I have been fascinated with how bananas grow ever since I visited a banana plantation in Costa Rica several years ago. Since then, I have been privileged to take several groups of Michigan State University students to learn more about this fascinating crop from a banana farmer while touring Sagitun Farm near...

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A massive, years-long study shows the overwhelming majority of young people who identify as transgender will grow out of the diagnosis within five years. Researchers, who tracked all children and young adults diagnosed with gender dysphoria over a nine-year period, found a similar supermajority of trans people suffered from at...

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What exactly is dogscaping? Quite simply, it is landscaping for your dog’s safety and enjoyment. Dogscaping is not only for your dog’s enjoyment, it is for yours as well. If you enjoy the outdoors, like to garden, or at least maintain a nicely landscaped lawn, it can be exasperating to...

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Caitlin Clark won. Again. But Angel Reese of the WNBA's Chicago Sky made her way into the story of the Clark's Indiana Fever defeating by whacking Clark upside the head while allegedly trying to block a shot. The 91-83 final score marked the second straight game between the two teams...

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A Boeing 737 sustained tail damage in midair last month in an incident that aviation experts say is rare for commercial flights. On May 25, Southwest Airlines Flight N8825Q, a Boeing 737 Max experienced what is known as a "Dutch roll" -- where the aircraft tail wags back and forth...

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A married couple who took bullets with their own bodies while shielding their 2-year-old and 7-month-old daughters during a shooting at a Michigan splash park over the weekend face an "unknown recovery." Micayla and Eric Coughlin were seriously wounded on Saturday after taking their two children to the Brooklands Plaza...

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Forner President Donald Trump saluted U.S. Open winner Bryson DeChambeau Sunday after DeChambeau won on the final hole in Pinehurst, North Carolina. One of the best moments of my lifepic.twitter.com/Fe1Pxkh1HF — Bryson DeChambeau (@b_dechambeau) June 16, 2024 “Congratulations to Bryson DeChambeau on his incredible WIN of the United States Open!"...

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Hunter Biden’s legal campaign against Rudy Giuliani has fizzled to a close. Last week, Biden’s allegations that Giuliani hacked into his laptop and shared its contents with the world came to an end in some terse phrases of legalese. Ever since the contents of the laptop became public in the...

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Stop me if you've heard this one before. In a much-anticipated WNBA matchup between the Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky, Fever guard and rookie sensation Caitlin Clark received a hard, unnecessary foul -- and still went on to win the game with a clutch shot. And Angel Reese, the other...

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President Joe Biden's war on the Second Amendment just suffered a major setback. On Thursday, Judge Reed O'Connor for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas Fort Worth Division wrote a 12-page decision in which he vacated a rule by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms, and...

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In an increasingly litigious world, you can probably expect to hear about more celebrity Hollywood lawyers like this. In a lengthy feature piece penned by The Hollywood Reporter's Gary Baum, Hollywood attorney Bryan Freedman is described in the headline of the piece as: "The Street-Fighting Lawyer Who’s Become Hollywood’s Dark...

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It’s likely that not even a single person on the planet consciously desires for any harm to come to it. Despite what we’re told, this includes even capitalists, a familiar target of climate-change alarmists, whose entire premise is that the planet is being killed by these chief growth-producers and the...

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As the calendar hurtles toward the November general election, questions about President Joe Biden's age and mental acuity are only going to heat up. Given that, it should come as little surprise that key Biden figures, like first lady Jill, have been on the offensive lately, pointing the finger at...

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The media is trying yet another "gotcha" on former President Donald Trump, but it turns out it is likely based on -- surprise, surprise -- more fake news. On Thursday, Donald Trump met with a group of Republicans from the House of Representatives in Washington D.C. and the mainstream media...

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Here’s some news: The sun came up this morning. A dog bit a man. A politician represented himself as something he’s not. I know. No real news there. Except let’s look at that last one, because it’s important to the people of Iowa and, for that matter, all of us....

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In their desperate attempt to get the originalist Supreme Court justices off cases concerning former President Trump, the Democratic Party has reached a new low. After attacking Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for the flags, including the historic "Appeal to Heaven" flag, his wife flew outside their vacation home, the...

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Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Wells Fargo. The average American has probably heard of these banking giants. It's less likely they've heard of the United Nations Net Zero Banking Alliance, or why it's troubling that the aforementioned banks are all members. So troubling, that...

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A Democratic candidate for a Texas local government post who touted his connections to the Biden administration has been charged with faking racist messages that he used in his campaign. Taral Patel, who is running for Fort Bend County Precinct 3 commissioner, faces a third-degree felony charge for online impersonation...

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On Friday, the U.S. Department of Labor released its monthly employment report for May, and the headline numbers seemed impressive -- 272,000 jobs added. But while CNN celebrated a "blockbuster report" that "far outpaced economists’ expectations for 180,000 jobs and an unemployment rate of 3.9%," a deeper dive into the...

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We all saw what happened. Now, under Trump family leadership, the Republican National Committee plans to ensure that it will not happen again. On Friday in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, RNC co-chairwoman Lara Trump announced that the GOP organization will train "over 100,000 poll watchers and over 500 lawyers" and then...

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