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⛵️ Made up of more than 50 ships from 44 countries, the Global Sumud Flotilla is on its way to Gaza carrying humanitarian supplies. It left from Italy, where dockworkers threatened to immediately block all shipments to Israel if they lost communication with the flotilla.
💉 In light of new guidelines restricting access to COVID shots for people between the ages of five and 65, Colorado became the latest state to keep them widely available by issuing its own standing order.
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A church in Wisconsin is demolishing its current worship space to build 110 units of affordable housing
St. John’s Lutheran Church has been situated in the same spot, just a few blocks from the state Capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin, for nearly 170 years. Always a place “focused on refuge, serving the poor, and meeting people where they are,” its leaders want to live up to that in a new way.
The church is planning to demolish its existing worship space to build a 10-story, multi-functional building that will not only have a worship space, but also a community center and more than 100 units of affordable housing.
The idea came about from conversations around how the congregation could best give back to the community, and now the $58 million project is about to break ground, with the goal to be completed in the next two years.
Why is this good news?City officials say the building will be the first new affordable housing project in almost 20 years. For people who have been able to find housing in the area, they’re burdened with paying as much as 70% of their income on housing costs — this new building would have capped rents in tiered pricing based on income.
A new stethoscope powered by AI could detect three heart conditions in seconds. Researchers say the tool could be a "real game-changer," resulting in patients being treated sooner. It takes an ECG, recording electrical signals from the heart, and sends the information to the cloud to be analysed by AI trained on data from tens of thousands of patients.
Former poachers are now employed as rangers to patrol beaches and protect endangered sea turtles
On Cabo Verde’s islands, local residents are being employed by conservation organizations as rangers to monitor, patrol, and protect endangered and threatened sea turtles on the same beaches where they used to poach them.
Along with legislation and tourism, these conservation efforts have led to a dramatic reduction in turtle harvesting, which locals traditionally consume, use in traditional medicine, or sell on the black market.
Between 2007 and 2024, illegal catches of female turtles on one island alone fell from 1,253 to just 20, and loggerhead turtle nesting sites increased seven times.
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