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Rebuilding begins in Gaza amid dire conditions in the wake of war with Israel

The International Committee of the Red Cross on Thursday released an urgent request for money to help rehabilitate Gaza. The coastal enclave has 1.8 million people in dire need of basic provisions, and the U.S. is currently negotiating on how

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The Debate Over Qualified Immunity Is at the Heart of Police Reform. Here’s What to Know

Civil rights advocates had been demanding an end to qualified immunity long before George Floyd’s murder sparked a mass movement against systemic racism last summer. As calls for greater police accountability gained momentum in 2020, the decades-old doctrine that protects

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Can Gaza be rehabilitated without aiding Hamas?

The bombs may have stopped falling on Gaza and the rocket fire from there has ceased for now, but Gazans face a huge task of rebuilding. Ilan Goldenberg, director of the Middle East Program at the Center for a New

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Aurora brings in outsiders to boost safety efforts, public trust of driverless vehicles

Aurora, the autonomous vehicle company that acquired Uber ATG last year, has assembled a team of outside experts, shared new details about its operations in a self-assessment safety report and launched a website as part of a broader effort to win

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For SaaS startups, differentiation is an iterative process

Jason VandeBoom Contributor Share on Twitter Jason VandeBoom is founder and CEO of ActiveCampaign, a customer experience automation (CXA) company. Software as a service has been thriving as a sector for years, but it has gone into overdrive in the

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Daily Crunch: Canada and Australia get first look at Twitter Blue subscription service

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for June 3, 2021. If you are a startup founder or

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F. Lee Bailey, Celebrity Defense Attorney, Has Died At 87

Perhaps his highest-profile client was O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted in the 1994 death of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson. (Image credit: Myung J. Chun/AP)

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Bennett: ‘I told my kids their father will be the most hated person in Israel’

PM-designate defends deal with Lapid: ‘My core vow was to get Israel out of the chaos’; retracts charge that Ra’am’s Abbas is ‘terror supporter,’ calls him honest, brave

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The far right is weaponizing climate change to argue against immigration

Arizona Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich is suing the Biden administration, stating that its immigration policies are adversely impacting the state’s environment. | Ross D. Franklin/AP The right-wing solution to environmental problems: more borders and exclusion. As the impacts of

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The far right is weaponizing climate change to argue against immigration

Arizona Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich is suing the Biden administration, stating that its immigration policies are adversely impacting the state’s environment. | Ross D. Franklin/AP The right-wing solution to environmental problems: more borders and exclusion. As the impacts of

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