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In June, a municipality in the Brazilian Amazon called Guajara-Mirim successfully designated the Komi Memem River, known as the Laje in non-Indigenous maps, and its tributaries as "living entities with rights, ranging from maintaining their natural flow to having the forest around them protected," per The Associated Press. It is now the first of hundreds of rivers in the region to be granted "personhood status."

At its core, Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign was predicated on a fairly straightforward proposition: elect me, and I will return the country to the stability and normalcy abandoned during the Trump administration. "The American people want their government to work, and I don't think that's too much for them to ask," Biden exclaimed at the launch of his campaign. "The country is sick of the division," he added. "They're sick of the fighting. They're sick of the childish behavior." 

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Taylor Swift has masterminded her way to another record-breaking year. 

Certainly, women have long been the ones to make purchasing decisions in the household and hold substantial economic power. According to a new consumer study, 78% of women identify as the primary shopper of their household. And despite seemingly constant barriers to entry that include a stagnant wage gap, limited family-friendly governmental policies, and the enduring "pink tax," women hold increasingly substantial economic power. 

Prosecutors in special counsel Jack Smith's office won access to a trove of former President Donald Trump's Twitter direct messages from October 2020 to January 2021 under a search warrant executed in January, a newly unsealed court document revealed Tuesday. A lawyer for Twitter, now called X, told U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell that the company had found both "deleted" and "nondeleted" DMs associated with Trump's account, and had given Smith's office "all direct messages, DMs," including those sent... Читать дальше...