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The White House released a list of Smithsonian exhibits and items it objects to due to what it says is “woke ideology.” This comes on the heels of a letter the White House sent to the Smithsonian ...

The White House on Thursday released a list of Smithsonian exhibits and artwork it finds objectionable, amid President Donald Trump's criticism of the institution as being too "woke." The list, ...

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For Java-based programs such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle or Tomcat to run, they need to know that Java's JDK is installed. That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs ...