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At Least 8.7 Million Americans at Risk of Losing $1,200 Stimulus Checks
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Online Learning’s Toll on Kids’ Privacy
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World Isn’t Meeting Biodiversity Goals, UN Report Finds
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Longtime Climate Science Denier Hired for Top Role at NOAA
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Twitter Expands Misinformation Rules Ahead of US Election
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Think 2020’s Disasters Are Wild? Experts See Worse to Come
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The Trump Administration Began Scaling Back the Census Count. A Judge Stopped it — for Now
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‘Wrong-Way’ Migrations Stop Shellfish From Escaping Ocean Warming
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COVID-19 Is Dividing the American Worker
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Apple, Google to Allow COVID-19 Exposure Notifications Without App
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What Climate Change Does to the Human Body
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Hundreds of Thousands of Nursing Home Residents May Not Be Able to Vote in November Because of the Pandemic
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To Save This Palm-Filled Paradise, Biologists Must Kill the Trees
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Privacy Settings to Change in Your Browser ASAP: Chrome, Firefox, and Safari
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Last Saturday, the Earth Ran Out of Resources (Again)
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Storm Surge: The Science Behind This Year’s Unusual Hurricane Season
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Black Workers Are More Likely to Be Unemployed but Less Likely to Get Unemployment Benefits
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US Faces Back-to-School Laptop Shortage
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Climate Change, People Stoke California Fires, Science Says
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A Typo Could Send All Your Sensitive Dropbox Files to a Stranger
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TSA Finds 3 Times Usual Rate of Guns at Checkpoints, Despite Drop in Air Traffic
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Death Valley Reaches 130 Degrees, Setting Records and Alarming Climate Activists
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Rural Families Without Internet Face Tough School Choice
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Arctic Summer Sea Ice Could Disappear as Early as 2035
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Nationalism and Authoritarianism Threaten the Internet’s Universality
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The Oil Spill at Mauritius Is a Disaster — and Could Soon Get Worse
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Cybersecurity Spending to Reach $123B in 2020: Forecast
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Emissions Drop During COVID-19 Lockdown Will Do ‘Nothing’ for Climate Change: Study
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Blackstone’s $4.7B Acquisition of Ancestry Raises Privacy Questions
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Parks in Nonwhite Areas Are Half the Size of Those in Majority-White Areas, New Study Finds
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Scientists Dissect the Tactics of Climate Delayers
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This Tool Could Protect Your Photos From Facial Recognition
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Scientists Have Backed Away From the Worst-Case Climate Scenario — and the Best One, Too
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Gun Sales Are Surging, but Background Checks Aren’t Keeping Up
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Despite Coronavirus, 85 Percent of Americans Are Thinking About Sustainability as Much as or More Than Ever
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Google’s Web App Plans Collide With Apple’s iPhone, Safari Rules
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Red Sea Corals’ Heat Tolerance Offers Hope for Climate Crisis
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Zuckerberg, Bezos, Other Tech CEOs to Testify on Competition
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First Underwater Methane Leak Discovered Near Antarctica
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Two Dozen Weapons Taken Off NYC Streets After Gun-Trafficking Ring Is Dismantled
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Trump Orders Undocumented Immigrants Excluded From Key Census Count
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Global Warming Shrinks Bird Breeding Windows, Potentially Threatening Species
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CDC Employees Call Out Agency’s ‘Toxic Culture of Racial Aggressions’
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