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Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
The fact-checking website Snopes found that the policy Trump referenced has existed for a decade, including his first term.
—Adriana Gomez Licon, Twin Cities, 31 Jan. 2025
Zuckerberg critics accused him of bowing before Trump, or blowing with the wind, by abandoning fact-checking and attending the inauguration.
—Steve Inskeep, NPR, 31 Jan. 2025
Trump’s false claims about other countries emptying their jails of violent criminals to prey on Americans have been fact-checked and denied.
—Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2025
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Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
The fact-checking website Snopes found that the policy Trump referenced has existed for a decade, including his first term.
—Adriana Gomez Licon, Twin Cities, 31 Jan. 2025
Zuckerberg critics accused him of bowing before Trump, or blowing with the wind, by abandoning fact-checking and attending the inauguration.
—Steve Inskeep, NPR, 31 Jan. 2025
Trump’s false claims about other countries emptying their jails of violent criminals to prey on Americans have been fact-checked and denied.
—Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2025
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Several unions sued this week, calling for the program to be paused and revised.—
Roxana Popescu,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Feb. 2025
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Last August, the BLS’s preliminary benchmark revision estimated that the number of workers on payrolls would likely be revised down by 818,000 for the 12-month period through March 2024.—
William Gavin,
Quartz,
7 Feb. 2025
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Made by History takes readers beyond the headlines with articles written and edited by professional historians.—
TIME,
TIME,
10 Feb. 2025
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The film is written, directed, produced, shot and edited by Das.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
10 Feb. 2025
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Annotation supplies: $13.99 Many readers like to annotate their books, so a pack of annotation supplies is a great gift option.—
Christopher Murray,
Fox News,
10 Dec. 2024
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Readers can annotate, add notes, look up words and sync across all their devices.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA TODAY,
28 Jan. 2025
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The Republicans cited other federal criminal conspiracy and money laundering laws and asked the department to rescind or redraft the memo.—
Samantha Putterman,
Austin American-Statesman,
31 Aug. 2024
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The state lawyers filed a 50-page brief at the 1st District Court of Appeal contending that Leon County Circuit Judge John Cooper did not have the authority to order the panel, known as the Financial Impact Estimating Conference, to redraft the statement.—
Jim Saunders,
Sun Sentinel,
21 June 2024
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The Return would work, in part, to rectify this ubiquity—for Laura’s sake, and also ours.—
K. Austin Collins,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2025
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Ally's then forced to work with an ace freelancer, Jay (Gooding), to rectify the situation.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
6 Feb. 2025
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For the season, designers such as Daniel Roseberry of Schiaparelli, Thom Browne, Elie Saab and Mohammed Ashi, to name a few, reworked the corset while paying homage to Jean Paul Gaultier.—
Marissa Muller,
WWD,
15 Feb. 2025
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Elon Musk has called for the government's use of classified information to be reworked, after finding the system to be a barrier to effective communication.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
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Many of the technologies used by the NYPD are well known, with various details revealed in recent years in a variety of ways, including in reports by the city Department of Investigation, during criminal trials and in documents, though heavily redacted, from the City Comptroller’s Office.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2025
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Oddly, all entries for Tesla have their narrative redacted due to possibly containing confidential material, a courtesy that was extended to no other automaker bar some (but not all) reports from BMW.—
Jonathan M. Gitlin,
Ars Technica,
10 Feb. 2025
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The synopsis reads: In a story that takes them from zeroes to heroes, Bill and Joe strain to remain friends whilst fighting the most powerful force in the galaxy, only to ultimately discover that friendship is their true superpower.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
11 Feb. 2025
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Get her budget-friendly menu here and keep reading for her tip of the month.—
Kendra Vaculin,
Bon Appétit,
11 Feb. 2025
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