What does Zohran #Mamdani’s surprise win in NYC mean for national politics? We asked a New York politics expert what this progressive upset reveals about shifting coalitions, the future of the Democratic Party, and why Mamdani’s message may resonate far beyond the Big Apple:
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How Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral primary could ripple across the country
Zohran Mamdani is one of the first Democratic candidates to successfully leverage Donald Trump’s focus on cost of living, explains a political st...
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Blue-green algae doesn’t just stink up a lake – it can sicken swimmers, kill dogs, and contaminate tap water. Lake Erie’s blooms are starting earlier and sticking around longer.
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Toxic algae blooms are lasting longer in Lake Erie − why that’s a worry for people and pets
The blooms have become an annual problem in the Great Lakes. DNA studies show what’s growing there and why it’s dangerous.
TikTok is fueling political echo chambers. A new study shows it’s making users more polarized. (We love TikTok, too, but take this as a warning to not make it your only or primary news source. TikTok is designed to feed you what you like — and politically, that’s a problem.)
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Using TikTok could be making you more politically polarized, new study finds
Users on TikTok gravitate to networks of like-minded people, but right-leaning users tend to be in more tightly sealed echo chambers.
Hot take: Heat waves might literally be aging your DNA. Researchers found that people in hotter regions show faster biological aging, even after accounting for lifestyle differences.
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Extreme heat silently accelerates aging on a molecular level
People living in locations that experience frequent extreme heat days age faster at the molecular level.
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Energy markets react swiftly to global crises, with oil prices spiking 5% after Hamas' attack on Israel in October 2023. While the Israeli ceasefire with Iran appears to be holding, more air strikes could bring more price swings.
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Why energy markets fluctuate during an international crisis
Fears about supply, demand, profits and supply chains all combine into a volatile mix that delivers prices that are often higher in a crisis, but a...
Joseph Ha-Kohen, a 16th century Jewish exile from Spain, wrote the first Hebrew book about the Americas without ever seeing them. His adaptation of a Spanish text criticizes conquistadors and compares Native Americans to ancient Israelites.
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Jews were barred from Spain’s New World colonies − but that didn’t stop Jewish and converso writers from describing the Americas
Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the early modern world.
Even in 1898, when racist policies were the norm, the U.S. Supreme Court endorsed an expansive view of citizenship for the children of Asian immigrants. Today’s Supreme Court ruling for the Trump Administration doesn’t address that precedent, focusing instead on the issue of who lower courts can immediately protect from governmental actions that are likely unconstitutional. Two political scientists who research immigration history explain the principle:
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Trump’s attack on long-standing principle of birthright citizenship stands, as Supreme Court sidesteps constitutional issue − for now
Since the earliest days of the nation, any person born on US soil is a US citizen. A new Supreme Court ruling limits judges’ ability to block Tru...
Zohran #Mamdani’s win in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary has shaken the party establishment. Could he have built the blueprint for a new kind of progressive coalition?
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How Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral primary could ripple across the country
Zohran Mamdani is one of the first Democratic candidates to successfully leverage Donald Trump’s focus on cost of living, explains a political st...
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The Supreme Court ruled today it’s ok for states to require porn sites to verify the age of their users, the same way bars and casinos check ID. The ruling does not allow states to ban kids from social networks or from reading health information or political content online (but expect battles over whether LGBTQ materials are ‘obscene’)
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Supreme Court upholds childproofing porn sites
Kids face risks online, but whether and how the law can protect them is a thorny issue. The Supreme Court weighed in to say states can try with age...
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#SCOTUS has ruled that #Medicaid patients do not have the right to choose #PlannedParenthood as their health care provider. Justice Jackson, in dissent: “This Court continues the project of stymying one of the country’s great civil rights laws” – by limiting the scope of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, which was the technical issue at stake here.
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Supreme Court rules that states may deny people covered by Medicaid the freedom to choose Planned Parenthood as their health care provider
The ruling limits the rights of Medicaid patients to choose their own health care provider. It could have consequences far beyond South Carolina.
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