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A cashier and customer at the checkout line of a supermarket (Getty Images/Antenna)

Inside the GOP's "Orwellian" SNAP plan

Ashlie D. Stevens
Host Shane Gillis during the Monologue on the Saturday, February 24, 2024 episode of "Saturday Night Live" (Will Heath/NBC)

Once fired Shane Gillis' journey to SNL

Nardos Haile
Point of view from shopping cart (Getty Images/Yasser Chalid)

GOP forces face-off between SNAP and WIC

Ashlie D. Stevens
Kroger sign is seen on a store in Streator, Illinois, United States, on October 15, 2022. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/Getty Images)

Why the Kroger-Albertsons merger stalled

Ashlie D. Stevens
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Rebecca F. Kuang attends the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 launch party at Forbes on Fifth on December 14, 2023 in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

The Hugos sci-fi literary awards scandal

Nardos Haile
Sick sneezing office worker (Getty Images/Charday Penn)

Why is working while sick encouraged?

Nicole Karlis
Man about to eat large stack of ribs (Getty Images/RF Pictures)

How unhealthy is the "carnivore diet"?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Chocolate and vanilla ice cream cake (Getty Images/Blake Callahan)

We evolved to love cake and ice cream

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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AI speaks letters (Ole_CNX / Getty Images)

Is tech leaving us lost in translation?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Senior man playing with puzzle (Getty Images/LightFieldStudios)

Is your memory loss normal or a warning?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
In this photo illustration, packages of Mifepristone tablets are displayed at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023 in Rockville, Maryland. (Photo illustration by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

"Junk" abortion pill studies retracted

Nicole Karlis
Scientist viewing an electron micrograph of virus particles on a screen (TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Getty Images)

Are we prepared for "Disease X?"

Nicole Karlis
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Bread in a basket (Getty Images/SasaJo)

In praise of bland food

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Pope Francis presides over the celebration of the Second Vespers of the solemnity of the Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle, at the conclusion of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unit, in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls. (Grzegorz Galazka/Archivio Grzegorz Galazka/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

Is surrogacy really unethical?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Man cutting broccoli (Getty Images/Ugur Karakoc)

Do real men eat plants?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Red, rose and white wine glasses, top view (Getty Images/5PH)

Can you be a sober curious sommelier?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Elder man looking at an younger self in the mirror (Getty Images/tommasolizzul)

Who needs a test to tell your true age?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Sofia Vergara as Griselda in "Griselda" (Elizabeth Morris/Netflix)

Sofía Vergara sued over "Griselda"

Nardos Haile
Portrait of teenager applying facial mask to improving her skin. (Getty Images/RUBEN BONILLA GONZALO)

Why some youth obsess over Sephora

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Stanley Quencher H2.0 FlowState™ Tumblers (Photo courtesy of Stanley)

Here's why you're still dehydrated

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Denise Huskins in "American Nightmare" (Netflix)

Police failure in real "Gone Girl" case

Joy Saha
Heap of bovine colostrum powder on plate and white plastic container with measuring scoop (Getty Images/Tatiana Sidorova)

Why people are taking bovine colostrum

Nicole Karlis
Climate activists hold a protest outside of a "Politics & Eggs" event where Sen. Joe Manchin is speaking at the New Hampshire Institute Politics at St. Anselm College on January 12, 2024 in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

Activists open up about climate change

Matthew Rozsa
Mother and daughter preparing food in the kitchen with rice cooker (Getty Images/Edwin Tan)

The rice cooker is having a renaissance

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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