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By Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech The United States is projected to experience a shortage of 5,000 OB-GYNs by 2030. This is expected to cause already overworked doctors to further struggle to meet demand and continue widening maternal and infant health disparities. An aging workforce, an aging population, high rates of burnout and abortion restrictions are all contributing to the shortage. |
By Josh DuBose
Some 46,000 people in Los Angeles are experiencing homelessness. Dozens are living along the Arroyo Seco next to the 110 Freeway near Highland Park. Those living there have constructed a number of different makeshift structures. |
By Aaron Tolentino
After a monthslong hiatus from operations, Cruise vehicles will return to America’s streets. The first city to see the robotaxi vehicles back on its roadways will be Phoenix, the company announced Tuesday in a news release. The cars will have human drivers — a move that is reportedly intended to help Cruise create maps and gather road information to improve safety for when autonomous vehicles do return. |
By Jeff Berardelli
A huge plume of Saharan dust is now visible on satellite loops coming off of Africa into the eastern Tropical Atlantic Ocean. This, combined with stronger than normal easterly winds of the Saharan Desert, is helping cool part of the far Eastern Atlantic, where the seeds for some hurricanes originate. Note, the fact that surface temperatures can cool so quickly also means they can warm just as quickly when a favorable weather pattern takes shape, so the effect may be fleeting.
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