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Some adherents of QAnon are running for public office, but some others have committed violent acts or threatened them, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
CITIGROUP PUTS EMPLOYEE WHO RAN QANON WEBSITE ON PAID LEAVEKDUNN6SEPTEMBER 17, 2020FORTUNEWith Election Day just seven weeks away, the act is unlikely to become law during this session of Congress.
BILL TO TEAR DOWN FEDERAL COURTS’ PAYWALL GAINS MOMENTUM IN CONGRESSTIMOTHY B. LEESEPTEMBER 16, 2020ARS TECHNICAOn July 31, the weekly $600 unemployment checks that were sent out thanks to the CARES act officially expired.
WHY LAWMAKERS MAY CHOOSE A MORE TARGETED APPROACH FOR THE SECOND ROUND OF COVID STIMULUSARIC JENKINSSEPTEMBER 16, 2020FORTUNEEvery eligible voter’s vote should be counted and not canceled out by fraudulent acts.
NO DEMOCRATS ALLOWED: A CONSERVATIVE LAWYER HOLDS SECRET VOTER FRAUD MEETINGS WITH STATE ELECTION OFFICIALSBY MIKE SPIES, JAKE PEARSON AND JESSICA HUSEMANSEPTEMBER 15, 2020PROPUBLICAThe governor should forget about it until after the pandemic and legislators get their acts back together.
SACRAMENTO REPORT: BIPARTISAN SUPPORT FOR A SPECIAL SESSIONSARA LIBBYSEPTEMBER 11, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOSome people find the act of using the Surface Duo as a phone awkward, with the wide device folded in half pressed to your ear, but I got used to it pretty quickly.
REVIEW OF THE MICROSOFT SURFACE DUO FOLDING PHONE: VERY PRETTY BUT JUST HOW USEFUL IS IT?AARON PRESSMANSEPTEMBER 10, 2020FORTUNEAccording to that law, platforms are not responsible for content posted by users and must remove such content only if a court order specifies what crime or illegal act was committed.
BRAZIL’S “FAKE NEWS” BILL WON’T SOLVE ITS MISINFORMATION PROBLEMAMY NORDRUMSEPTEMBER 10, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWIndeed, the very act of believing involves taking yourself to have good reasons for the belief in question.
THE UNIVERSE KNOWS RIGHT FROM WRONG - ISSUE 89: THE DARK SIDEPHILIP GOFFSEPTEMBER 9, 2020NAUTILUSStill, the simple act of noticing how I felt each day gave me a framework to interpret the signals my body was sending.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PERIOD TRACKINGCHRISTINE YUSEPTEMBER 6, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEHe caught himself in the act of listening to you too credulously—and that seemed to him unmanly and dishonorable.
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMESWORDS RELATED TO ACT
- accomplishment
- achievement
- act
- aim
- application
- aspiration
- attempt
- battle
- crack
- creation
- deed
- discipline
- drill
- elbow grease
- endeavor
- energy
- enterprise
- essay
- exercise
- feat
- fling
- force
- go
- industry
- intention
- job
- labor
- old college try
- pains
- power
- product
- production
- pull
- purpose
- push
- resolution
- shot
- spurt
- stab
- strain
- stress
- stretch
- strife
- striving
- struggle
- sweat
- tension
- toil
- training
- travail
- trial
- trouble
- try
- tug
- undertaking
- venture
- whack
- accomplishments
- achievements
- acts
- aims
- applications
- aspirations
- attempts
- battles
- cracks
- creations
- deeds
- disciplines
- drills
- elbow greases
- endeavors
- energies
- enterprises
- essays
- exercises
- feats
- flings
- forces
- go
- industries
- intentions
- jobs
- labors
- old college tries
- pains
- powers
- productions
- products
- pulls
- purposes
- pushes
- resolutions
- shots
- spurts
- stabs
- strains
- stresses
- stretches
- strife
- strivings
- struggles
- sweats
- tensions
- toil
- trainings
- travails
- trials
- tries
- troubles
- tugs
- undertakings
- ventures
- whacks
- accident
- act
- action
- advent
- adventure
- affair
- appearance
- business
- calamity
- case
- catastrophe
- celebration
- ceremony
- chance
- circumstance
- coincidence
- conjuncture
- crisis
- deed
- development
- emergency
- episode
- experience
- exploit
- fact
- function
- holiday
- incident
- juncture
- marvel
- matter
- milestone
- miracle
- misfortune
- mishap
- mistake
- occasion
- occurrence
- pass
- phase
- phenomenon
- predicament
- proceeding
- shift
- situation
- story
- thing
- tide
- transaction
- triumph
- turn
- wonder
- accomplish
- achieve
- act
- administer
- administrate
- bring off
- bring to fruition
- cause
- come through
- complete
- consummate
- deal with
- discharge
- do
- do the job
- do the trick
- do to a T
- earn wings
- effect
- enact
- enforce
- finish
- fulfill
- get there
- govern
- hack it
- implement
- make it
- meet
- percolate
- perform
- polish off
- prosecute
- pull off
- put into effect
- put over
- put through
- realize
- render
- sail through
- score
- take care of
- take care of business
- transact
- accomplishes
- achieves
- acts
- administers
- administrates
- brings off
- brings to fruition
- causes
- comes through
- completes
- consummates
- deals with
- discharges
- does
- does the job
- does the trick
- does to a T
- earns wings
- effects
- enacts
- enforces
- finishes
- fulfills
- gets there
- governs
- hacks it
- hits
- implements
- makes it
- meets
- percolates
- performs
- plays
- polishes off
- prosecutes
- pulls off
- puts into effect
- puts over
- puts through
- realizes
- renders
- sails through
- scores
- takes care of
- takes care of business
- transacts
- accomplishment
- act
- action
- actuality
- adventure
- affair
- being
- case
- circumstance
- conception
- consideration
- construction
- creation
- data
- datum
- deed
- entity
- episode
- evidence
- experience
- factor
- fait accompli
- feature
- happening
- incident
- information
- item
- manifestation
- occurrence
- organism
- particular
- performance
- phenomenon
- point
- proceeding
- specific
- statistic
- transaction
- truism
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