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New Orleans has failed over the last decade to do urgently needed lead testing — claiming the water was safe even after losing track of where the city’s many lead pipes are — and then buried a 2017 report that would have alerted the public to the lapse.

Two years after the report was completed, officials still have not fixed the problems. And exp…[Read more]

Severe flooding in Venice that has left much of the Italian city under water is a direct result of climate change, the mayor says.

The highest water levels in the region in more than 50 years would leave “a permanent mark”, Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro tweeted.

“Now the government must listen,” he added. “These are the effects of climate…[Read more]

As anyone who has had a nurse touch their life knows, nurses are amazing people. But they can also be really, really funny.
Don’t believe me? Check out these nurse memes that even non-nurses will find hilarious:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mikespohr/nurses-memes-that-are-just-plain-funny

To grow and survive, cancer cells need to eat, and the amino acid glutamine is a big part of their diet.

In the 1950s, researchers tried using a compound called DON to prevent cancer cells from metabolizing glutamine, but the side effects of the drug in trials prevented its approval.

Now, in an attempt to overcome those side effects, a team at…[Read more]

• The temperature drop will be a 3-day process as a cold front charges across the central and eastern US.
• High temperatures on Monday may be stuck in the teens and 20s in the Midwest.
• Snow may also be in the forecast for portions of the eastern and even southern…

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With mail-in voting provisions, California voters can begin casting their ballots Feb. 3, the same day as Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses. Sixty-five percent of Californians cast early ballots in the 2018 midterms.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/1276265001

Michael Bloomberg’s extraordinary 12-year term as mayor of New york has just ended. This is an opportune time to review the billionaire mayor’s mixed-bag legacy — the good, the bad, and the ugly.

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_4525526

Note:  I had to use Duck Duck Go to find this long article .