Police Claim Six Mass Shootings and White Supremacist Attacks Have Been Thwarted Since El Paso
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Silicon Valley CEOs Don’t Manage Online Privacy Any Better Than You Do — Here’s How to Fix It
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Iceland Commemorates Lost Glacier Okjokull With Plaque
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Georgia Must Scrap Old Voting Machines After 2019: Judge
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21 States Sue Trump Administration Over Relaxed Coal Restrictions, Citing ‘Climate Crisis’
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Facebook Paid Contractors to Transcribe Users’ Audio Chats
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Americans Largely Support Gun Restrictions to ‘Do Something’ About Gun Violence
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Critical Windows 10 Warning: Millions of Users at Risk
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UN Climate Report: Change Land Use to Avoid a Hungry Future
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The Next Big Vote on Gun Control May Be in the Supreme Court
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How Shorter Workweeks Could Save Earth
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How Many Guns Are There in the US? An ‘Astronomical Number’
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Apple Halts Practice of Contractors Listening to Users on Siri
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Court: Arizonans Have Right to Internet Privacy From Authorities Without Warrant
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NY Tightens Law for Gun Background Checks, Bans Bump Stocks
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Sailing to America: Teen to Bring Her Climate Activism to US
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Brazil Has Lost 1,330 Square Miles of Amazon Rainforest Under President Bolsonaro
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Judge Weighs Whether to Force Georgia to Use Paper Ballots
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Could Wooden Buildings Be a Solution to Climate Change?
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The Rise of the Digital Neighborhood Watch
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