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Katharine McCormick dedicated her life and wealth to opening doors for women, and provided almost all the funding that researchers used to develop the birth control pill. nyti.ms/3YevhmI

Overlooked No More: Katharine McCormick, Force Behind the Birth Control Pill (Published 2025)

She used her wealth strategically to expand opportunities for women, underwriting the development of the pill and supporting the suffrage movement.

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The Biden-era limits were designed to reduce emissions of toxic pollutants, including a cancer-causing ingredient used in antifreeze and plastics. nyti.ms/4i6JngZ

Chemical Industry Asks Trump for Exemption From Pollution Limits (Published 2025)

The Biden-era limits were designed to reduce emissions of toxic pollutants, including a cancer-causing ingredient used in antifreeze and plastics.

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The move threatens to paralyze the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps to offset high utility bills for roughly 6.2 million people nationwide. nyti.ms/3E4PBQD

Entire Staff Is Fired at Office That Helps Poorer Americans Pay for Heating (Published 2025)

The move threatens to paralyze the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps to offset high utility bills for roughly 6.2 million people nationwide.

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The ancient weapons, found in a cave near Marfa, could be among the oldest near-complete set of wood and stone hunting tools found in North America. nyti.ms/3RwOEnk

Ancient Hunting Kit Is Found in West Texas (Published 2025)

The 6,500-year-old weapons, found in a cave near Marfa, could be among the oldest near-complete set of wood and stone hunting tools found in North America.

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Administration officials reversed a decision made during the Biden presidency that would have given millions of people access to weight-loss drugs paid for Medicare and Medicaid. nyti.ms/4cjCeJd

Trump Rejects Biden Plan to Expand Medicare Coverage for Obesity Drugs (Published 2025)

Administration officials reversed a decision made during the Biden presidency that would have given millions of people access to weight-loss drugs paid for Medicare and Medicaid.

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Recent Trump administration actions are setting the stage for a measles resurgence, experts fear. nyti.ms/3RzBQfV

Why Measles Outbreaks May Be the New Normal (Published 2025)

Recent Trump administration actions are setting the stage for a measles resurgence, experts fear.

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Roughly 20 states now have laws permitting families to place cameras in the rooms of loved ones. Facility operators are often opposed. nyti.ms/3GbybCv

Why Cameras Are Popping Up in Eldercare Facilities (Published 2025)

Roughly 20 states now have laws permitting families to place cameras in the rooms of loved ones. Facility operators are often opposed.

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She used her wealth strategically to expand opportunities for women, underwriting the development of the pill and supporting the suffrage movement. nyti.ms/4iUzvsd

Overlooked No More: Katharine McCormick, Force Behind the Birth Control Pill (Published 2025)

She used her wealth strategically to expand opportunities for women, underwriting the development of the pill and supporting the suffrage movement.

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Two significant programs that invested in research on diabetes, dementia, obesity and kidney disease have ended since the start of the Trump administration. nyti.ms/3Enunxs

As Kennedy Champions Chronic Disease Prevention, Key Research Is Cut (Published 2025)

Two significant programs that invested in research on diabetes, dementia, obesity and kidney disease have ended since the start of the Trump administration.

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President Trump wants to bring pharmaceutical manufacturing back to the United States. Experts warn that tariffs could result in shortages and higher prices for generic drugs. nyti.ms/42fPoSD

Trump’s Next Tariffs Target Could Be Foreign-Made Medicines (Published 2025)

President Trump wants to bring pharmaceutical manufacturing back to the United States. Experts warn that tariffs could result in shortages and higher prices for generic drugs.

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Trump cutbacks were supposedly aimed at administrators. But scientists in food and drug-testing labs and policy experts who advance generic drug approvals were also dismissed. nyti.ms/4lkpsyc

F.D.A. Layoffs Could Raise Drug Costs and Erode Food Safety (Published 2025)

Trump cutbacks were supposedly aimed at administrators. But scientists in food and drug-testing labs and policy experts who advance generic drug approvals were also dismissed.

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As they cling to leaf tips, newborn warty birch caterpillars produce vibrations that can ward off invaders approaching their millimeter-size domain. nyti.ms/4jCA8GT

The Very Territorial Caterpillar (Published 2025)

As they cling to leaf tips, newborn warty birch caterpillars produce vibrations that can ward off invaders approaching their millimeter-size domain.

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Born into rural poverty, he climbed to the top of the art market. But he fell after being convicted of selling fake and stolen items. nyti.ms/42gqTEY

Leonardo Patterson, 82, High-Flying Antiquities Dealer Brought Low, Dies (Published 2025)

Born into rural poverty, he climbed to the top of the art market. But he fell after being convicted of selling fake and stolen items.

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In addition to reductions at agency personnel, federal regulators are demanding $2.9 billion in contract cancellations, The Times has learned. nyti.ms/42bCgy2

Trump Administration Demands Additional Cuts at C.D.C. (Published 2025)

In addition to reductions in agency personnel, federal regulators are demanding $2.9 billion in contract cancellations.

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It is the second confirmed measles death in the U.S. in a decade. If the outbreak continues at the current pace, the nation may lose its “elimination” status. nyti.ms/4jfREAd

Kennedy Attends Funeral of Texas Girl Who Died of Measles (Published 2025)

The health secretary has faced harsh criticism for his handling of the outbreak, embrace of alternative treatments and tepid endorsement of vaccination.

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The reorganization that began on Tuesday will scale back an agency that has been a public health model around the world. nyti.ms/4cqh1x9

C.D.C. Cuts Threaten to Set Back the Nation’s Health, Critics Say (Published 2025)

The reorganization that began on Tuesday will scale back an agency that has been a public health model around the world.

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Across the country, companies have been installing giant batteries that help them use more wind and solar power. That’s about to get much harder. nyti.ms/4iQGfHl

How Trump’s Tariffs Could Hobble the Fastest-Growing Energy Technology (Published 2025)

Across the country, companies have been installing giant batteries that help them use more wind and solar power. That’s about to get much harder.

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It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He found a creative way to prove it. nyti.ms/4cgmYMX

Ralph Holloway, Anthropologist Who Studied Brain’s Evolution, Dies at 90 (Published 2025)

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He found a creative way to prove it.

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Ralph Holloway, an anthropologist who pioneered the idea that changes in brain structure, and not just size, were critical in the evolution of humans, has died at 90. nyti.ms/4ldNE53

Ralph Holloway, Anthropologist Who Studied Brain’s Evolution, Dies at 90 (Published 2025)

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He found a creative way to prove it.

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Mommy, a Western Santa Cruz tortoise, recently welcomed four hatchlings at the Philadelphia Zoo, where she has lived since 1932. nyti.ms/3G7hwzY

An Endangered Galápagos Tortoise Is a First-Time Mother at 100 (Published 2025)

Mommy, a Western Santa Cruz tortoise, recently welcomed four hatchlings at the Philadelphia Zoo, where she has lived since 1932.

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