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As furious redistricting battles continue, we reveal Republican plan to add 14 seats following last week’s Supreme Court ruling
Redistricting across the US has turned into all-out war between the Democrats and the Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterm elections in November. While both parties have enacted plans to redistrict since July 2025, Republicans are potentially poised to flip up to 14 US House seats in their favor following last week’s bombshell Supreme Court…
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From Kyoto with Love: How Japan Conquered the World One Game at a Time
Nintendo co-Representative Director and Creative Fellow Shigeru Miyamoto (L) and Ubisoft Co-founder and CEO Yves Guillemot posed together during the Ubisoft E3 conference at the Orpheum Theater on June 12, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. —Christian Petersen/Getty Images What is the most powerful instrument of Japanese soft power? If you answered anime or manga, you…
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Why it took 65 years for L.A. to build its most important rail line
If a subway would work anywhere in modern Los Angeles, conventional wisdom said, it was along Wilshire Boulevard. In 1962, California’s then-governor, Edmund G. Brown, stood in downtown L.A. in the shadow of a rotary drilling rig to support local officials’ plans for a new “Backbone Route” that would stretch west along L.A.’s most bustling…
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How to Fix the Internet
—Jorg Greuel—Getty Images I’m going to tell you something embarrassing. For a long time, I thought the internet would immediately make society better. How could it not? A world where everyone was more connected would be a world where everyone was more empathetic. Obviously. The gatekeepers would fall. There would be more access, more expertise,…
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There Is No Evidence the Trump Assassination Attempts Were Staged. People Still Believe They Were
In recent weeks both MAGA and left-wing influencers have found something they agree on: President Donald Trump, they say, is staging his own assassination attempts. Within minutes of the Secret Service detaining an alleged attacker at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25, social media was flooded with baseless claims the attack was “STAGED.”…
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Police think this contraption can bring high-speed chases to an end
It was on a Sunday morning in mid-March when Riverside County sheriff’s personnel attempted a vehicle stop at Perris Boulevard and Iris Avenue in Moreno Valley. The driver sped away. But deputies also had a trick up their sleeve — a secret weapon that is part grappling gun, part lasso. The device, known as the…
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The next redistricting war will be even harder for Democrats
Just as the redistricting wars were coming to a close, the Supreme Court blew up the entire landscape with a decision that all but gutted the Voting Rights Act. And since that decision last week, Republicans around the country have been moving quickly to see how they can take advantage of the new redistricting rules.…
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Tesla recalls more than 218K vehicles over rearview image issue that poses crash risk
Tesla is recalling more than 218,000 vehicles because of delayed rearview camera images that could increase the risk of a crash, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced on Wednesday. A total of 218,868 Model 3, Model Y, Model S and Model X vehicles are affected by the recall. The vehicles include the 2021 Tesla Model…
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What Countries Are Linked to the Hantavirus Outbreak?
The cruise ship MV Hondius, while stationary off the port of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, on May 6, 2026. —AFP/Getty Images An outbreak of the rare but highly deadly hantavirus on a cruise ship is causing international alarm, as authorities scramble to trace those who may have been exposed in a bid to…
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Bitcoin taxes: What you actually owe the IRS when you sell
If you own a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, and you’re ready to sell it, you need to know how that might affect your yearly taxes. The selling part is easy. If you have an account with a major exchange or a bank like SoFi, you have many options for how you want to execute a trade…