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It’s Time to Ditch ‘Disparate Impact Theory’ — and Biden’s Weaponization of Civil Rights Law
HUD has proposed a rule to end the agency’s use of this pernicious legal doctrine. Source link
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HSBC on course for £300 billion valuation, top executive says
Weeks after its market value rose above £200 billion (S$344.6 billion) for the first time in its history, HSBC Holdings is now on course…
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Adrian Tomine’s “Post-Vacation”
For the cover of the January 26, 2026, issue, the cartoonist Adrian Tomine depicted a scene that New Yorkers often encounter in the depths…
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L.A.'s defense industry is booming. Federal funding crunch could change that
When former Space X engineer Josh Giegel launched his North Hollywood tech company Gambit in 2023, he had a vision for the battlefield of…
Politics
The Crisis Year for Journalism Is Here
We are under no professional obligation to treat with even-handedness the would-be architects of our demise. I suspect that a lot of…
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How AI Is Reshaping Science’s Most Trusted Tool
A new wave of tools, based on generative AI, aims to go beyond sorting papers and to automate various stages of the reviewing process.…
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When Bernie Sanders Headed for the Hills
Bernie Sanders was just a skinny, gap-toothed kid from Brooklyn in the autumn of 1953, when Vermont opened an information bureau at 1268…
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The Cold Comfort of a Helene Schjerfbeck Painting
In 1883, Schjerfbeck travelled to Brittany, where her first coup of ingenuity arrived, with paintings like “Clothes Drying” (1883) and…
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Venezuelan 'Chavismo' revolutionized Latin America. Will it survive Maduro’s fall?
MEXICO CITY — Hugo Chávez called the United States “the empire,” and President George W. Bush “the devil.” Denouncing capitalism as “the…
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What Makes a Good Mother?
It is only in the modern era that women’s own experience of pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering begins to be widely recorded, and here,…
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How to Kill a Fish
A full week later, when I unwrapped the bonito fillets that Yamasaki had sent me home with, I was amazed to find the skin undiminished,…
Politics
Who Are the AWFULs? Trump Hates Them, So They’re Doing Something Right
Nomenclature is potent. Donald Trump loves a nickname, and there is power in naming things. Once a thing has a name, it can be…
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A look at some of Europe’s deadliest train accidents in recent years
MADRID (AP) — A high-speed train derailment in southern Spain has left at least 39 people dead and injured more than 150, according to…
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Vietnam opens pivotal Communist Party meeting to pick top leaders
Vietnam's ruling Communist Party on Monday opened its National Congress, a closely watched political gathering that will determine the…
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Death toll rises to 39 after high-speed train crash in Spain
The death toll following a high-speed train crash in southern Spain has risen to at least 39, state broadcaster RTVE reported on Monday,…
Business
Thailand approves US$2 billion PCB manufacturing investment by joint venture
Thailand’s investment board said on Monday (Jan 19) it had approved an investment worth US$2.08 billion by a joint venture led by Taiwan’s…
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China's birth rate drops to record low
China recorded its lowest birth rate on record in 2025, the statistics office in Beijing reported on Monday. The rate fell to 5.63 births…
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How the high-speed train crash in southern Spain unfolded: ‘Felt like an earthquake’
At least 39 people were killed and dozens more injured after two high-speed trains collided in southern Spain on Sunday evening, in one of…
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Singapore bourse targets global macro funds in Japan rates push
The Singapore Exchange (SGX) will introduce futures on longer-dated Japanese government bonds as trading in the world’s third-biggest debt…
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Arctic attack to start the week, another to finish and it may come with snow
A cold weekend is in the books. The weekend started with an arctic attack that generated snow flurries and kept highs below freezing…
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GKE to expand storage and logistics operations to Dubai by 2028
The new facility aims to serve MNCs from the chemical, manufacturing, pharmaceutical and semiconductor industries GKE Corporation is…
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China’s aluminium output hits record, steel below one billion tonnes
CHINESE aluminium output rose to an all-time high last year, climbing above the country’s capacity limit, while steel fell to a seven-year…
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Social media posts on deadly crane collapse in Thailand share AI-generated image
At least 32 people were killed by a crane that collapsed over a passenger train in Thailand in January 2026. An image spread online with a…
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My children were recruited in a trafficking scam. I joined a police hunt to find them
Foday Musa looked broken as he listened to the last voice message he received from his son. It is 76 seconds long and the young man sounds…