The sex lives of constipated scorpions and cute ducklings with an innate sense of physics also inspired the winners of this year’s prizes for comical scientific achievement.
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Breaches of voting machine data after 2020 election raise worries for midterms
One concern is the possibility that rogue election workers, including those sympathetic to Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 presidential election, might use their access and the knowledge gained through the breaches to launch an attack from within.
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Surprise is key part of migrant travel from Florida and Texas to Martha’s Vineyard
Republican governors are surprising Democrat-led cities and states with large influxes of migrants. Providing little or no information is part of the plan.
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Veteran New York judge named as arbiter in Trump Mar-a-Lago probe
The judge also grants Raymond Dearie access to the entire tranche of documents seized from the property even though the Justice Department had said the arbiter shouldn’t be permitted to inspect the batch of classified records.
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Biden plans to develop floating platforms to expand offshore wind power
The plan would target sites in the Pacific Ocean off the California and Oregon coasts, as well as in the Atlantic in the Gulf of Maine.
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Florida’s DeSantis defends sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard. Critics blast ‘inhumane’ stunt.
The flights were billed as part of a new program to ‘remove’ illegal immigrants from Florida, but a Massachusetts lawmaker said 1 of the flights originated in Texas.
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Jan. 6 rioter who wore ‘Camp Auschwitz’ sweatshirt gets jail term
Robert Keith Packer ‘attacked the very government that gave him the freedom to express those beliefs, no matter how abhorrent or evil they may be,’ the prosecutor said of the anti-Semitic messages he wore.
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USDA to fund push to store carbon in New England forests
The project will include large commercial producers as well as small woodlot owners with a goal of storing more carbon in forests.
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Plea deal reached with Maine National Guard soldier accused of rape
David Cyr, who maintains his innocence, is serving 90 days in jail after pleading no contest in exchange for prosecutors dropping 2 counts of gross sexual assault.
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Maine’s 1st ski mountain restores historic name: Pleasant Mountain
Its previous name, Shawnee Peak, was chosen in 1988 by owners who already operated Shawnee Mountain in Pennsylvania, which bears the name of a Native American tribe that was pushed west by settlers.