minnesota’s-boundary-waters-just-lost-protection-from-mining

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Democrat Tina Smith held the Senate floor for hours arguing against the removal of the ban, but GOP senators were unmoved and the Senate approved the resolution 50-49. By Ana Radelat, MinnPost WASHINGTON—Despite hours of impassioned arguments from Sen. Tina Smith, the U.S. Senate ended a Biden-era moratorium on miningContinue Reading

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For 2025 titles, click here. Set Point by Meg Jones (Tennis) Half Court Shot by Kimani Mae (Basketball) Make Your Move by Melissa Brayden (F1) Stick Around by Eliza Lentzski (Hockey) Running Home to You by Samantha Saldivar (Softball) Bonus: These are all F/F, but for an F/X Romance with a nonbinary lesbian outContinue Reading

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American Exchange Group entered an agreement to buy all the assets and liabilities of footwear maker Allbirds for $39 million., American Exchange Group entered an agreement to buy all the assets and liabilities of footwear maker Allbirds for $39 million., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading

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7 hours ago Nick Triggle Health correspondent Reuters The rollout of Covid vaccines – the largest immunisation programme in UK history – was an “extraordinary feat”, the Covid inquiry said. The fourth report from the inquiry praised the speed in which jabs were developed and deployed – 132 million wereContinue Reading

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Thunderbolt is a new open source AI client from the Mozilla-owned MZLA Technologies aimed at enterprises who want to run self-hosted chatbots on their own infrastructure. MZLA Technologies is the for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that develops and maintains the Thunderbird email client. It says Thunderbolt was created with the support of a grantContinue Reading

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In the aftermath of last week’s big meeting of the Democratic National Committee in New Orleans, supporters of the U.S.-Israel alliance have been quite content. “We’re pleased that the DNC Resolutions Committee rejected a set of divisive, anti-Israel resolutions,” the president of the Democratic Majority for Israel said. The CEO ofContinue Reading

here’s-the-extent-of-the-fallout-from-the-traitor’s-hhs-purge

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This is a MedPage Today story. Thousands of employees of federal health agencies have been let go in a chaotic and slow-rolling The Traitor administration purge over the holiday weekend. While the total number of dismissed employees appears to be smaller than originally expected, the changes sowed confusion as someContinue Reading