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Why are sperm donors having hundreds of children?

The European sperm market is booming, but is some donors' sperm being used to make too many babies?

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Prairie Band Potawatomi intends to ditch $30M ICE contract, chairman announces

TOPEKA — The Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribe’s chairman compared immigrant detention to Indian reservations in an online video address Friday, and declared the tribe’s intention to jettison a recently secured contract to design detention centers. “We know our Indian reservations were the government’s first attempts at detention centers,” said Joseph Rupnick, chairman of the Tribal […]

Florida school, daycare vaccine tussle kicks off in Panama City Beach

The push by Gov. Ron DeSantis and state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo to repeal some of the state’s vaccine requirements for public schools and day care kicked off Friday with a lengthy and contentious hearing held in a hotel in Florida’s Panhandle. Ladapo made the call to get rid of all vaccine mandates contained in […]

University Chancellor Ray Rodrigues is the highest-paid Florida employee

Florida’s University Chancellor Ray Rodrigues was already the highest-paid state employee with his more tha $441K salary, beating out the No. 2 employee (Education Commissioner Anastasios “Stasi” Kamoutsas) by roughly $110K. But on Friday, that financial lead grew when the Board of Governors of the State University System approved a three-year contract extension including a […]

Online gaming escaped Australia's social media ban - but critics say it's just as addictive

Parents and experts say gaming poses many of the same risks for kids as social media, and want them included.

Online gaming escaped Australia's social media ban - but critics say it's just as addictive

Parents and experts say gaming poses many of the same risks for kids as social media, and want them included.

$700M Google antitrust settlement could benefit a quarter of Kansas’ population

TOPEKA — An estimated 750,000 Kansans could receive a chunk of a $700 million settlement, but they must be Android users to be eligible. Attorneys general in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico announced this week an agreement reached in a lawsuit accusing Google of harming consumers who made purchases in the Google […]

Long path to recovery ahead for areas hit by Washington’s record floods

While overflowing rivers were beginning to recede across western Washington on Friday, officials said it could be days or even weeks before residents can safely return to areas swamped by this week’s historic flooding.  Thousands of people remained under evacuation orders as reports of flood damage continued to emerge from around the state. Federal support […]

Amazon pulls AI recap from Fallout TV show after it made several mistakes

The errors included getting dialogue wrong and incorrectly claiming a scene was set 100 years earlier than it was.

Board of Governors nixes year-old policy giving chair power on university presidents

Florida’s Board of Governors on Friday scrapped a year-old rule that let its chair sign off on presidential finalists before they are sent for votes by university trustees — a policy critics said vested too much power in one individual. Now, the state chair no longer will have a role in approving presidential finalists. Incoming […]

Global recycling firm nixes industrial waste plant in historic Kansas City neighborhood

TOPEKA — A global industrial waste company that sought to open a recycling facility in a historic Kansas City, Kansas, neighborhood withdrew its plans after organized opposition from environmental activists and community advocates. Reworld, which manages industrial waste and converts it into energy, homed in on the city’s Armourdale neighborhood for its new processing facility […]