The discussion included who is voting, whether votes are being tabulated correctly, voter suppression tactics, the risk of artificial intelligence intervening in the process, and how to ensure candidates win fairly.
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Julia Avant,
CBS News,
18 Aug. 2026
After the 2020 votes were tabulated and the Electoral College cast its ballots, dozens of courts rejected election fraud claims for lack of sufficient evidence, and state officials from both parties certified the results.
Last week the Department of Health and Human Services posted a request for public input on how vaccines are categorized.
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Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
25 Aug. 2026
This revealed that the globular clusters at the heart of our galaxy can be categorized in three distinct ways based upon their age and their metallicity, a measure of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, which astronomers refer to as metals.
Gayle Conran Each of the ryokans served set meals, kaiseki-style, elaborately arranged, with an array of 12 or more small lacquer and porcelain dishes.
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Everett Potter,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2026
The printing process can also control how different materials are arranged, allowing different sections of an object to respond differently.
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Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Aug. 2026
The number of food recalls classified by the Food and Drug Administration through August this year is running below historical levels.
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Dian Zhang,
USA Today,
28 Aug. 2026
An autopsy identified multiple injuries, and the DuPage County Coroner’s Office ultimately determined that his death was caused by injuries resulting from child abuse and classified the death as a homicide, the news release said.
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Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Aug. 2026
This is a problem in and of itself - implying that the field is either not well-codified or taken seriously enough to measure.
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Jamil Wyne,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2026
The center was codified and signed into law by Congress in the 2023 annual defense policy bill, which also required the Pentagon to publicly release an annual report about the center's work, like the one published last month.
According to new reporting by Reuters, which indexed data compiled by the research firm Data Center Watch, there are now hundreds of billions of dollars exposed to the growing risk of local opposition.
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Joe Wilkins,
Futurism,
12 Aug. 2026
Think, for example, of Social Security being effectively indexed to growth and not just inflation.
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Kenneth S. Rogoff,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Aug. 2026
The search for Earth twins Since the 1990s, scientists have cataloged more than 6,300 worlds orbiting stars other than our sun.
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Noah Haggerty,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Aug. 2026
Unlike many conditions catalogued under the umbrella term of dementia, childhood dementias are often caused by mutations in a single gene that happen to trigger similar mechanisms responsible for adult-onset neurodegeneration.
Mosquito traps have now been installed at the airport, Fraport said, adding that the mosquitos captured will be genetically analyzed by the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, to determine their species and origin.
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Sophie Tanno,
CNN Money,
27 Aug. 2026
However, The Next Web analyzed the upcoming phase of tariffs and noted that the Commerce Department submitted a report on July 1 that would determine if the data center exemption would survive.
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