Not one position was missed in free agency, not one box went unchecked to help his offseason. Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa got a franchise left tackle in free agency and an accompanying left guard to fix what years of drafting didn’t for this offensive line. He got a talented receiver, two running backs, a…
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Students in marginalized groups are more likely to be bullied than the average student. But by working together, some of them have found a way to fight back. According to a 2018 report by the U.S. Department of Education, of the 96,360 students surveyed, Black, Native American, Asian, female and disabled students were all disproportionately…
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Hungover at a wedding reception, Tom Stourton started to panic. Stourton had been close with the newlyweds at university, but it’d been years since they’d spent much time together. As the wedding toasts began, Stourton started to dread that something awful was about to happen. “I got into a panic, basically, that I’d been invited…
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In just three-and-a-half years, Debbie Ouyang and Julie Benniardi have collected over 11,000 pounds of fabric from Los Angeles’ interior design showrooms. The Pasadena-based team behind fashion and home goods brand Reweave L.A. stores some of those textiles in their respective homes and more in their warehouse. They turn those scraps of fabric into luxe…
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By NEBI QENA and CARA ANNA KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — One month of war, still defiant. With its government still standing and its outnumbered troops battling Russian forces to bloody stalemates on multiple fronts, Ukraine is scarred, wounded and mourning its dead but far from beaten. When Russia unleashed its invasion Feb. 24 in Europe’s…
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Of all the Senate Republicans who regularly engage in gutter politics, none is more likely to scrape bottom than Josh Hawley. The junior senator from Missouri was best known, at least until now, for his pseudo-macho fist-pumping display outside the besieged Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — and his seditious attempt to deny Electoral College…
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The “Greens” promise renewables, solar and wind power, will replace fossil fuels. After all, the wind and sun are free, and they don’t pollute! Oops. Now countries that embraced renewables are so desperate for power that they eagerly import coal, the worst polluter of all! Do they apologize? No. Greens never apologize. Germany was a…
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE Stocks fell in morning trading on Wall Street Wednesday, giving back some of the gains they made a day earlier, as crude oil prices rise sharply again. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% as of 10:22 a.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 206 points, or 0.6%, to 34,600 and the…
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By NICHOLAS RICCARDI DENVER (AP) — The surprising advantage Democrats gained during the torturous process of rewriting the nation’s congressional maps may be short-lived, creating the potential for more frequent clashes over how political power should be distributed across the United States. As the once-a-decade scramble to draw new legislative lines, a process known as…
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By JOSH BOAK Vice President Kamala Harris will announce an action plan to stop racial discrimination in the appraisal of home values, according to senior Biden administration officials. The plan contains 21 steps to improve oversight and accountability, including a legislative proposal to modernize the governance structure of the appraisal industry. Appraisers help to determine…
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