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Dec 30 2020
News
Ten New Things We Learned About Human Origins in 2020
The pandemic this year changed a lot about the world and the way we lived, including the way that paleoanthropologists, archaeologists and other fieldwork-based researchers operate. This year, we want to highlight the different lines of evidence that are used in human origins research—so we’ve organized our ten highlighted discoveries into four broader “lines of evidence” categories. Since
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Nov 24 2021
Fact Check
Facebook Post Spreads Bogus Claim About ‘Detox’ After Vaccination
A vaccination can’t be reversed through any “detox” process, medical experts say. Yet, a social media post is spreading the false claim that a bath with borax can “get rid” of a COVID-19 vaccine. The bath may remove some water from the body, but not the molecules associated with vaccines, a toxicologist told us.
How do we know vaccines are safe?
The vaccines approved or
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Jan 22 2020
News
AP-NORC poll: Public doubts Senate trial will be revealing
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are sharply divided along party lines about whether President Donald Trump should be removed from office, and they doubt the Senate impeachment trial will do anything to change their minds, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Overall, the public is slightly more likely to say the Senate should convict and
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Aug 17 2021
News
Taliban vow to honor women's rights, but within "cultural frameworks"
In his first press conference from Kabul, a Taliban spokesperson said Tuesday the group would honor women's rights and an independent media, but within the "frameworks" of Islamic law.
The big picture: The Taliban's swift takeover has renewed fears that the group will return to the brutal grip it ruled with in the 1990s, when women's freedoms were severely restricted, other human rights
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Sep 06 2021
News
Civil rights groups challenge new Texas voting legislation
Civil rights groups on Friday filed a lawsuit in federal court trying to block Texas’ new voting legislation, saying it would violate the civil rights of minorities by making it more difficult for them to cast their ballots.
“The Texas Legislature’s claims of voter fraud and voter integrity are merely pretexts for their actual purpose in enacting SB1, which is to make it harder for
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Dec 02 2020
News
U.N. Commission Removes Cannabis From Its Most Strict Drug Control List
The U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs voted to reclassify cannabis Wednesday, taking it off the strict Schedule IV list that includes dangerous and highly addictive drugs such as heroin. The U.N. still deems cannabis a controlled substance. But the move, which the U.S. supported, could ease restrictions on research into marijuana's therapeutic use.
The 53-member commission approved the
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Oct 27 2021
News
‘Threats of violence’: School boards curb public comments to calm raucous meetings
Parents in one Kentucky school district must communicate with their school board via email after a meeting devolved into a shouting match. In northern Virginia, school officials restricted who is eligible to speak at their meetings. A Florida school board is considering shortening public comment to one minute per person.
School leaders nationwide are beginning to eye ways to rein in
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Mar 16 2020
News
Kentucky becomes latest state to delay primary due to coronavirus
Kentucky is the third state to postpone scheduled primaries due to the coronavirus pandemic.
"Kentucky law allows the secretary of state and the governor to jointly act to change the time of an election due to a state of emergency," Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams said in a video posted to Twitter on Monday. "Today, Gov. [Andy] Beshear and I agreed to delay the primary
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Dec 02 2020
News
Obama Faces Intense Backlash For Comments On The “Defund The Police” Movement
After an interview on Snapchat, President Barack Obama is receiving blowback for criticizing calls to “defund the police,” which he referred to as “a snappy slogan.” The conversation occurred during a political show on the social media platform called Good Luck America, hosted by Peter Hamby, where Obama joined to promote his new book, A Promised Land. But when asked about making impactful
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Dec 15 2021
Perspectives Blog
A Quick Update to the AllSides Media Bias Chart™
AllSides has shifted the bias of Independent Journal Review (IJR) from Center to Lean Right following a review. As such, we've updated the AllSides Media Bias Chart™ to reflect the change. Version 5.1 is below:
For IJR, we noted signs of lean right bias such as consistent negative framing of Democrats; story choice limited to Capitol Hill angles that
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