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Racial disparity in Chicago cops’ use of force laid bare in new data

Analysis of a trove of data extracted from the Chicago Police Department has revealed major differences between how black and white officers, as well as male and female ones, actually enforce the law.

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Rebuilding transatlantic alliance is Biden's 'mission impossible'

Editor's note: Liu Kun is a journalist with China Plus and former Washington correspondent of CRI. The article reflects the author's opinions and not necessarily the views of CGTN.Europe, in gener

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Struggling to sleep? The moon may be to blame

New research ties the phase of the moon to our circadian rhythms, even among people who live in urban settings.

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UN poll finds no appetite for plant-based diets to fix climate change

Legumes are a nutritious staple around the world. /CFP The world's biggest ever survey on climate change shows that people are thinking green, just not when it comes to their dinner plates.The

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Remote workers are greener, but their tech still has a real carbon cost

The massive shift to remote work due to COVID-19 has resulted in a huge reduction in emissions from vehicles and other sources, but it comes with costs of its own. A new study puts tentative carbon co

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The Spotlight: Gina Raimondo, low-key Biden pick for a critical job

Amid the guessing games over who would fill President-elect Joe Biden's cabinet, one of the names to receive little coverage was his pick for commerce secretary – Gina Raimondo.Raimondo, a two-term g

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Two ex-Sequoia VCs: the most ‘compelling emerging market’ may be America, outside of Silicon Valley

Roughly eight years ago, investors Mark Kvamme and Chris Olsen left Silicon Valley to open a venture firm, Drive Capital, in Columbus, Ohio. It wasn’t an easy decision. Leaving California wasn&#

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Woman power to lead Biden's justice team

In coming months, all eyes will be on the U.S. Justice Department as the American people metabolize the embarrassment, shock, fury and horror of the Capitol chaos into lessons learned and lessons

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Coral Vita cultivates $2M seed to take its reef restoration mission global

Coral reefs all over the world are struggling to survive, with millions of people and billions of dollars in business that rely on them at risk — on top of the fundamental tragedy of losing such a cru

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Britain to allow mixing COVID-19 vaccines on rare occasions

Senior citizens get vaccinated in their cars at a drive-in vaccination center in Manchester, northwest England, December 17, 2020. /CFP Britain will allow people to be given shots of different

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U.S. law school names center after the first Chinese American lawyer

Gillian Lester, dean of Columbia Law School (CLS), and Lucy G. Moses, professor of law, announced that the school's Center for Chinese Legal Studies will be named in honor of the school's first Chine

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Son of influential U.S. scholar Ezra Vogel pays tribute to late father

Editor's note: CGTN is publishing this obituary with permission from Ezra Vogel's son Steven Vogel, a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley.Ezra F. Vogel, 90, on

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Janet Yellen, a 'safe' pair of hands to steer the U.S. economy

Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen is in the spotlight after being named byU.S. President-elect Joe Biden as his nominee for treasury secretary. And the pressure is on to help revive the U.S. economy a

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Benchmark fills out its, yes, bench, with Miles Grimshaw

Benchmark, the storied venture firm, has brought aboard a fifth general partner: 29-year-old Miles Grimshaw, a Yale graduate who joins the outfit from Thrive Capital, where he similarly joined a team

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Biden picks Capitol Hill staffer as U.S. trade representative: report

President-elect Joe Biden has selected Katherine Tai, the House Ways and Means Committee's chief trade lawyer, to serve as U.S. trade representative, Politico reported on Wednesday, citing two people

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Biden picks infectious diseases specialist to lead CDC: report

President-elect Joe Biden has chosen Dr. Rochelle Walensky, chief of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, to head the Centers for Disease Control and

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There’s no ‘hacker house’ geared toward undergraduate women, so they created one of their own

Hacker houses are making a comeback for entrepreneurs as remote work drags on. While founders are adapting to quarantine in style, a group of college women in their 20s aren’t waiting until they are d