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2021-09-14 16:56:44 Religion : NPR
With Taliban's Rise, India Sees Renewed Threat In Kashmir

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2021-09-14 13:17:55 The New Yorker Radio Hour
The Insidious Procedural Traps of the Texas Abortion Law


The new Texas law Senate Bill 8 effectively outlaws abortion in Texas, violating constitutional protections on reproductive rights. Yet the Supreme Court is in no rush to review it. The law professor and staff writer Jeannie Suk Gersen speaks with Leah Litman, a law professor at the University of Michigan. They examine the novel ways in which the law insulates itself from judicial review. “It seems like the Texas law is an onion, with layers upon layers of unconstitutionality,” Suk Gersen notes. “It’s basically saying to the courts, ‘We’ll do your job for you. You are cut out of this.’ ”
Plus, Jia Tolentino talks with the pop musician Caroline Polachek, as the singer-songwriter gets ready to play her first live concert since March of 2020, for the biggest crowd of her career.

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2021-09-14 12:11:47 IELTS Energy English Podcast
IELTS Energy 1084: Punctuation Mistakes That Give you a Band 6


Get your estimated IELTS Band Score. Take the IELTS Quiz at https://www.allearsenglish.com/myscore
You may not have realized that punctuation errors can lower both your grammar and cohesion/coherence scores on IELTS Writing! Listen in today for tips that will help you avoid the most common punctuation errors!

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2021-09-14 10:38:12 camion Open / Comment

2021-09-14 10:12:04 Word of the Day
asperity


Definition: (noun) Harshness of manner; ill temper or irritability.
Synonyms: sharpness.
Usage: Mr. Nickleby looked very indignant at the handmaid on being thus corrected, and demanded with much asperity what she meant.
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2021-09-14 09:40:21 Word of the Day
Word of the Day: fortuitous


This word has appeared in 71 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?

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2021-09-14 09:21:42 responsive Open / Comment

2021-09-14 08:56:30 Religion : NPR
Militia Leader Gets 53-Year Sentence In Minnesota Mosque Bombing

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2021-09-14 08:11:32 IELTS Energy English Podcast
IELTS Energy Bonus: Slang for IELTS (and a Free Webclass!)


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2021-09-14 07:39:39 Idiom of the Day
catch (the) headlines


To be featured on the headlines of news articles, as due to being particularly important, popular, fashionable, etc. Watch the video

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