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TL/DR - The National Zoo's panda trio, Mei Xiang, Tian Tian, and Xiao Qi Ji, has departed the zoo for a trip back to China, making it the first time in 23 years the panda exhibit at the zoo will be empty. The pandas were escorted by police to Dulles International Airport in a motorcade and then loaded onto a FedEx plane, which will stop in Alaska…

TL/DR - Ohio voters have chosen to include abortion rights in the state's constitution, making it the seventh state to protect abortion rights following the overturn of Roe v. Wade. This decision has implications for the Republican party, especially in Arizona where the conservative Supreme Court is considering reinstating a law that criminalizes…

TL/DR - The US House of Representatives passed a GOP-led resolution to censure Representative Rashida Tlaib over comments critical of Israel and supportive of Palestinians. Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American woman to serve in Congress, defended herself against the censure, arguing it was an attempt to silence her and distort her positions.…

TL/DR - New research shows that the United States falls behind many other developed nations in average life expectancy, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Health at a Glance report. The U.S. had a life expectancy of 76.4 years, below the OECD’s average of 80.3 years. The report also highlighted that…