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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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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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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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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers warns rising debt bills are set to hit the budget
The treasurer says there’s ‘likely to be billions of dollars extra’ in higher bills on government debt in December’s budget update.
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What kind of a person am I? How fear and rejection can underpin OCD
Some people with obsessive-compulsive disorder have experienced traumatic events as children, and develop a deeply held fear of who they are or might become.
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Two native turtles are vying to survive in a coastal Australian river. One doesn’t belong there
Not all conservation threats come from overseas. Some are our own native animals.
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Mandate domestic mobile roaming and strip telcos of Triple Zero, inquiry recommends
A Senate inquiry report into last year’s Optus outage provides the government with a blueprint to modernise the telco industry.