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(http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=184758&url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/education-dept-antisemitism-universities-columbia-northwestern-berkeley/) U.S. Education Department to Probe Antisemitism at Five Universities
Feb 3rd 2025, 07:54

Source: (https://www.cbsnews.com/us/) CBS News - U.S. NewsThe U.S. Education Department announced Monday that it would conduct investigations at five universities where antisemitic harassment incidents have been reported. The institutions are Columbia University; Northwestern University; Portland State University; the University of California, Berkeley; and the University of Minnesota. The Education Department said in a news release that it was responding to an "explosion of antisemitism on American...(https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage) 

(http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=184716&url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-zealand-taranaki-maunga-mountain-personhood-indigenous-maori/) New Zealand's Government Grants a Sacred Mountain Personhood
Feb 3rd 2025, 07:54

Source: (https://www.cbsnews.com/world/) CBS News - World NewsA mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and responsibilities of a human being. New Zealand has previously ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land are people. The legal recognition of the mountain, Taranaki Maunga, acknowledges its theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized.(https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage) 

(http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=184756&url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-to-obliterate-1-5-trillion-in-us-home-values-study-finds/) Climate Change to Obliterate $1.5 Trillion in U.S. Home Values
Feb 3rd 2025, 07:53

Source: (https://www.cbsnews.com/us/) CBS News - U.S. NewsClimate change will wipe out about $1.47 trillion in U.S. home values over the next three decades and hasten economic gaps in U.S. communities, a report released Monday finds. Insurance rates are already escalating, rendering large portions of the nation's largest cities unaffordable, according to a study by First Street Foundation, which analyzes climate effects on real estate. By 2055, climate-driven weather is expected to hike home insurance...(https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage) 

(http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=184740&url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/6-ways-trumps-executive-orders-are-targeting-transgender-people) Six Ways Trump's Executive Orders Are Targeting Transgender People
Feb 3rd 2025, 07:52

Source: (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health) PBS HealthPresident Donald Trump has targeted transgender and nonbinary people with a series of executive orders since he returned to office, often with strong language. In one order, he asserted that "medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child's sex." That's a dramatic reversal of President Joe Biden's support for gender-affirming care.(https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage) 

(http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=184732&url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/more-bad-news-for-rat-infested-cities-climate-change-is-making-it-worse-1.7447368?cmp=rss) Bad News for Rat-Infested Cities: Climate Change Is Making It Worse
Feb 3rd 2025, 07:39

Source: (http://www.cbc.ca/) Canadian Broadcasting Company - Top Stories NewsMore rats: that's the latest indignity that climate change is dumping on major cities around the world, according to a study from a global group of public health scientists. Growing rat populations are correlated with rising temperatures driven by global warming in at least 11 major cities across the world, including Toronto, famously rat-prone New York City, and many other major centers like Washington, San Francisco, and Amsterdam.(https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage) 

(http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=184755&url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/02/03/new-york-attorney-general-hospitals-transgender-care-minors/8391738620683/) New York Instructs Hospitals to Care for Trans Minors Despite Trump Order
Feb 3rd 2025, 07:39

Source: (http://www.upi.com/Health_News/) United Press International - Health NewsNew York Attorney General Letitia James warned hospitals Monday that denying care to transgender minors, following President Donald Trump's recent executive order to ban funding, would violate state law. In a letter, James warned that denying care to transgender youth would violate New York laws that protect against discrimination based on sex and gender identity. Regardless of federal funding, she wrote, hospitals must "comply with New York...(https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage) 

(http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=184712&url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/01/30/Treasury-leaves-NGFS/9581738289107/) U.S. Treasury Withdraws From Global Financial Climate Coalition
Feb 3rd 2025, 07:24

Source: (http://www.upi.com/Health_News/) United Press International - Health NewsThe U.S. Treasury on Thursday announced its withdrawal from a network of central banks and regulators focused on creating a global financial system to withstand climate change, as the Trump administration continues to separate itself from such initiatives in favor of boosting its domestic business and energy sectors. The Treasury had joined the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System in 2022, under the Biden...(https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage) 

(http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=184739&url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgkj8gx1vy6o) U.S. Federal Websites Scrub Vaccine Information and LGBTQ References
Feb 3rd 2025, 03:29

Source: (http://news.bbc.co.uk/americas/) BBC News - AmericasThe Trump administration has removed references to LGBT health, and information on certain vaccines, from federal websites, including top public health agencies. The move follows a Wednesday memo instructing agencies to end all "programs that use taxpayer money to promote gender ideology" by Friday afternoon. Trump earlier issued orders banning diversity, equity, and inclusion government programs, as well as one that recognizes only male and...(https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage) 

(http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=184750&url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/02/03/Belgium-AI-Artificial-Intelligence-European-Union-law/2141738589624/) Historic Artificial Intelligence Law Goes Into Effect in European Union
Feb 3rd 2025, 03:29

Source: (http://www.upi.com/Health_News/) United Press International - Health NewsThe European Union put into effect first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence restrictions, placing prohibitions on how the technology can be used and where, or face hefty fines. The EU AI Act, which took effect on Sunday, bans certain applications where AI is considered an "unacceptable risk." Some of those areas include using AI for real-time facial recognition and other biometric identification of people by race, sexual orientation and other...(https://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?action=rssHomepage) 

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