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"Call it the Big Whiff — last year at this time, most economists, many journalists and a lot of regular folks felt certain that the U.S. was headed into recession," Axios reports."We weren't. The failure of the U.S. economy to, well, fail in 2023 was one of the year's biggest and happiest surp

Here on Techdirt, we've written about a bunch of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight shows that are quite frequently directly in agreement with what we write about on Techdirt. We're often impressed at the level of detail and nuance he's able to approach complex issues with, while (of course) keeping things quite funny. I know…

Monitoring the air in and around the town of west, texas. its not clear how many people have been exposed to this kind of ammonia. the gas coming from this fertilizer plant. its a gas used to make fertilizer at the plant. buti but its fumes can be very dangerous. suffocating, can cause blistering, can cause chemical burns if it stays in the body. this is a serious situation, elizabeth cohen, medical correspondent. senior medical correspondent, talk a little bit about the impact of the gas from t...