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Fox News Suffers Major Setback in Defamation Case

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NYTimes.com - 04.01.2023 Original article ›
Jeremy W. Peters, Katie Robertson
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Judge Eric Davis says- "The evidence developed in this civil proceeding demonstrates that it is crystal clear that none of the statements about Dominion about the 2020 election are true." NYT reports that Judge Davis will let the case proceed to trial, for a jury to decide whether Fox News Network spread claims about Dominion Voting Systems while knowing they were untrue, and determine any damages.

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El Salvador Decimated Its Ruthless Gangs. But at What Cost?

  
NYTimes.com - 04.10.2023 Original article ›
Natalie Kitroeff, Daniele Volpe
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San Salvador experienced control by gangs in different parts of the country with the highest homicide rate of any country. The country's government has taken the country back from gangs and introduced normalcy to the country where people can walk freely and live freely without fear of gangs. This NYT reports looks at the experience of San Salvador after problems in Mexico and Central American countries.

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America’s Most Prolific Logger Recasts Itself as Environmental Do-Gooder

  
WSJ - 04.17.2023 Original article ›
Ryan Dezember | Photographs By Tristan Spinski For The Wall Street Journal
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Weyerheuser is cutting down as many trees as ever, while appearing as a company that supports the environment, says this report in WSJ. Weyerheuser says its 10.6 million acres of US timberland act as huge sponge to reduce carbon emissions. From Douglas fir in the Pacific Northwest to pine plantations in the South, to North Maine Woods, Weyerheuser has forested land the size of New Jersey.

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Europe’s Recession Contrasts Economic Fortunes of U.S. Expansion

  
NYTimes.com - 04.30.2021 Original article ›
Peter S. Goodman
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The US received a boost in the economy with larger public spending than the European Union countries and more spending on vaccines. This is changing quickly as the EU has secured a large order of vaccines from Pfizer and other companies. France and Germany are now making steady progress in their vaccination drives. Britain has already secured results in the NHS vaccination drive, a leader in the field.

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Biden’s Speech to Congress: Full Transcript

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NYTimes.com - 04.30.2021 Original article ›
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In this address to Congress in April 2021 US president Biden offers his plan to invest in American families and people. He calls it "a blue collar blueprint to build America." It also comes from a blue collar family to which Biden belongs with generations of American workers in the Biden family in the last hundred years who built America in the past.

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Trump Administration Proposes Eliminating H-1B Visa Lottery

  
WSJ - 10.29.2020 Original article ›
Michelle Hackman
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Changes to a U.S. visa program so that fewer workers would be given visas at the entry level. Instead favoring the higher of four wage levels to give visas to foreign workers. The idea is to bring in more talented workers to the U.S. with less effect on depressing wages in the U.S. by bringing in foreign workers at the entry level as happened before.

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Economic package will have multiplier effect, says FM Nirmala Sitharaman

  
Hindustan Times - 05.18.2020 Original article ›
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Indian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman answers questions about India's 20 lakh crore or $280 billion aid package in this interview in the Hindustan Times. She says Mr. Modi's foresight in setting up the various people aid schemes including bank accounts for all citizens have helped the government send direct help to farmers and workers. She sees a multiplier effect of the aid package.

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PM Modi, Macron vow to act jointly in the Indo-Pacific, after fallout with Australia

  
Hindustan Times - 09.22.2021 Original article ›
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French president Macron assures PM Modi of "France's commitment to building India's strategic autonomy, including its technology and industry base, as part of a close relationship based on mutual respect and trust." This follows the French fallout with Australia following the cancellation of a $26 billion submarine deal that was shifted to the US for the purpose of advanced nuclear technologies.

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U.S. and Saudi Arabia Trade Barbs on Oil-Production Cut, Russia

  
WSJ - 10.13.2022 Original article ›
Stephen Kalin
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The Biden administration had asked the Saudis to hold off till the next meeting of OPEC+ before making production cuts, or at least wait for 1 month. The Saudis went ahead with the production cuts even though the UAE,Kuwait and Iraq agreed with the US, and only supported the Saudi decision for unanimity within OPEC+. It comes only months after president Biden visited Riyadh.

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Mandatory time off: When taking holiday is part of the job

  
BBC News - 08.24.2022 Original article ›
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About three fifths of workers in 2021 reported having negative impacts of work related stress. Even with these elevated stress levels 50% of workers continued working long hours during the pandemic and ended up leaving paid leave vacation days unused. Then some companies made taking vacation days mandatory or making working from home mandatory for certain number of weeks. This BBC report looks at this trend.

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Cultivating Olives on the Slopes of Mount Etna

  
NYTimes.com - 12.13.2021 Original article ›
Marta Giaccone
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Enzo Signorelli goes back to an olive farm that has been in the family for 100 years. The farm is on the slopes of Mt. Etna in Sicily. Enzo finds new life in the rhythm of the mountains and the olive farm where some trees are 500 years old. Shown in NYT are beautiful pictures of the farm and the work in the olive picking season.

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Germany in Talks to Nationalize Uniper After Russian Natural-Gas Halts

  
WSJ - 09.20.2022 Original article ›
Georgi Kantchev, Bojan Pancevski
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The German government plans to give $8 billion to Uniper in exchange for  a majority stake in Germany's energy company Uniper. Uniper was hit hard when Russia turned off natural gas supplies. It reported a net loss of $12.6 billion for the first half of 2022. The German government will also take a stake in the Finnish company that owns Uniper, Fortum Oyj.

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War-Inflicted Slowdown Ends Robust Year for Tourism in Middle East

  
NYTimes.com - 12.01.2023 Original article ›
Christine Chung
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The economies of Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt dependent on 12-26% of earnings from abroad on tourism are hit by the war in Gaza. Israeli tourism is also affected with only half of the flights going in. Egypt was a bright spot after the pandemic faded with a strong recovery above that of pre pandemic levels. In 2023 Egypt expected to see 15 million tourists.

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Analysis: Japan's Cabinet reshuffle is aimed at stability | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

  
NHK WORLD - 12.14.2023 Original article ›
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Facing low approval ratings the new cabinet of prime minister Kishida is aiming for stability. New ministers can get to work immediately. New Cabinet secretary Yoshimasa was previously defense minister and foreign minister, and is No.2 in the Kishida faction of the LDP. It is a difficult road ahead as members of the Abe faction resigned from a fund raising tickets probe by prosecutors. 

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Canada To Reimpose Visa Requirement on Mexican Visitors

  
WSJ - 02.28.2024 Original article ›
Vipal Monga, Paul Vieira
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Canada makes the decision to reinstate the visa requirement for Mexican citizens effective February 29th 2024. This was lifted by Trudeau in 2016 without a careful understanding of its implications. Since then Quebec insisted it was at the breaking point and pushed for reinstating the visa requirement. The Biden administration also pushed for the visa requirement as more people were illegally entering the US from Canada.

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The Climate Impact of Your Neighborhood, Mapped

  
NYTimes.com - 12.13.2022 Original article ›
Nadja Popovich, Mira Rojanasakul, Brad Plumer
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A consumption based carbon footprint mapping that was developed by the University of California, Berkeley, is shown in the NYT. It shows different city centers and suburbs in America including New York city and how their consumption based footprints differ. Some places including suburbs and wealthier households drivemore, buy more goods and are responsible for higher emissions than places with better public transportation, that use energy practicing conservation.

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Lee Jae-yong: Why South Korea just pardoned the Samsung 'prince'

  
BBC News - 08.12.2022 Original article ›
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The BBC presents a different view of the pardon of Samsung's Jay Y Lee. It questions the idea that it will help the Korean economy, and whether it can help ordinary Koreans because trickle down economics won't work. Korea's major companies the chaebol have grown unpopular in the country over the last decade, with major protests over bribery scandals. 

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EU Warns Musk's X Platform Over Content Circulating About Conflict

  
WSJ - 10.11.2023 Original article ›
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Issues of social media spreading misinformation are seen in this report in NYT about Twitter acquired by Elon Musk and now called X.  This only points to the broader negative role played by social media in the last decade, which includes negative effect on young people and its damaging effect on society. As a medium it has added little and shows the corrosive effects of some technologies.

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Moderna Drops Pursuit of U.S. Patent for Key Component of Covid-19 Vaccine

  
WSJ - 12.17.2021 Original article ›
Peter Loftus
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The key role played by National Institutes of Health scientists in the development of the Moderna covid vaccine was not accepted in the application for patents by Moderna, leading to a dispute with the NIH. Moderna has now dropped the patent application saying it is a distraction on work for tackling the Omicron variant. That patent application had not listed scientists of NIH who worked on the invention.

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PM Modi lauds strength of youth at NCC rally, says none can stop a nation whose youth works with spirit of nation first

  
The Economic Times - 01.28.2022 Original article ›
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The prime minister of India asks people who came up through the National Cadet Corps in colleges and universities to preserve the NCC spirit and look out for dropouts from school at this time of the pandemic. The NCC spirit is to meet that person and find ways to get him back in school or college. To let no person's potential and mind go to waste.

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Screens, Lack of Sun Are Causing an Epidemic of Myopia

  
WSJ - 08.26.2023 Original article ›
Julie Jargon
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Children are not getting enough time outdoors. The pandemic has worsened this. The Tech company driven changes in use of screen time have added to this with children spending as little as 10 minutes outdoors. The progression of myopia increased by 35% by one estimate after 3 years of the pandemic. Natural sunlight is needed for the eye not to grow longer which contributes to nearsightedness, say researchers.

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How a Side Hustle as a Tennis Announcer Lifted Chris Eubanks at Wimbledon

  
WSJ - 07.11.2023 Original article ›
Joshua Robinson
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His job covering tennis matches at Tennis Channel helped Chris Eubanks get a new perspective on the game from a safe distance. He did this as a way to find a channel for his energies after making it to the top 200 and stalling. He is now the top US player at Wimbledon playing in the quarterfinals after winning a five set match with Tsitsipas.

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Macron’s Lesson After Riots? France Needs Order ‘at Every Level’

  
NYTimes.com - 07.25.2023 Original article ›
Aurelien Breeden
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Since his election Macron has faced a whole host of issues related to ease of living- the yellow vest protests on the cost of living, the protests related to the changes in retirement law, and recently rioting by minorities over policing practices. His second term was expected to be one in which some lessons were learned from the first term, yet the unease in the country remains. 

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What to Know About KN95 Face Masks

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WSJ - 08.03.2020 Original article ›
Austen Hufford
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What is the difference between a K95 mask and a N95 mask. A K95 mask is based on a Chinese standard. A N95 mask is based on the American standard. The N95 masks was first made by 3M a company making masks for industrial and healthcare use based in Minneapolis, U.S. Tests on K95 masks have shown that many fail to meet basic filtration quality test standards.

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‘It’s about survival’: Athens mayor focuses on getting capital through extreme heat

  
The Guardian - 07.10.2024 Original article ›
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23% of the green lung around Athens has been destroyed by fires. The result is that it is very humid and temperatures above 40 degrees C are affecting the elderly. Many of the elderly are now going to airconditioned spaces set up by the city government of Athens. The mayor and vice mayor are setting a goal of planting trees to restore some of the green cover.

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