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Chatbot meets therapy couch: A psychologist looks at benefits, perils of patients using AIFeb 28, 2025 6:41 am - Can AI chatbots complement psychotherapy? A psychologist delves into potential benefits and highlights dangers to be considered.
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Carolyn Hax: Would marriage pact give false romantic hope to platonic friend?Feb 28, 2025 6:00 am - Woman considers proposing a down the road marriage pact to lifelong friend with no romantic hope, even though he has been in love with her for years. Carolyn Hax says the suggestion could mislead him, so why consider it.
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A surprising health benefit of drinking teaFeb 28, 2025 5:25 am - Scientists now say that brewed tea may provide a surprising health benefit: Your morning cup of tea could be removing dangerous contaminants from your water.
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Harsh findings on Trump’s aid freeze kept secret by USAID watchdogFeb 27, 2025 7:56 pm - The watchdog for the U.S. Agency for International Development has yet to release two critical reports on the consequences of President Donald Trump’s funding freeze on c...
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Musk claims DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials disagree.Feb 27, 2025 4:33 pm - Elon Musk on Wednesday acknowledged that the U.S. DOGE Service “accidentally canceled” efforts by the U.S. Agency for International Development to prevent the spread of E...
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Congress is reversing a tax on this climate superpollutantFeb 27, 2025 4:33 pm - The Senate voted Thursday to overturn a Biden-era rule that required oil companies to pay a fine for emitting methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that has significantly co...
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Katy Perry, Gayle King to fly to space on Blue Origin’s all-women flightFeb 27, 2025 2:38 pm - Pop star Katy Perry and CBS’s Gayle King are set to fly to space alongside Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez, on an upcoming all-women flight of Blue Origin’s tourist rocket.
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What to know about the no-shopping ‘economic blackout’ on Feb. 28Feb 27, 2025 9:10 am - A social media campaign has sparked plans for an “economic blackout” on Friday, one of several boycotts planned by activists intent on sending a message to large corporations at a time when many Americans are struggling to keep up with costs.
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Federal agencies given deadline for plans to move offices out of D.C. areaFeb 26, 2025 8:12 pm - The Trump administration is giving federal agencies until mid-April to suggest relocations of bureaus and offices out of the D.C. region, a move that would have widesprea...
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Federal board halts firings of six probationary employees amid Trump cutsFeb 26, 2025 8:05 pm - An independent federal board on Tuesday granted a request from the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) to halt the termination of six probationary government employees a...