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Disabled employee doesn’t have right to keep customer-service job while using racial slurs, court rules
A federal appeals court has ruled that an employer doesn’t have to keep a worker in a customer-service position, where…
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Two billion tons of valuable rare-earth elements discovered in Wyoming
Wyoming has hit “the rare-earth mother lode,” says an article in the Wall Street Journal: The discovery of 2.34 billion…
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Biden Admin Shells Out Taxpayer Dollars On Getting Americans To Eat Trash-Fed Bugs
By Robert Schmad The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) began funding research into trash-fed crickets as an alternative to…
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Rampant Crime Is Increasingly Taking Its Toll On America’s Small Businesses, New Survey Reveals
By Will Kessler Nearly one-third of small business employers in January said that crime has raised everyday business costs, according…
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Is Biden’s Plan For High-Speed Internet In Rural Areas About To Go Up In Flames?
By Jason Cohen President Joe Biden’s administration is struggling to deliver on its goals for providing rural Americans with high-speed…
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Major New York bank may collapse due to rent control
Rent control is destabilizing some of New York’s banks. It was a key factor in the collapse of Signature Bank,…
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California’s war on plastic bag use backfires, increasing plastic bag waste
California’s restrictions on single-use plastic bags have backfired and led to massive increases in plastic bag waste. The Los Angeles…
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Canadian Legislation Would Ban Saying Nice Things About Fossil Fuels
By David Blackmon Imagine this: You invest a couple of hours towards watching “Juice: Power, Politics, and the Grid,” the…
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Toyota Refused To Hop On The Electric Vehicle Bandwagon, And It Paid Off Big Time
By Kay Smythe Toyota said Tuesday the company will see an annual profit of $30 billion at the end of…
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Electric Vehicles Have A Weight Problem
By David Blackmon A crash test study conducted by researchers at The University of Nebraska holds troubling news for the…
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Nuclear power generation expected to reach record high worldwide, next year
Global nuclear power generation is set to reach an all-time high next year, according to the International Energy Agency. That…
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Crime Has Gotten So Bad In Blue City That Companies Are Now Paying For Security Escorts To Protect Employees
Businesses in downtown Oakland are hiring private security for employees and asking employees to stay inside as crime in the…
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Genetically modified chicken lays eggs that are non-allergenic
Growing numbers of people are allergic to eggs — up to 2% of kids. Most kids outgrow their egg allergy…
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CVS In DC Will Close Due To Teen Theft Epidemic
By Julianna Frieman A CVS store in Washington, D.C., will close next month due to teenage theft. The drugstore chain…
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Artificial intelligence discovers new material that could reduce lithium use in batteries and our dependence on China
A new substance discovered by artificial intelligence could reduce lithium use in batteries. Microsoft, which is collaborating with Pacific Northwest…
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mRNA cancer vaccine will save many lives in places where it becomes available
Moderna is developing a cancer vaccine that is expected to dramatically cut cancer survivors’ risk of death or recurrence. At…
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Conventional farms have smaller carbon footprint than urban gardens, producing food more efficiently
Hipsters tell their fellow city-dwellers to eat food that is “locally grown.” But that is bad for the environment, because…
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Famous Burger Joint’s Sole Location In Liberal City Closes Over Rampant Crime
By Julianna Freeman In-N-Out Burger’s sole location in Oakland, California, will close due to rampant crime, the restaurant brand announced…
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Here’s Why The Biden Admin’s Multi-Billion Dollar EV Charging Program Has Short-Circuited
By Will Kessler The Biden administration has designated billions of taxpayer dollars to build electric vehicle (EV) chargers, but lagging…
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Virginia legislation would define raising rent to keep pace with inflation as ‘rent gouging’
Raising rent to keep up with inflation isn’t what most people would consider “rent gouging,” even when the landlord has…
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Thailand discovers huge supply of lithium used for electric car batteries
Thailand has discovered nearly 15 million tonnes of lithium deposits, a shot in the arm for the southeast Asian nation’s…
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Groundbreaking nuclear plant approved, uses non-water-cooled reactor
Could nuclear power make a comeback? It provides most electric power in countries like France and Slovakia, but in the…
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Biden Admin’s Latest Labor Rule Poised To Upend Key Sector Of The Economy
By Will Kessler The Biden administration’s new labor rule will likely increase costs for employers and restrict Americans’ freedom to…
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The EV Industry Had A No Good, Terrible, Very Bad Week
By David Blackmon This has been quite a week for absurd news emanating from the world of electric vehicles. First,…
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Virginia legislation would penalize lack of diversity in firms seeking economic development aid
Recent Virginia legislation raises interesting constitutional issues under the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause. Virginia legislators have introduced bills that…
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New Bank Regulations Will Hurt Small Businesses And Middle-Class Borrowers The Most
By Stephen Moore The rapid succession of bank failures last spring clearly spooked federal regulators at the FDIC, the Federal…
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Rent control shrinks supply of housing in Saint Paul
Rent control can cut the supply of housing by a lot. “In 2021, Saint Paul, Minnesota limited rent increases to…
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Federal Court Throws Wrench Into Biden Admin’s War On Appliances
By Nick Pope A federal appeals court shot down the Biden administration’s efforts to repeal existing regulations on dishwashers and…
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What Has California’s War On Fossil Fuels Actually Accomplished?
By Nick Pope California has gone after the fossil fuel industry with vigor, but those efforts do not seem to…
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American buildings kill a billion birds a year. Architectural changes could save them
Transparent glass kills many birds, which crash into the windows and die. But changes in design are saving birds, without…
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Cars have gotten much more affordable over the past 100 years
A century ago, a Ford Model T cost $260. Today, a Nissan Versa costs $16,290. While that sounds much more…
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Florida can import prescription drugs from Canada, FDA says
Today, the Food and Drug Administration approved Florida’s first-in-the-nation program to import prescription drugs from Canada, where drugs are cheaper.…
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Rent control bill introduced in Virginia
A just-introduced Virginia bill, HB 192, would limit rent increases to “one percent over the Consumer Price Index” in places…
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Federal Court Deals Knockout Punch To Blue City’s Biden-Backed Effort To Ban Gas Stoves
By Nick Pope A federal appellate court ruled Tuesday that it would not reconsider an earlier decision that prevents the…
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Farming robot uses artificial intelligence to kill 100,000 weeds per hour
Carbon Robots makes a weeding robot that thinks for itself to figure out how to remove weeds without harming crops.…
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Company creates woolly mammoth meatballs, resurrecting flesh of long-extinct giants
“A mammoth meatball has been created by a cultivated meat company, resurrecting the flesh of the long-extinct animals,” reported The…
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