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There have been Supreme Court decisions about affirmative action.
The Supreme Court will hear the cases of Asian-American applicants at Harvard and students with disabilities at the University of North Carolina. In the first case, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled against Students for Fair Admission, stating it would be permissible because the preference is “not being based upon race,…
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An asteroid is hiding in the sun’s glare.
NASA has conducted its first-ever test of deflecting an asteroid with a spacecraft. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) aimed to change the motion of asteroid Dimorphos, which orbits Didymos. Researchers estimated that it will take about two months to determine if DART was successful in changing Dimorphos’ motion in space in humanity’s first test…
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Voting starts in a contest with violence and fear.
Brazil’s ex-President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva cast his vote on Sunday for the presidential election, four years after he was imprisoned and unable to vote. “And four years later, I’m here, voting with the recognition of my total freedom and with the possibility of being president of the republic of this country again,” he…
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The opinion is that Kari Lake’s actual opponent is in Arizona.
A poll has revealed that nearly six in 10 Arizona voters are not at all confident that the 2022 US presidential election will not be run “fair and accurately”. The poll added that 51% of Arizona voters don’t like it when someone is running for office denying the reality of the 2020 election. Notably, former…
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The Justice Department says ‘vigilante ballot security efforts’ are likely illegal in Arizona.
A judge in the US state of Georgia has ruled against a Voting Rights Forever group founded by Stacey Abrams, the Democratic nominee for Georgia governorship, over the state’s voting laws. The judge said that the group does not have the freedom to assemble for the purposes of coercing voters. The group has challenged the…
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The baker uncovered a lot of ancient breads.
American actor Stanley Tucci visited Italy in the latest episode of his reality show ‘Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy’. In the series, Tucci visited Italy to learn about the culture and history of the country. Tucci said that he went to Italy to define a definition of a country that was welcoming and resistant.
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There is a line between order and chaos.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk said the social networking platform’s “whole verification process is being revamped right now” and the blue check-marks of existing users might be removed if people don’t pay within 90 days for a monthly service. The blue check-markings would be taken away from new users if they don’t pay within 90 days.…
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The box office is a killing ground for horror films.
AMC Networks’ video-on-demand (VoD) platform Shudder’s co-founder and CEO Josh Weinstock said the platform is home to a self-selecting group of horror buffs which “organically leads people to their genuine interests”. “Shudder, because it’s home to a self-selecting group of horror buffs, organically leads people to their genuine interests. Well, how many people have bought…
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The social networking deal was made by Musk and Twitter.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that he would let President Donald Trump return to Twitter if he becomes the company’s owner. “I don’t think it was correct to ban Donald Trump; I think that was a mistake,” Musk said at an event in May. He added that he would “defeat the spam bots or die…
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Avert the water crisis in Bangladesh through better data.
A World Bank team is researching how climate change affects Bangladesh’s water availability. Researchers are trying to develop a model that could show how climate change affects Bangladesh’s water availability. This could improve the flood monitoring and forecast system operated by the Bangladesh Water Development Board. This would be enough to supply about 6% of…
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Thank you, President Jinping.
Former Chinese President Hu Jintao was escorted out of a Communist Party meeting during a five-yearly leadership reshuffle. “A high-profile purge of Hu…shows the presence of dissent, and the notion that Xi is at least ‘challengeable’,” Professor Joel Wuthnow, a senior research fellow at US National Defence University, said. Four of the top six officers…
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The Faculty Senate of the University of Florida passed a symbolic vote against possible selection of Ben Sasse as president.
The Florida Faculty Senate approved a no-confidence resolution against US Senator RJ Sasse, a candidate for the University of Florida President’s post. This comes after Sasse said in an interview that it’s “the law of the land” to allow abortion at the university. The Faculty Senate Appointment Committee members unanimously supported Sasse’s appointment as University…
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What to know about Brazil’s election.
Ahead of Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday, ex-President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva said that President Jair Bolsonaro has been there for four years. “I intend to vote for Lula because Bolsonaro has been there for four years,” he added. Bolsonro, who is the current president of Brazil, had said that Amazon rainforest should be…
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The Biden is trying to shore up support in blue states where the election appears to be slipping away.
US President Joe Biden has said that the American economy will not do more damage than it has done in the past under his administration. “Nothing will create more chaos…or do more damage to our economy than we have,” he added during a briefing with reporters in the Oval Office. The President made the comments…
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Apple Watch, Wear OS 3, and hybrid Watches are some of the best watches on the market.
Apple’s new fitness watch, the Apple Watch Ultra, has a compass app that shows the direction and distance of all your waypoints so that you can navigate back to them. In addition to the compass, there’s an international orange action button on the opposite side which can be customised to start and stop workouts or…
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What can be in a carry-on bag?
If you want to avoid checked luggage fees, you can often get away with travelling with only a carry-on bag. Hard-shelled spinner bags are one of the styles of carry-on luggage. Hard-shelled spinner bags are one of the styles of carry- on luggage. Alcoholic beverages are allowed in carry-on luggage as long as they’re less…
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A Silicon Valley gold Rush is caused by the New Creative Streak of the Artificial Intelligence.
OpenAI has released the latest version of its AI-powered tool DALL-E which allows anyone to generate images by typing in a few words. The company said that it has also strengthened the ways it rebuffs users who try to make its AI create “sexual, violent and other content”. It added that it will no longer…
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There are microplastics everywhere, and here’s what you can do about it.
A report has said that plastic recycling doesn’t work and more plastic-making facilities continue to come online. “Remember that when you’re making plastic, there’s the greenhouse gas emissions…but these facilities also emit massive amounts of air toxins and particulates,” it added. Consumers should reduce the amount of plastic they use at the source and turn…
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Ye took to social media after his account was restricted because of antisemitic posts.
Adidas has announced that it is ending its partnership with Kanye West after the rapper made anti-Semitic comments. Earlier this month, Ye was suspended by Twitter after he tweeted, “I don’t want to die for people of colour.” Adidas said that Ye had violated its values of diversity and inclusion. Earlier this month, Adidas launched…
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Iran protests cause solidarity rallies in the US and Europe.
Thousands of Iranians on Sunday protested in Berlin against the government’s actions in Iran. The protest was called by the Iranian Women’s Life Freedom Collective, an group that has been working for women’s rights in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. This comes after clashes between protesters and police erupted in several parts of the…
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The trial opened the case that led to the #MeToo movement in Australia.
Former parliamentary aide Brittany Higgins, accused of raping her colleague Higgin Michelle Arrow in Australia’s Parliament House in 2019, has said she lied when she claimed to be sexually assaulted by Arrow. Higgins, who works in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), added she only told Arrow she was raped when they met to split a…
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Here is how it happened.
Twitter’s attorneys said that Tesla CEO Musk and his financial adviser destroyed evidence about why he wanted to pull out of the deal, and asked the judge to sanction Musk. At Tuesday’s hearing, Twitter’s attorneys said Musk and his financial adviser destroyed evidence about why Musk wanted to yank out of the deal. A judge…
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The Fed might have changed markets forever.
Former Goldman Sachs economist Nomi Prins said that the decade of free-flowing money from the Federal Reserve to banks has created “two economies”. Wealthy Americans and corporations benefitted directly from years of low rates, which kept money flowing into businesses and stocks high while Main Street suffered from decelerating wages and little support, she added.…
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I Bonds offers the final chance to lock in a 10% return on savings.
The US Treasury’s web site temporarily crashed earlier this week because of great demand for US Series I savings bonds, a senior government official told CNBC. The site had gone from an average number of concurrent visitors of a few thousand to being one of the most visited website in the federal government, the official…