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No cheery time for election pollsters in run-up to US midterms
There are no guarantees that pollsters’ troubles in recent elections and popular skepticism about their dependability will be alleviated anytime soon.
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Other presidents have let white-collar criminals dodge financial penalties – but not like Trump
No other U.S. president has come close to wiping away the amount in fines and restitution owed to victims that Trump has.
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EPA says repealing power plant emissions rules will save billions – but its estimate leaves out health and climate costs
Keeping aging coal plants open, building new gas plants and choices about pollution controls affect electricity bills. Pollution adds health costs and climate damage that may not appear on those bills.
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Game delays for lightning may be annoying, but they save lives – a sports meteorologist explains the risk
Players have been injured by lightning during games, and a strike to the stands could hurt a lot of fans.
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Nicky Hager’s new book Dirty Work ‘exposé’ of Taxpayers’ Union
By Lillian Hanly of RNZ Investigative journalist and author Nicky Hager has released a new book called Dirty Work, an “exposé” of the Taxpayers’ Union (TU), “the latest front for New Zealand’s radical right,” he says. Hager argues the Taxpayers’ Union used anti-Māori rhetoric as a political tool — especially during its Stop Three Waters
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Having a baby in Denmark vs the UK: how different is it?
And is it really true that Danish babies cry less?
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Saige England: No judgments, freedom and about rocking the boat
COMMENTARY: By Saige England This is a photo of me in the desert in Saudi Arabia 19 years ago. Was I covered? You bet. I recall receiving a letter from a white feminist friend who told me my feminism must have been skewed by my experience in the Middle East. Actually I met so many
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Five foods that could cost even more this winter – and why
Conflicts, energy shocks, climate change and El Niño are combining to squeeze food prices upwards. Five familiar foods illustrate what’s going on.
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The two Scottish female novelists who outsold and inspired Jane Austen
They are practically unknown today ,but Susan Ferrier and Mary Brunton gave Jane Austen a run for her money.
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Medicine leaflets are failing patients – and sometimes frightening them
Medicine leaflets are meant to keep us safe, but confusing language, poor design and endless side-effect lists often do the opposite.
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Children’s sport is great at keeping them busy – but are they learning?
We want children to become physically competent, but we also want them to become confident decision makers, good communicators and effective collaborators.
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UN adviser tells Pacific journalists to probe ‘accountability’ in climate change, disaster funding
By Prishanta Sharma in Savusavu Journalists in the Pacific have been encouraged to investigate how climate change funding is managed and whether financial assistance reaches communities affected by disasters. Speaking during the Climate Change and Corruption Roundtable for Pacific journalists at Daku Resort in Savusavu yesterday, Pacific UNODC OIC’s Regional Anti-Corruption Adviser Marie Pegie Cauchois