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Transportation Department money bill includes $3.191 billion to modernize towers and equipment, $246 million more than in the last fiscal year. The House overwhelmingly sided with the TWU and the American people instead of extremists hellbent on destroying public transit and the high-quality jobs it supports. But the Democrats, including labor stalwarts, bailed out the ruling Republicans.
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2 years ago Read more at People's World

Americans are the most dissatisfied with the nation’s position in the world since 2017. Gallup polling shows just 33% of Americans are satisfied with the country’s global position. In 2020, 37% of Americans thought the same of former President Donald Trump, the highest rating of his term.
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2 years ago Read more at NewsNation Now

The Penn Relays announced it has been designated Continental Tour Silver status by World Athletics in 2024. The move is a pivotal year for the sport with the Paris Olympic Games in August. On, the Zurich-based athletic brand that supports one of the world's top training groups in Boulder, Colo., played a critical part in this development. At Silver status, athletes will acquire more points toward Olympic Games qualification and world ranking.
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2 years ago Read more at FloTrack

In our increasingly interconnected world, communication serves as the bridge that links everyone. Over 7,000 languages are spoken globally, with some being more popular due to the significant portion of the world's population using them. Mandarin, spoken by over 900 million natives, stands as the most spoken native language, and similarly, Hindi is also among the top 20 most spoken languages in the world in 2024. The growing trend of learning languages can be attributed to the services of companies such as Coursera Inc. (NYSE
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2 years ago Read more at Yahoo Finance

SatoshiDEX is the world's 1st decentralized exchange. It has raised over $1,000,000 to lead the DeFi on Bitcoin. Pre-Sale is offering users the chance to invest in $SATX.
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2 years ago Read more at Yahoo Finance

Covariant, a robotics company headquartered in Emeryville, Calif., is creating ways for robots to pick up, move and sort items as they are shuttled through warehouses and distribution centers. The technology gives robots a broad understanding of the English language, letting people chat with them as if they were chatting with ChatGPT.
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2 years ago Read more at The New York Times

Camping World Holdings Inc., the World’s Largest Recreational Vehicle Dealer, announced that its Coleman brand of travel trailers was the No. 1 selling travel trailer by unit volume in the U.S. in January 2024 according to RV industry retail registration data compiled by Statistical Surveys, Inc.
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2 years ago Read more at RV Business

The University of Alabama at Birmingham made a significant mark at the annual Alabama World Languages Association conference. Among the standout achievers was Lincoln Maclean, a graduate student from UAB’s School of Education, who was honored with the Promising New Teacher (K-12) award.
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2 years ago Read more at University of Alabama at Birmingham

Dom Joly is an English comedian and writer. He is the author of The Conspiracy Tourist: Travels Through a Strange World. I made several trips to Fogo Island, off Canada’s Newfoundland coast, but the strangest was undoubtedly to the island of Fogo. After an hour and half, we drove to the far end of the island to explore the edge of the Earth.
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2 years ago Read more at National Geographic

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, scarcity was widely understood as a temporary condition that new technologies and organized workers would soon overcome. In this view, a modernized post-scarcity society is undergoing its own revival of interest, even if under different labels. This view focuses on innovation and automation as critical for reaching any sort of utopian future, but it’s not confined to socialists.
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2 years ago Read more at Vox.com