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NYC DA Alvin Bragg Sees Falling Conviction Rates As Public Access To Data Is Pulled
By Fiona McCloughlin The conviction rate of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has dropped significantly since he took office yet…
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Most engagement rings now have a lab-created diamond, not a natural diamond; some diamond mines are closing
“Diamond mines are floundering as lab-grown diamonds flood the market and prices plummet. One fifth of all diamond jewelry sold worldwide is now…
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Half of India’s electric capacity is supposedly ‘green’, yet it is adding coal power plants, which provide 71% of its power
“Since 2016, 3 projects have brought reliable power to 140 million in India, laying more than 4,300 km of power…
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Fighting Rages in Syria Despite ‘Ceasefire’ As Government Forces Struggle To Maintain Peace
By Fiona McCloughlin Fighting escalated in Syria Saturday in the predominantly Druze region of Sweida as the government struggled to…
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A Quick Bible Study Vol. 277: Moses in the New Testament Book of Acts
Thanks for joining our study. This week is part two of Moses in the New Testament. Last Sunday, we focused…
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Over 30 Injured After Car Plows Into Crowd Outside Hollywood Nightclub, Officials Say
By Fiona McCloughlin At least 30 people were injured early Saturday morning after a car plowed into a crowd outside…
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DOJ Formally Asks Manhattan Court To Unseal Epstein Grand Jury Testimony
By Mariane Angela The Department of Justice (DOJ) formally petitioned a Manhattan federal judge on Friday to unseal grand jury…
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Brains make new cells even in adulthood
“People my age and older were taught the brain literally stops making new cells in adulthood.” But that’s not true.…
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Paris is now so much cleaner you can swim in its main river
Every time I visited Paris, it was forbidden to swim in the Seine River, which flows through Paris, because it…
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Three GOP Sens Vote Against Advancing Donald Trump’s Rescissions Package
By Adam Pack The Senate narrowly advanced President Donald Trump’s rescissions package late Tuesday evening after Vice President JD Vance…
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Law school lecturers receive grant to hold ‘queerathon’ and promote ‘queer theory’ in ‘private law’
Two lecturers at the University College London (UCL) have received a research grant to “investigate the intersection of private law…
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9/11 Attackers can be subject to death penalty, court rules
By Adriel Perez-Gonzalez A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Secretary of Defense can scrap plea agreements shielding three…
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North Carolina likely to eliminate parking mandates that make housing less affordable
On June 26, North Carolina’s House of Representatives banned local mandates that forced developers to build parking lots. That will…
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Deadly Texas Flood Kills 27 As Dozens Of Girls Go Missing From Christian Summer Camp, Police Say
By Melanie Wilcox The death toll from catastrophic flash flooding in Texas has risen to 27, local officials confirmed Friday…
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Wolverines make a comeback in Finland
Wolverines are making a comeback in southern Finland, where they were wiped out in the 19th century. Bird Guides explains:…
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Artificial intelligence makes harmful dictator more popular in one of the world’s poorest countries
Burkina Faso is a place of immense suffering. It is one of the world’s poorest countries, with 40% of its…
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Happy World Porcupine Day
“Happy World Porcupine Day! For those wondering what a baby porcupine is called, it’s a porcupette. For those wondering what…
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Even in Florida, colleges persist in punishing students for using the ‘wrong’ pronoun
“Despite the Trump and DeSantis administrations’ crackdown on gender ideology, three public universities in Florida still have allegedly ‘unconstitutional’ policies…
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Dramatic seabird recoveries occur in Mexico
“Mexico’s Pacific islands are witnessing a remarkable seabird comeback. Of 27 seabird populations that had vanished from these islands, 22…
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Fire ants crossbreed to create ‘Frankenstein’ hybrid species that is moving north in the U.S.
“Experts have sounded the alarm after discovering that two species of invasive fire ant have crossbred, creating a dangerous new…
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NYC’s Socialist Mayoral Candidate Proposes Blatantly Racist Scheme
By Natalie Sandoval Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, is not the brightest bulb. “Shift the…
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“Unstoppable super ants” leaving trail of destruction “across Germany”
“A destructive species of ant is spreading through Germany faster than expected, with scientists warning that the proliferation of insects…
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Kemp’s ridley sea turtles have record-breaking season after being on the brink of extinction
“Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, one of the world’s most endangered species, have laid a record 383 nests on the Texas…
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Country with high AIDS rate cuts mother-child HIV transmission rate to 1.2%
“Botswana has reduced the mother-to-child HIV transmission rate to 1.2 percent, an exceptionally low rate for a country with such…
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Beavers return to Portugal after being absent for 600 years
Beavers in Portugal were wiped out in the 1400s. But now they have returned. Rewilding Portugal explains: The last known…
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Making clothes used to consume much of a woman’s life, and much of many children’s lives
Virginia Postrel’s The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World tells how the need for clothing “built modern civilization,…
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Species of rabbit thought to be extinct is found after 120 years in Mexico
“A rare species of rabbit—last seen in 1904—was caught on camera in Mexico, proving that it has not, in fact,…
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Student achievement rises due to conservative education policies in the South
By Aidan Buzzetti A recent New York Times article portrayed conservative-led education reform as a political performance — more concerned…
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Lions proliferate in Indian state despite growing human population and polluted rivers
There are 891 Asiatic lions in the Indian state of Gujarat now, up from 674 in 2020. The number of…
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Poland Elects Trump-Friendly Conservative In Blow To EU Bureaucrats
By Wallace White Polish voters elected a conservative nationalist aligned with the Trump administration to the presidency Monday, dealing a…
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Cape vulture populations grow in South Africa
Cape vulture populations are growing in parts of Southern Africa, and the number of Cape vultures is stable or increasing:…
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Hummingbird beaks evolve to get more from bird feeders, becoming longer and more tapered
“A new study details the evolutionary change of Anna’s Hummingbirds, finding their beaks have grown longer and more tapered to…
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Queens College ‘Cleans House’ of Jewish Accounting Professors Amid Campus ‘Antisemitic Hate,’ Lawsuit Alleges
By Melanie Wilcox Queens College is facing a lawsuit that accuses the City University of New York (CUNY) of purging…
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