The State Department says China’s surveillance balloons have flown over more than 40 countries and can collect communications signals.

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In his second State of the Union address, President Biden touted his administration’s policies on healthcare and medical research which will result in savings on medical costs for many Americans says Cornell University professor Nick Fabrizio.

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During his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden called for a focus on police reform as seven additional Memphis police employees fall under investigation for the death of Tyre Nichols, but reforming police culture across nation is a shared responsibility says Cornell University professor Joseph Margulies.

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Geoffrey Abers is a geophysicist and chair of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University and says this earthquake was particularly destructive because it occurred on land at shallow depths in the Earth’s crust.

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Tom Pepinsky is a professor of government and director of the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University, he says the deal is a major development in U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy.

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Rick Geddes, professor of policy analysis and management at Cornell University and founding director of the Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy, says that the Gateway Project is one of the country’s most important infrastructure projects today.

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YouTube Shorts are now eligible for monetization, granting content creators a share of the revenue generated from viewership.

Social & Behavioral Sciences

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President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are scheduled to meet today at the White House in an effort to reach a resolution on the nation’s debt ceiling, but Biden should ignore calls for negotiation says Cornell Law School professor Robert Hockett.

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Mor Naaman, professor of information science at Cornell University and associate dean at Cornell Tech, researches the trustworthiness of our information ecosystem. He says the technology is – as usual – racing ahead with no guardrails.

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New York Representative George Santos has told GOP colleagues that he is temporarily stepping back from his congressional committee assignments as he faces multiple investigations, but 'we're now paying George Santos not to do the hard work’ says professor and former congressman Steve Israel. 

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