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The ICE Health Service Corps suffers from outdated systems and a lack of translation services, despite a federal mandate to provide them.
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ICE detention facilities suffer from outdated systems, a lack of translation services – and a penchant for releasing ailing detainees to reduce the death count.
Edmonton Oilers defenseman Evan Bouchard and center Connor McDavid during a game against the Dallas Stars on May 25, 2024.
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Since the 1930s, the federal government has made payments to victims of financial hardships and social injustices. But for those suffering from the harms of slavery, the US remains silent.
Na imagem de microscópio eletrônico, os vírus causadores da Covid SARS-CoV-2 (amarelos) emergem da superfície de células (azuis e rosas) numa cultura de laboratório.
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Estudo internacional que contou com pesquisadores do Brasil revelou as estratégias surpreendentes empregadas pelo coronavírus para escapar do sistema imunológico, driblando as defesas naturais do organismo
An Indian AI media company maps Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s face.
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Campaigns used deepfakes to connect with voters rather than deception, and AI also helped them break through language barriers.
Democrats and Republicans are equally less likely to support a drug treatment clinic if it’s in their neighborhood.
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Theo Evans, The University of Western Australia and Qian Tang, Harvard University
Using DNA sequencing, the origins of one of the world’s most common insects, the German cockroach, have been traced back to Asia. Learning more about this urban pest can help us fight it effectively.
What I teach Harvard Law School students about the importance of opening arguments and how a majority of jurors make up their minds about a case after hearing them.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears in Manhattan Criminal Court on April 19, 2024.
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Despite several efforts to delay the case involving hush money payments to a porn star, Donald Trump becomes the first former US president to go on trial on criminal charges on April 15, 2024.
Millions of people in west Africa rely on fishing to make a living.
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Meat is cheaper than it should be – and alternatives are more expensive.
Supporters and opponents of a proposed ordinance to add caste to Seattle’s anti-discrimination laws gather at City Hall on Feb. 21, 2023.
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Casteism is commonly seen as a form of discrimination limited to South Asia. However, diaspora communities in Canada are also grappling with issues of caste.
Like it or not, AI is already playing a role in the 2024 presidential election.
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Using disinformation to sway elections is nothing new. Powerful new AI tools, however, threaten to give the deceptions unprecedented reach.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis listens to final arguments in her disqualification hearing on March 1, 2024, in Atlanta, Ga.
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Though a Georgia judge strongly criticized the decision-making of Fani Willis, he did not kick her off the case against Donald Trump and his efforts to overthrow the 2020 presidential election.
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán during a meeting in the Oval Office on May 13, 2019, in Washington, D.C.
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One of Donald Trump’s favorite politicians is the Hungarian authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán. Would a country led again by Trump embrace similar antidemocratic politics?
Made it, Mao! Top of the World?
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