How North Carolina erased medical debt for 2.5 million people
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Norway's approach to getting kids reading has much to teach us this year – from government support, to innovation with libraries themselves
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South Carolina's freeway for bikes
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A Norwegian rocket launched on 25th January 1995 to study the Northern Lights was mistaken by Russia for an incoming nuclear missile on a direct course to Moscow
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Canada agrees to cut tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products
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Rx Inspector: ProPublica’s new tool provides drug info the US Food and Drug Administration won’t
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Tether freezes $182 million in stablecoins as reports point to heavy crypto use by Venezuela
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The city where free buses changed everything
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Post-American internet by Cory Doctorow
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NASA’s science budget won’t be a train wreck after all
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Danish energy company Ørsted said on Friday that it had launched a legal challenge to the US government's suspension of its Revolution Wind project off Rhode Island
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Judge to Texas: You can’t age-gate the entire internet without evidence
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Staff at a major Swedish pharmacy chain are being given paid time off to spend with friends, as the government calls on businesses to help play a role in tackling loneliness
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China drafts world’s strictest rules to end AI-encouraged suicide, violence
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Vattenfall has applied for state financing to build new nuclear reactors – first company to do so under scheme Swedish government hopes will lead to renaissance in nuclear power
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The EU Grids Package: A blueprint for Europe’s future energy infrastructure
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Why is liberalism adrift? From social democracy to the Democratic Party liberalism: how parties learn to speak the language of constraint -- and what it costs them.
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CBS News pulls report on “brutal and torturous conditions” at El Salvador prison where Donald Trump Administration sent deportees
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2025 update on LA Metro projects
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How New York keeps its unfiltered water safe: spending millions on land
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EU drops 2035 combustion engine ban as global electric vehicle shift faces reset
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As a reindeer herder, I am watching Norwegian renewable energy projects threaten our land, livelihoods and an Indigenous way of life the state once tried to erase
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Dissecting bad internet bills with a digital rights advocate: KOSA, SCREEN Act, Section 230 repeal
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Donald Trump administration moves to cut off transgender care for US children
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Norway's national oil company facing £53m penalty for oil spills and gas leaks – Equinor accused of extensive and long-term pollution caused by years of inadequate maintenance
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Proposed amendments to Denmark's laws on copyright and broadcasting would see VPNs limited for common uses under changes to combat access to illegal streaming services
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Spain to launch €60 monthly nationwide public transport pass, in January
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Swiss government will not be able to subsidise the overnight train connection to Malmö planned from spring 2026
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Greenlandic women claim victory in legal fight with Denmark over forced IUD scandal – compensation due to thousands of women and girls fitted with coils without their knowledge or consent
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How Europe is gearing up to follow Australia's teen social media ban
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Four proposals to improve the design of fuel economy standards
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Big company names join US lawsuit against Donald Trump-backed tariffs including Costco and Revlon
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Parliament of the Faroe Islands voted on Thursday to legalise abortion until the end of the 12th week of pregnancy, overturning a decades-old law that prohibited abortions in most cases
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EU slaps €120M fine on Elon Musk’s X, straining ties with US
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United Kingdom electric vehicle owners to face pay-per-mile tax
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Tesla registrations were down in France, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany – Norway, however, is bucking the trend, thanks to a tax incentive system that will soon be rolled back
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Tweaks to state laws mean many Americans will be able to benefit from small, simple plug-in solar panels
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Iran's president says capital must move from Tehran over ecological concerns
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How Iran is running out of water
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EU countries must mutually recognise same-sex marriages, European Court of Justice rules
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As the war in Ukraine rages on, many Finns are getting reacquainted with the country's remarkable network of väestönsuoja, or civil defense shelters
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Keira is one of many Greenlandic families living on the Danish mainland who are fighting to get their children returned to them after they were removed by social services
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Denmark's climate minister, Lars Aagaard, announced that his government would submit a binding target to cut emissions by 82% by 2035 compared with 1990 levels
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Pennies are being canceled and the US Mint won't make any more. What does that mean?
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Denmark's drive to conscript teenage girls – as the threat from Russia increases, it is no longer only young men who are being called to serve
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Britain gives go-ahead to smaller nuclear reactor in Wales
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US Supreme Court denies Kim Davis' petition to revisit same-sex marriage ruling
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Swedish parliament votes to allow uranium mining – now classed as a concession mineral, especially useful for society
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How generations of meddlesome public health campaigns changed everyday life — and made life twice as long as it used to be
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How nuclear power ambitions aim to wean Finland off Russian energy – nuclear share in electricity production went from 28% in 2022 to 39% in 2025
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