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/ 8 months agoSupreme Court makes prosecution of Trump on obstruction charge more difficult, with ruling to narrowly define law used against him and Jan. 6 rioters
Government prosecutors, ruled the Supreme Court, stretched the meaning of a law that’s been used to prosecute those alleged to have...
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/ 8 months agoICE detainees suffer preventable deaths − Q&A with a medical researcher about systemic failures
ICE detention facilities suffer from outdated systems, a lack of translation services – and a penchant for releasing ailing detainees to...
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/ 8 months agoFederal funding for major science agencies is at a 25-year low
Research funding is down in recent years despite promises made with the CHIPS and Science Act.
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/ 8 months agoWestern interest in ayahuasca is creating challenges for local Indigenous communities and raising issues of cultural appropriation
The psychotropic allure of the ayahuasca plant for hundreds of thousands of non-Indigenous consciousness seekers is raising many concerns.
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/ 8 months agoChatGPT and the movie ‘Her’ are just the latest example of the ‘sci-fi feedback loop’
Science fiction and technological innovation feed off each other in an ongoing back-and-forth that can play out over decades.
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/ 8 months agoBiden crashes, Trump lies: A campaign-defining presidential debate
Scholars of communication and politics assess a presidential debate with a clear loser, but no clear winner.
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/ 8 months agoSupreme Court sidesteps case on whether federal law on medical emergencies overrides Idaho’s abortion ban
The Supreme Court conceded that it should not have taken up the case to begin with.
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/ 8 months agoSupreme Court rejects settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma over legal protections for the Sackler family that owned the company
The company helped spur a public health crisis through its deceptive marketing and aggressive sales of prescription opioids.
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/ 8 months agoGazans’ extreme hunger could leave its mark on subsequent generations
Hunger, stress, trauma, inadequate sanitation and other factors are converging to create a widespread humanitarian disaster with consequences that could last...
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/ 8 months ago5 ways anti-diversity laws affect LGBTQ+ people and research in higher ed
Laws that scrap diversity, equity and inclusion programs on campus are likely to result in less support for LGBTQ+ students, a...
