The cost to librarians and libraries from the US culture wars
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Environmental experts have criticised the Swedish government's plan to build at least ten nuclear reactors in the next twenty years
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Clarence Thomas’ thirty-eight vacations: The other billionaires who have treated the US Supreme Court Justice to luxury travel
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White House unveils ban on US investment in Chinese tech sectors linked to the military
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Ecuadorian presidential candidate Villavicencio reported killed in attack at rally
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Voters in Ohio reject GOP-backed proposal that would have made it tougher to protect abortion rights
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Laurence Tribe dissects alleged Donald Trump co-conspirator Kenneth Chesebro's misrepresentation of Laurence Tribe's writing to support the false US elector scheme and January 6
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The historic Gullah-Geechee community is fighting to retain its land and culture in South Carolina
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Former US President Donald Trump has been indicted on four counts on Tuesday, by a grand jury in the District of Columbia, over alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election
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US President Joe Biden to designate a new national monument surrounding the Grand Canyon
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A pro-Putin Facebook network is pumping French-language propaganda into Africa. The pages promote Russia’s line on the war in Ukraine to more than four million followers...
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Third racism scandal hits Finland's government in space of a month – Wille Rydman used racial slurs in private messages according to Helsingin Sanomat
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Niger coup: Junta shuts airspace citing military intervention threat
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Alexei Navalny: Russian opposition leader's jail term extended to nineteen years
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Twitter, Elon Musk and the Indigo Blob
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Why do so many Scots cling to a false affinity with Norway?
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‘Republican stooge’: Robert F Kennedy Jr mocked in the US after it’s revealed half his Super PAC funding comes from GOP mega donor
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Canada's digital news subscription tax credit
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Dozens injured after opponents of the Eritrean government stormed a festival, Festival Eritrea Scandinavia, in the Swedish capital organised by regime supporters
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of July 31
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
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The UK NHS in crisis - evaluating radical alternatives
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People are lying to you and will continue to lie about the merits of the Donald Trump US indictment - be aware
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Wisconsin’s dairy industry relies on undocumented immigrants, but the state won’t let them legally drive
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Why India's rice ban could trigger a global food crisis
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US President Joe Biden's IRA shuts Africa out of critical minerals supply chains
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This building nearly broke Taipei. The Taipei Performing Arts Center; Over budget, a decade under construction, and one of Asia's most important cultural buildings.
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"Blood on your hands" - The legal dimension of metaphors in the case of Zooey Zephyr
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US Congress is debating the controversial surveillance power in section 702 - White House and privacy advocates have strong opinions
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Hackers exploited a zero-day flaw in Ivanti's software undetected for at least three months, US and Norwegian cybersecurity agencies warn
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Former US President Donald Trump will find that Special Counsel Jack Smith has dealt with the likes of him—and worse—before
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Michigan prosecutors charge Donald Trump allies with felonies involving voting machines and illegal 'testing'
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Anonymous sources say Alabama political maps are part of a plan by Republicans in the state Senate to break Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, a long-held goal of many conservatives
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Ukraine wasn’t going to get a pathway to join NATO — but Canada had another idea
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Waging war on the Jamaican patty: Canada’s bizarre beef with the delicious snack | Patty vs Patty
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Why technology favors tyranny
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Abortion advocates sue Alabama attorney general over prosecution threats for out-of-state travel
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US President Joe Biden signs historic order moving prosecution of US military sexual assault outside chain of command
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Campaign launched on Thursday to boycott the Faroe Islands over their highly controversial slaughter of pilot whales and dolphins
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Denmark is considering banning protests involving burning the Quran or other religious texts over security and diplomatic concerns – Sweden looking to follow suit
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How Big Tech rewrote the USA's first cellphone repair law
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Portugal’s bid to attract foreign money backfires as rental market goes ‘crazy’
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Power impasse continues in Niger, forty-eight hours after coup against Bazoum
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Claremont Institute publicizes excerpt from a book openly calling for right wing revolution/coup
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of July 24
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
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US District Judge blocks Arkansas law allowing librarians to be criminally charged over ‘harmful’ materials
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Mastercard move at cannabis shops intensifies call for US decriminalization
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US tax code blamed as wealthy see major retirement account gains
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Colombian president's son arrested in money-laundering inquiry
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Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon says US President Biden must stop approving new fossil fuel projects
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"Gen Z for Change" leader interrupts US President Biden's press secretary to demand climate action
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