Did “Big Oil” Sell Us on a Recycling Scam? - JSTOR Daily Our focus on recycling to save the planet may be missing the mark.

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Marco Rubio said no one has died due to U.S. aid cuts. This mom disagrees Mariam Mohammed says her younger son died when she could not get treatment for him at a U.S.-funded clinic that had temporarily closed. Researchers say that are many thousands of cases like his.

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Nation’s vets deserve more than parades and empty promises - The Boston Globe Trump continues to show he values military hardware and long-ago "victories" over those who fought.

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Trump makes false claims of white genocide in South Africa during Ramaphosa meeting U.S. President Donald Trump made several false statements and misrepresented some facts about the alleged persecution of South Africa's white minority during a contentious Oval Office meeting on Wednesday with President Cyril Ramaphosa.

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Why Do Americans Pay More for Prescription Drugs? Drug companies in the U.S. face few restraints on what to charge for their products. A bipartisan bill would penalize those companies that sell their drugs at higher prices than the average of the pri...

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Canceling our civil rights

He talks like a criminal defendant trolling excuses.

Love endures all, including slavery and the pandemic. I wanted to show how In early 2020, separated from my family and friends during the pandemic, I made up my mind to write a love story

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The Alien Enemies Act: Annotated - JSTOR Daily Confused about the oft-mentioned Alien Enemies Act? This explainer, with links to free peer-reviewed scholarship, may help clear things up.

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In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could help All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted

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High levels of toxic chemicals found in paper receipts used by US retailers Holding the receipts for 10 seconds absorbs enough bisphenol S to break California’s safety rule, research finds

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Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire One way to understand the dilemma of contemporary American literature in the age of Donald Trump is to see it as an imperial literature. The United States is a different kind of empire, exerting gl…

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Waste, Fraud, Abuse and Flagrantly Repulsive.

Trump Said Cuts Wouldn’t Affect Public Safety. Then He Fired Hundreds of Workers Who Help Fight Wildfires. The White House and DOGE have sought to eliminate thousands of jobs from the Forest Service. The wildland firefighting force is one of many targets within the agency.

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Last time he told you not "not to worry" half a million Americans died of Covid.

The stock market has crashed before. Why is this time different? - The Boston Globe Here are three takeaways to help understand the current (and confusing) market situation.

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Our Freedom is Fragile: Lessons From the Jewish Children Who Fled Nazi Germany I met my friend Hank Kandler in a German class I took at NYU’s Deutsches Haus in 2009. I was 33 and he was 79. I was trying to keep my German skills up after having spent two years living abroad in…

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How to be a Modern Autocrat - JSTOR Daily In the twenty-first century, dictators are less likely than their predecessors to use violence to suppress dissent, cultivating instead “informational autocracies.”

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‘Oligarchy’: Trump exempts big oil donors from tariffs package Trump’s new 10% universal tariffs will not apply to many fossil fuel products in sign of his fealty, advocates say

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How much will tariffs raise prices? Trump's economists just revealed their answer The administration revealed how they calculated the tariffs. Buried in that math is a straightforward answer to a question Trump has long refused to answer: How much will his tariffs raise prices?

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Trump's tariffs are so far-reaching they include several remote, uninhabited islands The global tariffs Trump announced this week include remote territories like Heard and McDonald Islands in the Indian Ocean that don't actually have human populations. Here's what to know about them.

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Denmark Just Took Hillbilly JD Vance to the Woodshed That was just about the worst vice presidential trip abroad ever.

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Representatives Demand Housing Agency Halt Any Cryptocurrency Experiments Following reporting by ProPublica, three Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee have warned HUD against using crypto, which they said could be “dangerous, speculative, and harmful to work...

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