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‘Lifetime movie villains’: MAGA Senate hopeful’s outreach to Dems heaped with scorn
A Republican, desperate to claim a swing-state Senate seat, made a last-ditch appeal to Democrats in his state — and it immediately blew up in his face. Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee for Senate in Michigan, published a video on X appealing to blue voters he hoped to woo away from their party after the…
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Mt. Vernon lunacy and more: Letters to the Editor — Aug. 9, 2026
Mt. Vernon lunacy Just when you think you have lived long enough to have seen and heard it all, you read that a Mount Vernon deputy police commissioner drove a getaway car for her son’s gang shooting — with the help from her ex-con husband, no less (“Police brass ‘crime’ family,” Aug. 5). To say…
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Labor Union Sues Over Self-Driving Trucks
Self-driving trucks could be hauling cargo across highways in the near future. But not without the Teamsters having a say in the matter first. As Politico reports, the California branch of the nation’s largest union is suing state lawmakers, accusing them of rushing out new regulations that’re friendly to the autonomous vehicle industry without considering…
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‘We tricked them.’ Why ‘Ted Lasso’ probably deserves some credit for U.S. soccer boom
In the summer of 2020, the year “Ted Lasso” debuted on Apple TV, the largest audience for a televised soccer match in the U.S. was 1.7 million. Shortly before the soccer-based sitcom returned for a fourth season last Wednesday, nearly 63 million viewers in the U.S. watched the World Cup final. Brendan Hunt, the actor…
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Trump sons profit handsomely from ‘shady’ money-laundering suspect: report
A company run by President Donald Trump’s three sons received a mysterious $100 million investment from a crypto fund run by an individual under investigation for money laundering, The New York Times reported Sunday. In its investigation, the Times uncovered new details about the investor: Guren “Bobby” Zhou, a man with a “shady background” who’s…
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The Complicated Case of Passing On Your Digital Estate
When a loved one dies, who downloads their important files from their cloud storage account? Who monitors their email inbox? Who decides what happens to the photos and videos on their social media accounts? And what if those tasks fall to you? Everyone will die, but not everyone has planned what they want to happen…
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How to staycation better
I have to be honest about something that is a great source of personal shame: I am really, really bad at taking time off of work. Despite working at a company with unlimited PTO, the last time I took a weeklong vacation was about a year ago, making me a walking cliche of the American…
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Florida business owners allegedly scattered 1,500 mothballs on beach to scare off endangered birds
Two Florida business owners have been charged with third-degree felonies after allegedly spreading about 1,500 “toxic” mothballs across a beach in hopes of keeping an “imperiled” bird species from nesting there. If convicted, they could each face up to five years in prison, fines of up to $5,000 and up to five years of probation. The problem…
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California craft liquor delivery is about to go away thanks to big money lobbying
For six years, Californians have been able to shake up a craft cocktail at home using alcohol delivered to their doorstep. Now, it’s last call for the distillery deliveries, unless lawmakers intervene by the end of this month. That’s unlikely, thanks to opposition from California’s wine industry, Teamsters union truck drivers and corporate alcohol wholesalers…
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‘The Yellow Line is a quiet thief’: How Israel’s moving border is erasing Gazans’ lives
DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip — Every day for the last three months, he had looked at it. And for every day of the last three months he had ignored it, even as it moved ever closer. But now the Yellow Line — the demarcation indicating the limit of Israel’s military zone in Gaza — was…