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Chicago suburb named as one of 50 best places to travel to in 2025 in recent list

A Chicago suburb was named to a list of the 50 best places to travel worldwide in 2025 by travel blog TravelLemming, alongside locations in Puerto Rico, Indonesia and Vietnam.
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8 policies stripped from GOP bill after Trump, Musk rebellion

Pediatric cancer research, an RFK Stadium land transfer, and other proposals that House Republicans dropped from government funding legislation
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Programming cells: New RNA tool enhances precision in synthetic genetic circuits

Researchers have successfully developed a modular synthetic translational coupling element (SynTCE), significantly enhancing the precision and integration density of genetic circuits in synthetic biology. Their study was recently published in the journal Nucleic Acids Research, and the team was led by Professor Jongmin Kim from the Department of Life Sciences at POSTECH, along with graduate students Hyunseop Goh and Seungdo Choi.
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Federal officials extend New Jersey drone ban to parts of New York

Move is in response to continuing reports of mysterious drone flights and speculations into their origins
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Government shutdown looms as plan backed by President-elect Trump fails in Congress

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Biden cancels student loan debt for thousands of borrowers

President Joe Biden’s administration announced on Friday another $4.28 billion dollars in student loan relief for nearly 55,000 public service workers.
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Dusty Johnson: Would be ‘exceptionally stupid’ to not fund government

Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) urged his House colleagues to reach an end-of-the-year spending agreement ahead of midnight Friday after Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) plan B deal failed the night before. “Everybody around here is always, ‘oh, woe is me’… The reality is we need to get this done. It will be exceptionally stupid if we…
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US House Speaker Mike Johnson’s future hangs in balance as he scrambles for funding deal

By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Mike Johnson’s hold on the speakership of the U.S. House of Representatives has been tenuous almost since the day he was elected. The Louisiana Republican only ended up with the job in October 2023 after the unruly members of his House caucus deposed then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy and cast about for someone who could amass enough votes to replace him. He won