In Iceland, traditionally a land of cat lovers, bans and curfews are redefining the human relationship with domestic cats
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Adolescents in the US are chronically sleep-deprived, in part because most schools start too early. This summer, California will become the first state in the nation to require later start times.
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Judge blocks Texas investigating families of trans youth
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California imposes sweeping ban on pumping river water in San Joaquin Valley, Bay Area
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Sri Lanka defaults on debt for first time in its history
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Inside Toronto's skyscraper boom
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Shanghai, the next Xinjiang?
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Californian critics blast Poseidon desalination plan as crucial vote looms
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Big Telecom convinces Missouri lawmakers to block funding for broadband competition
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'Unprecedented' water restrictions ordered for millions in Southern California
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British rocket company Skyrora has called on the Icelandic government to grant a licence that would end a months-long delay to Europe's largest-ever rocket launch
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Greenland offers a roadmap for how to get Inuktut taught in Nunavut's schools
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What happened to the debts of conquered countries?
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Four Canadian provinces push ahead with plan to build small nuclear reactors to supply power
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Uber reaches deal to list all New York City taxis on its app
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The great design of the Dutch government
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Suburbia is subsidized - [Strong Towns Ep7]
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Local school districts are caught in the middle of the culture wars as the right tries to gain control
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott orders state agencies to investigate gender-transitioning procedures as child abuse
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UN experts call for Sweden to scrap a planned iron ore mine – toxic waste and other contaminants would cause 'irreversible risks' to land used by the Sámi
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Furries are leading the war against a book-banning Mississippi Mayor
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A fight over the right to repair cars turns ugly in Massachusetts
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Sri Lanka to pay $200m compensation for failed organic farm drive
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Crow-plagued California city turns to lasers and boomboxes to clear the air
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Burkina Faso's military seizes power in a coup, detains president and dissolves government
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BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen
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Why Galesburg has no money
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Sweden has earmarked $661 million for a temporary scheme to help the most affected households cope with high electricity bills this winter
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Nebraska will spend $500M to claim South Platte River water from Colorado
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Solving the operator ‘shortage’ by not running transit like a business
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Denmark's government has announced a goal to make domestic flights fossil fuel free by 2030
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Stacey Abrams is running for Georgia governor in 2022
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Six indigenous Greenlanders taken as children to Denmark in a failed social experiment in 1951 are demanding compensation from the Danish state
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Helsinki City Council says it will no longer serve meat at seminars, staff meetings, receptions and other events to reduce capital's carbon footprint
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Restrictive Californian zoning laws worsened the supply chain crisis
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Bill 2 is "the most transphobic bill ever proposed in Quebec," activist says
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Norway's incoming centre-left government has said it will seek to grow the country's lucrative oil and gas industry while striving to cut carbon emissions
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California to enforce 'gender neutral' toy aisles in large stores
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A case study in NIMBY entitlement: The former mayor of Beverly Hills is so mad about duplexes
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An unprecedented California program is already fulfilling its promise to house the most vulnerable
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2021 German Federal election thread
The Guardian live update thread CNN live update thread The Guardian exit polling The CDU and SPD are tied, although it seems the SPD is for now leading by a slim margin The 3 left-of-center...
The Guardian live update thread
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The CDU and SPD are tied, although it seems the SPD is for now leading by a slim margin
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The 3 left-of-center parties have a minority of seats together, meaning they couldn't form a government together if they wanted to
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Die Linke is close to the electoral cut-off of entering parliament, and risks getting nothing this election(it appears this is not the case because Linke usually win more than 3 constituency seats, which invalidates the 5% threshold.) -
The AfD and the FDP seem to be likely to get the same amount of votes that got in 2017
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The Greens and SPD have grown by similar margins (but the current polling rise is the SPD's polling rise)
How do you feel about the election as it stands? Also include any more live updates if you know of them.
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Fossil fuel firms sue governments across the world for £13bn/$18bn as climate policies threaten profits
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Vihreä liitto become first party in the Finnish Parliament to call for legalisation of cannabis – initiative approved at party conference by narrowest possible majority 183-181
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Danish government has presented a proposal to get foreigners and people with immigrant backgrounds to work thirty-seven hours a week in exchange for welfare benefits
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Questions about Próspera, answered
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Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighborhoods
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Mayor suggests Helsinki declare itself an English-language city – Juhana Vartiainen says too many highly skilled foreigners shun Finnish capital because of difficult language
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After data is posted on conspiracy site, Colorado county's voting machines are banned
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Democracy should be sentimentalist not rationalist
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US to erase student debt for those with severe disabilities
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