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Trump Administration Scales Back Plan to Dismantle Consumer Protection Bureau

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Stacy Cowley
A new filing asks a federal court to allow the White House to dismiss much of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s remaining work force, but not close the bureau entirely.

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Russell T. Vought, who is serving as the consumer bureau’s acting director, halted nearly all of the bureau’s work immediately after he arrived, and its duties went unperformed for most of last year.

Can Science Predict When a Study Won’t Hold Up?

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Carl Zimmer
Conducting research is hard; confirming the results is, too. And artificial intelligence isn’t yet ready to help, a major new study finds.

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Brian Nosek, an executive director at the Center for Open Science. In the 2010s, Dr. Nosek and colleagues replicated 100 psychology papers — and matched the original results only 39 percent of the time.

Five Takeaways From the Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship Case

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Adam Liptak and Ann E. Marimow
The justices grappled with questions about domiciles and foundlings, avoided policy debates and mused about the sweep of possible rulings.

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The case argued on Wednesday focused on the constitutionality of an executive order seeking to end citizenship for babies born on U.S. soil to undocumented immigrants and temporary foreign visitors.
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