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Inside the movement to remake America's city streets

Inside the movement to remake America’s city streets

Updated 41 minutes ago

The automobile has been a fixture of urban life for more than a century. Then came the coronavirus pandemic. Congested streets turned into pedestrian safe havens. Now many want to make those changes permanent - but it won't happen without a fight.

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Inside the movement to remake America’s city streets

UPDATED: Tue., March 21, 2023

The automobile has been a fixture of urban life for more than a century. Then came the coronavirus pandemic. Congested streets turned into pedestrian safe havens. Now many want to make those changes permanent - but it won't happen without a fight.

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Video testimony in the COVID era faces a constitutional test

UPDATED: Mon., March 20, 2023

In March 2021, a year into the coronavirus pandemic, a key witness in a criminal case in a federal court in New York was allowed to testify remotely, from his lawyer’s office in California. The cross-examination was marred by technical glitches and the stilted awkwardness familiar to anyone who has participated in a Zoom call.
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Earth to hit critical warming threshold by early 2030s, climate panel says

UPDATED: Mon., March 20, 2023

The report published Monday by the world's leading climate science body, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, summarizes the panel's output over the past five years, amounting to some 10,000 pages of dense scientific prose. This synthesis is succinct at 37 pages, and its message is blunt: Burning fossil fuels is threatening human well-being and the stability of much of life on Earth, and our chance to avoid the most severe impacts is fast moving out of reach.
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How the U.S. broke Iraq

UPDATED: Mon., March 20, 2023

"You break it, you own it." That's the so-called Pottery Barn rule, famously invoked two decades ago by Secretary of State Colin Powell to President George W. Bush ahead of their administration's decision to launch its invasion of Iraq. In February 2003, Powell staked his considerable reputation on a presentation he delivered at the U.N. Security Council, offering to the world "facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence" about the Iraqi regime's possession of so-called weapons of mass destruction.
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Robert Smith, man of the people, finds a cure for Ticketmaster’s ills

UPDATED: Mon., March 20, 2023

An unlikely hero has emerged in the great war on Ticketmaster fees, effecting change which could reverberate throughout the concert industry. Robert Smith, lead singer of legendary British rock outfit the Cure, put his foot down on those frustrating fees fans have gotten used to paying when buying tickets to see their favorite artists in concert. And in a shocking turn of events, Ticketmaster responded, agreeing to give a small cut of cash back to the people.

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