January 2025
February 2025
Shift Work's Health Impacts: Risks, Adaptability, and Schedule Optimization
Shift work, especially night shifts, significantly impacts health, increasing risks of various diseases, including cancer, and disrupting sleep patterns. Adaptability varies with age and chronotype, with forward-rotating shifts and shorter workweeks recommended to minimize risks.
Shift Work's Health Impacts: Risks, Adaptability, and Schedule Optimization
Shift work, especially night shifts, significantly impacts health, increasing risks of various diseases, including cancer, and disrupting sleep patterns. Adaptability varies with age and chronotype, with forward-rotating shifts and shorter workweeks recommended to minimize risks.
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52% Bias Score
Northern Gateway Pipeline Reconsidered Amid Climate Change and US Tariff Threats
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, reversed his opposition to the Northern Gateway pipeline, citing climate change, the American threat, and the need to avoid environmentally damaging US development. This follows Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's push for pipelin...
Northern Gateway Pipeline Reconsidered Amid Climate Change and US Tariff Threats
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, reversed his opposition to the Northern Gateway pipeline, citing climate change, the American threat, and the need to avoid environmentally damaging US development. This follows Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's push for pipelin...
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40% Bias Score
Trump Supports Musk's Potential TikTok Acquisition, Halting Divestment Mandate
Donald Trump voiced support for Elon Musk's potential acquisition of TikTok, temporarily halting a U.S. law mandating the app's divestment from its Chinese owner, Bytedance, for 75 days, despite concerns over data security and potential Chinese government influence.
Trump Supports Musk's Potential TikTok Acquisition, Halting Divestment Mandate
Donald Trump voiced support for Elon Musk's potential acquisition of TikTok, temporarily halting a U.S. law mandating the app's divestment from its Chinese owner, Bytedance, for 75 days, despite concerns over data security and potential Chinese government influence.
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36% Bias Score
Ardern's Memoir Details Leadership Journey and Resignation
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's memoir, "A Different Kind of Power," releasing in June, details her leadership journey from an unexpected rise to power in 2017 to her resignation in January 2023, offering insights into empathetic leadership and political challenges.
Ardern's Memoir Details Leadership Journey and Resignation
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's memoir, "A Different Kind of Power," releasing in June, details her leadership journey from an unexpected rise to power in 2017 to her resignation in January 2023, offering insights into empathetic leadership and political challenges.
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48% Bias Score
Trump Pardons Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht
On Tuesday, Donald Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road, an online drug marketplace generating over \$200 million in illicit bitcoin transactions, overturning his life sentence and aligning with the Libertarian Party's stance against government overreach.
Trump Pardons Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht
On Tuesday, Donald Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road, an online drug marketplace generating over \$200 million in illicit bitcoin transactions, overturning his life sentence and aligning with the Libertarian Party's stance against government overreach.
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16% Bias Score
UK Grants Fraud Authority Sweeping Powers to Recover Covid Funds
The UK government will grant its Public Sector Fraud Authority powers to raid properties, seize assets, and access bank accounts of Covid-19 fraudsters to recover taxpayer money, extending the time limit for claims to 12 years and applying the measures retrospectively.
UK Grants Fraud Authority Sweeping Powers to Recover Covid Funds
The UK government will grant its Public Sector Fraud Authority powers to raid properties, seize assets, and access bank accounts of Covid-19 fraudsters to recover taxpayer money, extending the time limit for claims to 12 years and applying the measures retrospectively.
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40% Bias Score
U.S. Withdrawal from WHO Raises Global Health Concerns
President Trump's plan to withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO) has sparked concerns among health scholars about weakened global health surveillance, particularly regarding avian flu, as evidenced by recent cases in the U.S. and Canada.
U.S. Withdrawal from WHO Raises Global Health Concerns
President Trump's plan to withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO) has sparked concerns among health scholars about weakened global health surveillance, particularly regarding avian flu, as evidenced by recent cases in the U.S. and Canada.
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44% Bias Score
Trump's Trade Focus: Challenges and Opportunities for Canada
President Trump's second term begins with an executive order to investigate America's trade deficits, potentially using tariffs, creating challenges and opportunities for Canada which ran a US$41-billion trade surplus with the U.S. in 2023, but this surplus largely disappears if energy exports are e...
Trump's Trade Focus: Challenges and Opportunities for Canada
President Trump's second term begins with an executive order to investigate America's trade deficits, potentially using tariffs, creating challenges and opportunities for Canada which ran a US$41-billion trade surplus with the U.S. in 2023, but this surplus largely disappears if energy exports are e...
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44% Bias Score
Romance Scam Results in 20-Year Sentence, Allegedly Leads to Victim's Death
Nigerian national Anthony Ibekie and his co-conspirators defrauded victims of $3.5 million through an online romance scam, resulting in a 20-year prison sentence for Ibekie and allegedly causing the death of one victim, Laura Kowal, who sent nearly $2 million to the scammers before being found dead ...
Romance Scam Results in 20-Year Sentence, Allegedly Leads to Victim's Death
Nigerian national Anthony Ibekie and his co-conspirators defrauded victims of $3.5 million through an online romance scam, resulting in a 20-year prison sentence for Ibekie and allegedly causing the death of one victim, Laura Kowal, who sent nearly $2 million to the scammers before being found dead ...
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44% Bias Score
Trump Administration Resumes Mass Deportations, Expanding ICE Enforcement
The Trump administration has reinstated ICE enforcement in churches, schools, and other sensitive locations, leading to the resumption of mass deportations targeting illegal immigrants with criminal records; this policy shift represents a departure from the Biden administration's approach and reflec...
Trump Administration Resumes Mass Deportations, Expanding ICE Enforcement
The Trump administration has reinstated ICE enforcement in churches, schools, and other sensitive locations, leading to the resumption of mass deportations targeting illegal immigrants with criminal records; this policy shift represents a departure from the Biden administration's approach and reflec...
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64% Bias Score
Physical Fitness Linked to Lower Cancer Mortality Risk
A study of nearly 47,000 cancer patients found that muscular strength and cardiorespiratory fitness were associated with a 31–46% lower risk of death from any cause, with even greater reductions in specific cancer types and stages; this research, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, ...
Physical Fitness Linked to Lower Cancer Mortality Risk
A study of nearly 47,000 cancer patients found that muscular strength and cardiorespiratory fitness were associated with a 31–46% lower risk of death from any cause, with even greater reductions in specific cancer types and stages; this research, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, ...
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40% Bias Score
Common Drugs May Reduce Dementia Risk: Large-Scale Study
A study of over 130 million people found that common drugs like ibuprofen and antibiotics may reduce the risk of dementia, supporting the theory that infections might trigger some forms of the disease; however, experts say more research is needed.
Common Drugs May Reduce Dementia Risk: Large-Scale Study
A study of over 130 million people found that common drugs like ibuprofen and antibiotics may reduce the risk of dementia, supporting the theory that infections might trigger some forms of the disease; however, experts say more research is needed.
Progress
40% Bias Score