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Student loan forgiveness is in legal limbo as facets of the Biden Administration’s broader student loan forgiveness has been stifled by numerous lawsuits. While the judiciary wields significant power over the future of student loan debt relief, voters will soon have influence at the ballot box: student loan forgiveness could be handled very differently depending on who the country elects as its next President. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] There remains significant ambiguity about the path forward in either a Republican or a Democratic administration.

Endocrinologists are used to people not knowing what they do. Patients often assume that, for example, Dr. Rasa Kazlauskaite spends her days focused on the “love hormones,” like testosterone and estrogen. She reminds them that we all have a variety of hormones and hormone-producing glands with important jobs—including the pituitary gland, which oversees everything from growth to metabolism, and adrenal glands, which produce the stress hormone cortisol. Plus, endocrinologists treat conditions like diabetes, thyroid disease, polycystic ovary syndrome, and even osteoporosis.

NEW YORK — Teen smoking hit an all-time low in the U. S. this year, part of a big drop in the youth use of tobacco overall, the government reported Thursday. There was a 20% drop in the estimated number of middle and high school students who recently used at least one tobacco product, including cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, nicotine pouches, and hookahs.

MILWAUKEE — Whooping cough is at its highest level in a decade for this time of year, U. S. health officials reported Thursday. There have been 18,506 cases of whooping cough reported so far, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. That’s the most at this point in the year since 2014, when cases topped 21,800. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The increase is not unexpected—whooping cough peaks every three to five years, health experts said.

In the mid-2000s, fans of the queer indie-pop band Tegan and Sara began receiving messages and emails from Tegan Quin, one half of the twin-sister duo. While most people today would immediately dismiss a message supposedly from a celebrity, at the time, it seemed possible that Tegan might email fans.

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Smile 2. What’s worse, being infected by a sadistic demonic entity that feeds off its victims’ trauma or the crushing loneliness of superstardom? In Smile 2, now in theaters, Naomi Scott delivers a star-making performance as Skye Riley, a global pop sensation about to embark on a new world tour who finds herself in the hellish throes of both these phenomena over the course of one unending nightmare of a week.