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How to bail on plans without losing friends
It’s the act that’s defined a generation, an experience so common it’s become memeified: canceling plans. Bailing is a litmus test of sorts; who and what events you back out of says a lot about you as a person. Are you the type who commits and only bails when absolutely necessary? Or are you a…
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Trump pick face-plants in first major address: ‘Exactly what you don’t want’
President Donald Trump’s handpicked chair of the Fed is off to a rough start after a major economic face-plant on Wednesday, according to a new report. Kevin Warsh’s second news conference as Federal Reserve chairman was met with dismay as he lectured reporters about the Fed’s commitment to fighting inflation and financial markets immediately called…
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The Town That Wants a Data Center Next Door
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Opposition to data-center construction is the bipartisan issue of the moment—70 percent of Americans are against construction in their communities. Recently, New York passed the country’s first statewide data-center-construction moratorium. Maine was supposed to have been the first. For this week’s episode…
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Why so many Latinos in the U.S. are anti-immigrant
Since President Trump’s return to power, more than 60 people have died at the hands of or in the custody of immigration authorities, most recently two Latino immigrants in one week: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine. Many Latinos have come to feel that their brown skin makes them…
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‘MAGA warrior’ complains of cash crunch as Trump move turns safe seat into nail-biter
Rep. Andy Ogles is heading into the final week of his Tennessee GOP primary complaining about money, according to a new report. Ogle’s obstacles include a shrinking cash advantage, a newly redrawn district and a clean-energy-aligned super PAC pouring seven figures into defeating him, Axios reported Thursday. TInvest in Tomorrow Coalition announced it’s adding $700,000…
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Iran’s War Within
For the past few months, Iran has intermittently fought a war with the United States, Israel, and its Arab neighbors. But throughout this period, it has never stopped waging war on its own citizens. The Islamic Republic is executing Iranians in record numbers and has sharpened its tools of repression. Such tactics have never succeeded…
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Proposed ban of forever chemicals for California farms nixed by state lawmakers
SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers rejected legislation that would have banned pesticides with so-called “forever” chemicals from use on California’s farms, a restriction strongly opposed by the state’s billion-dollar agriculture community. Assembly Bill 1603 by Assemblymember Nick Schultz (D-Burbank) would have phased out the use of pesticides that contain perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS chemicals, a…
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Five more Ukrainian, Russian kids reunited with their families, Melania Trump says
Five Ukrainian and Russian children separated from their families during the four-year-old European war are back with their relatives, first lady Melania Trump announced Thursday morning. “While diplomacy and peacebuilding are important to this effort, they are surpassed by our collective ability to place children above international disputes,” the Slovenia-born Melania said in a statement…
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What Abdul El-Sayed’s Election in Michigan Would Prove
Abdul El-Sayed is running for Senate as a Democrat in Michigan, where he is waging a close and bitter contest against Representative Haley Stevens in a primary that will be held on Tuesday. Were he to win, and then go on to defeat Mike Rogers, the presumed Republican candidate, El-Sayed would become the most fervently…
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They gathered to celebrate a Muslim holiday. Then an animal rights group found their event
Southern Californian restaurateur Rafi Khan had a clear vision for a new food outpost on a 20-acre ranch he leased in Riverside County earlier this year. Bright vintage rugs laid over dusty ground. Smoky, charcoal-grilled meats and fragrant wok-cooked tomato curries sizzling over an open flame. Goats and sheep grazing across the way. The concept…