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23 votes
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The history of the ski chairlift
3 votes -
Amazon unveils a proposed design for "The Helix", the second phase of its Arlington, Virginia headquarters
9 votes -
The Future of Corporate Governance Part I: The Problem of Twelve
8 votes -
Napoleon’s brother lived in New Jersey. Here’s what happened to the estate.
8 votes -
America's 1% has taken $50 trillion from the bottom 90%
31 votes -
Personal data of 1.4 million Washington state unemployment claimants exposed in hack of state auditor
7 votes -
Dustin Diamond, 'Saved by the Bell' star, dead at 44
6 votes -
Scary Pockets ft. Elise Trouw - Lean On (Major Lazer cover) (2021)
4 votes -
A first for the International Space Station: A plant transplant
9 votes -
Why Robinhood disabled buys but not sells
16 votes -
The deplatforming of Father Coughlin: The story of the anti-Semitic radio priest offers an intriguing analog-age precedent to the digital-age debates over the limits of free expression
11 votes -
Google union in turmoil following global alliance announcement
7 votes -
Nationalism, prejudice, and FDA regulation
3 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of January 25
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15 votes -
Inside the CIA’s audacious plot to steal a Soviet satellite
7 votes -
2020 US Congress insider trading scandal
7 votes -
Falling for Mississippi
4 votes -
Cloris Leachman, Emmy and Oscar winner, dies at 94
3 votes -
Federal officials have misused a fund intended for vaccine research to pay for unrelated expenses since at least 2010, the US Office of Special Counsel has alleged
7 votes -
Cost Plus Drug Company: Low cost versions of high cost generic drugs
4 votes -
Why is Big Tech policing speech? Because the government isn't: Deplatforming President Trump showed that the First Amendment is broken - but not in the way his supporters think.
12 votes -
Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine joins a private equity firm that invests in the aerospace and defense industries less than a week after leaving government service
9 votes -
No one elected to Baseball Hall of Fame; Curt Schilling requests removal from writers' ballot
6 votes -
Shipping carriers rejected tons of US agricultural exports, opting to send empty containers to China instead
11 votes -
Fixing the police will take more funding, not less
9 votes -
No one knows how much the government can borrow
14 votes -
Joe Biden to nominate transgender doctor Rachel Levine as assistant health secretary
17 votes -
As US shopping habits change, ports and cargo carriers struggle to keep pace
7 votes -
Political Disney World
8 votes -
Forever chemicals are widespread in US drinking water
17 votes -
Ex-Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and eight others criminally charged in Flint Water Crisis
29 votes -
Tacoma police officer drives SUV into group of pedestrians
22 votes -
New non-toxic "green" propellant successfully demonstrated on NASA mission, now ready to replace hydrazine onboard spacecraft
11 votes -
Michigan county commissioner pulls gun out during virtual meeting when resident asked board to denounce Proud Boys
21 votes -
The woman who read Hank Aaron’s hate mail: In 1973, the baseball legend got 900,000 letters. It was Carla Koplin Cohn’s job to report the threats to the FBI.
10 votes -
Daily thread - United States 2021 transition of power - January 23
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9 votes -
Why? - Alopecia (2008)
6 votes -
Beer company Natty Light is the unlikely force behind the 'Da Vinci of Debt', now on view in Grand Central Station
11 votes -
Larry King, legendary talk show host, dies at 87
11 votes -
UN treaty banning nuclear weapons takes effect, without the US and others
12 votes -
Daily thread - United States 2021 transition of power - January 22
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10 votes -
A factsheet about single people in the USA
10 votes -
SpaceX’s record-setting rideshare mission Transporter-1, with 143 satellites onboard, is a challenge for space traffic control
4 votes -
Baseball great Henry ‘Hank’ Aaron, 86, passes into history
8 votes -
Coors Light’s Ice Cold, on immigration
4 votes -
US President Joe Biden's FCC appointment is a big step toward net neutrality's return
10 votes -
All a gig-economy pioneer had to do was “politely disagree” it was violating US Federal law and the Labor Department walked away
8 votes -
Daily thread - United States 2021 transition of power - January 21
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11 votes -
Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down
7 votes