  • The Quiet Cuts Making ACA Enrollment Harder

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