Pew found that just 6% of moms work full-time while their male partner isn’t employed, or works part-time.
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Jacqueline Munis,
Fortune,
17 June 2026
Last spring, as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency employed slash-and-burn tactics to bring federal agencies to heel, local farm service centers in Kansas were hit especially hard.
Two men were convicted Monday, and the BBC’s investigation found evidence that a young Russian diplomat had recruited the pair.
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Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
15 June 2026
The psychologist’s adult nephew has been recruited by an environmentalist who believes that the psychologist’s case files hold the key to saving the forest.
But a director hired to helm a pilot, as James Burrows, who died Friday at 85, was again and again — almost as a lucky charm — helps set the tone for the series.
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Television Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2026
Firms hired large classes of associates, assigned them substantial quantities of legal work, billed clients for that work, and promoted a relatively small percentage into partnership.
The American doctor who contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has returned to the United States.
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Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
16 June 2026
Standing nearly 27 feet tall and about 13 feet wide, Dragon capsules can carry up to seven astronauts into orbit, though most of SpaceX's Crew missions, which are contracted with NASA, feature a contingent of four.
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