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Campus chaos vindicates the American system and the First Amendment

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Recently, Texas Governor Greg Abbott tweeted a video showing Austin police and other law enforcement forcefully remove and arrest numerous students who had been illegally occupying the campus of the University of Texas-Austin.  Unfortunately, many college campuses across the country have witnessed a surge in such antisemitic protests. In one incident, a young Jewish college […]

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The Quantum revolution may be just around the corner — Congress should act

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In early April, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) became the first university in the world to have an operating quantum computer. Just earlier that week, Microsoft and Quantinuum announced they had demonstrated the most reliable logical qubits on record. Both RPI and IBM, the company behind the university’s quantum computer, had received funds through the CHIPS

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Review of Gideon Green in Black and White by Katie Henry (hardcover)

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    Gideon Green in Black and White by Katie Henry   Gideon’s short-lived run as a locally-famous boy detective ended when middle school started, and everyone else–including his best friend, Lily–moved on while Gideon kept holding on to his trench coat, fedora, and his treasured film noir collection. Now, he’s sixteen and officially retired.

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These dangerous scammers don’t even bother to hide their crimes

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Most scammers and cybercriminals operate in the digital shadows and don’t want you to know how they make money. But that’s not the case for the Yahoo Boys, a loose collective of young men in West Africa who are some of the web’s most prolific—and increasingly dangerous—scammers. Thousands of people are members of dozens of

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Glow of an exoplanet may be from starlight reflecting off liquid iron

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Enlarge / Artist impression of a glory on exoplanet WASP-76b. Do rainbows exist on distant worlds? Many phenomena that happen on Earth—such as rain, hurricanes, and auroras—also occur on other planets in our Solar System if the conditions are right. Now we have evidence from outside our Solar System that one particularly strange exoplanet might

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5 takeaways from the second week of Trump’s hush money trial testimony

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NEW YORK — Salacious celebrity scandal peppered with foundation-building evidence defined the second week of testimony in former President Trump’s New York criminal trial.  Witnesses this week began digging into the minutiae of the Manhattan district attorney’s case, from bank records and non-disclosure agreements to text messages suggesting efforts to keep quiet negative stories about

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California man charged with threatening Fulton County DA Fani Willis

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A California man has been indicted by an Atlanta grand jury on charges of threatening Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D), according to a Friday press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia. Marc Shultz, 66, of Chula Vista, Calif., reportedly made the threats due to Wills’ prosecution of

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Fox anchor pushes back on Mace's claim of George Soros funding student protests 

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Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto pushed back on a claim by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) that progressive billionaire George Soros has funded groups involved in pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses. “There’s a push right now on the part of some of these institutions to negotiate with the protesters, and to go ahead and put up

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