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Türkiye begins restoration of Hagia Sophia’s historic domes to protect the landmark from earthquakes

Türkiye has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on preserving the monument’s historic domes from the threat of...
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Detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz” detail inhuman conditions ranging from rotting food to open sewage

At the brand new Everglades immigration detention center that officials have dubbed ” Alligator Alcatraz,” people held there say worms turn up in the food. Toilets don’t flush,...
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Republicans’ $1 trillion slash to Medicaid will devastate America’s rural hospitals in Red States

Tyler Sherman, a nurse at a rural Nebraska hospital, is used to the area’s aging farmers delaying care until they end up in his emergency room. Now, with Congress planning around $1 trillion...
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More abortion clinics are closing even in states where abortion is legal with further cuts expected

The abortion funding system across the U.S. is battered three years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed states to enforce bans. An initial surge of donations has subsided,...
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Trump stirs outrage as 1/3 of American soil on the southern border is occupied for military expansionism

Orange no-entry signs posted by the U.S. military in English and Spanish dot the New Mexico desert, where a border wall cuts past onion fields and parched ranches with tufts of tall grass growing...
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Trump celebrates gulag-like conditions for immigrant detainees during visit to “Alligator Alcatraz”

The new immigration detention center at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades that Donald Trump visited on July 1 was heralded by Republicans as a potential model for other states to...
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From pulpits to plantations: The moral imperialism of Wisconsin’s role in the annexation of Hawaii

On July 7, 1898, President William McKinley signed the Newlands Resolution, formally annexing the Hawaiian Islands into the United States. Widely criticized by Native Hawaiians and later condemned...
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Historic Forest Home Cemetery celebrates 175 years as Milwaukee’s beloved and enduring Silent City

Beneath the sweeping canopy of century-old trees and towering monuments, Forest Home Cemetery celebrated its 175th anniversary on June 25. The evening gala featured a keynote address by celebrated...
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Milwaukee veterans inspired by visit to Hero Street as a national model of Latino military remembrance

A group of Latino veterans and community leaders from Milwaukee made a solemn and inspirational visit on June 28 to “Hero Street, U.S.A.” in Silvis, Illinois, a one-and-a-half block neighborhood known for the many Hispanic residents who served in the U.S. military during World War II and the Korean War.

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Public Health: Abortions have increased in the U.S. as desperate women turn to pills and travel

Abortion is slightly more common despite bans or deep restrictions in most Republican-controlled states, the legal and political fights over its future are not done yet. It is now been two and a...
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Maternal Mortality: Review committees are quietly fighting to save mothers amid political turmoil

Efforts to reduce the nation’s persistently high maternal mortality rates involve state panels of experts that investigate and learn from each mother’s death. The panels, called maternal...
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How neurons power new biocomputing platforms built from living tissue as AI devours global resources

A new generation of computing technology is emerging. Not from factories or cleanrooms, but from biological laboratories where human neurons are grown, trained, and wired into living machines. These...
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