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Research shows that stronger relationships with Guardian ad Litems (GALs) improve outcomes for youth, but little is known about how GALs perceive and manage these relationships. To address this, researchers surveyed 555 GALs statewide to explore how they engage with youth, the dynamics of these relationships, and the role of training in building and maintaining them. A key finding was the critical role trust plays in these relationships and the understanding that these relationships take time to develop.

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Doctoral student Meritxell Abellan-Almenara examines court decisions to see how Quebec judges use their power to make defendants criminally inadmissible to stay in Canada.

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The American Sociological Association leads a coalition of major sociological organizations in issuing an open letter defending sociology's vital role in universities and society while condemning recent federal actions that threaten academic inquiry and free speech.

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Susan G. Komen庐, the world鈥檚 leading breast cancer organization, commends Senators Tan Parker (R-Flower Mound) and Carol Alvarado (D-Houston) for introducing legislation that would eliminate financial barriers to clinically appropriate genetic testing and supplemental breast imaging. In Texas, more than 23,880 people will be diagnosed with breast cancer and more than 3,330 are expected to die of the disease in 2025 alone.

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Susan G. Komen庐, the world鈥檚 leading breast cancer organization commends Senators Linda Greenstein (D-Middlesex) and Britnee N. Timberlake (D-East Orange) and Assemblymembers Lisa Swain (D-Fair Lawn) and Margie Donlon, M.D., (D-Ocean Township) for working with Komen to ensure that everyone has equitable access to diagnostic and supplemental breast imaging, by eliminating the financial barriers patients face in accessing needed breast cancer screening.

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鈥淎DLM applauds the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas for issuing a decision to vacate the Food and Drug Administration鈥檚 (FDA鈥檚) final rule to regulate laboratory developed tests as medical devices. The court found that the FDA rule would have negatively impacted testing on which patients and clinicians depend, and that the rule also went against Congress鈥� intent, which is for laboratory services to be regulated under the current framework administered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Who are the alt-right, and what do they stand for? The term is broad 鈥� an alt-right supporter could be anyone from an armed insurrectionist to an armchair political pundit 鈥� but they tend to have one thing in common. According to new research involving faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York, people who identify as alt-right tend to be 鈥渟ystem justifiers鈥� who want to maintain the traditional status quo as an antidote to insecurity.

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Professional society will continue to work with stakeholders to develop a more effective and efficient legislative regulatory framework that ensures high-quality patient care while fostering rapid innovation and the promise of new diagnostic technologies

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Hardworking but mostly invisible in public life, South African queens have set a course to work together across royal houses to formulate a common vision of their collective contribution to peace and development in South Africa.

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There is an urgent need for a more resolute, strategic and unified global response from the human rights movement during 鈥渢his unprecedented moment of mounting challenges, of regression and repression of fundamental human rights in many parts of the world.鈥� This was one of the key messages delivered by Binaifer Nowrojee, President of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), during a public lecture hosted by the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria (UP) in collaboration with the OSF, one of the world鈥檚 largest funders of groups working for justice, equity and human rights.

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The Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI) remains strongly opposed to the indiscriminate firing of dedicated public servants across the federal government.

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People who believe that female candidates are at a disadvantage in elections are mistaken, according to two studies conducted by political scientist Andr茅 Blais.

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To make sense of the new administration's recent tariff announcements and policy changes, Robert Johnson, the Brian and Jeannelle Brady Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame, explains how tariffs affect global economies and what this means for U.S. engagement in global trade.

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After the launch of his latest book, Professor Adekeye Adebajo, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria (UP), said that he hopes the book will provide South African audiences specifically with insights into African economics and politics and the role South Africa plays in Southern Africa鈥檚 broader economy.