#wildfires, snow and tropical storms

#wildfires, snow and tropical storms

“#wildfires, snow and tropical storms” Tumultuous weather is expected across the country this week, with historic wildfires burning in the West, a tropical storm heading toward the Gulf Coast by mid-week and an early-season winter storm expected to bring snow and ice from the Rockies into the Plains. California, which has endured its worst wildfire…

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#Google turned down plea deal from FTC in 2012

#Google turned down plea deal from FTC in 2012

“#Google turned down plea deal from FTC in 2012” Google’s high-handed tactics with US regulators have come back to haunt it, with critics saying the tech giant set the stage for a dramatic showdown with the Department of Justice nearly a decade ago. The DOJ last week sued Google, accusing it of using anti-competitive tactics…

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#President Trump is flat-out wrong on ‘anarchist cities’

#President Trump is flat-out wrong on ‘anarchist cities’

“#President Trump is flat-out wrong on ‘anarchist cities’” Democrat or Republican, urbanist or farmer, BLMer or “thin blue line” adherent — we all benefit from sticking to some semblance of reality. Words matter, facts matter. So, Mayor de Blasio is right to sue the Trump White House for designing Gotham as “anarchist” and potentially withholding…

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#One large wager drops enormous Jets-Chiefs betting line

#One large wager drops enormous Jets-Chiefs betting line

“#One large wager drops enormous Jets-Chiefs betting line” The look-ahead line was on the money. The New York Jets are 20.5-point underdogs at the Westgate SuperBook in Las Vegas for next Sunday’s game at Arrowhead Stadium against the Kansas City Chiefs. That’s just a half-point off the early point spread the sportbook released last Tuesday…

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#If they won’t fully reopen schools now, when will they?

#If they won’t fully reopen schools now, when will they?

“#If they won’t fully reopen schools now, when will they?” Last week, some fantastic news from the science world should’ve given full-time-schooling advocates real hope. Instead, officials are signaling that we may never return to full in-person learning, at least not like pre-COVID. A New York Times piece, “Schoolchildren Seem Unlikely to Fuel Coronavirus Surges,…

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#Operation Warp Speed is an ‘unprecedented’ success and other commentary

#Operation Warp Speed is an ‘unprecedented’ success and other commentary

“#Operation Warp Speed is an ‘unprecedented’ success and other commentary” Pathologist: Op Warp Speed Is ‘Unprecedented’ “Attacks on President Trump’s performance on COVID-19” are “central” to Joe Biden’s campaign, notes Roger D. Klein at City Journal, and those attacks, along with the media’s “continual faultfinding,” have influenced voter opinion. But they’re “unjustified and unwarranted.” Yes,…

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#Beijing’s new threat to take Americans hostages

#Beijing’s new threat to take Americans hostages

“#Beijing’s new threat to take Americans hostages” Once again, the Chinese Communist Party is showing the world its true colors — by threatening to take Americans hostage if Washington doesn’t stop cracking down on Beijing’s US espionage operation. China is pushing the US Justice Department to drop its prosecution of at least five Chinese scientists…

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