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Lady Gaga, Stevie Wonder and Billie Eilish are among those scheduled to participate in the FireAid benefit concert to raise money for people impacted by the devastating Los Angeles wildfires. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day: 5 things 1️⃣ Bad habit: Are you a procrastinator? This chronic tendency to put things off until later affects productivity, of course — but it can also damage your confidence, relationships and health. Here’s how to change your ways.
2️⃣ ‘My world fell apart’: A graduate student in Texas is among a group of pregnant mothers suing the Trump administration, arguing the executive order on birthright citizenship violates the Constitution. She worries her baby could be denied health care or education. 3️⃣ Sinking an icon: America’s flagship — the SS United States — was poised to set sail on its final voyage from Philadelphia to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico to become an artificial reef.
But new wrinkles have delayed the next chapter for the historic ocean liner. 4️⃣ Space rocks: Researchers found compounds and minerals necessary for life in samples collected from the asteroid Bennu, adding evidence to the idea that asteroids likely delivered.
