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5 days agoCurrent Event ticktack
Historians having to tape together records that Trump tore up
Implications for public record and legal proceedings after administration seized or destroyed papers, notes and other information
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7 days agoExpression ticktack
We asked 12 mass killers: 'What would have stopped you?'
In America today, mass shootings remain the most terrible metric that distinguishes the country from the rest of the world.
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11 days agoCurrent Event ticktack
The Art of the Lie? The Bigger the Better
Lying as a political tool is hardly new. But a readiness, even enthusiasm, to be deceived has become a driving force in politics around the world, most recently in the United States.
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11 days agoCurrent Event ticktack
In blow to Trump, golf’s PGA strips major championship from Trump-owned course
As he faces a lonely end to his presidency, Donald Trump learned Sunday evening that, in the wake of last week's riot at the U.S. Capitol, he has lost one of the relationships he values most: his partnership with the Professional Golfers' Association. While the embattled president has been hunkered down to try and preserve his political career, the PGA of America, the proprietors of one of golf's four major championship tournaments, announced that it plans to move its 2022 PGA Cha...
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13 days agoCurrent Event ticktack
The quickest way to undo Trump's environmental mess isn't as easy as you'd think.
The same day the nation watched pro-Trump supporters stage a coup at the Capitol, the Bureau of Land Management held its most controversial auction yet in the 1.5 million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an environmentally sensitive coastal plane that the native Gwich’in people call the “The Sacred Place Where Life Begins.” The firesale for oil and gas leasing only raised a small fraction of revenue Republicans had estimated it could generate.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event ticktack
Mensch gives his own pants to a homeless man
This good Samaritan gave the trousers off his own body to a homeless man who wasn’t wearing any. Watch the heart-warming exchange filmed on a chilly night outside a McDonald’s in Fresno, California.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event ticktack
1 Of A Kind Shelter Helps Traumatized Dogs Learn To Trust Humans Again
In the gold-brown mountains around Weaverville, N.C., there's a dormitory filled with dysfunctional and depressed dogs. It's part of the ASPCA's Behavioral Rehabilitation Center, a cutting-edge program designed specifically to teach traumatized canines to be trustful human companions.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event ticktack
Apple’s New M1 Chip is a Machine Learning Beast
Speed testing a (nearly) top-spec Intel-based 16-inch MacBook Pro versus the new Apple silicon MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro
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1 month agoCurrent Event ticktack
BMW Will Publicly Shame Out-of-Warranty Drivers with Smart Billboards and License Plate Readers
Just when you thought you've heard enough about your car's warranty from incessant scam calls, BMW wants in on the action. New smart billboards in the United Kingdom will read BMW owners' license plates and broadcast to the world if your BMW's warranty has expired, reports Motoring Research.
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1 month agoCurrent Event ticktack
'He's the deer of the year': Carrot on way to recovery after arrow pulled from head
The last thing Carrot the deer probably wanted in 2020 was a hole in his head. But the Canadian whitetail deer which made headlines last week for his shocking injury no longer has an arrow impaling his head. “What he’s gone through in the last few weeks – from a bolt through his head to having it removed and enduring the bitter winter … I can’t imagine another animal surviving,” said Lee-Anne Carver, a wildlife photographer who has documented the deer’s unlikely story.
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1 month agoCurrent Event ticktack
CD Projekt not in talks with Microsoft about Cyberpunk 2077 withdrawal
Poland's CD Projekt is not in talks with Xbox producer Microsoft about a possible withdrawal from sale of a console version of Cyberpunk 2077, the company's chief executive said on Friday.
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1 month agoCurrent Event ticktack
NASA assigns astronauts for third SpaceX commercial crew mission
NASA has selected three astronauts for a future SpaceX commercial crew mission to the International Space Station as it leaves open the possibility of exchanging seats with Russia. NASA and the European Space Agency jointly announced Dec. 14 they had assigned NASA astronauts Raja Chari and Tom Marshburn and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer to the SpaceX Crew-3 mission. That commercial crew mission is scheduled for launch in the fall of 2021.
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1 month agoCurrent Event ticktack
Landlords have filed more than 150,000 eviction notices already. By January it will get much worse.
"This is a very dangerous moment in terms of the welfare of the American people."
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1 month agoCurrent Event ticktack
Salmon are dying off and your car tires might be to blame
Every fall, coho salmon undertake an epic journey from the ocean back to the freshwater streams and creeks where they were born so they can reproduce and then die shortly after. For several decades, though, scientists have observed that a disturbing number of these migrating fish in the Pacific Northwest die while swimming through urban waterways polluted by stormwater runoff. At some sites, between 40 and 90 percent of returning salmon may die before they have a chance to spawn.
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1 month agoCurrent Event ticktack
Why Are Chicago Public Libraries Still Open Amid Soaring COVID Rates?
Despite a COVID-19 positivity rate of over 15% and a stay-at-home order from Mayor Lori Lightfoot encouraging residents to “only leave home to go to work or school, or for essential needs such as seeking medical care, going to the grocery store or pharmacy, picking up food, or receiving deliveries,” Chicago Public Libraries are still open for in-person browsing, reference, computer use, and more.
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1 month agoCurrent Event ticktack
Xbox head Phil Spencer says console tribalism is "one of the worst things about our industry"
Microsoft and Sony are often considered direct rivals in the game space, competing for players through new consoles and exclusive games. Brand loyalty and “console wars” for some players dictates whether they’ll grab a PlayStation or Xbox. Extreme fans have even escalated their affinity for one over the other into harassment. But Microsoft’s real threat isn’t Sony, Nintendo, or any other company, says Microsoft’s head of gaming Phil Spencer.