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Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission said Wednesday the government must renew payments to fishermen who were ordered to stop using nets in order to save the last few vaquita marina, the world’s smallest porpoise and the most endangered marine mammal.…
Google announced Wednesday it designed a machine that would take only 200 seconds to solve a problem that the world’s fastest computer would need 10,000 years to compute. The results from the Sycamore machine were lauded by the company as…
While American media outlets have been trashing the Trump administration over its abandonment of America’s “noble Kurdish allies” in Syria, they have paid little attention to an extraordinary and alarming development in Mexico. This week, criminals actually declared open season…
“America’s Game.” That is what baseball—known also as “the national pastime”—has traditionally been called. Its champions have proudly trumpeted those titles and touted the fact that it is an American rather than British or European invention. Given the nine-figure multiyear…
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students, Anthony Abraham Jack, Harvard, 276 pages As a professor at a fairly large state university, I have noticed a pattern during my years of teaching. Students who consistently avail themselves…
The Trump administration has conceded it separated 1,556 immigrant parents and children more than it had previously admitted in court, bringing the total count of families separated to almost 5,500. The government had originally admitted to separating about 2,800 families…
