World Issues & Politics: 1 of 10
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Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies
LexisNexis, which generates consumer risk profiles for the insurers, knew about every trip G.M. drivers had taken in their cars, including when they sped, braked too hard or accelerated rapidly.
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Libraries struggle to afford the demand for e-books and seek new state laws in fight with publishers
Libraries across the U.S. are struggling to cover the cost of e-books, which have grown in popularity.
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Artificial Intelligence Act: MEPs adopt landmark law
On Wednesday, Parliament approved the Artificial Intelligence Act that ensures safety and compliance with fundamental rights, while boosting innovation.
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Mounting research shows that COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including with significant drops in IQ scores
Two new high-profile studies add to the increasingly worrisome picture of how even mild cases of COVID-19 can have detrimental effects on brain health.
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Biden pledges billions to rebuild cities ‘torn apart’ by highways decades ago
President announces $3.3bn in infrastructure spending to ‘right historic wrongs’ as he takes 2024 campaign to vital swing states
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Plundered and corrupted for 200 years, Haiti was doomed to end in anarchy | Kenan Malik
Successive foreign governments plunged it into unpayable debt and left its citizens in penury
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Don Lemon, former CNN anchor, says Elon Musk canceled his new show on X
The former CNN broadcaster claimed his deal with X was terminated after a "testy" one-on-one interview with the tech mogul.
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Why can we not take Universal Basic Income seriously?
On work, AI and the most important social idea yet to get any real traction.
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Bad Bunny Sues Fan For Posting Concert Footage on YouTube
Bad Bunny is mad at a fan whom he claims posted unauthorized concert footage on a YouTube account ... and now he's suing the dude.
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Debra Byrd Dies: ‘American Idol’ And ‘The Voice’ Vocal Coach Was 72
Vocalist Debra Byrd is dead at age 72 in L.A.
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'Far from the truth': Bruce Willis' wife slams headline that said actor has 'no more joy'
“Stop scaring people to think that once they get a diagnosis of some kind of neurocognitive disease, that that’s it,” she said. “You start a new chapter... it’s filled with love.”
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Rivers Reborn: Alewives Continue to Make a Recovery in the Penobscot Watershed in Maine
Alewife fish populations are continuing to journey back home to Maine's Penobscot River thanks to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act which is helping to reconnect and restore fish passages.
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"Better than Jesus": How far will the cult of Trump go?
MAGA has "been persuaded," Katherine Stewart tells Salon, "that Trump is the savior who will face down the demons"
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Boxer Anderson charged with felony after chase
Heavyweight contender Jared Anderson was charged with third-degree felony fleeing a police officer at his arraignment Saturday morning.
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Donald Trump is broke hahahaha
Did you hear the news? Donald Trump is broke as s—t! Sure, you already knew that the former president’s empire was built on bankrupt casinos, skyscrapers that are cratering in value, fake universities, fake shoes, unpaid vendors, dodged taxes, undrinkable wines and inedible steaks. You already knew that this man didn’t actually have an empire at all ... that he was full of s—t the entire time.
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Meta and Microsoft ask EU to reject Apple's new app store terms
Apple’s new app store terms have come under fire for what many are describing as ‘malicious compliance’ with the EU’s...
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Star witness for Trump defendants in Georgia fails to give damning testimony
Terrence Bradley testifies he had no personal knowledge about relationship between DA Fani Willis and prosecutor Nathan Wade
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How Google is killing independent sites like ours
And why you shouldn’t trust product reviews from big media publishers ranking at the top of Google.
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Amazon — like SpaceX — claims the labor board is unconstitutional
Amazon is pushing back on the labor board.
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Air Canada Ordered to Pay Passenger Damages After Chatbot Lied About Bereavement Discounts
The Tribunal judge said Air Canada’s suggestion that the chatbot was a 'separate legal entity responsible for its own actions' didn’t make sense.