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Florida lawmakers pass bill allowing armed teachers in classrooms Florida's lawmakers narrowly passed a controversial gun reform bill late on Wednesday that would allow armed teachers in the state's classrooms, three weeks to the day after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school massacre in which 17 people were killed. The new legislation, which must now be ...
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Cities, deconstructed: Hatakeyama's offbeat urban visions – in pictures Naoya Hatakeyama's home town in Iwate, Japan, was almost completely swept away by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, along with his family home, the landmarks of his childhood and his mother, who tragically lost her life. In the years that followed the photographer returned to the region, ...
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The Russian Ex-Spies Who Got Poisoned in Britain But in the meantime, and in the absence of more detail from investigators on what happened, there is a history of Russian ex-spies and dissidents being creatively poisoned abroad, especially in Britain. Litvinenko had been a defector from Russia's infamous Federal Security Service (FSB) and a vocal ...
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Travis Kalanick starts investment fund after cashing in Uber stock Travis Kalanick may have left Uber under a cloud but he is not done with the tech industry. Mr Kalanick on Wednesday announced a new investment fund called 10100, just weeks after cashing in $1.4bn worth of stock in the ride-sharing company he co-founded. The fund — pronounced ...
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Rep. Keith Ellison is taking up the Medicare-for-all mantle in the House Progressive Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) has taken on the mantle of Medicare-for-all in the House of Representatives. On Wednesday, Ellison received unanimous consent from his House colleagues to become the lead sponsor of the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act — originally introduced by ...
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For the people in the back: Video games don't cause violence Video games do not cause violent behavior. There is no scientific, consensus-backed research supporting the idea that playing video games -- even bloody, realistic shooters -- leads to real-life acts of brutality. However, this misguided theory prevails. After a shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, ...
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Nuns' pressure leads Wells Fargo to publish causes of 'systemic lapses in governance' A group of nuns and religiously-affiliated investors said Wells Fargo & Co. has agreed to publish a review that shows the root causes of the systemic lapses in governance and risk management that have led to ongoing controversies, litigation and fines. As a result of the company's commitment, the ...
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