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Philips Kept Complaints About Dangerous Breathing Machines Secret While Company Profits Soared propublica.org/article/phili…
Philips Kept Complaints About Dangerous Breathing Machines Secret While Company Profits Soared

Philips Kept Complaints About Dangerous Breathing Machines Secret While Company Profits Soared

Tainted CPAP machines and ventilators went to children, the elderly and at least 700,000 veterans despite internal warnings. Company insiders said the devices posed an “unacceptable” risk.

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Pessimistic Americans fail to see the dream that migrants chase washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
Opinion | Pessimistic Americans fail to see the dream that migrants chase

Opinion | Pessimistic Americans fail to see the dream that migrants chase

An acute crisis did not materialize on the border with Mexico as many expected. But, out of sight, that crisis persists. Americans need to understand why.

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An Army command like no other seeks to master the future of war washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
Opinion | An Army command like no other seeks to master the future of war

Opinion | An Army command like no other seeks to master the future of war

The Army Futures Command aspires to harness the power of innovation.

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Why Nvidia is suddenly one of the most valuable companies in the world washingtonpost.com/technolog…
Why Nvidia is suddenly one of the most valuable companies in the world

Why Nvidia is suddenly one of the most valuable companies in the world

The company is now the world's sixth-most valuable firm.

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How doctors buy their way out of trouble reuters.com/investigates/spe… via @SpecialReports
How doctors buy their way out of trouble

How doctors buy their way out of trouble

Hundreds of physicians accused of wrongdoing have paid hefty civil settlements to the U.S. government to keep working and, in some cases, avoid jail time.

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Eyes on the poor: Cameras, facial recognition watch over public housing washingtonpost.com/business/…
Eyes on the poor: Cameras, facial recognition watch over public housing

Eyes on the poor: Cameras, facial recognition watch over public housing

Surveillance cameras purchased with federal crime-fighting grants are being used to punish and evict public housing residents, sometimes for minor rule violations, a Washington Post investigation...

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The Diary of a Rikers Island Library Worker newyorker.com/culture/cultur… via @NewYorker

The Diary of a Rikers Island Library Worker

Every week for a year, I pushed a cart of books through the largest jail complex in New York City.

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Fentanyl-laced pills are killing teens. Here’s how to stop it. washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
Opinion | Fentanyl-laced pills are killing teens. Here’s how to stop it.

Opinion | Fentanyl-laced pills are killing teens. Here’s how to stop it.

Counterfeit pills are becoming more and more dangerous.

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Why free street parking could be costing you hundreds more in rent washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
Advice | Why free street parking could be costing you hundreds more in rent

Advice | Why free street parking could be costing you hundreds more in rent

Eliminating parking minimums could lower pollution. Will more cities buy in?

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What might ChatGPT do for humanity? The ancient Greeks offer a clue. washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
Opinion | What might ChatGPT do for humanity? The ancient Greeks offer a clue.

Opinion | What might ChatGPT do for humanity? The ancient Greeks offer a clue.

What if, thanks to ChatGPT and its friends, a flesh-and-blood, 21st-century Plato could emerge?

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A new front in the water wars: Your Internet use washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
A new front in the water wars: Your internet use

A new front in the water wars: Your internet use

In the American West, data centers are clashing with local communities who want to preserve water amid drought

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We spent 7 months examining the AR-15’s role in America. Here’s what we learned. washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
We spent more than a year examining the AR-15’s role in America. Here’s what we learned.

We spent more than a year examining the AR-15’s role in America. Here’s what we learned.

The AR-15 is more than a weapon. It’s also a symbol. This investigation sought to understand the rifle’s impact, and here’s what The Post learned.

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Big Oil is selling off its polluting assets — with unintended consequences washingtonpost.com/world/202…
Big Oil is selling off its polluting assets — with unintended consequences

Big Oil is selling off its polluting assets — with unintended consequences

Shell says its divestments in Nigeria help the company meet its green goals. But villagers and watchdogs say conditions have worsened after the sales.

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We want objective judges and doctors. Why not journalists too? washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
Opinion | We want objective judges and doctors. Why not journalists too?

Opinion | We want objective judges and doctors. Why not journalists too?

Many have asked: Was the media up to the task of covering a government led by Donald Trump, with his pattern of mendacity and anti-democratic impulses?

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How six pioneering Navy women pioneers broke barriers 50 years ago washingtonpost.com/made-by-h…
Perspective | How six pioneering Navy women pioneers broke barriers 50 years ago

Perspective | How six pioneering Navy women pioneers broke barriers 50 years ago

Perseverance, toughness, banding together and relying on examples of the past helped them to forge cultural change in the military.

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A Few Savvy Investors Saw Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse Coming nymag.com/intelligencer/2023… via @intelligencer
A Few Investors Saw Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse Coming

A Few Investors Saw Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse Coming

“I knew this was a giant bubble,” says one San Francisco–based hedge-fund manager.

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If banks want federal rescue, they should accept federal regulation washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
Opinion | If banks want federal rescue, they should accept federal regulation

Opinion | If banks want federal rescue, they should accept federal regulation

Congress should restore the Dodd-Frank oversight regime. which was scaled back during the Trump administration.

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Silicon Valley is again in denial about its dependency on the feds washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
Opinion | Silicon Valley is again in denial about its dependency on the feds

Opinion | Silicon Valley is again in denial about its dependency on the feds

The bailout of a Bay Area bank mirrors the Valley's decades-long dependence on Washington for survival.

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Let’s leave the covid origin mystery to scientists washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
Opinion | Let’s leave the covid origin mystery to scientists

Opinion | Let’s leave the covid origin mystery to scientists

Spillover or lab leak? The answer matters, but a new House subcommittee should leave this mystery to the experts.

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Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S. nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/un…
Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S. (Published 2023)

Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S. (Published 2023)

Arriving in record numbers, they’re ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make products for well-known brands like Cheetos and Fruit of the Loom.

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