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They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies are robots meant to lure the giant invasive snakes out of their hiding spots.It’s the latest effort by the South Florida Water Management District to eliminate as many pythons as possible from the Everglades, where they are decimating native species with their voracious appetites. In Everglades National Park, officials say the snakes have eliminated 95% of small mammals as well as thousands of birds.”Removing them is fairly simple. It’s detection. We’re having a really hard time…

Palestinians, including children, receive hot meals distributed by charity organizations as people struggle to access food due to an Israeli food blockade in Gaza City, Gaza, on Aug. 23. Khames Alrefi/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Khames Alrefi/Anadolu via Getty Images In late February of 2024, Jordanian cargo planes flew over northern Gaza, dropping large pallets of food attached to giant parachutes down to crowds of scrambling Palestinians. The area had been without consistent aid for weeks. The Israeli military was focusing much of its operations there, cutting off available delivery routes for international organizations. Out of desperation,…

Washington — Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook filed suit against President Trump, Chair Jerome Powell and the Fed’s Board of Governors on Thursday, asking a federal judge to block the president’s attempt to fire her from the central bank.Mr. Trump announced Cook’s termination from the Fed late Monday, citing allegations she had committed mortgage fraud, which he described as “deceitful and potentially criminal.” The move came after the president spent months railing against the Fed and Powell for leaving interest rates relatively high so far this year.Cook filed her lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia…

Politics / StudentNation / August 26, 2025 Allison Minnerly speaks about her upcoming resolution urging a ceasefire, an arms embargo on Israel, and recognition of Palestine as a state. Ad Policy Ken Martin, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, who led a counter-resolution to Allison Minnerly’s proposal.(Scott Olson / Getty) This story was produced for StudentNation, a program of the Nation Fund for Independent Journalism, which is dedicated to highlighting the best of student journalism. For more StudentNation, check out our archive or learn more about the program here. StudentNation is made possible through generous funding from The Puffin Foundation. If you’re a…

Inflation still outpacing wages, study finds Americans’ paychecks still not keeping up with inflation, study finds 03:52 The U.S. economy expanded faster between April and June than previously estimated, as growth bounced back after slumping in the first quarter, new government data shows. The Commerce Department said Thursday that the country’s gross domestic product — the nation’s output of goods and services — grew at a 3.3% annual pace in the second quarter after shrinking 0.5% in the first three months of 2025. The agency had initially estimated second-quarter growth at 3%.”There was an upward revision to business investment in structures,…

Cracking open a cold one could cost you more this Labor Day. That’s the message in a new digital ad that will be released this holiday weekend by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.”This Labor Day, Republicans are making the price of beer soar,”  the ad reads in white lettering over a beer can.     The DCCC is launching the five-figure ad buy in 35 districts it says are “in play.” The ads will run on Instagram and You Tube and are aimed at young men between the ages of 18 and 44 – a demographic that proved pivotal in the 2024…

FILE – A view of houses in Nuuk, Greenland, Sunday, June 22, 2025 Kwiyeon Ha/AP hide caption toggle caption Kwiyeon Ha/AP COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Denmark’s foreign minister summoned the top U.S. diplomat in the country for talks after the main national broadcaster reported Wednesday that at least three people with connections to President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland. In a lengthy written statement, the U.S. State Department confirmed that the deputy chief of mission in Copenhagen, Mark Stroh, had met with Danish foreign ministry officials. It declined to comment “on the actions of private…

Artificial intelligence is replacing entry-level workers whose jobs can be performed by generative AI tools like ChatGPT, a rigorous new study finds.  Early-career employees in fields that are most exposed to AI have experienced a 13% drop in employment since 2022, compared to more experienced workers in the same fields and when measured against people in sectors less buffeted by the fast-emerging technology, according to a recent working paper from Stanford economists Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar and Ruyu Chen.The study adds to the growing body of research suggesting that the spread of generative AI in the workplace is likely to disrupt…

Politics / August 26, 2025 The Maine oyster farmer embodies the populist energy that Americans have been looking for. He’s the best candidate to defeat Republican Senator Susan Collins. Ad Policy Graham Platner.(Graham for Maine) “I did four infantry tours in the Marine Corps and the Army. I’m not afraid to name an enemy. And the enemy is the oligarchy. It’s the billionaires who pay for it, and the politicians who sell us out.” Graham Platner delivers these lines in the video announcing his out-of-nowhere campaign against Maine’s Republican senator, Susan Collins. In the viral clip, Platner is leaning casually…

The Department of Homeland Security has begun moving detainees out of a controversial, state-run immigration detention center in the middle of the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” days after a federal judge ruled that parts of the facility must be dismantled.The detainees are being transferred to other immigration detention centers, DHS said in a statement Wednesday, blaming a court order from an “activist judge” that it called “another attempt to prevent the President from fulfilling the American people’s mandate to remove the worst of the worst.””DHS is complying with this order and moving detainees to other facilities. We will continue…