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What Is Brainrot and Why Is Not So Bad for Your Tween or Teen To Have
It?

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teens that primarily interact on social media aren't "zombies", per
se, but they do have their own vernacular. Here's what you should know
about "brainrot".

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Judge Rules $400 Million Algorithmic System Illegally Denied Thousands
of People's Medicaid Benefits
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Thousands of Tennesseans were illegally denied Medicaid and other
benefits due to programming and data errors in an algorithmic system
the state uses to determine eligibility for low-income residents and
people with disabilities, a U.S. District Court judge ruled this week.

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Have Astronomers Finally Found the Source of the Wow! Signal? -
Discover Magazine (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=57451&nl=daily]
One of the most famous events in the history of astronomy is the Wow!
Signal that was picked up by Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio
telescope in August 1977. The signal entered folklore because it
couldn’t be explained by any known natural phenomena and didn’t
appear to have originated from Earth.















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Plastic vaporising process could recycle bags and bottles indefinitely
- New Scientist (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=57451&nl=daily]
Plastic bottles and bags can be vaporised into chemical building
blocks and turned into new plastics with all the properties of virgin
material. There are hurdles still to overcome, but the new process is
a big step towards a truly circular economy for plastic.

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FDA to Require ID From Smokers Under 30 - Inc.com (No paywall)
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Smokers under 30 need photo IDs to buy tobacco products, US FDA
says(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has mandated more
people show photo identification when buying tobacco products, as the
health regulator raised the age verification requirement by three
years.














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Why Companies Should Embrace Disruptive Climate Activism - Harvard
Business Review (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=57451&nl=daily]
Most companies’ climate targets are inadequate responses to the
climate emergency. And while many companies are falling behind or
exaggerating progress, other companies are responding by dialing back
on their goals altogether. Employees, peer businesses, and activists
are responding in turn. More disruptive management and corporate
practices are urgently needed to address the climate emergency. The
authors argue that instead of criminalizing and marginalizing climate
activists — citing examples like and Amazon and ExxonMobil —
companies should promote disruptive activism for their own well-being
and for the global good. They cite three successful practices as well
as companies that have implemented each: supporting external
disruptive activism, enabling internally disruptive activism, and
competing to disrupt.

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Los Angeles County: the epicenter of urban maternity ward closings -
STAT (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=57451&nl=daily]
But when she received the text from her OB-GYN last week that the
hospital will be closing its maternity ward and NICU in November,
DeRoche felt a wave of disappointment and sadness. She’d enjoyed the
experience of giving birth at the Glendale, Calif., hospital, calling
it “a special place.”  DeRoche said she has options, including
giving birth at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, a mere 10- to
15-minute drive from her home in La Crescenta. But she’s uncertain
where she’ll end up, or what the experience will be like — she’s
recently heard stories about overcrowded area hospitals where
deliveries are happening in the ER. The news about Verdugo Hills hit
home: She knew about rural hospitals closing maternity wards, but not
urban area hospitals.  














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Trump rally security tackles man who jumped on to riser
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Video footage from the rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, showed a
bearded man wearing sunglasses breach a barrier surrounding the press
pen and climb a riser on which reporters and camera crews were
stationed.

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The Trump Arlington National Cemetery controversy, explained
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Independent journalism is more important than ever. Vox is here to
explain this unprecedented election cycle and help you understand the
larger stakes. We will break down where the candidates stand on major
issues, from economic policy to immigration, foreign policy, criminal
justice, and abortion. We’ll answer your biggest questions, and
we’ll explain what matters — and why. This timely and essential
task, however, is expensive to produce.














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Why NASA Has Cut Two Astronauts From the Next SpaceX Flight
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NASA's Nick Hague and Russian Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch in
September aboard a SpaceX rocket for the orbiting laboratory. The duo
will return with Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore in February. NASA
decided it’s too risky for Williams and Wilmore to fly home in their
Boeing Starliner capsule, marred by thruster troubles and helium
leaks.

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UK researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long COVID
patients
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LEXINGTON, Ky (Aug. 30, 2024) — New research from the University of
Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging shows compelling evidence
that the cognitive impairments observed in long COVID patients share
striking similarities with those seen in Alzheimer’s disease and
related dementias. 














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Strange and wondrous creatures: plankton and the origins of life on
Earth
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When I arrived at Wickford Harbor in North Kingstown, Rhode Island,
early one June morning, the sea was moderately calm, with a distinct
metallic sheen, like a wrinkled sheet of foil someone had tried to rub
smooth. Vitul Agarwal, a young oceanographer, waved to me from beside
a research trawler with the name Cap’n Bert painted on its hull.
Dressed in jeans and a diamond-patterned sweater, Agarwal welcomed me
aboard and introduced me to the captain, Steve Barber, whose grey hair
spilled from the back of a baseball cap.

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Elon Musk says he may be more careful about where he travels after
Telegram CEO shock arrest - Business Insider (No paywall)
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The X owner, facing scrutiny around the world over the spread of
misinformation on the social-media platform he bought for $44 billion
in 2022, said on X that he might "limit movements" to nations where
free speech is "constitutionally protected."














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A Kroger exec reportedly testified that the supermarket giant raised
prices of milk and eggs beyond inflation costs - Business Insider (No
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While testifying in Oregon federal court on Wednesday, Kroger's senior
director for pricing, Andy Groff, was questioned by a Federal Trade
Commission attorney regarding an internal email he sent to other
Kroger executives earlier this year about the prices of the staple
household items.

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Sotheby's earnings plunge as art market catches a chill - FT (No
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Arch-rival Christie's also suffering from slowdown in auctions














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Ukraine General's Plan Surprised the Russians - and His Own Troops -
WSJ (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=57451&nl=daily]
Gen. Oleksandr Syrskiy learned from Ukraine's previous
counteroffensive and kept its Russian incursion a secret

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Wealthy families see value in drafting agreements to stop inheritance
feuds - FT (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=57451&nl=daily]
Advisers are encouraging use of charters and pre-nuptials to bring
clarity on division of assets













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The kleptocrats aren't just stealing money. They're stealing democracy
- FT (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=57451&nl=daily]
A shadow world of secret wealth now threatens us all. We need to shut
it down, argues Anne Applebaum

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Crows Are Even Smarter Than We Thought
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Crows and ravens, which belong to the corvid family, are known for
their high intelligence, playful natures, and strong personalities.
They hold grudges against each other, do basic statistics, perform
acrobatics, and even host funerals for deceased family members. But we
keep learning new things about the savvy of these birds, and how
widespread that savvy is among the corvid family.

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Many protected landscapes owned by English water firms in disrepair,
data shows
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Water companies are allowing important natural landscapes they own to
fall into disrepair, data shows, with only 16% of sites of special
scientific interest (SSSIs) under their control in good condition.

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US and Iraq launch joint raid killing 15 Islamic State militants
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A coalition of more than 80 countries led by the US was formed to
fight Islamic State, which lost its hold in Iraq and 2017 and in Syria
in 2019. The militants have continued to operate in the Anbar desert
in Iraq and Syria, while claiming attacks carried out by others
elsewhere in the world. The IS branch in Afghanistan is known to carry
out intensely bloody assaults.

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Donald Trump at Moms for Liberty says Ivanka 'hired millions of
people'
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Paula Steiner, a Republican activist from Vienna, Virginia, said in an
interview that Trump is the one "standing in the way" of further
attacks on parents' rights. "Tim Walz and Kamala Harris will do
everything they can to make America the most liberal country we've
seen," she added. "They will go beyond England [and] the other
European countries."

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Are American rents rigged by algorithms? - The Economist (No paywall)
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Imagine that you are about to enter a room with a group of nine other
people. You will display a number—any between, say, 2,500 and 3,000.
Once the group enters the room other players will start to come in.
Each will choose one of your group, picking the lowest number. You do
not know how quickly or slowly the other players will trickle in to
pick from the group. What is the highest number you can display while
still getting picked quickly?

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Navigating the Struggles and Joys of Caring for Aging Loved Ones -
Scientific American (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=57451&nl=daily]
Rachel Feltman: Most people in the world will have to think about
caregiving at some point in their lives—either because they’ll
need to support family members as they age or become ill or because
they’ll need care themselves. But in the United States, many folks
who act as caregivers feel like they’re in it alone.

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Does A.I. Really Encourage Cheating in Schools? - The New Yorker (No
paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=57451&nl=daily]
For my columns during the back-to-school season, I thought it would be
useful to go over the state of public education in America. This
series will be similar to the one I wrote on parenting a few months
back in that it will be wide-ranging in subject, so please bear with
me.

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Many Americans Dislike JD Vance. Donald Trump Isn't One of Them.
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In a quintessentially Trumpian display of bravado, the former
president has privately praised Mr. Vance by comparing himself to
Vince Lombardi, telling people that his eye for political talent was
now on par with the Hall of Fame football coach’s ability to find
Super Bowl-caliber players.

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Leonard Riggio, 83, Dies; Founded Barnes & Noble and Upended
Publishing
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The company’s strong-arm practices upended the industry. Thousands
of independent bookstores went out of business as Barnes & Noble grew.
And Mr. Riggio — a dapper Brooklyn-raised liberal and art lover
devoted to civil rights and Democratic causes — found himself
roundly vilified as the publishing world’s most heinous bad guy and
as a neighborhood killer and a philistine.

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Something's Poisoning America's Farms. Scientists Fear 'Forever'
Chemicals.
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In Michigan, among the first states to investigate the chemicals in
sludge fertilizer, officials shut down one farm where tests found
particularly high concentrations in the soil and in cattle that grazed
on the land. This year, the state prohibited the property from ever
again being used for agriculture. Michigan hasn’t conducted
widespread testing at other farms, partly out of concern for the
economic effects on its agriculture industry.

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The Constitution is Sacred. Is It Also Dangerous?
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One of the biggest threats to America?s politics might be the
country?s founding document.

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Gaza, Lebanon, West Bank: Why Is Israel Fighting So Many Wars?
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Despite the destruction of much of Hamas’s military infrastructure
and tens of thousands of deaths, there is no end in sight to the war
in Gaza, partly because Israel has set itself a high threshold for
victory: the eradication of the Hamas leadership and the rescue of
roughly 100 hostages still held by the group. By contrast, Hamas has a
low threshold: It seeks to survive the war intact, a modest goal that
allows it to weather a level of devastation that might have caused
other groups to surrender.

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Athlete Accused of Abuse Had Harassed Other Paralympians, Lawsuit
Claims
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Two years after sports safety authorities received Mr. Egbert’s
report of abuse, that case also remains unresolved. The delay has
renewed concerns about the effectiveness of that complaint system,
created in 2017 in response to the revelation that the former
physician for the American gymnastics team, Lawrence G. Nassar, had
sexually abused hundreds of gymnasts.

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Three Critical Questions to Turn the Tables During Technical
Interviews - Medium (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=57451&nl=daily]
I get really obnoxious and opinionated about how we interview
potential new hires. The interview is often the best signal candidates
have about what it’s like to work with us. Especially valuable
candidates who are likely to have competing offers from other
companies. Our interview experience should show us at our best.

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Protest from US after Kosovo closes Serbian offices
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Unrest in northern Mitrovica has increased since last year, when the
Nato-led international peacekeepers force in Kosovo, known as KFor,
stepped up its numbers and equipment along the Kosovo-Serbia border,
including at the bridge in Mitrovica.

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Middle East crisis live: aid agency says four men killed by Israeli
airstrike were a local escort
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The EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has launched a process
that could lead to sanctions on Israeli ministers he said were
responsible for “unacceptable hate messages” against Palestinians.
Borrell said he had begun consultations with the EU’s 27 member
states on whether they consider it “appropriate including in our
list of sanctions some Israeli ministers [who] have been launching
unacceptable hate messages against the Palestinians” and made
proposals that “go clearly against international law” and incite
war crimes.

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Met police officer charged with rape and stalking
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PC Jake Cummings, attached to central west command unit, has been
charged with two counts of rape, three counts of stalking, three
counts of controlling and coercive behaviour and three counts of
voyeurism.

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New hope on heart disease as science offers early detection and
prevention
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Other measures involve taking drugs to lower cholesterol and reduce
inflammation. Crucially, the earlier these interventions are made, the
better the health outcomes years and even decades later. say
scientists.

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Call for 'financial protection' for schools in England with crumbling
concrete
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The move came after 500 homes in Aberdeen were identified as being
affected by the collapse-risk concrete and an independent structural
engineers' report on the properties recommended that council tenants
be relocated to alternative accommodation within the city.

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Improving disabled access to UK's public transport 'almost impossible'
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This, she said, was economically unjustifiable. "Making the transport
system accessible could generate £72.4bn a year in economic
benefits," she said. "Accessible transport helps tackle loneliness and
isolation, with significant health and social care impacts."

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Man charged with murder of Colorado dog breeder as 10 puppies missing
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“The investigation into Mr Peavey’s death continues, including the
investigation into his Doberman puppies that are still unaccounted
for,” the department said in a statement posted on Facebook Friday.

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Missing couple from nudist community in California presumed dead
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Police went to the suspect’s home but attempts to contact him were
unsuccessful and the tactical vehicle was brought in, Baker said. News
video showed that the home was substantially torn open, leaving debris
strewn about.

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History Says the Nasdaq Will Soar: 2 Growth Stocks to Buy Now,
According to Wall Street
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History says the growth-focused Nasdaq Composite could soar 21% by
August 2025.

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1 Stock That Has Skyrocketed More Than Nvidia Since the Start of 2023:
Is It Too Late to Buy?
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Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for
success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates
from analysts, and two new stock picks each month. The Stock
Advisor service has more than quadrupled the return of S&P 500 since
2002*.

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1 Magnificent S&P 500 Dividend Stock Down 52% to Buy and Hold Forever
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Justin Pope has positions in Hershey. The Motley Fool has positions in
and recommends Hershey, Nike, and Starbucks. The Motley Fool
recommends Under Armour. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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Japan wants its hardworking citizens to try a 4-day workweek
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To ensure none of the NS Group's workers feel penalized for choosing
an alternative schedule, Ogino asks each of her 4,000 employees twice
a year how they want to work. Asserting individual needs can be
frowned upon in Japan, where you are expected to sacrifice for the
common good.

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Stock market today: US stocks end higher to hit a 4-month winning
streak as soft landing hopes rise
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"Optimism regarding the Fed's upcoming easing cycle is growing after
this morning's PCE data and Consumer Sentiment report reflected
dwindling price pressures and downwardly revised inflation
expectations," Interactive Brokers economist José Torres said.

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More Voters, Especially Women, Now Say Abortion Is Their Top Issue
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Based on New York Times/Siena College polls of registered voters in
seven battleground states conducted from August 6 to 15, 2024 and New
York Times/Philadelphia Inquirer/Siena College polls of registered
voters in six battleground states conducted from April 28 to May 9,
2024.

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In North Carolina, the Math for a Supermajority May Come Down to One
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“Remember, one legislator delivered the supermajority,” Beth
Helfrich, a Democrat running for the state House of Representatives,
said during a recent town hall in Davidson, N.C. “My math says one
can break it.”

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Trump Contorts Himself on Abortion in Search of Political Gain
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Back in 2022, the former president had told allies — as the Supreme
Court was preparing to overturn Roe v. Wade — that the move would
hurt his party. Since that year, when Republicans underperformed
expectations in the midterm elections, Mr. Trump has been privately
emphatic with advisers that in his view the abortion issue alone could
kill their chances of victory in November. And he is willing to make
as many rhetorical and policy contortions as he deems necessary to
win.

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Whistle-Blower Groups Push to End Secret Seizure of Congressional
Communications
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“Blanket subpoenas for anybody who’s communicated with an office
that may be conducting adversarial oversight — it’s a severe
threat to institutional constitutional checks and balances,” said
Tom Devine, the legal director of the nonprofit Government
Accountability Project, a whistle-blower protection group. “It’s a
severe threat to whistle-blowers who want to share their evidence in
Congress, and is likely to have a chilling effect.”

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Prosecutors Seek Simpler Path in Election Case After Immunity Ruling,
as Trump Seeks Delays
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Laying out a proposed schedule that reached into the fall of next
year, the lawyers told Judge Chutkan that they planned to challenge
the indictment on the grounds that Mr. Smith was improperly appointed
to his job as special counsel. In July, a federal judge in Florida
used that same rationale to dismiss the other case Mr. Smith brought
against Mr. Trump — the one accusing him of illegally holding onto
dozens of classified documents after he left office.

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Trump Says He'll Vote Against Florida's Abortion Rights Measure After
Conservative Backlash
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“We strongly support Florida’s current heartbeat law,” Ms.
Dannenfelser said in a statement, adding that she had also spoken
privately with the former president. “For anyone who believes in
drawing a different line, they still must vote against Amendment 4,
unless they don’t want a line at all.”

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