World Happiness Report 2025: Executive Summary (ohn Helliwell, Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Lara B. Aknin, and Shun Wang.)

In this year’s issue, we focus on the impact of caring and sharing on people’s happiness. Like ‘mercy’ in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, caring is “twice-blessed” – it blesses those who give and those who receive. In this report, we investigate both of these effects: the benefits to the recipients of caring behaviour and the benefits …

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Homeless evictions move ahead on Central Oregon federal forest ( Kathryn Styer Martínez )

After local officials banned camping in urban areas, rural sites swelled. Now, the U.S. Forest Service is cracking down. The U.S. Forest Service closed about 26,000 acres of the Deschutes National Forest on Thursday after homelessness advocates unsuccessfully attempted to delay the project’s start. Forest Service officials have said they need to clear vegetation in …

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Employee hospitalized, diagnosed with failed pancreas after US investment bank forced 110-hour work week: report

A Midwestern investment bank forced junior employees to work grueling, 110-hour workweeks that resulted in at least two people being hospitalized — including one who was diagnosed with a failed pancreas, according to a report. Junior bankers at Robert W. Baird, the century-old, privately held investment bank based in Milwaukee, Wis., said they were assigned …

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What Is Celiac Disease? Debunking 4 Myths About Gluten’s Immune Reaction (N. Lothungbeni Humtsoe)

Celiac disease is a long-term digestive issue affecting the small intestine, as well as outside of the intestine. Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder, also known as gluten-sensitive enteropathy. Individuals with celiac disease are prone to having an immune reaction to dietary gluten, which is commonly found in wheat, barley, and rye. A long-term digestive …

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Roughly 70% of Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division expected to accept resignation offer (Paula Reid and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN)

Harmeet Dhillon, then-nominee to be an assistant attorney general, testifies during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen building in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, February 26, 2025. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc./Getty Images (CNN)-Approximately 70% of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is expected to accept a second offer to federal workers that allows them to …

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DOJ Civil Rights Unit Makes Sharp Turn Toward Trump Causes (1) (Suzanne Monyak)

The Justice Department’s civil rights division under President Donald Trump has announced investigations into universities and gun rights and launched a task force dedicated to rooting out anti-Christian bias while dropping landmark civil rights settlements. Division leaders have also pushed out more than a dozen career lawyers, including at least three chiefs of sections that …

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Trump targets another large DC law firm where Robert Mueller used to work with executive order (Katelyn Polantz and Clay Voytek)

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing agencies to suspend the security clearances and access to federal buildings of lawyers for the law firm Wilmer Hale, the former firm to one time-special counsel Robert Mueller. The order also directs agencies to “refrain from hiring employees” of the firm without a waiver from an …

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