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> Bitcoin dropped from above $122,000 on Friday morning to around $113,600,… more
> A novel partnership between the Oakland Unified School District and Oakland’s… more
> The summer of 2023 saw a surprising increase in global temperatures, even… more
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> In the first eight months of this year 112,000 people crossed illegally into… more
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> A man named Sean, who works as a military contractor—one of several Green… more
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> A Palestinian woman whose son serves in the U.S. Navy was secretly evacuated… more
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> Military veterans are swamping the U.S. government with dubious disability… more
> A fire on Friday at a state data center in South Korea caused a nationwide… more
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> In my home state of California, for instance, only 30% of public school… more
Flush with cash and soaring with hubris, Donald Trump appointees are supersizing US Immigration and Customs Enforcementarchive
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> [W]e are pleased to announce that with Gauss, we have completed the project… more
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> Bowditch: [...] A spy there under our very roof was our babysitter, Klaus… more
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> The study, led by researchers at UC Berkeley and Oxford, tracked over 100,000… more
The comments are worth reading. One of the authors explains the resistance they… more
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In Bret Devereaux's Fourth of July post, he starts with a bit of history just… more
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