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Trump's 2024 support from Hispanic voters dips in new poll

President Trump’s support among Hispanics has plummeted from 2024, according to a new poll. Twenty-seven percent of 800 Hispanic respondents to the NBC News/Telemundo survey approved of Trump, while 69 percent disapproved of the president. Nearly 6 in 10 Hispanic voters

Taste shapes support for climate-friendly school meals

Students in a new study were neither clearly positive nor negative about more climate-friendly school meals. Whether the food tasted good, was filling and felt familiar played an important role. Students were somewhat more positive about reducing the amount of meat in recipes

Iran's oil minister resigns, no reason given

DUBAI, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Iran's Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad has resigned and Hamid Bovard, chief executive of the government-owned National Iranian Oil Company, will be in charge of the ministry as acting minister, state media said on Sunday, without providing a reason for the

UK Green party adopts 'Zionism is racism' policy

The UK's left-wing Green party voted Sunday to define Zionism as racism at the party's annual conference, drawing sharp backlash from three British Jewish groups, the ruling Labour Party and Israel's government. Members of the Green party, which has five MPs in Britain's

Hidden X-ray phase revealed in likely neutron star merger

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Department of Physics and the Hong Kong Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (HKIAA) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), has discovered a previously hidden phase of high-energy activity following the

Dostoyevsky on What Makes a Good Person

We know good people when we encounter them, when they fall upon our lives like a sunbeam, like a song. But we don’t always know what makes them good. It has, of course, a lot to do with kindness. It has to do with their capacity to give, and also to receive. It has to do with