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Fox Faces FCC License Threat Over False Election Claims & Jan. 6 Attack
Fox may have forked over $787 million to avoid going to trial in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit over false 2020 election claims, but the Rupert Murdoch-owned company is far from free o…
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U.S. Is Destroying the Last of Its Once-Vast Chemical Weapons Arsenal
Decades behind its initial schedule, the dangerous job of eliminating the world’s only remaining declared stockpile of lethal chemical munitions will be completed as soon as Friday.
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FBI Hired Social Media Surveillance Firm That Labeled Black Lives Matter Organizers “Threat Actors”
THE FBI’S PRIMARY tool for monitoring social media threats is the same contractor that labeled peaceful Black Lives Matter protest leaders DeRay McKesson and Johnetta Elzie as “threat actors” requiring “continuous monitoring” in 2015.
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Joshua trees are dying. This new legislation hopes to tackle that
The iconic spindly plants are under threat from a variety of factors, including climate change and development, and the California legislature is stepping in to help.
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Pornhub cuts off more US users in ongoing protest over age-verification laws
On July 1, laws requiring adult websites to verify user ages took effect in Mississippi and Virginia, despite efforts by Pornhub to push back against the legislation. Those efforts include Pornhub blocking access to users in these states and rallying users to help persuade lawmakers that requiring ID to access adult content will only create more harm for users in their states.
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Federal Complaint Says Harvard Legacy Preferences in Admissions Violate Civil Rights Act
Three Black and Latinx groups filed a civil rights complaint against Harvard Monday morning alleging that the University’s consideration of legacy and donor preferences in the admissions process violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Car crashes into lobby of Northern Michigan Arby’s restaurant
Repairs and cleanup are underway at the Arby’s restaurant in Grayling after a customer drove their car into the lobby Wednesday afternoon. According to UpNorthLive, the accident happened around 4 p.m. when a woman who was supposedly leaving the parking lot, but instead drove into the lobby of the restaurant.
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Casa Bonita eliminates tipping, going against service industry norm
Guests who dine at the Casa Bonita will not be asked to tip on their meals and drinks, challenging the conventional service industry model in Denver and beyond. The Lakewood landmark made its highly anticipated reopening to the public on June 23, offering locals the chance to buy tickets that include a meal. Tickets cost $39.99 for adults and $24.99 for kids ages 3 to 12. Kids under 3 are free.
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Cyberattacks on hospitals 'should be considered a regional disaster,' researchers find
It was early May in 2021 when patients flooded the emergency room at the University of California San Diego Health Center. "We were bringing in backup staff, our wait times had gone haywire, the whole system was overloaded," said Dr. Christopher Longhurst, UC San Diego's chief medical officer and digital officer. "We felt it."
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The Disturbing CIA Iceberg - Part 3
The CIA certainty has committed their share of naughty no-nos over the years, this iceberg contains basically all of them...that they allow us to know about
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Chinese researchers turn to $1 adhesive to counter billion-dollar laser weapon from the US
By adding few market-bought compounds, the researchers have further strengthened the heat coating on ballistic missiles , making them indestructible by lasers.
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Annual numbers of excess deaths in the US relative to other developed countries are growing at an alarming rate
New research shows that preventable deaths are increasing in the US at the same time that life expectancy keeps dropping.
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Judge denies Amazon’s, Apple’s motions to dismiss class action price-fixing suit
A federal judge has rejected Apple's and Amazon's motions to wholly dismiss a consumer antitrust lawsuit, one that accuses the tech giants of colluding to eliminate all but the highest-price Apple products in Amazon's online store. Writing in Seattle (PDF), Judge John C. Coughenour noted that Apple and Amazon do not dispute the existence of their agreement, which was publicly touted by the companies in November 2018. Nor do they argue that it had an "effect on interstate commerce," as required by a lawsuit making a complaint under the Sherman Act.
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Family finds 1 million copper pennies while cleaning out Los Angeles home
Having more money than you know what to do with is usually a good thing, but for one California family, it’s a little bit more complicated than that. John Reyes, a realtor from the Inland Empire, is trying to figure out what to do with more than 1 million pennies he and his wife discovered in her father’s former home in the Pico-Union neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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The US just had its worst day of wildfire smoke on record
When it comes to pollution from wildfire smoke, Wednesday, June 7th, 2023, was by far the worst day on record for the average American. A thick haze of smoke swept in from wildfires in Canada, blanketing much of the Northeast with record-shattering levels of harmful particulate pollution. The Verge was on the phone with Stanford associate professor Marshall Burke when he got the results of his team’s analysis via Slack. “Jesus,” he says — audibly surprised, even though he expected the numbers to be bad. “It’s really remarkable. The number is honestly pretty shocking.”
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White House proposes 30 percent tax on electricity used for crypto mining
The Biden administration wants to impose a 30 percent tax on the electricity used by cryptocurrency mining operations, and it has included the proposal in its budget for the fiscal year of 2024. In a blog post on the White House website, the administration has formally introduced the Digital Asset Mining Energy or DAME excise tax. It explained that it wants to tax cryptomining firms, because they aren't paying for the "full cost they impose on others," which include environmental pollution and high energy prices.
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US Has 12 Or More Alien Spacecraft, Say Military And Intelligence Contractors
In April, the director of the Pentagon’s new program for studying UFOs said he had seen no evidence of alien spacecraft. “I should also state clearly for the record,” said Sean Kirkpatrick, the Director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), “that in our research, AARO has found no credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology, or objects that defy the known laws of physics.”
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DOJ charges ‘Bob’s Burgers,’ ‘Arrested Development’ actor in Jan. 6 Capitol riot
Jay Johnston, an actor who appeared in many comedies, was arrested Wednesday and charged with felony obstruction of officers as well as several misdemeanor offenses.
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Secret Service agents have testified in Trump classified docs probe
About two dozen Secret Service agents have been subpoenaed or have appeared before a federal grand jury in Washington that's looking into former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed Tuesday. The sources said prosecutors have interviewed agents assigned to Trump’s security detail at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, about 24 of whom have been asked to testify before the grand jury. All complied, the sources said.
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US doctors forced to ration as cancer drug shortages hit nationwide
Toni Dezomits, a 55-year-old retired law enforcement officer, is fighting a recurrence of her stage 4 ovarian cancer. She had already undergone several rounds of chemotherapy when her doctor told her she had some more bad news. Just a day before her third round of treatment last month, Ms Dezomits was told there was a nationwide shortage of the generic chemotherapy drug, carboplatin - one of three medications she was meant to receive.
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