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Trump’s victory endangers vaccines, Medicare and Medicaid recipients, and abortion rights. Here’s the potential fallout
TD Bank bills itself as ‘America’s most Convenient Bank.’ The feds fined it $1.8 billion for being too convenient for human traffickers and fentanyl dealers.
Apple’s AI researchers gave these AI systems a simple arithmetic problem that schoolkids can solve. The bots flunked.
In 1932, Hoover’s attack on the Bonus Army awakened America to his heartlessness. Will Trump’s New York rally do the same?
Many of America’s top billionaires have put their money on Trump’s reelection. What do they expect to get in return?
A Trump judge just declared ‘qui tam’ anti-fraud lawsuits unconstitutional. They’ve been around since 1863.
Missouri, Idaho and Kansas are claiming that abortion pills should be illegal because they will lead to lower populations and lose them seats in Congress.
Long before the battle over Roe vs. Wade, Republicans used to be the champions of abortion rights. What happened?
Florida Gov. DeSantis and his quack health commissioner threatened to jail people for running a pro-abortion commercial, until a judge called them ‘stupid.’
Elon Musk thinks humankind’s only safety valve is to move multitudes to Mars. He has no idea how foolhardy and dangerous that would be.
