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/ 1 year agoThe Global South is forging a new foreign policy in the face of war in Ukraine, China-US tensions: Active nonalignment
Brazil and India are among the countries pointedly not taking sides over the war in Ukraine. But this is not the...
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/ 1 year agoGeorge Soros hands control over his family’s philanthropy to son Alex, after giving away billions and enduring years of antisemitic attacks and conspiracy theories
Soros’ giving has revolved around the concept that people thrive in open societies because they can freely express themselves.
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/ 1 year agoSupreme Court affirms Congress’s power over Indian affairs, upholds law protecting Native American children
A Supreme Court ruling has upheld the right of Congress to pass laws about Native American tribes’ rights to self-government.
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/ 1 year agoGenerative AI is a minefield for copyright law
Intellectual property law wasn’t written with AI in mind, so it isn’t clear who owns the images that emerge from prompts...
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/ 1 year agoJewish denominations: A brief guide for the perplexed
Jewish communities have always followed some different customs in different parts of the world, but the 19th and 20th centuries brought...
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/ 1 year agoFood insecurity already affects 12 million US homes — and reductions in SNAP benefits won’t help
For many Americans, a healthy diet of fruits, vegetables and whole grains is beyond their reach.
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/ 1 year agoAmerican Indians forced to attend boarding schools as children are more likely to be in poor health as adults
Native Americans sent to government-funded schools now experience significantly higher rates of mental and physical health problems than those who did...
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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...
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/ 1 year agoForensic evidence suggests Paleo-Americans hunted mastodons, mammoths and other megafauna in eastern North America 13,000 years ago
A forensic technique more often used at modern crime scenes identified blood residue from large extinct animals on spearpoints and stone...
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/ 1 year agoWhy this year’s summer solstice matters so much for a new religious movement mired in controversy
3HO was founded in 1969, and SDI followed five years later. What are they, and what is the significance of the...
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/ 1 year agoEvents in Bolivia and Brazil may signal a turning point for the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse crisis in Latin America
Public outrage over alleged abuse has been muted in much of Latin America for years, partly because the church remains one...
