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US-funded contraceptives for poor nations to be burned in France, sources say
U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the United Nations and family planning organisations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations, two sources told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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BCG modelled plan to ‘relocate’ Palestinians from Gaza
Consulting firm had multimillion-dollar role in contentious new aid scheme for shattered enclave
www.ft.com
July 11, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Dynamic phase transition in 1T-TaS2 via a thermal quench - Nature Physics
The photoinduced hidden metallic state in 1T-TaS2 has so far been stabilized only at cryogenic temperatures. Now it is shown that accessing an additional mixed-phase long-lived metastable state can st...
www.nature.com
July 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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A/HRC/59/23: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (Advance edited ve...
This report investigates the corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project of displacement and replacement of the Palestinians in the occupied territory. While political leaders and...
www.ohchr.org
July 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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How Police Let One of America’s Most Prolific Predators Get Away
When a prosecutor began chasing an accused serial rapist, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. Why were the police refusing to investigate Sean Williams?
www.newyorker.com
July 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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How Big Ag thwarted wetlands protections in Illinois and Iowa
Two years ago, the Supreme Court made it easier to destroy swamps and marshes. Agricultural lobbyists want to keep it that way.
grist.org
June 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Home - ICE List
The ICE List: Tracking Deportation Agents Across America Crowdsourced database of individuals involved in deportations, ICE operations, and associated abuses.  The ICE List is an open journalistic pro...
icelist.info
June 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Organ Trafficking: How Germans Buy New Kidneys in Kenya
Germans in need of new kidneys are heading to Kenya to buy one. The donors are frequently suffering from bitter poverty. Behind the scheme is an Israeli whom the authorities have been after for years.
www.spiegel.de
May 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Opinion | Mahmoud Khalil: What does my detention by ICE say about America?
A democracy for some is no democracy at all.
ctrk.klclick.com
April 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Private equity in fire truck manufacturing!
As Wall Street Chases Profits, Fire Departments Have Paid the Price
Fire engine manufacturing is now largely controlled by three companies. Around the country, prices have soared, and orders can take years to fulfill.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Introduction - SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead
Leopold Aschenbrenner, June 2024 You can see the future first in San Francisco. Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trill...
situational-awareness.ai
March 15, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Introducing Superalignment
We need scientific and technical breakthroughs to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us. To solve this problem within four years, we’re starting a new team, co-led by Ilya Sutskever and Ja...
openai.com
March 15, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Morgan & Morgan Files Lawsuit over Allegedly Harmful, Addictive Ultra-Processed Foods
[Philadelphia, PA] – Morgan & Morgan has filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against food industry behemoths Kraft Heinz Company, Mondelēz International, Inc., and others alleging they specifically engi...
www.forthepeople.com
March 15, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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The Rent Brigade
The Rent Brigade uses data to fight back against predatory landlords in the wake of the Los Angeles Wildfires. We maintain the Tracking Rental Price Gouging in LA spreadsheet—a crowd-sourced tool that...
www.rentbrigade.org
March 15, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Specialty Generic Drugs: A Growing Profit Center for Vertically Integrated Pharmacy Benefit Managers
www.ftc.gov
January 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Shock, grief after a man is killed during an encampment sweep in Atlanta
Advocates are expressing grief and outrage after a man was killed during the clearing of a homeless encampment in Atlanta.
www.wabe.org
January 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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A Catalyst for Curiosity
wikenigma.org
January 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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A Hospital Helped a Beloved Doctor’s Practice Flourish Even as It Suspected He Was Hurting Patients
Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did th...
www.propublica.org
January 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza
Israel has repeatedly crossed the Biden administration’s human rights red lines. But the U.S. continued to send weapons. Exclusive records and interviews reveal what happened inside the State Departme...
www.propublica.org
January 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Ban and Perpetual Punishment for Justice-Affected Populations | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 2
American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)
ajph.aphapublications.org
January 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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GEOWEALTH-US: Spatial wealth inequality data for the United States, 1960–2020 - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - GEOWEALTH-US: Spatial wealth inequality data for the United States, 1960–2020
www.nature.com
January 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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A Pair of Billionaire Preachers Built the Most Powerful Political Machine in Texas. That’s Just the Start.
Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks are poised to take their Christian nationalist agenda nationwide.
www.propublica.org
January 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Potential Ozone Depletion From Satellite Demise During Atmospheric Reentry in the Era of Mega‐Constellations
We present the first atomic-scale molecular dynamics simulation of high-temperature aluminum ablation during reentry from low-Earth orbit The amount of aluminum oxide nanoparticles generated is q...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
www.propublica.org
January 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM