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Dearica Hamby speaks during a Team USA 3x3 Basketball press conference in Paris in July. The U.S. women's 3x3 basketball team won bronze at the Olympics last week.

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  • Sports

WNBA star Dearica Hamby sues the league and her former team for discrimination

The suit accuses the Las Vegas Aces of trading Hamby because she was pregnant and retaliating against her for speaking out. Her lawyers say the WNBA's response amounted to a "light tap on the wrist."

August 14, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Meta is shutting down its CrowdTangle tool, despite researchers petitioning the company to keep it going through January 2025.

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  • Business

Meta shutters tool used to fight disinformation, despite outcry

The social media company discontinues its CrowdTangle tool, which researchers have used to track misinformation. Amid fears of election interference, lawmakers have urged Meta to keep it running.

August 14, 2024
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  • Dara Kerr
A woodpecker living in a Saguaro at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix on June 28.

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  • Climate

Giant old saguaros can be resilient. It's baby saguaros researchers are worried about

Metro Phoenix's mighty saguaros have been falling at a rate that has alarmed casual observers. But experts say people need to turn their attention to the young ones that aren't growing yet.

August 14, 2024
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  • Alina Hartounian
Logan Health in Kalispell, Mont., has experienced three data breaches in the past five years. Those cyberattacks exposed the names, phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of thousands of patients. The hospital later settled a lawsuit related to the incidents for $4.2 million.

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  • Health Care

After health care attacks, tech giants will help small hospitals with cyber defenses

As small and rural hospitals struggle against cyber attacks, a federally brokered deal will allow them to access free and discounted cybersecurity services. Experts say it may not be enough.

August 14, 2024
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  • Aaron Bolton
Participants speak during an event June 26 at Rocky's Barber Shop in Atlanta, hosted by the Donald Trump campaign and billed as a "Black American Business Leaders Round Table," in advance of a presidential debate between President Biden and Trump. From left are lobbyist Rufus Montgomery, radio host Shelley Wynter, Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, Marc KD Boyd, founder of Helping Empower Youth, Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., Rocky Jones, barbershop owner, Ben Carson, former secretary of Housing and Urban Development…

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  • Politics

Young Black voters are becoming more conservative than their parents. Here's why

Black voters are the most reliable Democratic voting bloc. Young voters overwhelmingly support the party, too. But young Black voters are a wild card as they feel disconnected from politics.

August 14, 2024
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  • Bria Suggs
Conservation biologist Gliselle Marin carefully untangles a bat from a net in Belize during the annual Bat-a-thon. Her fanny pack is decorated with printed bats.

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  • Science

This scientist has a bat tat and earrings. She says there's a lot to learn from bats

Gliselle Marin joins the “Bat-a-thon,” a group of 80-some bat researchers who converge on Belize each year to study these winged mammals.

August 13, 2024
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  • Ari Daniel
U.S. Federal Judge Reed O'Connor has been a longtime active member of the Federalist Society. In 2018, he spoke on a panel at the annual Texas Chapters Conference.<br>

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  • Technology

Texas judge steps aside in Elon Musk's X case against advertisers

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor had been overseeing two cases filed by Musk’s social media platform X. Records showed O’Connor was also an investor in Tesla, another Musk company, as well as Unilever, a defendant in the Musk case.

August 13, 2024
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  • Bobby Allyn
Protesters in Bangladesh ousted its longtime authoritarian leader, Sheikh Hasina, in August.

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  • World

Ex-Bangladesh leader demands probe into protest killings, and is named in murder case

In her first statement since fleeing Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina denied responsibility for deaths in protests that led to her ouster. A court ordered police to open a murder investigation against her.

August 13, 2024
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  • Diaa Hadid
The J. Edgar Hoover Building of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is seen on April 03, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

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  • Architecture

Why brutalist buildings should stay, even if people think they're ugly

Many people think brutalist architecture is ugly. Architects make a case for why the buildings shouldn’t be torn down.

August 13, 2024
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  • Kaity Kline
Monica Vera-Schubert says she's tormented by the question of whether her son Bobby would be alive if the overdose reversal drug Narcan had been easily accessible in his UCLA dorm room.  She keeps a "Museum of Bobby" in her living room.

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  • Health

Her son died of an overdose in his dorm room. Where was the Narcan?

Drug overdoses on college campuses are not tracked, and rarely publicized, as colleges cite health privacy laws. But advocates are working to make overdose reversal treatment widely available on campus.

August 13, 2024
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  • Yuki Noguchi
Datinha of Brazil does a bicycle kick Feb. 25 as Italy's Tommaso Fazzini defends during the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup final between Brazil and Italy at the Dubai Design District Stadium in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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  • Sports

Here’s how you can keep finding new sports to love between now and the next Olympics

One of the joys of watching the Olympics is getting sucked into sports you’ve barely heard of. If you still need that feeling in your life, these sports are out beyond the Olympic fringe.

August 13, 2024
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  • Christopher Dean Hopkins
 Dividing household labor with a partner after welcoming home a baby takes intention, communication and revision.

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  • Family

Got a new baby? How to fairly split chores and child care (and avoid resentment)

Before the baby comes along, expecting parents should have a conversation about how they will divide the household labor — and any anticipated child care needs.

August 13, 2024
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  • Andee Tagle
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. gives a keynote speech during the Bitcoin 2024 conference on July 26 in Nashville, Tenn.

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  • Elections

In his quest for ballot access, RFK Jr. hits a roadblock in New York

A New York judged ruled against independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., saying his petition did not use a legitimate address. The campaign blasted the ruling and pledged to appeal.

August 13, 2024
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  • Ashley Lopez
This image from Marion, Kan., Police Department body camera video provided by the McDonald Tinker law firm shows former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody during his department's raid of the Marion County Record newspaper on Aug. 11, 2023, in Marion, Kan.

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  • National

Former police chief faces a felony charge in the raid of a Kansas newspaper

The former Marion police chief is charged with felony obstruction of justice and is accused of persuading a potential witness for a probe into his conduct of withholding information from authorities.

August 13, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Police and security stand outside the Center for Jewish Living at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., in early November, after antisemitic threats left the community on edge.

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  • National

A former Cornell student is sentenced to 21 months for threatening to kill Jews

Patrick Dai admitted to posting anonymous threats against Jews on campus in October. His lawyer argued it was a "misguided attempt to highlight Hamas’ genocidal beliefs and garner support for Israel.”

August 13, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
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