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Michigan State aiming for turnaround in Smith’s 2nd season with returning QB Chiles and trio of WRs
Lethbridge Herald
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August 20, 2025
By Canadian Press on August 20, 2025. Michigan State’s football program is desperately seeking a successful season. Aidan Chiles seems to give the Spartans a shot. The dual-threat quarterback is back after an uneven season as the starter and said...
SwRI Confirms Decades-Old Solar Magnetic Reconnection Models
Innovations Report
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August 20, 2025
SAN ANTONIO — August 18, 2025 — A team led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has confirmed decades-old theoretical models of magnetic reconnection — the explosive process that releases stored magnetic energy and powers solar flares, coronal...
MFDP Director Urges Constructive Dialogue to Boost Climate Resilience and Inclusive Development
GNN Liberia
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August 14, 2025
By Christian Appleton Gompa City, Nimba County – August 13, 2025 — D. Emmanuel Williams II, Director of the Public Investment Unit at the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning (MFDP), has called on county development and financial officers...
Jennifer Clancy Announces Candidacy For Maryland State Delegate 29A
The Bay Net - Maryland
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August 14, 2025
ST. MARY’S COUNTY, Md. — Today, Jennifer Clancy, a dedicated mother of five, licensed therapist, wife to an upstanding local sheriff, former public school counselor, and passionate advocate for education, healthcare, and community officially...
Howard County seeks environmental collaboration with education partners
Business Monthly - Maryland
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August 14, 2025
Howard County is joining forces with the Howard County Public School System and Howard Community College to close distance on the county’s climate and sustainability goals through a second solar power purchase agreement. A Memorandum of...
Baltimore grant ignites 10-year vision for a new Streetcar Museum campus
Baltimore Banner - Maryland
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Near the south end of Falls Road, there’s a dilapidated relic of the past in which Matt Nawn sees a bright future. The old Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad roundhouse is where railroad workers once maintained sooty steam locomotives in the early...
Sixty Vines to Open in Gaithersburg, Maryland
FSR
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August 14, 2025
Sixty Vines, the restaurant known for transporting guests to wine country, is set to make its Gaithersburg debut later this fall.Located at 231 Rio Boulevard, Sixty Vines invites guests to discover 60 wines on tap from wine regions around the...
Baltimore City Sheriff Sam Cogen warns courthouse security being overlooked
WBAL - Maryland
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August 11, 2025
Court security in Maryland is dangerously underfunded, according to Baltimore City Sheriff Sam Cogen. Court security in Maryland is dangerously underfunded, according to Baltimore City Sheriff Sam Cogen. On “The C4 and Bryan Nehman Show” on...
Canadians like the idea of public service for young adults. Should it be mandatory?
CBC/Radio-Canada
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August 20, 2025
Though he recalls feeling anxious ahead of his military service, Daniel You planned to make the most of it. "It's required for all Korean males; we grow up expecting it," said the 32-year-old Torontonian, "but I wanted to make sure it didn't...
Advocates hail 'historic' Maryland Uni settlement on Palestine
The New Arab
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August 14, 2025
University of Maryland SJP group win settlement in free speech case. [Getty] Rights advocates are hailing as "historic" a recent legal settlement for student activists from the University of Maryland. The university has been ordered to pay...
Cores to Code Trains Next Generation of Earthquake Scientists
Cal Poly Humboldt - California
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The samples were teeming with diatoms and foraminifera—microorganisms that, thanks to their sensitivity to environmental changes, preserve evidence of shifts in land elevation over time. By studying the samples and their tiny inhabitants, they are...
Prince George’s County Political Updates: Maryland Legislators Consider Mid-Decade Redistricting Ahead of Midterm
The Washington Informer
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August 13, 2025
Maryland is among the states responding to Republican efforts to redistrict in order to bolster the Republican majority in Congress. Following efforts by Texas Republicans to redraw their state’s congressional maps prior to the 2026 midterm...
Heat death toll climbs to 29, Maryland’s deadliest summer since 2012
Baltimore Banner - Maryland
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August 13, 2025
Maryland has recorded 29 heat-related deaths so far this summer — surpassing the total number of people who died from heat illness in 2024, which had already been a deadlier-than-usual summer. With four new heat-related deaths reported Wednesday...
Hillary Scholten spotlights healthcare expansion and conservation efforts across West Michigan
Grand Rapids Reporter - Michigan
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August 18, 2025
Congresswoman Hillary Scholten, who represents Michigan’s 3rd district in the U.S. Congress, highlighted several community and environmental initiatives in a series of posts on August 18, 2025.In one post from August 18, Scholten celebrated the...
Trump using courts as a ‘weapon,’ Hawaii says in climate dustup
Legal Newsline - Illinois
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HONOLULU - The State of Hawaii says the federal government has no authority to sue it for bringing a climate change lawsuit against Big Oil - though its case was filed after President Donald Trump forbid it. Trump's executive order prohibited...
Maryland’s Cameroonian population lives in fear under Trump
Baltimore Banner - Maryland
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Ernestine sat quietly beside her husband. A tear formed, and she wiped it away. Her husband, Denis, did not notice. He was deep in thought. “My kids are citizens, but I’m not a citizen. I’m scared of leaving my kids,” Ernestine said, stopping to...
Climate change is killing fireflies – threatening a US summer ritual
The Guardian
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August 10, 2025
Max Vogel, a 29-year-old public defense attorney, was picnicking with friends in early August at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York, when he noticed flashes of light appear in the air around him. They were fireflies, bioluminescent insects that...
Millard: Climate lawfare
Rutland Herald - Vermont
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Add Charleston, South Carolina, to the string of courtroom defeats for climate-change litigation targeting major energy producers, a legal trend likely to continue until the Supreme Court steps in. Critics call it “lawfare” because they see it as...
University Of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center Celebrates 60 Years Of Caring For Its Community
Severna Park Voice - Maryland
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At the beginning of July, the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center (UM BWMC) celebrated two milestones: 60 years of caring for Anne Arundel County and 25 years as a member of the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS)....
Maryland Perspectives: The Waterfront Partnership
98 Rock - Maryland
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August 10, 2025
The Waterfront Partnership is a non profit that has been instrumental in bringing life back to the Inner Harbor with initiatives that have made the water cleaner with plenty of new attractions to bring tourism back to the area. They create...