Tommy Trenchard for NPR 26-year-old Zainab Sankoh in a shack at the Kingtom dump site in Freetown, Sierra Leone. A self-described “hustler,” Sankoh used to send money home to support her family and her young daughter in a village in the south of the country. Now, she spends almost all her money on kush. “My Read More…
This column is the second installment in a series on parenting children in the final years of high school, “Emptying the Nest.” Read the first installment, about the trials of junior year, here. A while back, I sat in the aggressive discomfort of the bleachers at my youngest daughter’s high school basketball game and Read More…
Lindsay Whitehurst The e-commerce giant eBay will pay $59 million in a settlement with the Justice Department over thousands of pill press machines sold on the the platform. The machines can be used to manufacture counterfeit pills that look just like prescription pills but instead can be laced with substances like fentanyl, a synthetic opioid drug that is largely Read More…
Suspended licenses in Miami-Dade result from failure to pay fines 63% of the time. In Miami-Dade County alone, roughly 400,000 residents live under the specter of imminent arrest and lifelong penalties for minor driving offenses that many municipalities throughout the state have already decriminalized. People Acting for Community Together (PACT), an interfaith network of 40 Read More…
Burger King will invest $500 million in remodeling about 600 of its restaurants. (MenuPrices.com) The parent company of Burger King is buying out its biggest franchisee in the United States for about $1 billion, and will renovate hundreds of its locations. Restaurant Brands International Inc. will acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Read More…
The answer isn’t as simple as you might think. Claire Maldarelli More from Popular Science Five nutrition goals that are better than weight loss The truth about oil pulling, apple cider vinegar, and other trendy cleanses How to go zero-waste at the grocery store Morphart via Deposit Photos There are many luxuries in life, but Read More…
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