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Ted Cruz in Jeopardy in Texas, Republican Internal Poll Suggests

“Texas voters have had reservations about Ted Cruz for years,” Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, told Newsweek. “He only squeaked by narrowly to win re-election in 2018. 
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Project 2025 dietary rollbacks would limit fight against ultra-processed foods

Today, ultra-processed foods make up 73% of the US food supply, according to Northeastern University, and provide the average US adult with more than 60% of their daily calories. 
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‘Paradise lost’ Trump holding rallies in liberal cities, trashes them

Trump may be diverting resources away from swing states, not to woo voters, but to send a message to his base elsewhere, according to Northeastern University political science professor Costas Panagopoulos.
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No reason to think Donald Trump’s claims about migrant crime are true – and no exact data to prove that they aren’t

“In the absence of perfect data – and there’s no such thing – political rhetoric sort of fills that gap,” said Ramiro Martinez, a quantitative criminologist at Northeastern University.
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Justice Department calls for sanctions against Google in landmark antitrust case

But in between the lines of all this, the government worked in the idea of, quote, “structural remedies.” I spoke to John Kwoka to explain what that means. He’s a professor at Northeastern University and an expert on antitrust matters.
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How Uber and Lyft Used a Loophole to Deny NYC Drivers Millions in Pay

We thank Dana Calacci (Pennsylvania State University), Christo Wilson (Northeastern University), Michael Reich (University of California Berkeley) and James A. Parrott (The New School) for comments on an earlier draft of our methodology. 
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America’s 250th birthday, the World Cup, the Olympics: the vibes promise to be much different under Trump or Harris

Public criticism like that from Trump is unlikely to affect those major global sporting events, said Dan Lebowitz, executive director of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University.
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Stephen Flynn is a professor of political science at Northeastern University, a former Coast Guard officer and has become a ports obsessive.
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Kamala Harris’ Poll Lead Trails Biden and Clinton’s at Same Stage

Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, told Newsweek: “It’s tempting to overinterpret observations like these, but they are not necessarily apples-to-apples comparisons. Many things differed across cycles, including the candidates, poll methodologies, and political climate.”
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It’s Hard to Work Through a Disaster Like Milton

That’s one idea that came up in my interview with John Bai, an associate finance professor at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business, as a not-entirely-far-fetched answer to the kinds of natural disasters that are devastating parts of the US with increasing—and increasingly unnerving—frequency.
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54 million COVID cases went unreported in 2022, study says. Here’s how to make your at-home test count

Between Feb. 1, 2022, and Jan. 1, 2023, an estimated 54 million adult COVID cases were unaccounted for in official records, according to a national study published Sept. 30 in the journal JAMA Network Open.
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Mary Queen of Scots: Decoded letters from captivity reveal a monarch ‘unfiltered’

Professor Estelle Paranque of Northeastern University in London has been working with the decoded Mary Queen of Scots letters.