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Parents and Caregivers Say PRO Act Would Harm Their Families

Article by Kim Kavin This story is part of Entrepreneur’s Campaign For Our Careers, an effort to raise awareness about the harmful effects of the PRO Act. For more about the campaign, click here. Jay Hosty is on his seventh truck after 39 years and 3.3 million miles of hauling everything from toilet paper to…


Free Your Mind From Wanting People to Be a Certain Way

We want the world to be the way we want it. Unfortunately, reality always has different plans, and people behave in less than ideal ways.


University of California System Will No Longer Consider SAT and ACT Scores for Admissions

The nine campuses of the University of California system will no longer consider standardized testing scores as part of the admission process beginning in the fall of 2021. The change is the result of a legal settlement (pdf) of a lawsuit brought by groups that claimed that the traditional SAT and ACT tests are racist….


ACT Police Found to Have Illegally Accessed Private Location Data an Estimated 1,704 Times

An investigation has revealed that the AFP’s community policing arm, the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) police, used “covert and intrusive” powers to unlawfully gain personal location information on an estimated 1,704 separate occasions between October 2015 and 2019. The report (pdf) by the Commonwealth Ombudsman, Michael Manthorpe, came after the Australian Federal Police (AFP) self-reported a…


ACT Joins Australian States in Restricting Sydneysiders Amid NSW Cluster

The Australian Capital Territory has joined every state in Australia and the Northern Territory in slapping travel restrictions on greater Sydney, as an outbreak in the city continues to grow days out from Christmas. From midnight on Sunday, the ACT will require anyone coming from greater Sydney, the Central Coast, Illawarra-Shoalhaven and Nepean Blue Mountains…