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Good Luck Fighting Disinformation – The Atlantic

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In April 2022, Nick Sawyer sat down before a committee of the California State Assembly to argue for legislation to help limit the spread of COVID falsehoods. Sawyer, an emergency-room physician, had become frustrated by what he saw as the failure of his profession to respond to doctors sharing false information about the pandemic. He’d co-founded an advocacy group, No License for Disinformation (NLFD), and now he was testifying in favor of legislation that warned doctors of professional consequences for

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From fighting fish to haunting whale skeletons and swimming monkeys: The spellbinding winners of the 2024 Underwater Photographer of the Year revealed

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Explore new depths and immerse yourself in the beauty beneath the water’s surface through this breathtaking collection of images from Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024.

The winners have been revealed for the annual contest, which gives a platform to awe-inspiring photography captured beneath the surface of oceans, lakes, rivers and even swimming pools.

This year, more than 6,500 underwater pictures were entered by photographers around the world, with scenes captured including two fish fighting with their mouths to a

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Meet the Young Peruvians Fighting in Court for Climate Action  

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January 29, 2024

Seven youth plaintiffs, ages ranging from 14 to 16, argue that the state is violating their right to a healthy environment by failing to curb Amazon deforestation and mitigate climate change.

The Álvarez youth plaintiffs stand outside of the Judicial Branch of Peru: Superior Court of Justice of Lima after filing their legal complaint against the state in the judiciary.

(Legal Defense Institute)

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Meet the Ukrainian tech startups fighting back against Russia’s cultural war: ‘This war taught us what being resilient really means’

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For Ukraine’s tech startups, the last two years have been anything but business as usual.

Despite drone strikes and a battered war-time economy, cities like Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Odesa remain home to a thriving tech ecosystem.

As the war grinds on, a number of Ukraine’s entrepreneurs have been fighting their own battle with Russia. 

Yet their fight has not just been to preserve their country’s territory – but also its identity. 

MailOnline spoke with the CEOs and founders of some

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Xi Jinping Is Fighting a Culture War at Home

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In October, a Communist Party–run television network in the province of Hunan aired a five-episode program called When Marx Met Confucius. In it, actors portraying the European revolutionary and the ancient Chinese sage pontificate on their doctrines and discover that their ideas are in perfect harmony.

“I am longing for a supreme and far-reaching ideal world, where everyone can do their best and get what they need,” Marx says. “I call it a communist society.”

“I also advocate the

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Israel says it has killed ‘dozens of Hamas terrorists’ during ‘fierce’ fighting ‘deep’ inside Gaza as video shows soldiers scouring streets for gunmen amid raging battles

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Israel today said it has killed ‘dozens’ of Hamas terrorists during ‘fierce’ fighting ‘deep’ inside Gaza with video showing soldiers scouring the streets for the gunmen amid raging battles. 

Israeli troops attacked Hamas positions within the terrorists’ vast tunnel network – a key objective for Israel as it it expands ground operations inside Gaza to wipe out Hamas following its gun rampage three weeks ago that killed over 1,400 people.

In the fifth day of major ground operations inside northern

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As Summers Get Deadlier, a Tiny Church Is Fighting Back – Mother Jones

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Pinch the skin on the top of your hand and then let go. It should drop back into place, a nursing student told me as we stood in a dim Sunday School room at Wesley United Methodist Church in South Phoenix last summer. If, however, the skin stays up, “tenting” as nurses say when they’re testing skin turgor, then you’re in some trouble—seriously dehydrated, headed toward the kinds of physical heat response that would kill 425 people in Maricopa County

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The Catholic Women Priests Fighting for Reproductive Justice

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August 8, 2023

The church forbids women to become priests, but RCWP-USA believes that they are aptly situated to minister on abortion and offer a new, progressive stance.

A woman receives a cup of wine from Rev. Victoria Rue during mass.

(Gina Ferazzi / Getty)

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From the World Cup to Wimbledon, Female Athletes Are Fighting For Their Uniforms

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It’s why Sepp Blatter, then the president of FIFA, suggested in 2004 that women soccer players should wear “tighter shorts” and why there was a brief moment in 2011 when the AIBA, the boxing association, suggested that female boxers compete in … skirts.

Though both of those ideas were rejected fairly quickly, it is still true, Ms. Fleshman wrote, that “uniform guidelines mandating exposed skin and ‘formfitting’ silhouettes for only one gender have been coded into rule books across many

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Three dead as helicopter fighting fires in California crashes into second chopper | US | News

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Three people died in a helicopter fighting fires in Southern California crashed on Sunday after it collided with another chopper, authorities said. The other helicopter landed safely.

“Unfortunately, the second helicopter crashed and tragically all three members perished which included one Cal Fire Division chief, one Cal Fire captain and one contract client pilot,” Cal Fire Southern Region Chief David Fulcher said during a news conference early Monday. Fulcher did not identify the victims.

Cal Fire and Riverside County Fire

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