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Buttigieg mulls Biden endorsement – CNN

Buttigieg mulls Biden endorsement  CNN Pete Buttigieg Drops Out of Democratic Presidential Race  The New York Times Column: Mayor Pete Buttigieg saw no path to victory and did the grown-up thing and dropped out  Chicago Tribune Mary Anne Marsh: Biden finds himself in

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A Stock Market Crash Was Coming, Coronavirus Was Just the Spark

After weeks of relative placidity about the global spread of the novel coronavirus, financial markets snapped to attention last week and plunged with dizzying speed. U.S. stocks lost nearly 12% and $3.5 trillion was erased for U.S.-listed stocks. It was

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Coronavirus Could Preview What Will Happen When Alien Life Reaches Earth

You know what? Maybe we ought to reconsider this whole thing about looking for life on other worlds. It would be nice to find it, of course. But that doesn’t mean we could handle it—biologically, epidemiologically and most important, emotionally.

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‘I Was Not Going to Stand.’ Rosa Parks Predecessors Recall Their History-Making Acts of Resistance

On March 2, 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was sitting on a totally full bus in Montgomery, Ala., when the driver asked her and three black schoolmates give up the whole row so that a white woman could sit. According to

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Taliban end partial truce as Afghan violence resumes

A deadly blast shattered a period of relative calm in Afghanistan on Monday, as the Taliban told fighters to resume operations against Afghan security forces — just days after signing a deal with Washington aimed at ushering in a new

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‘There’s No Story That Stays Stable for Too Long.’ How Artists Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Confront Modern Anxieties

Agnieszka Kurant’s lower Manhattan studio stands among a scattering of cultural outposts that represent some of the most recent efforts of the avant guard to grapple with our cultural moment. When I visited in late January, a gallery two doors

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Jack Welch, Influential General Electric Chairman and CEO, Dies at 84

(Bloomberg) — Jack Welch, the champion of corporate efficiency who built General Electric Co. into one of the world’s largest companies and influenced generations of business leaders, has died. He was 84. His death was reported Monday by CNBC, which

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Taliban Attacks Could Resume

A spokesman for the Taliban has announced its forces may resume attacks in Afghanistan. This comes after the U.S. announced a peace agreement with the group just this weekend.

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Supreme Court to decide fate of the Affordable Care Act

The court said it would hear an appeal by 20 mainly Democratic states of a lower-court ruling that declared part of the statute unconstitutional and cast a cloud over the rest.

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Eric Trump: My father would ‘destroy’ Joe Biden on the debate stage – Fox News

Eric Trump: My father would ‘destroy’ Joe Biden on the debate stage  Fox News Pete Buttigieg Drops Out of Democratic Presidential Race  The New York Times Dealing with Bernie doubt: My letter to a skeptical friend  Salon Goodbye, Pete Buttigieg. You were always

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