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U.S. Maintains Pressure on al-Qa’ida’s Most Overlooked Franchise

Philadelphia set to be first U.S. city to protect workers against retaliation for calling out coronavirus conditions

Santa Cruz County lifts beach closures: ‘People are not willing to be governed’

The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously on Friday to advance its plan to eliminate the police department and create a new public safety unit.

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A natural decrease from the number of deaths exceeding births, plus a slowdown in immigration to the U.S., contributed to the population drop since 2010 for non-Hispanic whites, whose median age of 43.7 last year was by far the highest of any demographic group. If these numbers hold for the 2020 census being conducted right now, it will be the first time since the first decennial census in 1790 that there has been a national decline of whites, Frey said.

Mythbusting: The “Carrington Event” and Solar Cycle Doom

Conservatives ‘weaponizing cancel culture’

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The Politicization of HCQ

Will the Real Justice Gorsuch Please Stand Up?

Libya: A Catastrophe for Russia’s Pantsir S1 Air Defense System

More evidence that lack of vitamin D is linked to COVID-19 severity

How America’s Wars in Asia Militarized the Police at Home

The photo NPR used of ‘right-wing extremists’ ramming protesters actually resulted in the protesters getting arrested, not the driver