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TL/DR - The Buncombe County Election Services will conduct machine testing following the regular Board of Elections meeting. During the meeting, the Board of Elections plans to review the absentee ballot process. Both the meeting and the machine testing will be live streamed. Buncombe County Board of Elections Machine Testing and Meeting…

TL/DR - Stanford University physicists Steve Kivelson and Peter Michelson have expressed concern over the potential non-renewal of the Agreement between the United States and China on Cooperation in Science and Technology. They argue that the agreement fosters open and transparent scientific cooperation, and its lapse can lead to detrimental…

TL/DR - Richard Burr, a former North Carolina representative who spent nearly three decades in Congress, discussed his political career, his thoughts on polarization, and the impeachment of Donald Trump in an interview with Harvard Political Review. He expressed his belief that the politicization of Congress has been exacerbated by TV coverage…

TL/DR - A man named Ivan Munoz-Ortiz is in custody after allegedly stabbing his ex-girlfriend multiple times in the neck outside a car wash in Tempe, Arizona. The victim, found by police in the parking lot, reported her injuries included a cut trachea and punctured artery; she was then rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery and remains in…