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When scientists apply weak magnetic fields, they reverse the direction these currents spin, and as a result, the preferred direction of current flow in the metal changes.

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Among those who criticized the decision, which was reversed by South Carolina’s Supreme Court, was Harmeet Dhillon, the San Francisco attorney who now heads the Justice Department’s beleaguered Civil Rights Division.

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The Supreme Court reversed earlier court rulings in three test cases which said that hidden commissions on car loans were unlawful.

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But the policy was reversed in 2019 by her successor Sajid Javid, who made it easier to making it easier for officers to search people without reasonable suspicion in places where serious violence may occur.

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Most contentiously, these rollbacks to Medicaid cuts would reverse restrictions that made immigrants who are generally present in the country legally, such as refugees and asylum-seekers, ineligible for Medicaid and ACA coverage.

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