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/ 1 year agoHow ‘constitutional county’ declarations undermine the Constitution – a legal scholar explains
By declaring a ‘constitutional county,’ local leaders assert they are creating a refuge from anti- or unconstitutional actions undertaken by an...
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/ 1 year agoDespite threats of violence, Trump’s federal indictment happened with little fanfare — but that doesn’t mean the far-right movement is fading, an extremism scholar explains
Since Facebook removed online hate groups and individuals from its platform, extremist groups are increasingly organizing in more discreet ways.
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/ 1 year agoRussians are using age-old military tactic of flooding to combat Ukraine’s counteroffensive
The ongoing war in Ukraine has forced the Russian military to reassess its ability to defend its territorial gains. The flooding...
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/ 1 year ago96.4% of Americans had COVID-19 antibodies in their blood by fall 2022
There’s pretty much no one left in the US who hasn’t been exposed to the coronavirus, whether by vaccination, infection or...
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/ 1 year agoHow the Unabomber’s unique linguistic fingerprints led to his capture
Similar techniques used to identify criminals have been employed to unmask anonymous authors. But they aren’t foolproof.
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/ 1 year agoWhen homes flood, who retreats and to where? We mapped thousands of buyouts and found the average move is only 7 miles, and race plays a role
Two disaster response experts mapped who gets FEMA buyouts and where they go. It turns out, they don’t go far.
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/ 1 year agoEU files antitrust charges against Google – here’s how the ad tech at the heart of the case works
Antitrust suits against Google for its advertising practices center on the technology for buying and selling online ads. A computer scientist...
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/ 1 year agoWhy the Federal Reserve’s epic fight against inflation might be over
The Fed said it’s pausing its aggressive rate-hiking campaign as it collects more data on the impact.
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/ 1 year agoHow the exposure of highly-classified documents could harm U.S. security — and why there are laws against storing them insecurely
The federal indictment against Donald Trump identifies categories of risk to the United States and its allies due to his alleged...
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/ 1 year agoHow Black Americans combated racism from beyond the grave
Tombstones that used the honorifics ‘Mr.’ and ‘Mrs.’ restored a sense of dignity to people who had been denied it in...
