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10 votes
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Finland wants to reverse downward trends in PISA school aptitude tests, and promote a focused learning environment, with new laws around mobile phone use
11 votes -
New York City is cleared for first-in-US congestion tolls as soon as April
45 votes -
PwC Australia to sell its government business for A$1, and appoint new CEO, after tax advice scandal
7 votes -
Finland games industry disappointed by new immigration reforms – 30% of the industry is made up of gaming professionals that have immigrated to the country
10 votes -
New report from US National Transportation Safety Board says engineer at Norfolk Southern objected to the train weight distribution before catastrophic derailment
22 votes -
Russia's FSB announces a felony investigation into Wagner Group's incitement to 'armed rebellion'
48 votes -
A Delaware city is set to give corporations the right to vote in elections
28 votes -
Green energy is cheaper... so why aren't we using it?
24 votes -
What the hell happened to the California of the ’50s and ’60s?
12 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of June 19
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28 votes -
Oklahoma City continues planning for bus rapid transit
26 votes -
Typography 2024: For America! For America’s best
7 votes -
Philadelphia politician proposes more local options for mass-transit funding
11 votes -
Estonia legalizes same-sex marriage
47 votes -
Denmark is the latest European country to push for a levy on streamers' local turnover to fund local TV and film content
8 votes -
How a dose of MDMA transformed a white supremacist
27 votes -
Watered-down LGBTQ ‘understanding’ bill shows how far Japan’s parliament is out of step with its society – and history
20 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of June 12
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33 votes -
US President Joe Biden can probably forgive student debt even if Supreme Court of the United States rules against him
28 votes -
Inside North Korea: "We are stuck, waiting to die"
60 votes -
The US is openly stockpiling dirt on all its citizens
25 votes -
Mondelez, facing widening corporate boycotts in the Nordics over continued presence in Russia, has asked to meet the Norwegian government to protect its local business
14 votes -
Former US President Donald Trump indicted for second time, sources say
130 votes -
I-95 highway in Philadelphia has collapsed; officials say repairs will take "months"
32 votes -
Cheques will be phased out in Australia by 2030 as mobile wallet use sky-rockets
18 votes -
Alexander Ovechkin awarded "Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation" award by Vladimir Putin
11 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of June 5
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17 votes -
North Carolina GOP censures Senior State Sen. Tillis for backing LGBTQ+ rights and other policies
14 votes -
The spy whose tapes rocked Spanish society
5 votes -
Sweden set up a eugenics plan, grounded in the science of racial biology, between 1934 and 1976 – between 20,000 and 33,000 Swedes were forced to be sterilised
12 votes -
Australian governments impose recycling rules after the packaging industry fails on waste
7 votes -
ACT passes Australian-first legislation banning irreversible medical procedures for young intersex children
12 votes -
Welsh town seats world’s first known nonbinary mayor
12 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of May 29
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15 votes -
Democracy is the solution to vetocracy
10 votes -
Respect existence or expect resistance – protests in Norway against wind farm on Sámi land
3 votes -
Ronald Reagan and the biggest failure in physics
5 votes -
A Republican suburb designed for cyclists
15 votes -
Denmark's prime minister Mette Frederiksen wrote part of a speech using OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT to highlight the risks of artificial intelligence
3 votes -
The AI moment of truth for Chinese censorship
6 votes -
How Iceland became a geothermal powerhouse
5 votes -
Why are US red states hiring so much faster than blue states?
7 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of May 22
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4 votes -
I set out on a journey to the high north of Greenland to meet the Inuit communities that brave the harshest winters in the world
3 votes -
Brazil sends thousands of Venezuelan migrants to country's rich southern states
7 votes -
Denmark is getting off fossil fuels. Are there lessons for Canada?
5 votes -
From playwright to pandemic Queen: How D’Arcy Drollinger became the first drag laureate
2 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of May 15
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9 votes -
Taiwan grants right of adoption to same-sex couples in latest move toward full equality
19 votes