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In Seattle, when you find issues that the city should fix, there’s an app to let them know. And there are a lot of requests. So we got curious about how it all works and ended up on a cleanup run with ...

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Every major technological shift comes part and parcel with a predictable pattern: early adopters chase the technology itself because it’s popular, new, trendy, to support an investor decision and so ...

Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic former House Speaker, announced her retirement on Thursday. Pelosi, the only woman to ever hold the office of House Speaker, said she would not seek ...