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Youth tobacco use hits record lows in Indiana
Indianapolis Recorder
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July 2, 2025
Youth tobacco use in Indiana has dropped to its lowest level in two decades, according to the 2024 Indiana Youth Tobacco Survey (IYTS) released on June 24, 2025. The report highlights significant declines in both cigarette smoking and e-cigarette...
National TV news largely failed to connect the record-breaking eastern U.S. heat dome to climate change
Media Matters For America
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Media Matters searched transcripts in the SnapStream video database for all original episodes of ABC’s Good Morning America and World News Tonight, CBS’ Mornings and Evening News, and NBC’s Today and Nightly News, as well as all original...
Hidden pain: Fighting fibroids in Indianapolis
Indianapolis Recorder
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July 2, 2025
Uterine fibroids, non-cancerous tumors arising from the smooth muscle of the uterus, affect up to 80% of Black women by age 50, often with more severe symptoms and earlier onset than other groups. These growths may be as small as a grape or large...
5 things to know for July 2: USAID, Ukraine munitions, Trump megabill, Climate change, Paramount settlement
KRDO - Colorado
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July 2, 2025
By Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — Tennessee teens who pick on their classmates may soon have to walk to school. A new state law that took effect this week will give courts the ability to suspend a minor’s driver’s license for up to a year if found...
Indiana Fever Caitlin Clark May Miss WNBA Cup With Left Groin Injury
Forbes
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A groin injury has kept Caitlin Clark #22 sidelines. Here she is seen on the bench with Indiana ... More Fever teammates Sydney Colson #51 and Sophie Cunningham #8 during a game against the Dallas Wings at American Airlines Center on June 27,...
Clean energy power line project faces legal challenge in Missouri
Environmental Health News
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July 3, 2025
An 804-mile wind energy transmission line slated to cross four states is now under investigation by Missouri’s attorney general, threatening to derail one of the country’s biggest clean energy infrastructure projects. David Gelles reports for The...
Popular concert series returns to the Indianapolis Zoo each Thursday this month
The Statehouse File - Indiana
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The first concert of the Animals and All That Jazz series at the Indianapolis Zoo happened on Juneteenth, a day when prices were half off and many people had the day free to commemorate the holiday. “I think it was more so the stars aligned to...
Indiana Students Weigh Politics, Mental Health For College Choices
Ink Free News - Indiana
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June 30, 2025
InkFreeNews.com Posted Jun 30, 2025 Updated: Jun 30, 2025 @ 12:41 PM The student enrollment figure at Indiana’s four-year colleges and universities in 2024 was nearly 172,000, according to the Indiana Commission for Higher Education. Photo from...
Hoosiers urge IDEM to protect state’s environment
Indianapolis Recorder
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July 1, 2025
Nearly 300 Indiana residents have called on the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) to uphold critical clean air and water protections amid a contentious regulatory review ordered by Gov. Mike Braun. The appeal, submitted by...
Vast majority of new laws passed by Indiana General Assembly take effect July 1
Lakeshore PBS - Indiana
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July 1, 2025
The vast majority of new laws passed by the Indiana General Assembly this year take effect July 1. HEA 1001: State budget The new state budget cuts spending nearly across the board, as almost every state agency received a 5 percent funding cut....
Discover Indianapolis and get back to what America is really all about
Irish Mirror
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July 1, 2025
If your sole bit of go-to knowledge about Indianapolis was that they race cars there for a very long distance in one go, then you’re in good company. I must confess that I hadn’t given the place much thought until invited on the inaugural Aer...
Indiana National Guard soldier earn combat patches for valor in Kosovo
1340 AM WBIW - Indiana
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June 30, 2025
EDINBURGH — More than 300 Hoosier Guardsmen from the Indiana National Guard’s 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team received their coveted combat patches during a ceremony at Camp Atterbury on Wednesday, symbolizing their distinguished service in...
What will the rise of floating solar panels mean for wildlife?
Renewable Energy World
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July 1, 2025
“This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” The newest, hottest power couple doesn’t live in Hollywood. It’s actually the marriage of solar panels and water reservoirs: Known as floating...
High utility costs not selected for summer study at Indiana Statehouse
Evansville Courier & Press - Indiana
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Burton said he is pushing to serve on the Energy, Utilities, and Telecommunications study committee formed for the summer. EVANSVILLE — Summer study committees have been announced for the Indiana General Assembly, but high utility costs aren't on...
USDA Announces New Presidential Appointee to Serve Rural Indiana
Newsbug.info - Illinois
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(Washington, D.C., June 5, 2025) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced Steve Howell is appointed by President Donald Trump to serve as the USDA Rural Development State Director for the state of Indiana. Director Howell will...
WildCare Needs Indiana Landowners to Help Wildlife
106.1 KISS FM - Indiana
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June 30, 2025
Did you know that if you own at least two acres of land in Indiana that you can help save wildlife?! How Indiana Landowners Can Help Wildlife The folks at WildCare are on the hunt for Indiana residents who own two acres of land or more to help...
Husband to face murder charge a 2nd time in wife’s death; both grew up in Indiana
WISH 8 - Indiana
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July 1, 2025
DENVER (AP) — The husband of a woman whose remains were discovered over three years after she was reported missing on Mother’s Day 2020 has arrived in Colorado to face a first-degree murder charge in her death for a second time. Barry Morphew was...
Orchard project underway in IU Kokomo Sustainability Meadow
Indiana University Indianapolis
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June 30, 2025
KOKOMO, Ind. — There’s something new growing in Sustainability Meadow. Indiana University Kokomo’s Student Sustainability Council, together with faculty and community volunteers, planted 20 apple trees in the ecological restoration site as part of...
‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ Review: Scarlett Johansson In Spielbergian Reboot That Is Part ‘Jaws’, ‘Skull Island’ & ‘Indiana Jones’ Mixed With The Pure DNA Of 1993 Original
Deadline
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June 30, 2025
I am not quite sure why the latest spinoff of Steven Spielberg‘s enormously popular Jurassic franchise is using the Jurassic World moniker of the past trilogy rather than the Jurassic Park handle of the first trilog. Jurassic World Rebirth looks...
Guest View: Trump's funding, military priorities both senseless
Cleburne Times-Review - Texas
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The Trump administration’s reckless actions to reduce the cost of government may reach a new low if he follows through on the goal of phasing out the Federal Emergency Management Agency after hurricane season. FEMA provides aid to people in areas...