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CNN  —  A case that could further shrink the scope of the Voting Rights Act is before a federal appeals court Wednesday, with the appellate panel considering whether private entities – and not just the US Justice Department – can bring lawsuits under a key provision of the law. If those seeking a narrowing of the VRA are successful, it would significantly diminish the use of the law to challenge ballot regulations and redistricting maps that are said to be racially discriminatory. A vast majority of the cases that are brought under the Voting Rights Act – which prohibits election…

EXCLUSIVE: A group of national security experts signed a letter Wednesday accusing major news outlets and scientific journals including  The New York Times and The Lancet of censoring dissenting voices surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic’s origins and calling on those publications to investigate their journalistic failures.A letter to the “editors, authors, and contributors” of The Lancet, Nature Medicine, The New York Times and Time magazine accused the publications of stifling debate on the origins of the virus. It was signed by 43 national security experts, including Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, the new chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and former National Security Advisor Robert…

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador challenged President Biden on his “forgetfulness” to help Latin American countries during the North American Leaders Summit Monday. He also encouraged him to prioritize fixing the migration crisis affecting the U.S.-Mexico border.While public comments mostly struck a positive tone, López Obrador pressed Biden over his “abandonment” and “forgetfulness” to help Central American countries.”This is the moment for us to determine to do away with this abandonment, this disdain, and this forgetfulness for Latin America and the Caribbean,” Lopez Obrador said during a press conference Monday.López Obrador also said Biden had the “key” to improving…

Passengers were stuck on an Amtrak train traveling from the D.C. area to Florida for almost a full day longer than expected after its route was diverted in rural South Carolina due to the derailment of a freight train. For Michael McFadden and his family, what began as a fun trip to Florida to visit Legoland turned into a nightmare after a train ride meant to last around 17 hours turned into a more than 35-hour ordeal. “We had a limited amount of time for our vacation and I feel like it’s just done,” McFadden, 47, told NBC News in…

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The newest addition to Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom will be debuting this Spring.TRON Lightcycle/Run is set to open on April 4, 2023. The rollercoaster, modeled after the original TRON Lightcycle Power Run at Disneyland Shanghai, will be near Space Mountain in Tomorrowland.”Prepare to enter the Grid. It’s almost your turn. Ready? TRON Lightcycle/Run opens at Magic Kingdom Park on 04/04/23,” Disney Parks Blog tweeted.Hours before the official announcement, Disney Parks Blog tweeted a video with the TRON lightcycles spelling out the number four two times.DISNEY ISSUES BEHAVIOR WARNING TO PARKGOERS AS FIGHTS INCREASE: ‘BE THE MAGIC YOU WANT TO SEE’Leading up…

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The American investment firm Albright Capital has pulled out of a class action lawsuit against Terraform Labs, the firm behind the Terra protocol and the Terra Luna Classic (LUNC) coin.Per court documents, Albright – along with its fellow claimants, the legal firms Scott & Scott and Bragar Eagel & Squire – voluntarily retracted its claims “without prejudice and without costs against the defendant(s)” at a branch of the New York Southern District Court.Albright et al had hoped to secure a legal victory over Terraform and its Co-founder Do Kwon, as well as US associate companies. The claimants had hoped to…

One of the big financial market themes of 2022 was the renaissance of value investing, after a stretch so bad and so long that quants had to scour the history books for parallels. Think this, but for years: Things changed radically in 2022. The divergent performance of Clifford Asness’s AQR Capital Management and Chase Coleman’s Tiger Global offers a great snapshot of how value and growth stocks did last year. Value-loving AQR’s Absolute Return fund returned 43.5 per cent net of fees last year, its best performance since its birth in 1998, while the Tiger’s growth jockeys lost 54 per…

CNN  —  After the disappearance of Ana Walshe in Massachusetts, investigators continue uncovering bloodied evidence they believe may be connected to her case. Since her co-workers reported her missing on January 4, investigators in the coastal town of Cohasset, Massachusetts, have launched a two-day ground search, scoured the family’s home and dug through piles of trash looking for evidence of what happened to the mother of three. Investigators have already uncovered possible evidence, including a hacksaw and apparent bloodstains in Boston-area trash, according to law enforcement sources. Earlier discoveries included searches in her husband’s internet records related to how to…