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☆ 8 women who made history in the 2024 election: ‘It’s humbling to win’
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-06 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Elect Kyle Gay embrace on stage during an election night watch party Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Wilmington, Del. In Delaware, Sarah McBride became the first openly transgender member of Congress after winning the state's only House seat. Here are 8 women who made history with their election wins:Angela AlsobrooksSenator-elect Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) arrives on stage to speak after winning Election results were announced, during the Angela Alsobrooks' Election Night party hosted by the Maryland Democratic Party, on Election Day, Tuesday, November 5, 2024, in College Park, Maryland. Thirteen women are set to take office as governor in 2025, beating the previous record of 12 women serving as governor simultaneously. The former trial attorney told People Magazine "it's humbling to win" in a state as historically conservative as Texas.

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☆ ‘Birds Are My Eyesight’
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Alexandra Marvar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +14 min

‘Birds Are My Eyesight’ For some blind birders, avian soundscapes are a way to map the world around them. Cheer up, cheer, cheer. Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty.” Northern Cardinal Watch here! Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty. To some, the Northern cardinal sounds like it’s saying “pretty, pretty, pretty.” Audubon Vermont compares its call to a Star Wars light saber.

Persons: Susan Glass, ”, “, Michael Hurben Ms, Glass, martin, lockdowns, Sarah Courchesne, Courchesne, Freya McGregor, birdsong, Jim Wilson, cheerily, Robin Cheer, Jerry Berrier, Berrier, Berrier's, Kayana, Berrier’s, ’, Jerry Berrier Mr, that’s, ” Mr, ‘, ’ ”, I’ve, ” Trevor Attenberg, Mr, Attenberg, Hurben, —, Michael Hurben, Claire Strohmeyer, piha, trekked, Werner Herzog’s, “ Aguirre, I’ll Organizations: West Valley Community College, Massachusetts Audubon, New York Times, Audubon Society, New Haven Birding Club, ”, “, The New York Times, Baltimore oriole, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Watch, Audubon, Star, Ornithologists Locations: Saratoga , Calif, Pittsburgh, Erie, Michigan, Massachusetts, Newburyport, Cape Cod, Colombian, Ipswich, Malden , Mass, Audubon Vermont, Portland ,, Mexican, U.S, California, Bloomington, Minn, Cape, N.J, Brazil

☆ A 15-Year Startup Pins Hopes on Green Subsidies
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Phred Dvorak | Photographs Kayana Szymczak For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ A U.S. Startup’s 15-Year Struggle to Survive China’s Solar Grip
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Phred Dvorak | Photographs Kayana Szymczak For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Opinion: Banning TikTok isn’t just a bad idea. It’s a dangerous one
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( Evan Greer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —The US government is racing ahead with proposals aimed at banning TikTok, the viral video platform used by more than 150 million Americans. Banning TikTok won’t make us safer from China’s surveillance operations. But banning TikTok isn’t just foolish and dangerous, it’s also unconstitutional. You do that by passing a strong national data privacy law that bans companies from collecting more data about us than they need to provide us with the service we’ve requested. Join us on Twitter and FacebookIt’s a national embarrassment that we have no basic data privacy law in the United States.

SANDWICH, Mass.—Rob Martin eases the throttle on his 40-foot boat, pulls on his work gloves and prepares to hoist a string of lobster traps from the seafloor below. But instead of looking for a buoy tethered to the traps on the bottom, as lobstermen typically do when checking their traps, he listens for telltale beeps from an electronic device mounted in the wheelhouse. “I can look at my plotter and see where all my gear is,” Mr. Martin, who has fished the waters off Cape Cod for 42 years, said during a recent outing offshore. “Once you start using this stuff, it’s pretty simple.”

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