The popular app TikTok is beginning to test ways to age-restrict some types of content amid a push to beef up safety features for teens.

Social & Behavioral Sciences

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Angela Odoms-Young is the Director of the New York State Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program and was on the committee to develop the nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program/School Breakfast Program. 

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Frontier is offering to buy Spirit Airlines in a deal that will create the nation’s fifth largest carrier. The companies said the transaction will provide more low-cost fares for more travelers.

Economics and Business

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

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President Joe Biden says the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, was killed during an overnight raid by U.S. special forces. 

International

Foreign Policy

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Max Kapustin, assistant professor of policy analysis and management at Cornell University’s Brooks School of Public Policy, comments on new steps proposed by the Biden administration to address rising gun-related crime.

Law and Policy

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Arthur Wheaton, an expert on the automotive industry and director of labor studies at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, comments on a new electric vehicle battery swapping policy in India.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Mary Nichols, a senior visiting fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and a former chair of the California Air and Resources Board, comments on efforts in California to help oil industry workers transition to green jobs.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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China claims the U.S. plans to pay athletes to 'sabotage' the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.

International

Foreign Policy

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The Russian government said this week that the U.S. rejection of demands over Ukraine has left “little optimism” for a resolution of the crisis. Tensions have soared with Russia over concerns that Moscow is planning to invade Ukraine.

International

Foreign Policy

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Following an announcement from the E.P.A. that it will bolster enforcement and monitoring of air and water quality in disadvantaged communities, Cornell University scientists, Jerel Ezell, Catherine Kling, and John Albertson offered their critiques of the new approach and signaled what the development could mean for the future of air quality monitoring technology. 

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Law, Government & Public Policy

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