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| The real reason the NRA's money matters in elections Rather than giving money directly to politicians, the gun lobby spends the bulk of its money independently of political candidates, running TV and internet ads urging voters to reject anyone who supports gun reform. From 1998 to 2017, the NRA distributed $144.3 million in outside spending, or 10 times ...
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| Ford's Miami Self-Driving Cars Will Tackle the Tricky Bits Which is why the company announced today that it will begin to test autonomous vehicles and build its first operations terminal in Miami, Florida. The focus there won't be on getting you from A to B. It will be on maintaining and operating the armada of robot delivery cars that get your stuff from A to, well, ...
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| Microbes found in Earth's deep ocean might grow on Saturn's moon Enceladus Some very resilient Earth microbes might be able to thrive in the hidden ocean of Enceladus — the icy moon of Saturn that has become a prime candidate in the search for extraterrestrial life. Scientists have successfully cultivated a few of these tiny organisms in the lab under the same conditions that are ...
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| Guns Kill Kids in Cities, Too It's much harder to stir a national debate about the persistent problem of gun homicides in the country's poorest urban neighborhoods, even though more children die in urban gun violence than in school shootings, according to University of Pennsylvania criminologist John Macdonald. Maybe urban gun ...
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| Skip the dip? Swimming in the sea increases risk of illness, analysis suggests "I think there is a perception in high income countries like the UK that the risk of experiencing illness following bathing in the sea is negligible, but what we found is that there is a significant increase in the chances of getting sick," said Dr Anne Leonard, co-author of the research from the University of ...
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| Bernie Sanders' son running for Congress in New Hampshire Levi Sanders is joining seven other Democrats and three Republicans in the race for the 1st congressional district. Democratic representative Carol Shea-Porter is stepping down after her term ends. The 48-year-old Sanders has lived in New Hampshire for 15 years, in Claremont in the 2nd ...
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| Alpha male culture helped cause financial crash in UK, MPs told An alpha male culture prevalent in City firms was a catalyst for the 2008 financial crisis and discouraged women from joining the industry in the aftermath, MPs have been told. It is also one of the reasons why the sector has so few women in top jobs today, because of a lack of candidates rising from the ...
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| Watching Black Panther in Harlem One must see Black Panther in Harlem, or any other inner-city epicenter of African American life in the United States, for Black Panther is an American film about black liberation - produced by Marvel and distributed by Disney - with all the perils and promises of that paradox oozing into the air when you ...
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| China's hypersonic aircraft would fly from Beijing to New York in two hours The I Plane, if it ever proceeds to test flights, will likely be powered with a combined-cycle engine that uses turbofans for low speeds before switching scramjets for hypersonic flight. Its large payload could enable it to act as the first stage of a reusable space launch system, and in hypersonic flight it could ...
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| Comcast CEO hails a cab driver's influence in making the company's bid for Sky 'jewel' When Comcast boss Brian Roberts was weighing an offer for British broadcaster Sky, the knowledge of the London cab driver helped to make up his mind. The biggest cable operator in the U.S. offered on Tuesday to pay $31 billion to buy Sky. The bid challenges Rupert Murdoch's Fox and Bob Iger's ...
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