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The influencer circus around Nancy Guthrie’s home

Nancy Guthrie, mother of Today host Savannah Guthrie, has been missing for over a month now. While the investigation remains active, with no new breaks over the past several weeks, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department in Arizona has returned some of its police officers back to their previous positions. The media circus outside of Nancy’s […]

Are more people getting ADHD — or are we just catching more cases?

For many of us who grew up in the 1990s and 2000s, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder — better known as ADHD — seemed like a condition for kids.  But that perception is changing: Of the more than 15 million adults in America diagnosed with ADHD, about half of them got that diagnosis in adulthood. Laura […]

Can dogs be considered “persons” under the law ?

Outside the rural town of Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, about 2,000 dogs await their fate in small wire cages. They are confined at Ridglan Farms, a large-scale breeding operation that supplies beagles for research labs across the country. The current law treats the dogs as property of the company. We and others suggest that the conditions […]

A bad news day for Trump’s economy, briefly explained

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The fundamentals of the American economy are…starting to look a little concerning. What happened? On Friday, we learned that the US economy shed some 92,000 […]

The real reason all of your eggs still aren’t cage-free

Nearly half of the eggs sold in the US today come from cage-free farms. That’s an astounding turn, considering that in the early 2000s, just a few percent did.  But according to pledges made by many of the country’s largest food companies — from McDonald’s to IHOP to Starbucks — most of the 94 billion […]