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‘It feels like I’m trapped under someone else’s boot of power’: Georgia election worker testifies about Giuliani’s lies
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Bill Ackman’s Campaign Against Harvard Followed Years of Resentment
The billionaire investor has mounted a high-profile battle against Harvard president Claudine Gay over antisemitism and threats to Jewish students on campus, but long-held personal grudges play a part, too.
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Bill Ackman’s Ruthless Quest to Oust College Presidents
Former shareholder activist takes to open letters, tweets in campaign against heads of Harvard, Penn and MIT
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu apologizes for sending 'electeds of color' holiday party invite to full council
Wu, a child of Taiwanese immigrants, was elected mayor in November 2021 after serving on the City Council.
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Texas governor signs bill allowing police to arrest migrants entering US illegally
Law gives police sweeping new powers as well as empowering local judges to order migrants’ expulsion
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New York governor vetoes bill to make conviction challenges easier
Bill would have expanded opportunity for people who have pleaded guilty to crimes to challenge convictions
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Students Fighting Antisemitism Use Legal Tool That Tests Power at US Colleges
US can use Title VI to force changes by threatening funding
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How Did Polyamory Become So Popular?
Once the province of utopian free-love communities, consensual non-monogamy is now the stuff of Park Slope marriages and prestige television.
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New York upstate car crash that left two dead investigated as terrorism – report
Suicide note and journal reportedly discovered after crash outside music venue in Rochester kills two and injures five people
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The Brooklyn Bridge Is Not for Sale, or for Selling Souvenirs Anymore
Illegal trinket vendors flooded the pedestrian walkway over the East River during the pandemic. The city has banned the stalls as of this week.
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Texas doctors do not need to perform emergency abortions, court rules
The Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday night referred questions to the White House, which declined to comment.
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‘Multiple victims’ after US school shooting
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Why It Feels Like Everyone You Know Is Getting Covid-19
New subvariant JN.1, estimated at 62% of U.S. cases, helps fuel latest winter surge
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Weather tracker: More than 70 million people under cold weather alerts in US
At least 27 die in weather-related circumstances in Pacific north-west as freezing temperatures, sleet and snow hit several states
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Winter storm: Schools close in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh as new blast of snow hits Northeast
Philadelphia's mayor called the storm "an all-hands-on-deck moment."
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Plans for the new tallest building in America are underway in odd location
Plans are underway to build a skyscraper taller than anything in New York City – and it’s going to stick out like a sore thumb in this small town.
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Border battle lines: Dems call on Biden to seize control of Texas National Guard, as GOP allies back Abbott
The Lone Star State is fighting multiple legal battles with the federal government amid the migrant invasion at the southern border
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