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New Republican-backed laws in several states add large fines or criminal penalties for minor mistakes in voter registration work. As groups pull back, they’re reaching fewer voters.

Joe Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese goods mark the decisive rejection of an economic orthodoxy that dominated American policy making for nearly half a century.

In the Republican view, the purpose of the law is to inflict harm on your enemies.

The factors are partly structural, but also have to do with a corporate drive for profits and use of technology to precision-target customers.

“We need to take a broad approach to control sources that release PFAS into the atmosphere and into bodies of water,” said one researcher, “since they eventually all end up in the lakes.”

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Even if the bill passes the Senate, President Joe Biden has threatened to veto it.

The decision “validates the experiences of tens of millions of Americans, as well as tens of thousands of physicians, who have long recognized that cannabis possesses legitimate medical utility,” said one advocate.

“The good news is—actions like this by the USA or European countries taken under pressure from the pro-Israeli lobby or Israel itself smell of sheer panic and desperation,” the renowned author said.

“I would recommend ‘Orange Is the New Black,’” said the Wisconsin Democrat. “We’re feeling it at the pumps and clearly this kind of behavior, we know, isn’t isolated.”

“I can no longer in good conscience continue to represent this administration amid President Biden’s disastrous, continued support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza,” Interior assistant Lily Greenberg Call wrote.

The University Network for Human Rights report also stresses that other nations are legally obligated to “refrain from recognizing Israel’s breaches as legal or taking any actions that may amount to complicity.”

Robert Hur’s description of those interviews fueled a firestorm over the president’s memory and mental fitness.

“The most under-covered Trump story is his complete selling-out of the American people on issues they care about most,” one political insider said.

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The new shipment was announced “right after the State Department admits Israel has ‘likely’ used U.S.-supplied weapons in violation of humanitarian law,” said one journalist.

“The first step for Third States in upholding their own legal obligations to ensure [international humanitarian law] is respected is to stop the Rafah invasion, open all land crossings and lift internal barriers for humanitarian access,” said an international coalition.

A strike authorization vote at the University of California over repression of Gaza protesters hints at labor’s political potential.

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A 2003 law pushed by the gun industry limits the information shared by federal agents and shields gun shops from public scrutiny, but ProPublica was able to identify the store that sold the gun used in the shooting of a Chicago police officer.

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