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Data centers make heat all year long – here’s how the ground can hold onto it until winter
You have probably noticed it on a hot summer day: A basement feels cool even when the air outside is baking. The ground does not heat up and cool down as fast as the air does. A few hundred feet down, it stays close to ...Read more
When abortion and surrogacy law collide, contracts can’t answer the hardest questions
Surrogacy arrangements – agreements for someone to carry a pregnancy for the intended parents – have existed for millennia, and modern surrogacy contracts for half a century.
These contracts typically ...Read more
Why fall yard care could start with doing less – but not nothing
Every autumn, homeowners and gardeners tend to engage in a familiar ritual. As trees shed their leaves, people drag out rakes, leaf blowers and lawn bags to strip their yards bare before winter arrives.
It is a ...Read more
A new kind of gang violence is rattling Twin Cities suburbs
MINNEAPOLIS — Recent bursts of gunfire have shattered the peace in these typically placid suburban Twin Cities settings: A high school homecoming game, a church basketball court, a middle class residential street.
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NC elementary teacher accused of 'teaching under the influence'
A teacher at Aversboro Elementary School in Garner, North Carolina, is accused of teaching first-grade students while under the influence of alcohol and THC.
Eric John Ames, 39, of Raleigh, was charged Thursday by the ...Read more
Inspired by red-light camera ban, these Texas activists target Flock cameras
Over the course of two years, Flock cameras have popped up across the nation, and multiple groups are organizing to ban them across Texas.
Flock cameras are automated license plate readers used by law enforcement. Any law...Read more
Traumatized 13-year-old was living in home with body of twin sister, NC police say
A 13-year-old boy suffered “extreme trauma” when he was forced to share a home with the body of his twin sister, according to investigators in North Carolina.
The mother of the twins has been charged with murder, ...Read more
Iran protects capacity to build missiles as Trump pauses strikes
Iran has managed to preserve its missile and drone factories despite months of U.S. and Israeli bombing, officials familiar with the matter said, allowing it to replenish its arsenals while President Donald Trump holds off...Read more
US judge blocks DOJ's 'dragnet' probes of voter fraud nationwide
A U.S. judge blocked a key component of the Justice Department’s efforts under the Trump administration to obtain state voter records as part of a nationwide probe into alleged election fraud by non-U.S. citizens.
In a ...Read more
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