His adversaries spend hundreds of thousands of hours resisting his throwaway ideas.
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How Maine’s Supreme Court is a different case study than that of the nation’s
“We’d fill it.“ These are the three words of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell when asked what the GOP would do if a high court vacancy occurred in the last year of the president’s term. News that 87-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is confronting another cancer diagnosis has reignited speculation that the Trump White […]
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When Supreme Court justices defy expectations
Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the Supreme Court as a conservative. But his ruling in a major civil rights case is part of a pattern of justices setting aside ideology to address historic injustices.
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Roberts court draws partisan fire-and rising public acclaim
Critiques from the left and right are bolstering an image of independence Chief Justice John Roberts has long sought to foster for the Supreme Court.
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TikTok’s videos could fuel Microsoft’s artificial-intelligence ambitions
More than merely appealing to the young users of TikTok, Microsoft could use the data culled from its videos to better compete against its AI rivals.
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How much of your data does TikTok harvest?
TikTok has become one of the world’s most popular apps by serving up a steady beat of lip-syncing videos and viral memes.
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Why TikTok was destined to land in Trump’s crosshairs
China’s Internet industry for the first time attained the triple threat of engineering know-how, marketing sheen and multicultural sensibility to deliver an international hit.
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TikTok says it will let U.S. skeptics see its code to defray privacy concerns
TikTok pledged it will allow U.S. regulators and privacy skeptics to take a closer look under its digital hood, offering them the ability to “examine” its underlying software code in response to claims it is handing off data to the Chinese government.
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Not all schools will have access to safe and effective reopening solutions
The Trump administration is demanding that schools open. Democratic leaders are pushing back. Missing within that fight are ideas for keeping the educational gap from widening.
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The battle over how Americans will cast ballots in the fall is just heating up
More than 60 lawsuits related to absentee voting and other rules in two dozen states are now wending their way through the courts, according to a tally by The Washington Post.