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Ukraines Trump Tightrope - Foreign Affairs

As with many other aspects of their war against Russia, Ukrainians
have reacted to the outcome of the U.S. presidential election with a
certain dark humor. The morning after the election, Ukrainian social
media was full of jokes, including by soldiers commenting that they
are “preparing to go home soon, since the war will end in 24
hours.” They were referring, of course, to President-elect Donald
Trump’s long-standing claim that he could stop the war in a day if
he were elected.

Ukraine has many reasons to be concerned about a second Trump
presidency. Trump has not said how he would end the war, or even under
what conditions. In his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, in
September, he refused to say that he wanted Ukraine to win. He has
also repeatedly complained about the amount of military assistance
that the United States has been giving Kyiv. In the background, there
is his longtime admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin, and
Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, who was one of the first Republicans
to embrace indifference to Ukraine as a policy position: “I don’t
really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other,” he said
in 2022. And in polling before the election, where a clear majority of
Democrats agreed that the United States had a responsibility to
support Ukraine, only about a third of Republican voters said that it
did. All this has led many to fear that Washington—by far Kyiv’s
biggest arms supplier—might cut off the flow of aid, or even allow
Moscow to dictate the terms of peace.

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The brain summons deep sleep for healing from life-threatening injury
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Immune cells rush to the brain and promote deep sleep after a heart
attack, according to a new study1 involving both mice and humans. This
heavy slumber helps recovery by easing inflammation in the heart, the
study found.

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The real reason Mike Tyson is fighting Jake Paul
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Our mission could not be more clear and more necessary: We have a duty
to explain what just happened, and why, and what it means for you. We
need clear-eyed journalism that helps you understand what really
matters. Reporting that brings clarity in increasingly chaotic times.
Reporting that is driven by truth, not by what people in power want
you to believe.















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Republicans Maintain House Majority, Clinching Trifecta
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In yet another blow to Democrats, Donald Trump will begin his
presidency with a trifecta of Republican control in Washington. The
GOP not only regained control of the White House and the Senate but
also managed to hold onto a narrow majority in the House, the
Associated Press called late Wednesday, more than a week after voters
headed to the polls.

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Is Trump really so great for bitcoin? - WSJ [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=94587&nl=daily]
Bitcoin is now worth more than any U.S.-listed company other than the
six biggest. Dogecoin, created as a joke and the first cryptocurrency
to have agovernment departmentnamed after it, would make it to the top
200 stocks by value, larger than Johnson Controls International.














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Japans economy continues to grow but at slower pace - WSJ
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The Japanese economy managed to continue growing for a second straight
quarter thanks to a recovery in consumption, although the pace slowed
amid the impact of natural disasters during the summer.

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No one can find safe-deposit boxes anymore - WSJ
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Longtime deposit-box renters are getting kicked out of their boxes by
banks that are shutting down or scaling back the service. Customers
say they have been struggling to find the small boxes traditionally
kept inside vaults to store family heirlooms and other valuables.














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Powell says solid economy allows Fed to consider rate cuts carefully -
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said recent signs of economic
health would allow the central bank to take its time in deciding how
quickly to continue reducing interest rates.

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China coped with Trumps first trade war. A second one will be tougher.
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China is grappling with an epic property collapse, and local
governments are wobbling under trillions of dollars of debt. Chinese
leader Xi has responded by hitting the gas on manufacturing, pushing
Chinese companies to pump out a surfeit of goods that are pouring into
foreign markets and propping up the economy at home.














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Israeli forces push deeper into Lebanon in widening war campaign - WSJ
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TEL AVIVIsrael is expanding its ground operation in southern Lebanon,
sending troops into villages farther from its border, in what some
former senior security officials worry could turn into a war of
attrition.

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Smugglers tell migrants to rush to U.S. before Trump takes power - WSJ
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MEXICO CITYFrom the dense jungle connecting Panama and Colombia to the
banks of the Rio Grande, human smugglers are spreading a message to
U.S.-bound migrants: Hurry up and sneak in before President-elect
Donald Trump takes office.














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When Your Manager Is Ineffective and You Feel Stuck - Harvard Business
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Navigating a relationship with a manager you perceive as ineffective
or unqualified can be daunting, but it can also be a catalyst for
growth. Rather than allowing frustration to erode your engagement and
productivity, shift your focus to what you can control. You may not
have control over who you report to, but you can control the beliefs,
assumptions, and narratives you create about the situation, as well as
the impact of your behavior on those around you. A series of six steps
can help you change the dynamic: 1) Reflect on whats really bothering
you; 2) Own your part; 3) Connect to your values: 4) Reframe the story
youre telling yourself; 5) Open a dialogue with your manager; and 6)
Be part of the solution. If, after having a honest conversation with
yourself and your manager, you still believe theyre the core issue, it
might be time to move on.

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Trump taps RFK Jr. to run HHS, nominating vaccine skeptic for nations
top health role - STAT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=94587&nl=daily]
President-elect Trump has tapped Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime
environmental lawyer and vaccine skeptic, for the nations top health
care job, leading the Department of Health and Human Services.














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GMs Robotaxi Unit Cruise Agrees To Pay $500,000 Fine For Submitting
False Crash Report - Forbes [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=94587&nl=daily]
General Motors-owned robotaxi and self-driving car company, Cruise,
agreed to pay a $500,000 fine and admitted to submitting a false
report after an accident involving one of its vehicles in San
Francisco last yearwhere a pedestrian was injured after being struck
and dragged approximately 20 feet by a robotaxi.

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Nike and Adidas are losing their lead in running shoes - The Economist
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The origin of On, a Swiss sportswear brand, is unusual. In 2010
Olivier Bernhard, a triathlete, stuck bits of garden hose to the
bottom of his trainers for added cushioning. The idea worked so well
that he and two friends decided to make a business out of it. Their
shoes were a hit; last year the company made almost $2bn in sales. On
November 12th it reported that its revenue in the quarter to September
grew by 32%, year on year. On now has a market value of $17bn.














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Grubhub founder made $1bn proposals to buy company back from Just Eat
Takeaway - FT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=94587&nl=daily]
Revelation comes days after Dutch group announced sale of its US
subsidiary for $650mn

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With Most Top Trump Picks Named, the Focus Shifts to Deputies -
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Fox News host Hegseths lack of experience is in spotlight Deputies and
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Mayor Adams' office directs NYC agencies to launch BlueSky accounts
amid growth on new platform
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Mayor Adams' office ordered all city government agencies Thursday to
set up accounts on BlueSky, a social media platform that has seen a
marked uptick in new users since President-elect Donald Trump's
election.

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Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess
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A year ago, there was a lot of talk about large language models (LLMs)
playing chess. Word was that if you trained a big enough model on
enough text, then you could send it a partially played game, ask it to
predict the next move, and it would play at the level of an advanced
amateur.

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O2 unveils Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers' time
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It's a bad day to be a phone scammer. O2 has today unveiled the newest
member of its fraud prevention team, 'Daisy'.

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New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers
confirm
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Apple's new iPhone software comes with a novel security feature that
reboots the phone if it's not unlocked for 72 hours, according to
security researchers.

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AI Makes Tech Debt More Expensive
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There is an emerging belief that AI will make tech debt less relevant.
Since it's getting easier to write code, and easier to clean up code,
wouldn't it make sense that the typical company can handle a little
more debt?

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Jet Airways employee body says aircraft parts worth ?30 cr. stolen
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A body representing Jet Airways employees has issued a legal notice to
the Jalan Kalrock Consortium alleging that aircraft equipment and
parts worth ?30 crore have been removed illegally and sold in the
black market which will reduce its value in the liquidation ordered by
Supreme Court last week.

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We can all be AI engineers - and we can do it with open source models
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A couple of weeks ago, I gave a talk at Hannah Foxwell's amazing AI
for the Rest of Us conference about something that's been brewing in
my mind after years of working in DevOps, MLOps, and now GenAI: the
barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast.

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Lessons from my First Exit
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In April of this year, I sold TinyPilot, the bootstrapped hardware
company I founded and ran for four years. In this post, I'm sharing
what went well, what I want to improve in the future, and what
surprised me about selling my business.

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Baseless Fears About Flouride Go Mainstream
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Experts worry misinformation on the effects of fluoride could harm
public health.

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She Was an Education Superstar. Then She Got Blamed for America's
Reading Crisis.
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Can Lucy Calkins reclaim her good name?

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Despite Its Impressive Output, Generative AI Doesn't Have a Coherent
Understanding of the World
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This means these models are likely to fail unexpectedly if they are
deployed in situations where the environment or task slightly changes.

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This Is What Your Brain and Body Do When You Hang Out With Animals
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Sign up for Coping, Tonic's weekly newsletter about anxiety, mental
health, and dealing with it all. Most people adopting a dog expect
furry affection and bright-eyed companionship. Ingrid Pipes is looking
for that and something a step above.

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How to work out for your mental health
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This post has been updated. It was originally published on September
18, 2020. Even with gyms reopening at limited capacity, it's still
safer to exercise at home or outdoors. Check out our other Muscle
Month to help you keep up your fitness, power, and health in socially
distant times.

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How Nature Can Make You Kinder, Happier, and More Creative
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I've been an avid hiker my whole life. From the time I first strapped
on a backpack and headed into the Sierra Nevada Mountains, I was
hooked on the experience, loving the way being in nature cleared my
mind and helped me to feel more grounded and peaceful.

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How Cubans Live as Long as Americans at a Tenth of the Cost
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Lessons of physical prosperity in a despotic regime.

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8 TV Shows That Were Creatively Altered by a Writers Strike
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Writers strikes might be more common than you think and can mean new
production schedules and even new plots.

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The Surprising Ways Tech Can Improve Our Mental Health
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From phones and laptops, to smartwatches and VR headsets, people are
increasingly wired -- yet research shows that we're also using
technology to get more chill.

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The Science of Helping Out
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At a time when we are all experiencing an extraordinary level of
stress, science offers a simple and effective way to bolster our own
emotional health. To help yourself, start by helping others.

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Europeans Spend 575 Million Hours Clicking Cookie Banners Every Year
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Cookie banners have become a pervasive feature of the modern web,
frustrating users who seek a seamless browsing experience.

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The Rise of CleanTok: Is the Pressure to Have Perfect Homes Making Us
Ill?
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TikTok videos with the hashtag #CleanTok have more than 150 billion
views, with influencers broadcasting themselves scrubbing their sinks,
descaling their dishwashers, and using increasingly bizarre and
extreme methods to make their homes shine.

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'The Best Advice I've Ever Been Given': Celebrities Share Their Wisdom
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Words of encouragement, words of courage, wise words... Some of our
most influential figures share the advice that's helped them most.

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The Inspiring Scientists Who Saved the World's First Seed Bank
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During the siege of Leningrad, botanists in charge of an irreplaceable
seed collection had to protect it from fire, rodents - and hunger.

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How Geometry Revealed Quantum Memory
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The unexpected discovery of a geometric phase shows how math and
physics are tightly intertwined.

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The Best New Restaurants in America in 2024
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Dining in 2024 felt exciting, confident, and joyful.

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Post-Election, Emergency Contraception Sales Are Surging. Women-Led
Startups Are Meeting the Demand - Inc [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=94587&nl=daily]
Philadelphia-based Winx Health sold seven times more packs of its
emergency contraceptive pill, Restart, than it had in the previous
seven days combined. New York City-based Julie Products saw an average
of 50 percent week-over-week growth each day at its drug store
retailers in the three days following the election. Oakland,
California-based Cadence OTC experienced five times the
direct-to-consumer sales it typically sees in a week, in just one day.
New York City-based telehealth company Hey Jane tracked a 123 percent
increase in emergency contraception orders on November 6, in addition
to a 27 percent increase in medication abortion orders and a 25
percent increase in birth control orders.

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Middle East crisis live: a??Heavy strikea?? reported in Beirut after
Israeli evacuation order
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Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the "deliberate and
massive forced displacement" of Palestinian civilians in Gaza,
according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy
amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had
collected evidence that suggested "the war crime of forcible transfer
[of the civilian population]", describing it as "a grave breach of the
Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the
international criminal court" (you can read more about the report's
findings here).

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Shel Talmy, producer for the Who, the Kinks and David Bowie, dies aged
87
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After a phenomenal work rate during the 1960s, Talmy returned to the
US, and mostly stopped producing after becoming jaded with the music
industry: “The early 70s went through a very fallow period,” he
later said. “It was not the same music scene. Everything started
getting corporate.” He had occasional production credits later in
life, for acts such as Coven, Vicki Brown and Fuzztones.

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Democrat Janelle Bynum flips seat to become Oregona??s first Black
member of Congress
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Oregon stayed to its usual pattern of voting for Democrats this year -
even as swaths of the US electorate moved to the right and gave
Republicans control of the White House, Senate and the US House.

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Investors circle the Trump trade's global market victims
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"What's good for the US tends to be good for the rest of the world,"
he said, adding that because Wall Street stocks were expensive he
favoured Britain's exporter-heavy FTSE 100, (^FTSE) which has fallen
about 1.3% since Nov. 5.

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Billionaire Investor Trims Alibaba After Saying Buy 'Everything' China
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The rally in Chinese stocks showed signs of stalling in recent weeks
as Beijing’s latest fiscal policies stopped short of expectations.
Some investors are cautious about the group’s long-term outlook
given the sluggish consumer spending and property-market weakness.
What’s more, Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential
election sparked uncertainty about higher tariffs and further
geopolitical tensions.

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Exclusive: Iraq militia at war with US troops seeks "peace" under
Trump
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The head of an Iraqi militia involved in a campaign against U.S.
troops and Israel has expressed to Newsweek his desire for a less
hostile relationship with the United States when President-elect
Donald Trump assumes office.

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Trump taps Intelligence critic Tulsi Gabbard for key intel position -
WSJ [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=94587&nl=daily]
President-elect Donald Trumps pick to lead powerful U.S. spy agencies
has often seemed to embrace Washingtons adversaries and questioned key
American intelligence judgments, raising alarm among veteran
intelligence officials and the wider national security establishment.

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This Human Computer Created a System for Measuring Vast Distances in
Our Universe - Scientific American [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=94587&nl=daily]
Attention Is Discovery, visual artist Anna Von Mertenss thoughtful new
exploration of astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt, describes and
illuminates Leavitts decades-long study of stars, including the
groundbreaking system she developed for measuring vast distances
within our universe simply by looking at photographic plates. Leavitt
studied hundreds of thousands of stars captured on the glass plates at
the Harvard College Observatory, where she worked as a human computer
from the turn of the 20th century until her death in 1921. Von Mertens
explores her life, the women she worked alongside and her discoveries,
weaving biography, science and visual imagery into a rich tapestry
that deepens our understanding of the universe and the power of
focused, methodical attention.

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What Does Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Actually Want? - The New Yorker
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In December of 2021, the pollster Jeremy Zogby began designing a
national survey to capture the radical changes that he believed were
under way in American life nearly two years into the pandemic. Zogby,
who is an avid reader of the psychologist Carl Jung, was especially
curious about the kinds of people that Americans considered heroic,
and he came up with a list of archetypes. There was the spiritual
leader, the Pope; the female entrepreneur, Oprah; the rogue pundit,
Tucker Carlson; and the philanthropist-scientist, Bill Gates. Joe
Biden and Donald Trump, as the presumptive Presidential nominees of
the major parties, were also included. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the
nephew of John F. Kennedy and a prominent opponent of vaccine
mandates, struck Zogby as the quintessential COVID protester. When the
results of the poll came back, Zogby was shocked to find that Kennedy
topped the list. What it told me was that the name still meant
something in the political landscape, he said.

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