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 Here’s how Democrats could replace Biden
POLITICO · Steven Shepard
The party would need to open a rulebook not used in decades — and for Biden to drop out in the first place.
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 Ten Commandments, multiple variations
Associated Press · Holly Meyer and Peter Smith
Why the Louisiana law requiring the biblical text to hang in public school and state-funded college classrooms raises preferential treatment concerns.
 Born and broken in the USA
airmail.news · Steven Hyden
The glory days of the heartland Bruce Springsteen evoked on “Born in the U.S.A.” 40 years ago feel like a distant memory in today’s America.
 We finally know why some people got COVID-19 while others didn’t
The Conversation UK · Marko Nikolic and Kaylee Worlock
Unvaccinated healthy volunteers with no history of having the disease were exposed to the virus. They fell into three distinct infection groups.
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 The ‘Crime of the Century,’ a century later
Smithsonian Magazine · Chris Klimek
The Leopold and Loeb murder case triggered a media frenzy and a debate over whether anyone can know what’s inside the mind of a cold-blooded killer.
 Is it better to forget your past or keep revisiting it?
bigthink.com · Jonny Thomson
The pros and cons of thinking back. Plus, a look at Nietzsche’s idea of selective forgetting and Burke’s beauty of the terrible.
 An epic road trip over and under the Atlantic Ocean
BBC Travel · Mike MacEacheran
With tourism set to reach an all-time high in the Faroe Islands, travelers should seek out the archipelago’s slower roads and sub-sea tunnels.
 Why Gemini’s data-analyzing abilities aren’t as good as Google claims
TechCrunch · Kyle Wiggers
Models like Gemini 1.5 Pro can technically process long contexts, but they “don’t actually ‘understand’ the content.”
 The story of how one skydiver survived a 14,000-foot fall
ESPN · Kalan Hooks
Emma Carey has told her story hundreds of times. People are amazed by it, inspired by it. But she is more than it.
 These best boys and girls just graduated from the ATF’s National Canine Academy
NPR · Ryan Lucas
“They’re ready to hit the streets, serve the public and protect their communities.”
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