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College-educated fathers are stepping it up at home

A bar chart that compares changes in weekly paid work and child care or housework hours for college-educated parents in 2017-19 versus 2022-24. Fathersâ paid work fell 5.96 hours while their unpaid work rose 4.43 hours. Mothers were nearly unchanged, at plus 0.11 and minus 0.1 hours.

Change in hours college-educated parents spent doing paid and unpaid work 

Data: American Time Use Survey via American Institute for Boys and Men; Note: Covers partnered parents with at least one child under age 6; Chart: Emily Peck/Axios

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AI chatbots struggle with subtle mental health cues

A bar chart that compares AI model scores on a suicide-risk identification benchmark across 300 clinician-designed, multi-turn role plays in March and April 2026. Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads at 9.19, followed by GPT 5.2 at 9.09, Gemini 2.5 Flash at 8.47 and Grok 4.1 at 6.79.

Suicide risk identification benchmark

Data: Mpathic; Chart: Megan Morrone/Axios

Tick bite ER visits reach highest rate in nearly a decade

A column chart that shows U.S. emergency department visits for tick bites each April, measured per 100,000 visits. Rates rose from 56 in 2022 to 64 in 2023, dipped to 62 in 2024, then climbed to 68 in 2025 and 101 in 2026, the series high.

Tick bite ER visits in April

Data: CDC National Syndromic Surveillance Program; Note: 2026 data are preliminary; Chart: Carly Mallenbaum/Axios

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