January 27, 2023
One thing that will make elections better for everyone Are you tired of the onslaught of negative political ads that air on your TV every election season? Increasing fear. Half-truths. Believe it or not, we can make a simple reform to make elections more tolerant for voters. This is called rating voting or RCV and
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Washington CNN — The National Archives is formally asking former presidents and vice presidents to recheck their personal records for any classified documents or other presidential records after classified documents were found in the homes of former presidents. Donald Trumpformer Vice President Mike Pence and President Joe Biden over the past year. On Thursday, the
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It’s a Martian bear! Image resembling Paddington spotted on the surface of the Red Planet A NASA orbiter 155 miles above Mars took a picture of a bear etched into the planet. The spacecraft used a very powerful HiRISE camera to capture the image. NASA has stated that it may actually be a buried impact
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Recent evidence suggests that the current bivalent provides protection against severe illness and death from the XBB.1 variant, which is currently dominant in the US. “Because we’ve moved from a pandemic phase to an endemic phase,” said Ofer Levy, staff physician at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School professor and FDA panelist. “Today’s vote marks
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CNN — Azerbaijan tennis The federation called for sanctions against Karen Khachanov after the Russian player expressed support for the Armenian population living in the disputed area. Nagorno-Karabakh region at the Australian Open. Khachanov, who is of Armenian descent, wrote “Artsakh, be strong” on TV cameras after the matches in Melbourne. Artsakh is the Armenian
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from Estimated risk per 26.01.2023 13:47:00 Note. The first two charts, Contributions and Housing Investment as a percentage of GDP, are useful for predicting recessions caused by the Fed. RI as a percentage of GDP usually declines long before a recession. This is what I’m looking at. Formerly from BEA: Gross domestic product, Q4 2022
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FTX objected to the US Department of Justice’s request for an independent investigation into the collapse of the once-famous cryptocurrency exchange, saying it was already conducting a wide-ranging investigation involving members of the FTX founder’s family. Sam Bankman-Fried.FTX said in a Wilmington, Delaware lawsuit late Wednesday night that the Justice Department’s proposed scrutiny would only
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Harmonized inflation fell to 9.2% in December from 10.1% in November. Thus, it is somewhat closer to the target rate of the European Central Bank of 2.0%. The December result was driven by slower growth in energy and services prices. At the same time, prices for foodstuffs, alcohol and tobacco, non-energy manufactured goods and services
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Spain, one of the last countries in Europe continue to require people to wear masks on public transport to prevent the spread of COVID-19 will likely end this obligation on February 1st. This was announced on Thursday by Minister of Health Carolina Darias. She said that the epidemiological situation in the country is stable, and
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CNN — Protesters and some police officers protested outside the Haitian prime minister’s official residence in the capital Port-au-Prince on Thursday, denouncing recent police killings, one of his advisers said. “Police and protesters are here to make their voices heard. They are evil and we understand and hear them,” the adviser told CNN, asking for
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