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The enormous stakes in a new Supreme Court case about Trump’s mass firings

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Demonstrators protest against mass layoffs outside the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC, on May 22, 2025. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has 222 workers that research health hazards facing mine workers, but the Trump administration plans to fire 221 of them.

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Cancel the grizzly bear

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The Fix Our Forests Act — which sounds like it attempts a wildfire and forest health solution — actually fast-tracks large-scale logging at the expense of fragile ecosystems and imperiled species. The agency then proposed a delisting. Despite all that, “nobody trusts us,” Thompson, with Wyoming’s state wildlife agency, said.

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The one thing the Trump administration got very right

Vox Open Sourced

That was the message underlying a groundbreaking initiative unveiled in April by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the chief funder of university biomedical research in the US.

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Top 10 Most Innovative Companies to Watch in 2024

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Flipboard Photo courtesy of Flipboard Who they are: From health care to fashion, getting news you care about without looking up dozens of individual media sources can be daunting. Most Innovative Company in Health & Wellness 4. Seed Health Inc. Health & Wellness Hims & Hers Health Inc.

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When Nature Calls, Boston Harbor Now CEO Kathy Abbott Answers

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Created in 2016, Boston Harbor Now is a merger of two nonprofit organizations—Boston Harbor Island Alliance and Boston Harbor Association. It was then that she had a “Goldilocks” epiphany when trying to figure out what type of environmental government agency she wanted to work for. National parks are too big.

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The Expanding High Skill Gig Economy

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Key quote: "Three-quarters of law firms with more than 250 lawyers use contract attorneys, says a 2016 report from legal consultancy Altman Weil."   Nomad Health  is another example. .  Crain's The gig economy comes to law  covers the expanding use of contract lawyers.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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When she was a junior in high school, Arrington founded the nonprofit ScholarCHIPS, an organization that provides college scholarships, mentoring, mental health support and a peer support network to children of incarcerated parents. Bathurst Walk-in Clinic and Family Practice Atwal is a trailblazer in the health care industry.

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