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Critics floored after GOP sneaks in late-night proposal for Trump’s White House ballroom
Senate Republicans unveiled a $72 billion spending package late Monday night, and onlookers were left stunned after discovering a $1 billion line item related to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project, which he’s long claimed would be entirely funded by private donors. “What happened to the ballroom being paid for by private funds?” asked…
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My Role as a ‘Complicit’ Journalist
Cole Tomas Allen, the man accused of trying to assassinate President Trump late last month, appeared to consume political news like so many of his fellow citizens, absorbing daily doses of outrage on social media, metabolizing the anger, and projecting it out into the world in his own voice. His posts are remarkable for how…
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The iPhone That Never Was
Imagine a tech company so visionary that it can take an idea public. A “concept IPO,” they called it. Picture the three founders, all former Apple employees, two of whom—software engineers Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson—were already Silicon Valley legends for their work creating the Apple Macintosh. Atkinson’s prolific inventions included the double click and…
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Growing fleet of delivery bots spreads to 40 L.A. neighborhoods
Serve Robotics has deployed more than 500 sidewalk delivery robots across 40 Los Angeles neighborhoods, up from just two neighborhoods in 2023, as the California company races to prove that autonomous machines can replace human couriers. The company, which spun out of Uber’s Postmates in 2021, has expanded to six metropolitan areas covering 20 cities…
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Every airline is Spirit Airlines now
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Anyone booking on Spirit Airlines kind of knew they were taking their flight into their own hands. America’s original ultra-low-cost airline has been on death’s door since the pandemic. First, it…
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‘It does matter!’ Dem analyst tangles with MAGA pundits in fiery panel on Trump’s war
A Democratic influencer tangled with a pair of conservatives on “CNN News Night” over the ongoing war in Iran. Adam Mockler, a 23-year-old Meidas Touch podcaster, pushed back on criticism from the National Review’s Noah Rothman after he suggested that younger Americans – who overwhelmingly oppose the war – simply don’t appreciate the threat Iran…
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Trump suggests Iran war could last ‘another two weeks,’ ‘maybe three weeks’
President Trump suggested in an interview Monday evening that US hostilities with Iran could last another two or three weeks while refusing to say whether a cease-fire between the two countries remained in effect. “One way or the other, we win,” Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. “We either make the right deal, or…
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How the waste in healthcare drives the U.S. debt
Washington treats healthcare spending like a moral obligation and interest payments like an accounting nuisance. They’re linked: Federal spending that is wasted in the healthcare system forces higher taxes or more borrowing, leaving less money for Medicare, defense or anything else. To slow deficit spending and the ballooning costs of the national debt, policymakers should…
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Trump reportedly on ‘rocky ground’ as MAGA ignores his choices: ‘Just isn’t moving voters’
Donald Trump’s attempts to throw his weight around and influence a handful of Republican primaries is falling flat with voters and donors who are not willing to back his pushback at GOP incumbents who have forged their own paths. According to a report from Politico’s Liz Crampton, Lisa Kashinsky and Alec Hernandez, hand-picked candidates that…
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May we never grow inured to homelessness
Most Saturday mornings, I stroll half a mile downhill from my tiny apartment in a bosky part of San Francisco to a farmers market. My usual reverie of anticipation (about carrots with their tops attached, about the price of berries) was interrupted recently by the sight of three bodies. That is, I thought of them…