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TL/DR - Various options are now available for students to earn undergraduate and graduate degrees, moving away from the traditional four-year path. Some students choose to finish their degrees in less time, while others prefer to spend the full four years for better social development and more comprehensive learning experience. However, the time…

TL/DR - The Smokehouse Creek Fire has grown to over 1 million acres in Texas, making it the largest fire on record in the state and surpassing the East Amarillo Complex fire in 2006. The fire also burned at least 31,590 acres in Oklahoma and caused widespread destruction in northern Texas, killing at least one person, 83-year-old Joyce…

TL/DR - Idaho's attempt to execute one of the nation's longest-serving death row inmates, Thomas Eugene Creech, failed after multiple unsuccessful attempts to tap into a vein for lethal injection. Creech, who has been in prison for 50 years and was sentenced to death in 1983 for murder, was returned to his cell after the botched attempt. Amid a…

TL/DR - The worldwide donkey population has decreased by 76% since 1992 due to increasing demand for Ejiao, a gelatin found in donkey hides, primarily in China. To counter this trend, the US Congress introduced "The Ejiao Act of 2023", prohibiting the sale, import, or export of any product containing donkey hide. Daisy Acre Ranch in North Phoenix…