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Meet Me in the Notes App
—NurPhoto—Getty Images “What’s the oldest note in your phone?” my younger sister asked, in the same tone one might use to share gossip. She was explaining what she called “notes app digest,” rereading notes like a kind of personal magazine of one’s own insight and nonsense. I immediately scrolled. For better or worse, my notes…
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Country singer Aaron Lee Tasjan’s fans walk out of Texas concert over political song as he warns of America’s ‘descent’
Country singer Aaron Lee Tasjan claimed several fans walked out of his concert after he performed his politically charged song “I Love America Better Than You” — prompting him to warn of the country’s “descent into fracture.” Tasjan estimated that eight concertgoers got up and left during his show at 1859 St. Joseph’s Church in…
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Cocky Trump is leaving a criminal paper trail — and his immunity’s running out
Just when we think Donald Trump has exhausted the ways a person can transform the presidency into an ongoing fundraising scheme, we’re given fresh new evidence that he’s barely scratched the surface. I swear I thought I was hallucinating when I read last weekend that Trump’s social media company had put out word that it…
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Black bear caught on video wandering into California water district office after pushing open front door
A black bear wandered into a Southern California water district office Wednesday after pushing open the front door, briefly exploring the building before walking back into the surrounding forest. Surveillance video from the Crestline Village Water District in the San Bernardino Mountains captured the small black bear entering the office Wednesday afternoon as employees watched the unexpected encounter unfold.…
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Trump Endorsed the MyPillow Guy as Minnesota Governor. The State GOP Isn’t Buying It
Mike Lindell is a former drug addict turned pillow salesman who has no experience in political office. He has spent the last six years, and millions of dollars, boosting election conspiracy theories, even claiming that the “devil” stole the 2020 election. Lindell is now running for Minnesota governor and already has President Donald Trump’s endorsement.…
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The Case for Investing in Local Government
A view of downtown Boise, Idaho. —4kodiak—Getty Images The water in Charleston does not flow through the city as a policy debate. It comes gushing over curbs, through intersections, around school buses and storefronts. The city sits at sea level, and the sea is rising. For years, Charleston flooded, recovered, and waited for the next…
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Poll shows new problem for GOP: Americans think gas prices are worse than they are
Gas prices are high. Americans think they’re even higher. Three in five Americans believe gas prices in their area have risen by more than they actually have, according to an analysis of new results from The POLITICO Poll. It’s those perceptions that candidates will be running against this fall. Voters’ anxieties about fuel prices could…
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European researchers want to study social media’s harms but can’t get the data
In the final weeks before Romania’s presidential vote in November 2024, TikTok accounts that had previously spent years posting about manicures or fashion suddenly started promoting a little-known politician named Calin Georgescu. His posts, espousing hard-line views on immigration and anti-Semitic tropes, were viewed 120 million times before the vote. Georgescu, who had previously been…
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Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner allegedly attacks German cops outside supermarket
The convicted sex offender considered to be the chief suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann allegedly attacked cops outside a German supermarket after taking photographs of them on his cell phone. Christian Brueckner, 49, is accused of clashing with the officers outside a store in Kiel, northern Germany, on June 6, and left one…
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Obama Presidential Center subcontractor shuts down, lays off 25 after claiming it’s owed $4M
Weeks after the Obama Presidential Center’s star-studded opening in Chicago, a subcontractor who previously claimed his company was stiffed for nearly $4 million has shut down operations and laid off 25 union workers. Mike Owen, the owner of Chicago-based Adamson Plumbing Contractors, told Fox News Digital that the financial fallout forced the company to abandon about…