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Saturday April 27th, 2024 night edition

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But think about what it says about both where Trump has delivered this country, and about Alito’s assumptions about democracy.

On the former point: Have we now reached a place where challenges to election results are going to be the norm?

Where an opposition party can be counted on to find some legal technicality on which to prosecute a former president, rather than leaving him or her in peace as we have throughout our history?.

This is another twisting of reality.

Trump, his defenders would protest, is the one former president who has not been left in peace.

As The New Yorker reported in a 2022 profile, Alito was asked in 2014 to name a character trait that hadn’t served him well.

Indeed, Alito now seems to be saying whatever he wants in public, often with a snide pugnaciousness that suggests his past decorum was suppressing considerable resentment. »

Giant velociraptor bigger than Jurassic Park imaginings discovered

Authored by telegraph.co.uk
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Now a giant raptor even bigger than Michael Crichton’s imaginings has been discovered in South Korea, and it would have dwarfed both its real and fictional counterparts.

“When people think of raptor dinosaurs, they most likely think of those in the Jurassic Park movies – human-sized, muscly, aggressive hunters.

“This raptor was around 5-metres-long with 1.8 metre-long legs, far exceeding the size of the raptors depicted in Jurassic Park. »

Louisiana man sentenced to 50 years in prison, physical castration for raping teen

Authored by cbsnews.com
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A Louisiana man has been sentenced to decades in prison and physical castration after pleading guilty to raping a teenager, according to a news release from the region's district attorney.

The assaults resulted in pregnancy, and a DNA test confirmed that Sullivan was the father of the child, the district attorney's office said.

A 2008 Louisiana law says that men convicted of certain rape offenses may be sentenced to chemical castration. »

We might be closer to changing course on climate change than we realized

Authored by vox.com

Yet at the same time, the world may be closer than ever to turning a corner in the effort to corral climate change.

This is a clear sign that efforts to limit climate change are having a durable impact.

Since they’re closely tracked commercial commodities, there are robust estimates for their contributions to climate change and how they change over time. »