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Secretary of defense must perform a ‘delicate dance’ between the president, Congress and the public
Leading the US Defense Department is a massive job, broadly affecting Americans’ security at home and abroad and overseeing huge numbers of people and immense amounts of money.
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UK borrowing costs have hit their highest level since the banking crisis. An economist explains what’s happening
UK borrowing costs have risen rapidly to their highest level since the banking crisis of 2007-08, with implications for the government’s tax and spending plans. Yields on gilts, as UK government bonds ...
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Philly sports fans consider themselves ‘gritty’ − but it’s merely a myth used to fuel their passion
Philly sports fans embrace a working-class ideology that thrives on being the underdog and emphasizes toughness, hard work and a combative defiance.
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An eye for an eye: People agree about the values of body parts across cultures and eras
Jaimie Arona Krems, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles People from many different cultures across the globe and across millennia largely agree about which body ...
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Squid Game’s second season is the latest instalment of Korean culture’s economic success story – so what’s the secret?
Squid Game’s second season is the latest instalment of Korean culture’s economic success story – so what’s the secret?
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Why has this marine research institute made the ocean a member of its board? Expert Q&A
~ The Six Triple Eight helped rewrite the rules on who could be a soldier – the real story behind the Netflix film ...
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The Six Triple Eight helped rewrite the rules on who could be a soldier – the real story behind the Netflix film
The 6888th US battalion tackled entrenched racism as well as confronting the challenges of sexism in the military – but the film largely misses this intersection.
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Islamic State: despite the fall of its caliphate, the group is still influencing terrorism
At 3:15am on New Year’s Day, a 42-year-old US citizen and army veteran from Texas called Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a rented pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing 15 people ...
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With more Americans able to access legalized marijuana, fewer are picking up prescriptions for anti-anxiety medications – new research
In states where both medical and recreational marijuana are legal, fewer patients are filling prescriptions for medications used to treat anxiety. That is the key finding of my recent study, published ...
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Funding public schools based on enrollment in the previous year may help keep their budgets more stable, research shows
Hoang, Professor of Public Finance, University of Iowa How states fund their schools may matter more in the coming years as the Trump administration prepares to change the federal government’s role in ...
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Syria: how the fall of Assad has affected the asylum debate in Europe
With the downfall of the old Syrian regime, countries like Germany which welcomed Syrian refugees are now talking about sending them home.
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What Meta’s move to community moderation could mean for misinformation
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other services has announced it will discontinue its third-party factchecking programmes, starting in the US. Journalists and anti-hate ...