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• High Suicide Rate: U.S. farmers are 3.5 times more likely to die by suicide than the general population. In Utah, they die by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in the state.
• Temporary Help: A federal program offering Utah farmers free therapy was so successful that it ran out of money in four months. But lawmakers have chosen not to continue funding it.
• Stressors Facing Farmers: Farmers experience unique stressors, including fluctuating market prices, unpredictable weather and the expectation they handle mental health issues on their own.

• Leaked documents reveal how a major Indonesian mining firm, Harita Nickel, polluted waters on a tropical island for more than a decade.
• Internal tests showed the pollutant—a toxic carcinogen—reached the drinking water of a local village. But residents were never warned and Harita publicly insisted the water was safe.
• Harita is a linchpin of the global electric vehicle industry, selling to Chinese manufacturers who make batteries for car firms including Tesla, BMW and Toyota.
• This investigation is the result of a collaboration between The Gecko Project, OCCRP, Deutsche Welle, KCIJ Newstapa, and The Guardian, as part of the #ToxicLeak reporting series.

Not so long ago, she, a pensioner from the Transcarpathian region, had nothing to do with the sports business, and today, she supplies skis, snowboards, and equipment to Ukrainian athletes. Her success in state tenders seems even more remarkable when one finds out that she is the mother-in-law of Serhii Sedniev, the head of the Department of Winter Olympic Sports in the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

NGL.media, in collaboration with the sports news portal Tribuna, investigated this family business.

It’s not clear who will now write the Congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment — or whether it will be written at all.

Just half of road funding is paid for by road users through funding mechanisms like fuel taxes or vehicle registration fees, and the largest share of that (the federal gas tax) has not been raised in over 30 years. However, some in Congress have tried to blame the rise of electric vehicles and fuel-efficient gasoline-powered vehicles for the federal government’s struggles to fund decades of road-building.

Below I walk through why the federal government’s ability to pay for highways has nothing to do with electric vehicles and everything to do with Congress’s insatiable desire for road-building.

Tesla’s baking sheet on wheels rides fast in the recall lane toward a dead end where dysfunctional men gather.

• “I’m worried this could happen to me” – children tell Commissioner they fear becoming a victim of apps that use Generative AI to create sexually explicit images
• Widespread availability and misuse of AI tools makes it easier than ever to create explicit content, particularly against girls who are withdrawing from online spaces
• Commissioner demands immediate ban on apps that use AI to create naked images of children: “There is no positive reason for these to exist.”

Autonomous weapons systems pose grave risks to human rights during both war and peacetime, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Governments should tackle the concerns raised by such weapons systems, known as “killer robots,” by negotiating a multinational treaty to address the dangers.