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T.J. Osborne Is Ready to Tell His Story

People keep asking T.J. Osborne how he’s feeling, which makes sense, given the thing he’s about to do, but it’s making him uneasy, hearing that well-intentioned question over and over again from so many people—his friends, his family, his team,

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FACT SHEET: President Biden Outlines Steps to Reform Our Immigration System by Keeping Families Together, Addressing the Root Causes of Irregular Migration, and Streamlining the Legal Immigration System – The White House

FACT SHEET: President Biden Outlines Steps to Reform Our Immigration System by Keeping Families Together, Addressing the Root Causes of Irregular Migration, and Streamlining the Legal Immigration System  The White House

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Aung San Suu Kyi Faces New Charges After Myanmar’s Coup. Can Its Democracy Survive Without Her?

The news that Aung San Suu Kyi had been overthrown in a Feb. 1 coup spread through Myanmar like a shockwave. “Most of the citizens 100% depend on her,” says Kyaw Kyaw, a 28-year old LGBTQ rights campaigner who lives

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Groups call for boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics next year

A coalition of 180 rights group on Wednesday called for a boycott due to reported human rights abuses against ethnic minorities in China.

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Dear Sophie: What’s the recipe for an H-1B?

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the

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Egypt conditioning Netanyahu visit on gesture toward 2-state solution — report

Cairo said to be interested in visit before elections, but plans snagging on demand PM show good will toward Palestinians

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Edtech valuations aren’t skyrocketing, but investors see more exit opportunities

Less than a year after we put out an initial temperature check survey, it’s clear that specialist investors are even more bullish on edtech. Bears are hard to find right now: the sector, once undercapitalized, has brought in $10 billion

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Granulate nabs $30M for software to optimize workloads and latency

Services like video streaming, gaming, media-intensive advertising and marketing technology are putting more strain on bandwidth and backend latency than ever before due to the surge of online traffic in the last year. But for most organizations in today’s usage-based

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How the Creators of HBO’s The Lady and the Dale Told a Sensitive Story About a Complicated Trans Trailblazer

It was almost too good to be true. “I’m going to build the public exactly what they’re looking for, and I’m going to knock the hell out of Detroit doing it,” said Liz Carmichael in 1974. She was speaking about

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US civil rights activists fear broader law enforcement after Capitol riot

Advocates for minority communities say crackdown on far-right extremists could harm Muslims, Black Americans and other groups

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