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Conservative Election Activists Use Virginia as a Dry Run for 2024
In 2021, after Republican victories in Virginia, conservative activists were so proud of their work training poll watchers, recruiting election workers and making other attempts to subtly influence the voting system that they wrote a memo called “The Virginia Model.” The memo detailed ways that other states could follow Virginia’s lead in protecting so-called election integrity.
Fragile Global Economy Faces New Crisis in Israel-Gaza War
MARRAKECH, Morocco — The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that the pace of the global economic recovery is slowing, a warning that came as a new war in the Middle East threatened to upend a world economy already reeling from several years of overlapping crises.
Here’s What We Do and Don’t Know About the Effects of Remote Work.
When workplaces are remade by a tectonic shift — women flooding into the workforce, the rise of computing — it typically takes some time for economists, psychologists, sociologists and other scholars to gather data on its effects.
Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Department.
FORT MOORE, Ga. — Amy Dilmar, a middle-school principal in Georgia, is well aware of the many crises threatening American education. The lost learning that piled up during the coronavirus pandemic. The gaping inequalities by race and family income that have only gotten worse. A widening achievement gap between the highest- and lowest-performing students.
Oil Prices Were Going Down Again. Then War Started in the Middle East.
HOUSTON — After a surge this summer when oil prices approached $100 a barrel, the cost of crude was tumbling again. Now a Middle East war has sent it right back up. Traders drove up the price of oil as much as 5% as fighting escalated between Israel and Hamas after the terrorist group attacked the Jewish state from the Gaza Strip over the weekend. Prices stabilized Monday morning, but the global Brent oil benchmark appeared to be grinding back up toward $90 a barrel in the afternoon.
Vaults, Ducts, Kitchens: Everything Must Go When a Company Moves Out
Wayne Horne’s job comes with many challenges. This time, the problem was a generator that was too large to fit through its existing vent. Horne, the director of decommissioning at the real estate firm CBRE, was helping a client vacate a manufacturing plant in New Jersey. In addition to the furniture, fixtures and equipment, the tenant had installed a very large generator to back up its operations.
A Dazzling Art Collection, Hiding in Plain Sight
NEW YORK — The sign on the wall suggests: “Look above you.”. But really, no prompt is needed. It is impossible not to notice the parade of red, blue, green and yellow figures dancing across the walls, winding around air vents and windows, right up to the ceiling.
A Georgia Town Where ‘Stranger Things’ Is Shot Yearns for Production to Return
JACKSON, Ga. — Before a hole could pierce open a parallel dimension, unleashing murderous creatures like a Demogorgon into the placid existence of Hawkins, Indiana, there needed to be another invasion.
Fearing Third-Party Spoilers vs. Trump, Biden Allies Try to Squash Them
WASHINGTON — Powerful allies of President Joe Biden are aggressively working to stop third-party and independent presidential candidacies, fearing that an outside bid could cost Democrats an election that many believe will again come down to a few percentage points in key battleground states.
Two Families Got Fed Up With Their States’ Politics. So They Moved Out.
Steve Huckins, a native of Oregon, was preparing to move across the country when he went on Facebook to post a goodbye letter of sorts to his home state. “I had planned to die here,” wrote Huckins, 59. “It’s a beautiful state. The mountains, the lakes, the rivers, the beaches. All are overshadowed by the societal and political climate.”
California, Land of the Car, Could Soon Have Speed Cameras
SAN FRANCISCO — California likes to think of itself as a cutting-edge lab for policymaking, a place where laws get passed first and then copied around the country. But for years, it has banned a basic measure used in many cities to slow drivers: the speed camera. In the state that practically invented car culture and the thrill of hitting the open road, speed cameras have faced steep resistance.
Feeling Terrible After Your COVID Shot? Then It’s Probably Working.
A new study has an encouraging message for Americans who shy away from COVID shots because of worries about side effects: The chills, fatigue, headache and malaise that can follow vaccination may be signs of a vigorous immune response.
New Evidence That Ancient Footprints Push Back Human Arrival in North America
Hidden within the seemingly barren expanse of White Sands National Park in New Mexico are human footprints. But these impressions are much more than random tracks: They are ancient vignettes cast in gypsum-rich sand. The footprints tell stories of hunters stalking a giant sloth; a traveler slipping in mud with a child on one hip; children jumping in puddles, splashing in play; and more.
Gary Wang, an FTX Founder, Says Sam Bankman-Fried Steered Misuse of Funds
NEW YORK — Gary Wang, a former top executive of the failed FTX cryptocurrency exchange, testified that Sam Bankman-Fried, the company’s founder, was the final decision-maker at the firm and directed a closely related hedge fund to misuse as it pleased billions of dollars in money from FTX customers.
For Republicans in the Trump Era, Chaos Often Seems to Be the Point
WASHINGTON — Turbulence has trailed the Republican Party ever since Donald Trump’s rise. This week, that chaos looked like an organizing principle. Internal discord rippled through the party’s ranks in battleground states and the nation’s capital, showing clearly how a Trumpian algorithm has incentivized Republicans to keep their electorally self-destructive patterns in place.
A Startup’s Alternative to Uber: Employing Its Own Drivers
DALLAS — The white SUV pulled away from the curb at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, bound for downtown Dallas. There was an issue. The car’s driver, Bob Arndt, was working for Alto, a ride-hailing company, and relying on its app’s directions. But somehow the airport had gotten set as both the pickup spot and the destination, prompting him to start driving back to where the ride had started, before both driver and passenger realized the mistake.
Workers Exposed to Extreme Heat Have Few Protections
DALLAS-FORT WORTH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT — Anthony Soto, a 22-year-old baggage claim employee at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, crumpled to the floor near gate C15 after a seizure last October that he attributed to hot indoor conditions and strenuous lifting. In record-setting heat in Texas this past summer, Soto, who has epilepsy, had four more seizures that left him speechless, his body unresponsive, he said.
How a Chain-Snatching and a Vegas Beatdown Led to Tupac’s Murder
In the adrenalized aftermath of a Mike Tyson prizefight in 1996, a black BMW carrying rapper Tupac Shakur pulled up to a red light just off the Las Vegas Strip, thrilling the women in the car next to him.
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