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index.feed.received.yesterday — 13 mars 2025

White House Withdraws Nominee for C.D.C. Director

Dr. Dave Weldon was to have appeared on Thursday in a confirmation hearing before the Senate health committee. He has close ties to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new health secretary.

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Dr. Dave Weldon was a Republican representative from Florida from 1995 to 2009. He is best known for a law that bars health agencies from discriminating against hospitals or health insurance plans that choose not to provide or pay for abortions.

MP calls for inquiry into labelling of black pupils as ‘educationally subnormal’

Kim Johnson tells parliament lessons must be learnt from poor treatment of children at institutions in 1960s and 70s

The historic injustice of a scandal in which black children were incorrectly labelled “educationally subnormal” and sent to schools for physically and mentally disabled pupils must be addressed with a public inquiry, an MP has said.

Kim Johnson, the Labour MP for Liverpool Riverside, is calling on Keir Starmer to bring justice to survivors and to also expose the long-term effects it has had in the education system.

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Use it or lose it: how to sharpen your brain as you age – podcast

Many of us believe that cognitive decline is an inevitable part of ageing, but a new study looking at how our skills change with age challenges that idea. Ian Sample talks to Ludger Wößmann, a professor of economics at the University of Munich and one of the study’s authors, to find out how the team delved into the data to come to their conclusions, and what they discovered about how we can all maintain our faculties for as long as possible

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Tell us: how you have been impacted by the change to US student loan repayments?

6 mars 2025 à 16:00

We would like to hear from those whose income-driven repayment options have changed recently due to Trump

The online application form for several popular student debt repayment plans, such as income-driven repayment plans (IDR), have been taken down by the Donald Trump administration.

Applications for IDRs, which cap what borrowers must pay each month at a percent of their earnings, are unavailable on the US Department of Education website.

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© Photograph: skynesher/Getty Images

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