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TL/DR - The federal government has made available a billion dollars to aid state and local governments in updating building codes. These modern codes aim to improve energy efficiency and resilience against climate impacts, as well as enhance insurability. According to one estimate, every dollar spent on code modernization can yield a tenfold…

TL/DR - The next set of documents related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have been released, comprising roughly half the number released earlier, which included around 40 documents of hundreds of pages of testimony and legal filings. The documents are from the defamation lawsuit Virginia Giuffre filed against Epstein associate Ghislaine…

TL/DR - Documents released by House Democrats show that Donald Trump's businesses received at least $7.8 million from 20 foreign governments, mainly China, during his presidency. The transactions, detailed in the 156-page report called “White House For Sale,” could violate the Constitution which prohibits a president from accepting money or gifts…

TL/DR - The article discusses the issue of soil degradation in American agriculture, which costs farmers and taxpayers billions of dollars annually. The Inflation Reduction Act has provided nearly $20 billion to federal conservation programs aiming to rebuild healthy soil, but this funding is at risk of being repurposed to subsidize the nation’s…