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Senators Want To Claw Back Trump's Spending Power. They Should Just Pass a Real Budget Instead.

What connects Ottessa Moshfegh, a fired professor in Florida, and a prudish college president? A creeping puritanism

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The Virtue of Being Simple

Boy Throb Had To Go Viral To Get Its Fourth Member a U.S. Visa

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A New Paradigm for Global Health Financing

~$550K Award Related to Doctor's False Alleged Accusation of Nose Punch by Colleague

Journal of Free Speech Law: "Positive Obligations, Hate Speech, and the Reconfiguration of Free Expression at the European Court of Human Rights," by Natalie Alkiviadou

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Odd shapes hidden in dense Amazon rainforest reveal sprawling ancient civilization

OpenAI Agent Breaks Free and Hacks Hugging Face

How smallpox reached the Americas: first genomic evidence points to Europeans

Ancient DNA confirms historical accounts of how smallpox got to the Americas

Contagious fish cancer overruns New England lake

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Fertility clinics are offering young mitochondria in controversial fertility technique

How art invented humanity

Trump's Threats To Yank Broadcast Licenses Are Part of a Speech-Chilling Intimidation Campaign

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