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Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says the nation needs to triple its nuclear capacity. U. S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Friday called for more nuclear reactors to be built in the United States and worldwide. But the CEO of the Georgia utility that just finished the first two scratch-built American reactors in a generation at a cost of nearly $35 billion says his company isn’t ready to pick up that baton.

The nonhormonal treatment was tested on mice. Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine hope it could pave the wave for future human contraceptives. The world’s population is expanding while resources are growing scarcer, but as of yet there is no birth control for men aside from condoms or vasectomies. Instead, women are left to grapple with the delights of playing side-effect roulette with hormonal contraceptives or IUDs, even though men are fertile around the clock while women are only fertile for about a week a month.

The company, which had sought bankruptcy protection back in 2020, is among the California food chains impacted by recent minimum wage hikes. Rubio’s Coastal Grill, a fast-casual taco chain that operates in California, Arizona, and Nevada, has reportedly closed 48 underperforming stores in California, including 13 locations in San Diego. As of now, 86 Rubio’s locations remain open across California, Arizona, and Nevada.

Trump joins TikTok 4 years after trying to ban the app. Donald Trump has joined the popular video-sharing app TikTok, a platform he once tried to ban while in the White House, and posted from a UFC fight two days after he became the first former president and presumptive major party nominee in U.

Former Zantac makers GSK, Pfizer, and Sanofi said they would appeal. A Delaware judge has allowed more than 70,000 lawsuits over discontinued heartburn drug Zantac to go forward, ruling that expert witnesses can testify in court that the drug may cause cancer.

A boil order still in effect for most of the city. Water pressure was returning to downtown Atlanta and nearby neighborhoods on Sunday after a two-day water outage shut down businesses and left faucets dry at many homes. A large swath of the city remained under an order to boil water before drinking it, but Mayor Andre Dickens said in a late Saturday news conference that one of the two major water main breaks affecting the city had been repaired.