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- After a man fatally shot eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis yesterday, the shipping company said it's 'reevaluating' its policy requiring employees to lock up their cell phones during shifts.
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- Wind turbines near Spanish Fork, Utah. “Recovery from the pandemic should be only the start; we need a strategy to cure our longer-term problems of sluggish productivity growth and weak private demand,” writes New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, “Large-scale public investment, whether or not it looks like some people’s idea of infrastructure, is the way forward.”.
- 2 days ago Krugman riffed on Twitter that Republicans were “only” worried about the country’s ballooning national debt and illegal immigration compared to Democrats who, according to a.
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— Nature & Animals🌴 (@AnimalsWorId) April 16, 2021Krugman tweeted that “someone compromised” his IP address to download “child pornography.” In. 2 days ago Krugman knocked Republicans on Twitter for 'only' being concerned about illegal immigration and the deficit in comparison to Democrats, who according to a Pew study are overwhelmingly concerned.
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