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This SoCal heat wave could be hottest of the year: 5 things to know
This week could bring Southern California its most sweltering temperatures of the year — a heat wave made all the more miserable, and dangerous, by oppressive muggy conditions and little nighttime relief. “This looks to be the hottest stretch so far this year,” said Ryan Kittell, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Oxnard office.…
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How the Michigan Senate primary activated every bitter Democratic grudge
A decade’s worth of grudges and feuds between the Democratic establishment and the insurgent left is coming to a head in one election this year: Michigan’s Senate primary. Key takeaways Many long-simmering grudges between the establishment Democratic Party faction and a faction supporting Sen. Bernie Sanders have come to the fore in Michigan’s Senate primary.…
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Postpartum Psychosis Is Rising. We Are Not Ready.
—J Studios—Getty Images In a recent eight-week stretch, 6% of my postpartum patients met criteria for a psychotic disorder—almost six times higher than rates published in the medical literature. I’ve never seen anything like it. Too often, the first time most people hear the words “postpartum psychosis” is in a national headline about a tragedy…
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Michigan man accused of trying to 2 kidnap two girls allegedly flipped off their families in court: reports
A Michigan man who tried to abduct two girls flipped off at their families while in court — as he backtracked on a plea deal over the charges, according to reports. Endi Bala, 25, appeared in a Mount Clemens courthouse over the August 2024 attempted kidnapping – and it was expected he would plead no…
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Trump Imposes 50% Tariff Hike on Canadian Goods
The flags of the U.S. and Canada in Los Angeles, Calif. on Oct. 28, 2025. —Luke Hales—Getty Images President Donald Trump on Monday signed proclamations imposing additional 50% tariffs on certain goods from Canada in response to what the White House has called its North American neighbor’s “discriminatory treatment” of American products. The tariffs, which…
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The Army Is Burning Through Its AI Tokens
A little over a month after the Department of Defense (DOD) bragged that nearly half of its 3.5 million employees were using AI at work, members of the Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) received an email informing them that they were burning through tokens, and needed to limit use. “Although the Army CIO announced…
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This sheer terror is driving Trump’s 2 a.m. rage tweeting
Last week, Donald Trump essentially told us exactly what he will do this November. When reports start coming in that the Democrats are winning, he will send in the troops. He’ll point back to last week’s national address and tell the nation: “I told you so. I warned you. They rigged the election for the…
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DSA revolutionaries aim to topple the Senate — and the Constitution, too
Political parties tend to harshly reject the idea that they are a threat to the constitutional order, but the Democratic Socialists of America are making it part of their brand. The DSA has released a new program that, besides contemplating the advent of a classless society, calls for abolishing the US Senate, the presidency,…
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Etsy Is In Its Flop Era, and Sellers Are Fleeing
In 2017, Emily Olson, a stay-at-home mom based in Boulder, Colorado, started selling prints and custom-made puppy portraits on Etsy. Her watercolors were simple and relatively cheap—images of saucer-eyed corgis and malamutes in mini-tuxes, which she sold for $75 to $300 each—but dog owners adored them: “They were a labor of love,” she says. In…
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The Proliferation of Deepfakes Is Profoundly Changing the Way Teenagers Use the Internet
AI-generated sexual content is rapidly remaking young people’s lives as they confront sex and dating — and the effects are as sweeping as they are poorly understood. That’s according to a new survey from the nonprofit Common Sense Media, in which researchers dug into how youth are interacting with these new technologies. What they found…