The majority of Black voters in the United States oppose legislation that would ban the social media platform TikTok, new polling found. The poll, conducted by ClearPath Strategies, found that 51 percent of Black voters oppose a ban of the platform and 55 percent view TikTok favorably. The polling, which is not public, was provided...
A New York judge is expected to hear arguments Tuesday over whether former President Trump violated a gag order imposed against him in his hush money case. Prosecutors with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office claim that Trump has so far violated the order barring him from attacking witnesses, prosecutors, court staff and the judge’s...
As both plastics pollution and concerns over its impacts on the environment and the human body grow, world governments, environmental groups and the plastics industry are meeting in Ottawa, Canada, over the next two weeks in an effort to reach an agreement on reducing waste. The meeting is the fourth in the United Nation’s Intergovernmental...
The stickiness of the post-pandemic inflation is raising questions about how effective high interest rates are at bringing down price increases – and if they could be fueling the problem. Standard economic thinking says that higher interest rates should bring down prices by squeezing the labor market and lessening the demand for goods and services....
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A decade ago, research showed a troubling dip in empathy. A new study provides more hope.
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The financial services giant redesigned part of its New York office to fit the new way people work.
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Allow me to impart some important life advice: Do not divorce, or allow yourself to be divorced by, a memoirist. Regardless of what a marital saint you were, you’re not going to come off well in the retelling—if a public reckoning with an ex’s crimes weren’t somewhere on the agenda, would the divorce memoir exist as a genre in the first place? Nevertheless, dissecting a marriage at book length is a high-risk wager for an author: You will lay yourself bare for our scrutiny, and we will take your side. Читать дальше...
The Supreme Court appeared to be split on Monday on whether an Oregon city’s ordinances that make it illegal to sleep outdoors in public spaces violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. While most of the justices seemed reluctant to “constitutionalize” local homelessness policies, there was plenty of hesitance about leaving homeless people with no legal recourse.
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The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, that lavish, storied fundraiser held every April at the Washington Hilton to honor journalists covering the capital, confers on its deep-pocketed attendees the implicit assurance that they belong among the powerful. Buy a ticket, and between your terrine of jumbo lump crabmeat and your foraged wild mushroom ragout you will have the chance to chat with someone of superlative influence: if not a lawmaker, then a reporter granted coveted access; if not a reporter... Читать дальше...
I can’t account for the mainstream press’s peculiar impulse to downplay the United Auto Workers’ important victory Friday at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Granted, The New York Times called it a “milestone,” The Washington Post called it “historic,” and The Wall Street Journal called it a “breakthrough.” But all three papers kept this news off Page One, where historic milestones and breakthroughs logically belong, and instead buried the news deep inside. The Times followed up with... Читать дальше...
The public debate over whether we should consider intentionally altering the climate system is heating up, as the dangers of climate instability rise and more groups look to study technologies that could cool the planet. Such interventions, commonly known as solar geoengineering, may include releasing sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere to cast away more sunlight,…
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Catch up on the latest hockey headlines in today’s Pens Points.
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The celebration of nature continues with Arbor and Earth Day events.
The "Iris" hitmakers will headline the PACER Center benefit Saturday at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
The Pennsylvania primary will test the political implications of the Israel-Hamas war and set up key races in the battle for control of the Senate and House.
We're getting greener as a nation, and a sharp uptick in earth-friendly real estate listings is proof.
If there is a highly touted rookie quarterback on the scene, the starting meter on Daniel Jones begins winding down, tick, tick, tick and sooner, rather than later, it will expire.
Many Americans find themselves stuck with squatters, spending months and thousands of dollars in legal fees to get the intruders out. Others get aggressive, act quickly and to what it takes to regain possession of their properties.
Suddenly, the Yankees bullpen is appearing thinner and less overpowering than any time in years.
