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Can’t Sleep? Try Getting Out of Bed
—mrs—Getty Images It’s 2 a.m., and you’ve been awake for an hour—staring at the same patch of ceiling, counting the same sheep, and doing increasingly alarming math about how wrecked you’re going to feel tomorrow. Your instinct is to stay right where you are and try harder. Surely sleep will come eventually. And even if…
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Republicans want to turn the clock back — to the red-baiting Fifties
The Republican desire to turn the clock back to some (largely mythical) halcyon period of yore is well-known. President Trump often has expressed his admiration for the 1890s in America, an era of high tariffs. The conservative assault on women’s reproductive rights harks back to the time before the ratification of the 19th Amendment in…
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Yemen’s Houthis reportedly considering fees for ships sailing through Red Sea
LONDON/DUBAI — Yemen’s Houthi group is considering imposing fees on commercial ships sailing through the southern Red Sea, a week after declaring a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, regional sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The Iran-aligned Houthis on July 20 declared a maritime embargo against Saudi Arabia, opening a new front against the U.S. and its allies in the…
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The OpenAI Hack Is Fueling a New Fight Over Open-Source AI
The AI startup Hugging Face was the victim of an unprecedented AI hacking campaign by rogue OpenAI models, an event that kicked off a firestorm of industry debate this week. —Photo by Omer Taha Cetin/Anadolu via Getty Images The AI industry mounted a full-court press in favor of open-source AI this week, as the fallout…
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Why Kids Can’t Quit Roblox
A couple of years ago, Peter Galassi realized that he had a problem: His 9-year-old son was still, somehow, constantly on Roblox, despite the screen-time limits Galassi had set for him. He soon discovered that his son had used his mom’s phone to secretly open multiple accounts on the platform. Why? Because, like a gambler…
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Love It or Hate It, the Ferrari Luce Is a Thrilling Drive
Some still believe that you can’t manage a car company unless you’re a fully paid-up “car guy.” Tell that to Benedetto Vigna, Ferrari’s CEO. He’s a physicist by education, hired to run the company in 2021 after a career in semiconductors, although he did significant business with automotive during that time. Vigna also helped develop…
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State regulators crack down on polluted runoff from L.A. shopping centers, warehouses
In a requirement that is the first of its kind in the country, some 600 commercial and industrial properties in the Los Angeles area will have to clean up the water that runs off their parking lots or pay to have it cleaned up. The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board voted to require…
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Trump’s own party’s tactics have boxed him in — and the spoiled brat is livid
We are now under 100 days until the midterms, and Republican strategists and GOP leaders have all come to the same conclusion for their caucus: keep Donald Trump’s name out of your mouth, and ostensibly keep him off the campaign trail. Operatives close to the White House are reportedly telling incumbents and challengers alike —…
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Europe Is Heading for a Historic Wildfire Season
Bystanders watch the smoke and flames from a wildfire on July 21, 2026 in Cotignac, France. —FBM Media—Getty Images Firefighters in France and Spain are racing to contain wildfires inching closer to Bordeaux and Madrid. More than 250,000 people across the two countries have been forced to evacuate, and the European Commission has said that…
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From ‘Star Wars’ to samba, Cut Chemist rewrites L.A. hip-hop’s playbook
After 30 years of innovation in the L.A. music scene, Cut Chemist’s résumé of achievements is too long to list. Some highlights include producing and DJing for the famed rap group Jurassic 5, and his first solo album, “The Audience’s Listening” (2006), which cleared the top 10 on Billboard’s Dance/Electronic chart. And yet, as a…