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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>An Impressive Jobs Report Shows the U.S. Economy Powering Into an Election Year</strong> - Strong employment growth and improving consumer sentiment are good news for any Presidential incumbent seeking reëlection. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/an-impressive-jobs-report-shows-the-us-economy-powering-into-an-election-year">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Rural Ski Slope Caught Up in an International Scam</strong> - A federal program promised to bring foreign investment to remote parts of the country. It soon became rife with fraud. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/05/the-rural-ski-slope-caught-up-in-an-international-scam">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Inside the Music Industry’s High-Stakes A.I. Experiments</strong> - Lucian Grainge, the chairman of UMG, has helped record labels rake in billions of dollars from streaming. Can he do the same with generative artificial intelligence? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/05/inside-the-music-industrys-high-stakes-ai-experiments">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Perverse Policies That Fuel Wildfires</strong> - We thought we could master nature, but we were playing with fire. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/05/the-perverse-policies-that-fuel-wildfires">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine’s Democracy in Darkness</strong> - With elections postponed and no end to the war with Russia in sight, Volodymyr Zelensky and his political allies are becoming like the officials they once promised to root out: entrenched. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/05/ukraines-democracy-in-darkness">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>Are you catastrophizing? Here’s how to stop assuming the worst.</strong> -
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Nine experts weigh in on curbing and diffusing your overly negative thoughts.
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If you’re a person who spends even a minuscule amount of time consuming news of any kind, you may find yourself in a doom spiral: ongoing <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2024/1/25/24049551/war-increasing-ukraine-gaza-sudan-ethiopia">war</a>, the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2024-elections">upcoming presidential election</a>, <a href="https://www.vox.com/climate">climate change</a>, the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/media/news-industry-future/index.html">withering of the media</a>. It isn’t just news that can inspire despair. Life is full of anxiety-inducing interactions, high-stakes scenarios, and unavoidable conflicts that can lead to overthinking, hopelessness, and catastrophic thinking.
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<a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/catastrophizing">Catastrophizing</a> is a common thought pattern where you assume the worst possible scenario. If you fail a test, you might believe you’ll never get a job in the future. When the group chat is silent after you initiate plans, you jump to conclusions and take it to mean everyone hates you. Your boss says she wants to talk and you assume you’re getting fired. Catastrophic thinking escalates the most benign interactions into crises. Very often, though, these predictions do not come to fruition.
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People catastrophize in order to prepare for these worst-case scenarios. Catastrophic thinking, however, can lead to <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6175287/">heightened anxiety, prolonged feelings of physical pain</a>, risk aversion, and less confidence in problem-solving when big issues do arise. “If you find that you are constantly looking for what could go drastically wrong in your life, this could reflect deeper concerns about safety, security, or self-protection,” says <a href="https://www.pcom.edu/academics/faculty/scottgl.html">Scott Glassman</a>, director of the master of applied positive <a href="https://www.vox.com/psychology">psychology</a> program at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. “This style of thinking can emerge if you’ve experienced an unexpected traumatic event, like a loss or serious injury, or if you grew up in an environment where fears were often amplified and responded to with panic or overprotection.”
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Climbing out of the spiral that is catastrophic thinking requires both in-the-moment grounding techniques and big-picture reframing. Focusing on the reality of a situation — and not the story you’re telling yourself — can help blunt the anxiety of catastrophizing, experts say. Here are more therapist-approved tactics to help you avoid catastrophic thinking.
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Catch yourself in the act
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“Instead of viewing the [catastrophic] thought as a prediction of the future, you can simply say, ‘This is a catastrophic thought. I’ve had these thoughts before and things have turned out fine.’ Remind yourself of the times that you’ve engaged in catastrophic thinking and survived it. You will survive this one, too.”
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—<a href="https://www.alyssamariewellness.com/alyssa-lia-mancao">Alyssa Mancao</a>, licensed therapist and owner of <a href="https://www.alyssamariewellness.com/">Alyssa Marie Wellness</a>
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Ask yourself pointed questions
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“One of my favorite tips for catastrophizing is asking clients, ‘What is the worst thing that could possibly happen?’ and following it up with the powerful question of, ‘Could I survive that?’ Most of the time, we can survive those worst-case scenarios, but our anxiety gets in the way and makes us believe we can’t get through it. When we can slow ourselves down to examine the evidence, I find that we are often in a better place to reason with ourselves and realize that we can get through hard things.”
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—<a href="https://www.samanthaspeed.com/">Samantha Speed,</a> licensed professional counselor
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Follow the negative thoughts to see where they lead
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“In the midst of catastrophic thinking, there are two options. One is to create a positive thought (change ‘no one likes me’ to ‘some people like me’) and repeat it. The other is to follow the negative thinking train to the end and see where the illogical thinking takes you. For example, thinking that no one likes me leads to ‘I will die alone,’ which leads to ‘I need to buy a dog because it will bark when I stop responding and the barking will annoy the neighbors and they will call 911.’ When one begins to plan for these negative events, the reality is that these worries are possibilities, not probabilities.”
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—<a href="https://real-matters.com/?page_id=14">Diane Urban</a>, licensed psychologist and adjunct professor at Manhattan College and Southern New Hampshire University
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Remind yourself that you are not your thoughts
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“Clients who struggle with catastrophizing tend to internalize their thought processes. For example, they may say things like, ‘I am a horrible person,’ ‘Nothing will ever work out for me,’ ‘I am a failure.’ By using these ‘I’ statements, we are allowing our anxious thoughts to become our personality and who we are. One subtle yet effective strategy is creating separation from your thoughts. ‘I am a horrible person’ changes to ‘I am having the thought that I am a horrible person,’ ‘I am a failure’ changes to ‘My brain is telling me that I am a failure.’ This helps to externalize our thoughts so that they do not feel as consuming.”
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—Courtney Morgan, licensed professional clinical counselor and founder of <a href="https://counselingunconditionally.com/">Counseling Unconditionally</a>
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Practice grounding techniques
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“One approach that has proven particularly beneficial is grounding techniques. These are simple exercises to help bring your focus back to the present moment when your thoughts start spiraling. For instance, you might engage your senses by naming five things you can see, four you can touch, three you can hear, two you can smell, and one you can taste. This technique can interrupt the cycle of negative thinking and bring you back to reality.”
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—<a href="https://alignsonoma.com/dvteam/elvis-rosales/">Elvis Rosales</a>, licensed clinical social worker and the clinical director at Align Recovery Centers
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Pay attention when things go well
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“We understandably pay more attention to bad things happening in our lives because, let’s face it, they are upsetting. Catastrophizers, however, have a habit of devoting large amounts of time, attention, and energy to thinking about the worst-case what-ifs, in addition to any bad things that might be happening each day. To neutralize or reverse this tendency, we often need to start taking notice of when things turn out okay or go well. Keeping a daily list can be a reminder of the real rates of good versus upsetting events.
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“At the same time, we want to make notes about when our catastrophic predictions don’t come true. The more we see the errors of our predictions, the more likely we will treat them with doubt when they arise. We’ll start to quickly notice when our mind is crying wolf and be better able to stop the ruminative cycle before it has revved up. A core belief that can drive catastrophic thinking is, ‘I can’t handle this.’ It’s important to explore that underlying belief and challenge it with contradictory evidence. Keeping a record of big problems you’ve been able to solve could help weaken that belief.”
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—<a href="https://www.pcom.edu/academics/faculty/scottgl.html">Scott Glassman</a>, director of the master of applied positive psychology program at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
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Accept bad things when they happen
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“This may sound strange, but I talk with patients about the idea of getting better at suffering. It always elicits a joke: ‘Oh, I’m already great at that<em>.’</em> But there’s a difference between obsessing about bad things versus accepting them. Catastrophizing seems like an effort [toward] acceptance but it’s actually a strategy for avoidance. The work here is to move toward the very real sadness and stress of uncertainty rather than trying to bargain with it. The world comes with uncertainty, bad things happen, someday we’ll die.”
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—<a href="https://tribecatherapy.com/our-therapists/about/">Matt Lundquist</a>, founder and clinical director of Tribeca Therapy
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Try to problem-solve instead of searching for problems
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“If you are engaged in catastrophic thinking, you may have thought about how daunting the situation is and ways you are unable to fix it. Problem-solving may be helpful. Try breaking down the situation into more manageable parts instead of focusing on options that are overwhelming and frustrating.
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“For example, if you have the belief that you have no friends, you would first identify the problem. The second step would be to check the facts by finding evidence that supports these thoughts to determine if you are indeed assuming the worst without reason. The third step would be to establish your goal. If your goal is to <a href="https://www.vox.com/friendship">make friends</a>, engage in more social interaction, or find a sense of community or belonging, then you would establish that goal and brainstorm possible solutions to achieve that goal by breaking down your goal into actionable steps. You would then select your solution and, if necessary, it would be helpful to develop a pros and cons list to help put that thought into action. Most of all, have self-compassion and give yourself grace because breaking negative thought patterns can be very challenging.”
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—<a href="https://eymtherapy.com/about/peta-gaye-sandiford/">Peta-Gaye Sandiford</a>, licensed <a href="https://www.vox.com/mental-health">mental health</a> counselor at Empower Your Mind Therapy
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Focus on what you can control
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“The minute your train of thought starts to get off the rails, force yourself to think that you are not the master. You do not have control over the future. But you do have the power to either fight it or accept it. So think about all the positive ways you will deal with that catastrophic event.”
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—Jessica Plonchak, executive clinical director at <a href="https://www.choicepointhealth.com/">ChoicePoint Health</a>
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West Point cadets cheer at a football game between the Army Black Knights and the Navy Midshipmen on December 9, 2023, at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts. | Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
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The guy behind the Harvard lawsuit attacking affirmative action turns his ire on the service academies.
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<em><strong>Editor’s note, February 2, 5:30 pm ET</strong></em><em>: The Supreme Court </em><a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/020224zr1_2c8f.pdf"><em>released an order</em></a><em> late afternoon on February 2 ruling in favor of West Point. The order, however, indicates that the justices only did so because they believe that a ruling by the Supreme Court would be premature right now. The unsigned order, with no noted dissents, says that “the record before this Court is underdeveloped, and this order should not be construed as expressing any view on the merits of the constitutional question.”</em>
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Last June, the <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus">Supreme Court</a> handed down a sweeping decision <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/23616868/supreme-court-affirmative-action-harvard-unc-students-fair-admissions-john-roberts">abolishing race-conscious admissions programs</a> at nearly every college and university in the country, with one notable exception: military service academies.
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The Court’s decision in <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf"><em>Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard</em></a> applies to civilian schools, but the Court also said in a footnote that it was not deciding whether academies such as West Point or the Naval Academy may continue to take steps to diversify their student bodies that the decision forbade in other schools. That footnote referred to the “potentially distinct interests that military academies may present,” but didn’t clarify what the six Republican justices who joined the <em>Harvard</em> decision think these “distinct interests” might be.
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Now, however, this undecided question is before the Supreme Court in a new <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/8/11/21356913/supreme-court-shadow-docket-jail-asylum-covid-immigrants-sonia-sotomayor-barnes-ahlman">shadow docket</a> case known as <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/students-for-fair-admissions-v-united-states-military-academy-west-point-2/"><em>Students for Fair Admissions v. United States Military Academy West Point</em></a> (Students for Fair Admissions, the plaintiff in both cases, is led by Edward Blum, a former stockbroker who is now the driving force behind many lawsuits <a href="https://archive.thinkprogress.org/this-week-is-the-superbowl-for-americas-leading-white-rights-activist-668cac6a9e13/">seeking to abolish policies intended to advance racial equity</a>).
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The <em>West Point</em> case is distinct from the <em>Harvard</em> case, however, in that it presents a conflict between two competing values that the Court’s current Republican majority genuinely cares about.
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On the one hand, the Republican justices are hostile to virtually any policy that takes account of race, regardless of whether that policy exists to advance white supremacy or to eradicate its legacy. The Court’s decision in <em>Harvard</em> compares that school’s former admissions program, which sought to diversify its campus by giving a slight preference to some applicants from underrepresented racial groups, to the Jim Crow school segregation regime struck down in <a href="https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/347/483.html"><em>Brown v. Board of Education</em></a><em> </em>(1954).
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At the same time, the Supreme Court has historically shown a great deal of deference to the military. As the Court said in <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=16268127249131160503&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr"><em>Gilligan v. Morgan</em></a> (1973), “[I]t is difficult to conceive of an area of governmental activity in which the courts have less competence” than questions involving “the composition, training, equipping, and control of a military force.”
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Moreover, while the Court’s current majority has raced to <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/2023/7/8/23784320/supreme-court-2022-term-affirmative-action-religion-voting-rights-abortion">overturn many precedents</a> that are out of step with the Republican Party’s policy preferences — <em>Harvard</em>, after all, <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/23616868/supreme-court-affirmative-action-harvard-unc-students-fair-admissions-john-roberts">overruled nearly a half-century of decisions</a> permitting universities to take limited account of race in admissions — several of the Court’s Republican appointees appear to believe that <em>Gilligan</em> should remain good law.
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The Court’s Republican majority, for example, is normally <a href="https://www.vox.com/22889417/supreme-court-religious-liberty-christian-right-revolution-amy-coney-barrett">very sympathetic to cases brought by Christian conservatives</a>. But, in <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21a477_1bo2.pdf"><em>Austin v. U.S. Navy SEALs 1-26</em></a> (2022), Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/9/26/21457704/trump-amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court-nominee">Justice Amy Coney Barrett</a> — all Republicans — voted to block a lower court decision that prevented the military from reassigning service members who refused for religious reasons to get a <a href="https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19">Covid-19</a> vaccine.
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So there’s a real chance that this Court, despite its recent opinion in <em>Harvard</em>, could decide that the judiciary’s long tradition of deferring to the military on personnel and related matters should continue to hold in the <em>West Point</em> case.
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In her <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23A696/299285/20240130163759534_23a696%20West%20Point%20Stay%20Opp%20final.pdf">brief to the justices</a>, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar warns that “a lack of diversity in leadership can jeopardize the Army’s ability to win wars.” Indeed, she writes that the lack of non-white officers during the Vietnam War led to widespread violence within the military’s ranks.
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“Plagued by accusations that white officers were using minority service members as ‘cannon fodder,’” Prelogar tells the justices, “the Army confronted racial violence that ‘extended from fire bases in Vietnam to army posts within the United States to installations in West Germany, Korea, Thailand, and Okinawa.’” To reduce the risk of this happening again, West Point takes some account of race in its admissions to help ensure that non-white enlisted personnel will look at their commanders and see some faces that resemble their own.
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West Point cadets are commissioned as army officers upon their graduation.
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It’s worth noting that the two sides of the <em>West Point</em> case can’t seem to agree on just how much of a role race plays in West Point’s admissions. The plaintiffs <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23A696/298928/20240126173859280_Army%20SCOTUS%20App.pdf">claim that race completely pervades the process</a>, that the military academy sets very precise racial targets for who is admitted, and that “for each of the six years of complete data in the record, West Point never missed its target for blacks or Hispanics by more than 3.6 percentage points.”
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The <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23A696/299285/20240130163759534_23a696%20West%20Point%20Stay%20Opp%20final.pdf">Justice Department’s brief</a>, meanwhile, paints a completely different picture. As it describes the admissions process at West Point, the dominant factor determining admissions is which applicants are nominated by a member of <a href="https://www.vox.com/congress">Congress</a> or other high-ranking official to become a cadet, and race is merely a small factor that comes into play later in the process.
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The fact that the two parties aren’t sure what they are arguing about is a good reason for the Supreme Court to give this case a miss — at least for now. As Prelogar notes, this lawsuit is “only four months old,” and lower courts have not yet conducted the rigorous fact-finding process that occurs in later stages of the litigation. So, if the justices were to block West Point’s admissions policy now, they couldn’t even be sure what they are blocking.
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Prelogar also warns that “West Point is in the middle of an admissions cycle” right now, and some applicants have already been offered seats in the incoming class. So, if the Supreme Court were to intervene now, that could force West Point to “either rescind offers already issued or apply different criteria to candidates based on the happenstance of when their applications were reviewed.”
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So it’s also reasonably likely that a majority of the justices will want to put off deciding this case until they know more about how West Point’s system works, or to some time in the future when a Supreme Court decision won’t disrupt an ongoing admissions cycle.
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</p>
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Ultimately, however, it is unlikely that the Court will delay forever. And when the justices do weigh in on the question they put off in the <em>Harvard</em> case, we will learn about whether they care more about their racial agenda or ensuring that military decisions are made by people who actually know something about military readiness.
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</p></li>
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<li><strong>A calendar of Trump’s upcoming court dates — and how they could overshadow the GOP primary</strong> -
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<img alt="" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/-KFiE1W6E4EDdQ1wLhEWUBrmVKw=/208x0:5205x3748/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/73062530/1925069984.0.jpg"/>
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Former US President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom during his civil fraud trial at the New York Supreme Court on January 11, 2024, in New York City. | Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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The 2024 election season may be defined by Trump’s legal troubles.
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</p>
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> breezed through the first two contests on the 2024 primary calendar. The question, though, is whether he can sustain his momentum through a primary season — and then general election — interrupted by his many upcoming court dates.
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The former president is fighting a <a href="https://www.vox.com/trump-investigations/23832341/trump-charges-prison-time-sentence-indictments">multifront legal war </a>that has consumed millions of his campaign funds. He’s been <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/verdict-reached-e-jean-carrolls-defamation-damages-trial-trump-rcna135919">ordered to pay $83 million</a> in damages in E. Jean Carroll’s <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/9/7/23862786/trump-e-jean-carroll-defamation">defamation case</a> against him, a ruling that his lawyers have <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/live-blog/trump-e-jean-carroll-trial-live-updates-rcna135759">vowed to appeal</a>. That would mark a significant blow to his cash reserves, which Bloomberg estimates at <a href="https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/trump-s-cash-stockpile-at-risk-from-450-million-dual-verdicts-1.2027593">around $600 million</a>, and he wouldn’t be able to use campaign funds to cover it.
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</p>
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But there’s still much more to come: There’s the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2023/8/3/23818754/trump-investigations-jan-6-2020-election-case-live-updates">Justice Department case</a> concerning his attempt to overthrow the results of the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020-presidential-election">2020 election</a> on January 6, 2021, in which the trial, originally scheduled to begin March 4, has now been canceled — but may be rescheduled depending on whether the DC Circuit Court rules that Trump has legal immunity for acts committed while he was president<strong>.</strong>
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There’s the ongoing New York state court case in which he’s already been found<a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/9/26/23891852/trump-fraud-new-york-business-case"> liable for fraud</a> for inflating the value of his businesses. And Colorado and Maine officials have ordered Trump removed from the ballot in 2024, <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/2024/1/3/24022580/supreme-court-donald-trump-ballot-insurrection-fourteenth-amendment-colorado-anderson">subject to the approval of the US Supreme Court</a>.
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</p>
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There’s also the federal case over his alleged <a href="https://www.vox.com/2023/8/3/23818752/trump-investigations-classified-documents-live-updates">mishandling of classified documents</a>, the <a href="https://www.vox.com/trump-investigations/2023/8/7/23823113/trump-investigations-georgia-election-interference-case-live-updates">Georgia case</a> about his interference in the 2020 election, and the New York case over <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/3/21/23649053/trump-investigations-new-york-hush-money-case-live-updates">hush money payments</a> made to adult film star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 campaign.
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</p>
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With <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/01/12/trump-trial-schedule-when/">some court dates still up in the air</a>, it’s unlikely that most of these cases will be decided before the November election. Even if some are decided in the next few months, Trump’s campaign has been working with state and national Republican Party officials to ensure that any <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/podcasts/the-daily/trumps-2024-playbook.html">legal troubles closer to the GOP convention can’t derail his nomination</a>. But any adverse decisions might hurt Trump in the general election; a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/us/politics/trump-indictments-polls.html">series of four separate polls </a>conducted in August found that most Americans supported the charges against Trump.
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</p>
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“Is it ratcheting a noose around his campaign or not?” said Dave Wilson, a GOP strategist based in South Carolina. “Do you really want somebody who’s going to be potentially on trial or convicted going up against an already weakened <a href="https://www.vox.com/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>?”
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</p>
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In the meantime, his court appearances might help him further cement his dominance in the <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/2/23/23611828/2024-republican-presidential-candidates-trump-hurd">GOP primary</a>, where he is coasting with a lead of <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/republican-primary/2024/national">more than 57 percentage points </a>on average. Most Republican voters say he should <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/20/us/politics/trump-cases-poll-2024.html">remain the party’s nominee</a> even if he’s convicted of a crime.
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</p>
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“It allows him to go to the states and say, ‘If they’re coming after me, they’re going to come after you,’” Wilson said. “Every appearance that Donald Trump makes in court is a visual reminder to his voters that he’s ‘fighting for them.’”
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</p>
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Here are the big dates on Trump’s political and legal calendar:
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</p>
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Early to mid-February
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</h4>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="FCJNbj">
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By mid-February, the New York Supreme Court is<a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4434281-trump-targets-new-york-judge-ag-as-civil-fraud-case-verdict-looms/"> </a><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna136926"><strong>aiming</strong></a> to issue a written decision in the civil fraud case concerning Trump’s inflation of the value of his businesses. Though the court has already found him liable for fraud and ordered the dissolution of his New York business licenses, what’s still left to be decided is what kind of financial penalties Trump may face; New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking <a href="https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/trump-s-cash-stockpile-at-risk-from-450-million-dual-verdicts-1.2027593">$370 million</a>. Trump will likely appeal whatever final decision is reached.
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</p>
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<h4 id="RqCPxL">
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February 8
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</h4>
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There are two important events this day: First, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/explaining-nevadas-dueling-2024-primary-system-matters/story?id=104127101">the Nevada Republican Party caucuses for the presidential nominee</a>, in which Trump is the only major candidate competing.
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</p>
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Second, oral arguments are scheduled in the US <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus">Supreme Court</a> case <em>Trump v. Anderson</em> over Trump’s removal from the ballot in Colorado. The Colorado electors who sought his removal have argued that his incitement of the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol constituted a violation of his presidential oath to uphold the US Constitution under the 14th Amendment, disqualifying him from running for office. The case will likely determine the outcome of the ballot challenges Trump is facing in dozens of other states.
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</p>
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<h4 id="yjZFZ9">
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February 15
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</h4>
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Trump is expected to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-trials-court-cases-2024-what-expect-rcna130465">attend a hearing</a> in the hush money case concerning Stormy Daniels — in which Trump is accused of <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/3/31/23664736/trump-indictment-arraignment">34 felony counts</a> of falsifying business documents — that will determine whether the case will be dismissed and when the trial date will be discussed. It may be delayed to allow the DOJ’s 2020 election case to go first.
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</p>
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There will also be a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-seeks-disqualify-georgia-prosecutor-willis-election-case-court-filing-2024-01-25/">hearing</a> in the Georgia case over Trump’s interference in the 2020 election. The court will consider a motion that seeks to dismiss the indictment against him and disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her office from prosecuting the case.
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</p>
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<h4 id="0FVfSe">
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February 24
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</h4>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="tHnSIm">
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South Carolina Republican primary
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</p>
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<h4 id="7r9j8m">
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February 27
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</h4>
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Michigan Republican primary
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</p>
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<h4 id="w3Vq65">
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March 5
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</h4>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="6wMydC">
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Super Tuesday primaries, including the Colorado and Maine primaries. Trump’s appearance on the ballot in those states will depend on what the Supreme Court rules.
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</p>
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<h4 id="6Z38MR">
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March 25
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</h4>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="Lf813l">
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The trial in the hush money case is currently slated to begin on March 25, but it could be subject to change depending on how the DOJ’s 2020 election case proceeds.
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</p>
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<h4 id="rwzyfm">
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May 20
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</h4>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="5r4I73">
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The federal trial in the case concerning Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents that he kept at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after he left the White House is scheduled to begin on this date. He is charged with 32 counts of violating the Espionage Act, six counts of obstruction, and two counts of making false statements.
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</p>
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<h4 id="uYorph">
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July 15–18
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</h4>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="rUwnfM">
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Republican National Convention
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</p>
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<h4 id="6vrRwe">
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August 5
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</h4>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="O7hJ4g">
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Willis has <a href="https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Just-Security-Georgia-Trump-Clearinghouse-%E2%80%94-State-of-Georgia-motion-to-schedule-trial-date-for-Aug.-5-2024-Nov.-17-2023.pdf">proposed the trial</a> in the Georgia 2020 election case begins on this date. Willis has argued that the Trump campaign was at the center of a criminal enterprise and that many of the 19 individuals named in the case helped assist in the organization’s attempt to overturn the Georgia 2020 election results. Establishing that Trump and his allies were part of an enterprise — a person, group, or business engaged in legal or illegal behavior — is key to Willis’s assertion that the defendants violated Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.
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</p>
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<em><strong>Correction, January 18, 9:40 am: </strong></em><em>This story, originally published January 17, has been updated to reflect that the New York Supreme Court, not the state Court of Appeals, will decide the damages in the Trump civil fraud case.</em>
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</p>
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<em><strong>Update, February 2, 4:40 pm: </strong></em><em>This story, originally published January 17, has been updated multiple times, mostly recently to include information on the timeline for a ruling in the New York civil fraud case against Trump and to reflect that the March 4 trial in the DOJ’s 2020 election case was canceled, at least temporarily.</em>
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</p>
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</p>
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</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>El Asesino, Ricardo, Czar, and Corinthian impress</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Sea The Sun, and Big Red please</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Why do we need turning tracks, we need to play on good wickets: Ganguly</strong> - It wasn’t entirely surprising then to see Ganguly airing his views in favour of decks.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>India vs Pakistan Davis Cup | Ramkumar, Balaji deliver in high-pressure contest, give India 2-0 lead</strong> - Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi gave his all in a tight opening singles but a hamstring injury in third set prevented a close finish to a hard-fought contest.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Barcelona president Laporta to ‘rethink everything’ if Super League doesn’t start in 1-2 years</strong> - Barcelona, along with rivals Real Madrid, are the only clubs still supporting the breakaway Super League project.</p></li>
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</ul>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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<ul>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Defence Minister Rajnath Singh commissions survey vessel INS Sandhayak into Navy at Eastern Naval base in Visakhapatnam</strong> - Addressing the gathering, Mr. Singh said that the ship will further strengthen India’s role as a superpower in the Indo-Pacific region</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>AP government should take initiative to prevent Odisha’s domination in Kotia villages: Lok Satta Party</strong> - Bhisetti Babji feared that Andhra Pradesh would not have any right if it failed to protect the villages which were given to AP during bifurcation of the States in the year 1956.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>65,000 ‘ghost patients’ underwent tests at Mohalla clinics in Delhi last year: Anti-Corruption Bureau</strong> - “Two private labs conducted nearly 22 lakh tests during February-December, 2023, out of which 65,000 were found to be fake,” officials said.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Support for BJP is waning across the country: IUML national president</strong> - K.M. Kader Mohideen said even though the BJP had secured 34% of votes in the last elections, nearly 66% of people had voted against the party</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee announces transfer of funds to 21 lakh unpaid MGNREGA workers by Feb. 21</strong> - The TMC supremo also said that her party will go all out against the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls.</p></li>
|
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</ul>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Three wounded in Paris train station knife attack</strong> - One suspect is arrested following the attack at Gare de Lyon, which wounded three people.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>UN top court can rule on Ukraine case against Russia</strong> - Ukraine brought the case in 2022, accusing Russia of falsely using genocide law to justify its invasion.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Thunberg cleared after unlawful protest arrest</strong> - Greta Thunberg was arrested at a protest in October, with the judge ruling the law was unclear.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Mafia boss who fled jail using bed sheets captured</strong> - Marco Raduano had been on the run for a year before he was tracked down in Corsica, France.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The 2024 Rolex 24 at Daytona put on very close racing for a record crowd</strong> - The around-the-clock race marked the start of the North American racing calendar. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=2000564">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead</strong> - Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=2000802">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Our oldest microbial ancestors were way ahead of their time</strong> - Specialized internal structures were present over 1.5 billion years ago. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=2000903">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>“Rasti Computer” is a detailed GRiD Compass tribute made from Framework innards</strong> - It’s a custom keyboard, an artfully dinged-up case, and a wonderful throwback. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=2000774">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Two jokes with the same punchline</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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So this guy is sitting with a dog and the other guy asks him “Does your dog bite?”
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He says no and the other guy pets the dog and it bites him.
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He says “I thought you said your dog didn’t bite.”
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He says “Not my dog.”
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So this lady is at the doctor and he sees she has badly scraped knees. He asks “What happened to your knees.”
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She says “Oh. That’s from doggy style.”
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He says “Don’t you know any other positions.”
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She says “Well I do, but…”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/flodge123"> /u/flodge123 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1ahslfw/two_jokes_with_the_same_punchline/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1ahslfw/two_jokes_with_the_same_punchline/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A guy gets a call from a friend. “I found a lamp, I think it has a genie inside”.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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The guy hangs up, and goes to meet with his friend. When he arrives, he sees his friend indeed has a lamp in his one hand, and a very sizeable pig’s foot in the other. He doesn’t look too happy.
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“What’s the matter, did the genie scam you?” he asks, half joking. “See for yourself”, the friend answers, and he hands him the lamp. He rubs the lamp. And indeed, a genie comes out.
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“I will grant you one wish”, says the genie. “But only one, so, choose carefully!”. He considers his options for a brief moment, and then tells the genie: “I want a billion dollars.”
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“So be it”, says the genie. As he disappears back into the lamp, the sky cracks open, and dolls fall out of the sky. An endless stream of dolls, rapidly covering the ground. The two friends decide to make a run for it before they get buried under the mountain of plastic.
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“This is bullshit, I asked for dollars, not dolls!”, the guy yells at his friend, while they are still running. “Is this genie deaf or what?”
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“No shit, Sherlock!” answers the friend. “You really think I asked for a big HOCK?”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Nagash24"> /u/Nagash24 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1ahgbr4/a_guy_gets_a_call_from_a_friend_i_found_a_lamp_i/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1ahgbr4/a_guy_gets_a_call_from_a_friend_i_found_a_lamp_i/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>An old man goes to a young doctor’s clinic</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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He says: “My penis has turned blue all of a sudden and it stopped working”
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The doctor examines the man’s blue penis carefully before delivering his devastating diagnosis: “I’m afraid your penis has atrophied and the only way forward is to have it amputated”
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The man, shocked and furious says: “I don’t think you know what you’re doing. I would like to get a second opinon” as he storms out of the doctor’s office and on his way to see an older, more seasoned doctor.
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He walks into the second doctor’s clinic and immediately tells him what the other doctor had said.
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The doctor proceeds to examine his blue penis. He then looks at the man and says: “Amputation you say?”
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The man nods.
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The doctor says: “You were absolutely right, your previous doctor clearly didn’t know what he was doing”.
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The man is relieved: “See I knew it the minute I saw him. He looked like a rookie at best. So what is your diagnosis, doctor?”
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The doctor replies matter-of-factedly: “Amputation is absolutely not necessary. Just stand up and wiggle it around for a minute, it will fall off on its own”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/memento87"> /u/memento87 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1ahnkvd/an_old_man_goes_to_a_young_doctors_clinic/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1ahnkvd/an_old_man_goes_to_a_young_doctors_clinic/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A horse walked into a unicorn bar…</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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and felt really left out, because he was the only one without a horn. Their horns were beautiful and he wanted to make friends, so the next week he booked an appointment with a plastic surgeon to get one too.
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Next time he went to the bar, now sporting his new horn, he was devastated when many of the unicorns were rolling their eyes at him, looking at him quizzically.
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He asked the bartender:
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“Why is everyone looking at me like this? I look just like you now!”
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The bartender replied:
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“Nah, sorry mate, you really don’t. That isn’t a horn, just some silly cone.”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ParadoxicallySweet"> /u/ParadoxicallySweet </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1ah84jw/a_horse_walked_into_a_unicorn_bar/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1ah84jw/a_horse_walked_into_a_unicorn_bar/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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My friend parked there and left his Maroon 5 tickets in the passenger seat. And in less than 15 minutes, someone broke into his car and left two more tickets
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/AntiHero515"> /u/AntiHero515 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1ahdepy/be_careful_while_parking_in_the_vegas_strip/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1ahdepy/be_careful_while_parking_in_the_vegas_strip/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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