Moscow Mitch and the Federalist Society Won a Battle but May Lose the War
September 25, 2023
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Moscow Mitch and the Federalist Society Won a Battle but May Lose the War

Courtesy of Gage Skidmore (Flickr CC0) For decades Moscow Mitch McConnell and the Federalist Society attempted to overturn the decision of the Supreme Court in 1973 protecting a…

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Writers’ Strike Ends With Tentative Deal: What Happens Next
September 25, 2023
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Writers’ Strike Ends With Tentative Deal: What Happens Next

The two sides’ enthusiasm for the contract were on show in how they talked — or didn’t talk — about it. The guild negotiating committee heralded it as…

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Writers Guild Deal With Studios Reflects Power of Unions
September 25, 2023
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Writers Guild Deal With Studios Reflects Power of Unions

The risk run by striking unions, of course, is that public sentiment could reverse if their walkouts drag on and economic pain mounts. Consider that California’s economy has…

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Writers Guild and Studios Reach Deal to End Their Strike
September 25, 2023
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Writers Guild and Studios Reach Deal to End Their Strike

For an industry upended by the streaming revolution, which the pandemic sped up, the tentative accord represents a meaningful step toward stabilization. But much of Hollywood will remain…

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Opinion | Vivek Ramaswamy Is Confused
September 25, 2023
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Opinion | Vivek Ramaswamy Is Confused

Ramaswamy proposes mandatory national service for American high schoolers — he cites Pete Buttigieg’s similar call during his 2020 presidential campaign — and calls for “a hefty inheritance…

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California Democrats misfired by taxing guns and ammo
September 25, 2023
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California Democrats misfired by taxing guns and ammo

SACRAMENTO —  Aiming for more gun safety, the California Legislature fired away with hits and misses in its recently concluded annual session. The misses are attracting the most attention.…

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Matteo Messina Denaro, Once Italy’s Most Famous Fugitive, Dies at 61
September 25, 2023
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Matteo Messina Denaro, Once Italy’s Most Famous Fugitive, Dies at 61

Matteo Messina Denaro, a convicted killer and high-ranking mobster with the Sicilian Cosa Nostra who had eluded capture for three decades, died on Monday in a hospital in…

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Robert Addison Day, who headed Keck Foundation, dies at 79
September 24, 2023
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Robert Addison Day, who headed Keck Foundation, dies at 79

While addressing recipients of the Claremont McKenna College scholarship that bears his name, Robert Addison Day made the seemingly gratuitous offer to meet them individually for lunch at…

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Watch Live: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Brings Asteroid Samples Back to Earth
September 24, 2023
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Watch Live: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Brings Asteroid Samples Back to Earth

On Sunday morning, a brown-and-white capsule will shoot through Earth’s atmosphere to drop off a cache of pristine space rock to a team of eagerly waiting scientists and…

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California workers who cut countertops are dying of silicosis
September 24, 2023
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California workers who cut countertops are dying of silicosis

Inside the row of workshops in an industrial stretch of Pacoima, men labored over hefty slabs of speckled stone, saws whining over the sounds of Spanish-language rock. Pale…

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