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Why ICE's body camera policies make the videos unlikely to improve accountability and transparency -- Stephanie Lessing, UMass Boston

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Supreme Court rules against Trump's emergency tariffs – but leaves key questions unanswered -- Kent Jones, Babson College

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'Probably' doesn't mean the same thing to your AI as it does to you -- Mayank Kejriwal, University of Southern California

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I study why zebrafish larva prefer to circle left or right, to understand how and why human brains encode right- and left-handedness -- Eric Horstick, West Virginia University

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With Artemis II facing delays, NASA announces big structural changes to the lunar program -- Marcos Fernandez Tous, University of North Dakota

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