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Republicans Now Turn Their Attention to Deregulating Wall Street With Key Hearing Tuesday
With GOP tax plan moving ahead and the Obamacare fight in the rearview mirror, Republicans in Congress are setting their sights next on deregulating Wall Street. Ten Democrats have co-sponsored a bill that would deregulate Wall Street. That makes the GOP- ...[Read more]
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Families with stable jobs at risk of homelessness in Britain, report finds
Homelessness is now a serious risk for working families with stable jobs who cannot find somewhere affordable to live after being evicted by private-sector landlords seeking higher rents, the local government ombudsman has warned. Michael King said nurses ...[Read more]
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Big Brother is watching? New Facebook facial recognition spots you even if you are not tagged
The world's largest social network has just rolled out a new feature of its facial recognition technology that will notify users when someone has uploaded a photo of them even if they havent been tagged in it on Facebook. ...[Read more]
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Bernie Sanders talks universal Medicare, and 1.1 million people click to watch him
With more than 1 million people watching at home, and hundreds watching from the studio audience, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) leaned across his desk with a crucial health-care question. “What’s the quality of the Norwegian system?” Sanders asked Mee ...[Read more]
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Google’s simulated robots learn some seriously strange behavior
Teaching a robot how to walk and jump is one thing, but how about a bot with a knack for dragging its backside across the floor or sliding forward on its nose. These rather unusual behaviors emerged during Google's testing of a new technique to allow simu ...[Read more]
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‘He was a quiet and normal kid’: The infantilization of young, white, male domestic terrorists
Over the past three weeks, Austin, Texas, has been rocked by a series of mysterious package bombs that killed two people and injured five more. We know now that the police suspect that the bomber was Mark Anthony Conditt, a 23-year-old Austin Community Co ...[Read more]
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Coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier: Captain gets Navy help after plea
The U.S. Navy took action Tuesday to address the deteriorating situation aboard a nuclear aircraft carrier docked in Guam with coronavirus spreading aboard, promising to isolate crew members ashore for rotating quarantine and possibly move many into hotel ...[Read more]
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US alerted Israel, NATO to disease outbreak in China in November — TV report
White House was reportedly not interested in the intel, but it was passed onto NATO, IDF; when it reached Israel's Health Ministry, 'nothing was done' US intelligence agencies alerted Israel to the coronavirus outbreak in China already in November, Israe ...[Read more]
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Thank Socialism for the Vaccine. Blame Capitalism for Its Distribution.
The jaw-dropping speed of COVID-19 vaccine development is a glorious marvel of science, cooperation, and economic planning — a glimpse of how much more an egalitarian world could produce and achieve. But the lifeboat ethics of vaccine rollout is a horri ...[Read more]
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Survey Finds Majority of Americans Want Trump Removed From Office
Fully 79% of all respondents, including two-thirds of Republicans and Trump voters, described the president's supporters who attacked the Capitol on Wednesday as "criminals" or "fools." ...[Read more]
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Capitol Police Officers Said They Wouldn’t Be Surprised If Members Of Congress Helped Plan The Attack
After seeing one of their colleagues killed last Wednesday, Capitol Police officers are angry that Republican members of Congress refuse to submit to the security changes put in place since then, and say they wouldn’t even be surprised if some lawmakers ...[Read more]
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