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Biden, Trump prep for presidential debate that will highlight mental fitness

Alan Schroeder, professor emeritus of journalism at Northeastern University, sees some risk in the less formal approach for Trump, who like Biden has not debated in four years after eschewing face-offs with his Republican primary challengers.
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Five things, plus a Celtics rolling rally, summer solstice, CIO awards, minority businesses and more penguins

Northeastern University’s new proposal to Boston’s planning agency lays out a redevelopment wishlist for the next decade, including a new life sciences research complex and a 1,000-bed building to replace a dorm hall, Greg Ryan reports
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Instagram teens are regularly recommended sexual and explicit videos, new report finds

The child safety findings are based on two different site experiments conducted by the Wall Street Journal and Northeastern University computer science professor Laura Edelson.
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Nuclear Terrorism ‘Risks Are High,’ Researchers Warn

“The issue of nuclear terrorism remains very much a real one. There are enormous stakes involved and the risks are high, but the issue has been falling off the radar screen of the American public over the last 15 years, and the skill set of people involved in managing it is aging out,” said Stephen […]
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The deceptive Biden G7 video was quickly debunked, but it kept going viral anyway

Laura Edelson, an assistant professor of computer sciences at Northeastern University, said that the people behind the misleading claims are benefiting from tech companies’ cost-cutting. 
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Instagram Recommends Sexual Videos to Accounts for 13-Year-Olds, Tests Show

Separate testing by the Journal and Laura Edelson, a computer-science professor at Northeastern University, used similar methodology, involving setting up new accounts with ages listed as 13. The accounts then watched Instagram’s curated video stream, known as Reels.
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Supreme Court Has Lost ‘Benefit of the Doubt,’ Ex-Clerk Warns

Dan Urman, a law professor at Northeastern University who specializes in the Supreme Court, previously told Newsweek that given the number of cases that the court still has yet to decide this term, more opinion dates are likely to be added before the end of next week.
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Cambridge is considering a controversial approach to saving local news: Having the city pay for it.

“We want local news organizations to be able to cover government and other institutions and keep an eye on them — not always in an adversarial way, but always in an independent way,” said Dan Kennedy, the Northeastern journalism professor and media critic. “If you’re going to have a direct transfer of money from local […]
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Unearthed home remnants belonged to one of colonial New England’s first Black property owners

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire and Northeastern University teamed up and found the remnants of a home that once belonged to one of the first Black property owners in colonial New England.

Juneteenth is helping families discover details about enslaved ancestors

Families can trace their connections to these places and visit to recapture their past, Kabria Baumgartner, Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at Northeastern University, tells Axios.
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Supreme Court Changes Its Schedule

Dan Urman, a law professor who specializes in the Supreme Court at Northeastern University, told Newsweek that the announcement is expected given the number of cases that the court still has yet to decide this term, and that more dates are likely to be added before the end of next week.
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Dozens killed, hundreds injured in shootings nationwide over Father’s Day weekend

By this point last year, the country had already had six mass killings – defined as an attack in which four or more people are killed – in public places, according to James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology, law and public policy at Northeastern University in Boston who oversees the database.