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Dental care is vital to individuals’ well-being. Dental care can help prevent future diseases such as bacteria from the mouth spreading onto other parts of the body, causing further infection and chronic disease (Penn Dental Medicine, 2022). From common cavities to abscess or periodontal disease that require teeth removal, individuals are likely to face oral […]

Multiple reports from government offices in the United Kingdom (UK) are bringing attention to increasing migration to Scotland from the rest of the UK, which includes England and Wales as well as Northern Ireland. This is a change from the previous century when Scotland had negative net migration until 2001, according to an article from […]

Venezuela, once one of the richest nations in Latin America (Harvard Kennedy School) is presently facing a humanitarian crisis. Access to food, medicine, and clean water has become impossible for millions of Venezuelans due to years of economic incompetence, conflict over politics, and international sanctions. As the situation deteriorates, the fight for survival intensifies, with […]

Sudan’s precarious social, political, and economic fabric faces another tear as the Arbaat Dam collapses. What has now become 500 days of war in Sudan is characterized by the fighting between Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group vying for control over the now failing state, and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), the military forces […]

On Saturday, September 21st, 2024, the South Asian nation of Sri Lanka voted in its tenth annual presidential election (Reuters). This was the first election for the island since the insufficiency of foreign currency pushed Sri Lanka into an unprecedented economic crisis in decades (Reuters). Sri Lanka’s crippling economy came after they defaulted on their […]

In recent years, there has been a push to increase the diversity of the federal government’s Intelligence Community (IC). The IC is the 18 organizations of the federal government that protect national security through the conducting of intelligence operations (ODNI 1). They hire individuals to collect or analyze intelligence, but they also have a need […]

The State Sponsorship of Terrorism (SSOT) list was founded in 1979 amidst the tail end of the Cold War and 17 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis. As determined by the U.S. Secretary of State, countries on the list have repeatedly supported international terrorism and are “designated pursuants” to multiple laws associated with restrictions on […]

A recent report from the British Broadcasting Center (BBC) brings renewed attention to a relatively unreported issue in the country of Yemen. The northern territories and the capital Sana’a are under the control of a terrorist group known as the Houthis. The group receives military support from Iran as well as the terrorist group Hezbollah […]

Both Sweden and Finland have remained politically neutral for over a century until the Russian invasion on Ukraine in February of 2022 (BBC 1). Putin’s decision to attack Ukraine broke a “long standing sense of stability” in Northern Europe, leaving countries like Sweden and Finland “feeling vulnerable” (BBC 1). Nordic countries have taken action to […]

On January 10, a United States federal report revealed that rates of cesarean delivery in Puerto Rico (PR) have soared 12% from 2018 to 2022 for each age group younger than 40 (The Guardian). Now Puerto Rico represents one of the world’s largest c-section rates at more than 50% of infants delivered through surgery. While […]