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GOP grudgingly accepts Trump’s midterm message even as he ‘doesn’t have a lot to boast of’
President Donald Trump’s midterm message isn’t the strategy Republicans would have chosen, but they’re embracing it anyway. The 80-year-old president has settled on a midterm message built around branding Democrats as communists, and Republicans are grudgingly going along as administration officials struggle to defend Trump’s economic record heading into November, reported MS NOW. “Where things…
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Confessions of a Token Black Professor
Illustrations by Erin Jia As you cross the Androscoggin River into Lewiston, you pass on your left the waterfalls that once set the mills to humming. On your right, affixed to a pockmarked brick mill—now defunct, it had spun tens of thousands of bedspreads a week—a 30-foot-wide neon sign reads HOPEFUL. And so I was.…
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Zoox to begin paid rides following first-of-its-kind regulatory approval
Zoox, the Amazon-owed autonomous taxi company founded in 2014, will launch its first paid rides in Las Vegas on Monday. The company’s robotaxis differ from others already on the road because they do not have driver’s controls such as a steering wheel or gas pedal. The pill-shaped vehicles can drive in either direction and include…
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A new housing politics is taking shape on the left
Los Angeles offers one of the most vivid examples of our nation’s broken housing system: a quintessentially American expanse of traffic-clogged roads and single-family homes, coupled with the highest home-price-to-household-income ratio of any major city in the country. To moderate prices, LA urgently needs to build more homes by allowing more density in its neighborhoods…
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‘Splintering’ GOP slams door on Hegseth: ‘What’s your Plan B?’
Despite pleas and threats from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Senate Republicans left for their summer break without handing him more money that he insists he needs. According to a report from Politico, GOP unity is “splintering under the weight of President Donald Trump’s party-line push” for the biggest defense budget in modern history. Senators departed…
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Meet the adorable and fluffy heir to Howie Rose’s legacy already taking over Citi Field
Put it in the woofs. Legendary Mets sportscaster Howie Roseis leaving behind a living, breathing legacy after four decades behind the mic in the form of a tiny but brave golden pooch. A service dog-to-be using Citi Field as his training grounds is the first to inherit the long-time radio broadcaster’s name — an honor…
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The 108-Degree Eviction
Photographs by Mikayla Whitmore On any other day when the high was forecast to be 108 degrees, Susie Tyson would not have left her Las Vegas apartment. The stroke she’d had at 30 made her sensitive to the heat, she found; at 67, going out during Nevada’s hottest months would make her dizzy, nauseous, and,…
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A California Program Is Bringing Down the Cost of Heat Pumps by Buying Bulk
When heat waves descended on California this summer, Shreyas Sudhakar, founder and chief executive officer of heat pump installation firm Vayu, took his chance. Just 54 percent of homes in the state have central air-conditioning, but rising temperatures are making cooling a must-have. Sudhakar saw the hot weather as an opportunity to sign up multiple…
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How ‘Shrinking’ helped Jessica Williams work through a ‘traumatic’ time in her life
Jessica Williams always goes to bed laughing. “Everything’s so sad,” the actor explains. “Not taking yourself seriously is the only way, because otherwise I would just be upset, especially as a Black woman in the year 2026. I hate when people are on ‘The Bachelor’ and they’re like, ‘I love laughing,’ but it’s true. I…
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Defiant MAGA rep demands voters suck it up and pay more because Iran could nuke Florida
Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) took to Fox Business on Monday morning to defend President Donald Trump’s deeply unpopular war against Iran, arguing that Americans paying “a little bit more” for gasoline was a worthy trade-off given Iran could target Orlando, Florida with a nuclear weapon. Fine was asked about the U.S. war against Iran and…