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What a Supreme Court ruling on mifepristone could mean for abortions in Mass.

Additionally, said Katherine Kraschel, assistant professor of law and health sciences at the Northeastern University School of Law, such a decision would undercut the authority of the FDA and upend the drug-approval process in ways that could drastically slow biomedical research. “It will really just undermine the FDA’s authority, and in damaging ways,” Kraschel said.
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Large language models’ emergent abilities are a mirage

For example, the trio’s paper doesn’t explain how to predict when metrics, or which ones, will show abrupt improvement in an LLM, said Tianshi Li, a computer scientist at Northeastern University.

83 Years After His Killing, a Black Soldier Gets an Army Funeral

“His name was stained, and we needed to cleanse that stain,” said Rose Zoltek-Jick, a law professor at Northeastern University and associate director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, which researches racially motivated Jim Crow-era homicides.
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Donald Trump’s $464mn bond is due on Monday. What happens next?

Some analysts warn that moving too quickly could backfire on James, a Democrat. “It’s a bit of a tightrope balance,” said Nikos Passas, a law professor at Northeastern University. 
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Will you be able to buy Trump Tower at auction? Not anytime soon

“There will be a lot of questions about the value of these assets and who else has interests in them,” said Nikos Passas, a Northeastern University law professor and asset recovery expert.
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Trump civil fraud case: New York court lowers bond to $175m and gives 10-day deadline

But that too may be a hard sell. “Meme stocks notoriously go up and down like crazy,” said Nikos Passas, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern University. “Whoever makes a decision to deal with Trump at this point will be making a political as well as a financial decision.”
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Princess Kate’s cancer diagnosis sparks discussions worldwide

Northeastern University Professor Michelle Carr, who teaches English culture and has made documentaries on the royal family, says Kate’s openness is in-line with the royals striving to be more relatable.
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60 rooms, three swimming pools, a bowling alley… Donald Trump’s home that the courts plan to seize

“Trump’s companies are organized in a very complex way and he is not the owner on paper, so a judgment against him could not be enforced directly on certain properties. It will not be easy or quick to resolve this issue,” Nikos Passas, professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern University, was quoted as saying […]
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Billionaires going to space aim to industrialize the moon, asteroids, and Mars. It’s time to set some ground rules.

“There isn’t anything specifically enforceable,” Mai’a Cross, a professor of international affairs and diplomacy at Northeastern University, told Business Insider. There are no laws or regulations for moon landings or asteroid mining.
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Large Language Models’ Emergent Abilities Are a Mirage

But other scientists point out that the work doesn’t fully dispel the notion of emergence. For example, the trio’s paper doesn’t explain how to predict when metrics, or which ones, will show abrupt improvement in an LLM, said Tianshi Li, a computer scientist at Northeastern University.
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What could happen as Trump faces deadline on half-billion-dollar bond

Legal experts say Trump has a chance of getting some type of relief from the appeals court. If James begins moving on his assets before the court rules, she may have to backtrack afterward. She also may consider the optics of moving quickly. As Nikos Passas, a Northeastern University criminology professor, put it: “She doesn’t […]
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Will Trump lose property if he can’t pay $464m in New York’s fraud ruling?

After Monday, James’s office may take actions to start seizing some of Trump’s assets. But Nikos Passas, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University, told Al Jazeera, “It’s not going to be simple.” Passas said not to expect any particularly flashy moves by the attorney general’s office if Trump fails to post his bond. Though […]