"“This case presents a fundamental question at the heart of our democracy: whether a former president is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed while in office or is constitutionally protected from federal prosecution when he has been impeached but not convicted before the criminal proceedings begin,” prosecutors wrote."
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"She was one of five gray wolves Wildlife officials released in a remote part of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains on Monday to kick off a voter-approved reintroduction program that was embraced in the state’s mostly Democratic urban corridor but staunchly opposed in conservative rural areas where ranchers worry about attacks on livestock."
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"Even though most employees aren’t back in the office full time, many are back in the office at least some of the time, rehearsing the same lines and reprising watercooler talk from the past—a far cry from the “work would never be the same” sentiments that many outlets espoused just a few years ago."
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"As the saying goes, “Intelligence is whatever a test measures,” and a global standardized test of student competence across countries, cultures, learning styles, and languages will inevitably include questions that overrate some abilities and underrate others.But the latest PISA survey isn’t the only evidence that phones in schools are weapons of mass distraction."
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"He and others have found that people who are exposed to the cold more often tend to shiver less and feel less cold, which suggests that their bodies got better at keeping them warm from the inside.“As you become more acclimated to the cold, your body becomes more effective at delivering warm blood to the extremities, your core temperature goes up, and all that contributes to being more resistan..."
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"If racial turnout rates changed depending upon a precinct’s racial mix, which is one description of bias, a linear form would be unlikely in a simple scatter plot (resulting only when changes in one race’s turnout rate somehow compensated for changes in the other’s across the graph).It is a pretty complete steal, with the bizarre substitution of “increase” for “decrease.”Even if, in the most to..."
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"By now, the outlines of the story are well-known: a staff of 7,500 slashed by 75%; a free-speech absolutism that welcomed banned users back to the platform, along with a surge of hate speech and misinformation; an advertising crisis in which more than half of Twitter’s top 1,000 advertisers shut their purses; and a confounding corporate rebrand that replaced Twitter and the familiar tweet with ..."
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"The software giant will have to pay a $1 billion breakup fee for exiting the deal, but, Fortune’s David Meyer writes, the collapse of the deal might actually be a good thing for everyone involved.Apple put on watchApple is scrambling for ways to save its $17 billion smartwatch business, after a court ruled the company’s wearables had infringed a patent held by rival Masimo and ordered Apple to ..."
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"The fact that such a small group of individuals makes up such a pronounced amount of economic power exposes the overwhelming wealth disparity that has grown during the pandemic, especially during a year where Americans feel an overwhelming sense of fatigue from a volatile economy and persistent (though cooling) inflation."
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"People in the Lytton area can apply for grants of $10,000 toward rebuilding to fire-resilient standards and, depending on home size, about $84,000 to rebuild to net-zero standards—using solar panels or better-insulated walls and roofs, as well as thicker, more airtight windows.Read: I turned my house into a zero-carbon utopiaIt’s a good policy in principle, Ali Asgary, a professor of disaster a..."
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"CEO Tom Leighton gives some direction from the top, but after that, “we allow a lot of autonomous decision-making to happen within the organization in terms of what are the best ways to solve these problems and what are the most interesting technologies to approach,” says Dr."
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"But, Meagher said, the Democratic-aligned constellation is not nearly as ideologically coherent or disciplined as the groups that make up the CNP: “There is no analogy to that on the left.”This interlocking structure of funding, training, and schmoozing is key to understanding the quick success of Moms for Liberty in American politics.According to Ziegler and her colleagues, the organization wa..."
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"Other experiments show that when people delegate decision-making to AI agents—something they are increasingly likely to do, from having LLMs draft emails to tasking drones with military targeting—it can obscure moral responsibility and encourage unethical interactions with other people."
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"The Fed prefers the PCE index over the Labor Department’s CPI in part because it accounts for changes in how people shop when inflation jumps — when, for example, consumers shift away from pricey national brands in favor of cheaper store brands.Subscribe to the CFO Daily newsletter to keep up with the trends, issues, and executives shaping corporate finance."
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"A 2021 research paper cited numerous barriers that Black and Hispanic high school students encounter as they try to make their way: “counselors who encourage or discourage students from taking advanced courses along racial lines”; school officials who dole out “information about advanced courses unevenly by race and socioeconomic status”; and administrators who apply “prerequisites (whether sta..."
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"As there is contention among the fishermen who shall be the first to reach the pond as soon as the ice will bear, in spite of the cold; as the hunters are forward to take the field as soon as the first snow has fallen, so he who would make the most of his life for discipline must be abroad early and late, in spite of cold and wet, in pursuit of nobler game, whose traces are there most distinct,..."
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"He outlines several proposals for how regulators and policymakers could address our current problems, from the extreme and unlikely (such as nationalizing the airlines) to smaller, if still industry-shaking, interventions (requiring every major airline to serve a set of smaller cities, at regulated prices, for example; or requiring carriers to create “rainy day” funds that would reduce the need..."
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"If it seems too complicated make it easy on yourself: just send money.”); and in the elaborate decorations Snoopy has put on his doghouse (“My own dog, gone commercial!”).Read: The paradox of ‘Peanuts’Standing in the wings of the school auditorium, where he has the impossible task of directing his friends in a Nativity play, Charlie Brown cries out in anguish: “Isn’t there anyone who knows what..."
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"“What we’re seeing in this cycle is making the most of things that are talked about at this very moment, but which will soon turn into trivia questions for political junkies,” he said, adding that the fast fashion way that campaigns utilize third-party vendors to make and sell their wares also brings in donations and user data, as well as visibility and generates pride among supporters."
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"She was one of five gray wolves Wildlife officials released in a remote part of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains on Monday to kick off a voter-approved reintroduction program that was embraced in the state’s mostly Democratic urban corridor but staunchly opposed in conservative rural areas where ranchers worry about attacks on livestock."
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