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Trump’s ‘off-the-wall threats’ on Truth Social have MAGA ‘deserting him’: expert
President Donald Trump risks losing his most emboldened MAGA supporters because of his maddening Truth Social posts. Trump has used the social media platform to criticize political opponents, issue threats to world leaders, and announce endorsements for political candidates. More recently, he has used his Truth Social account to issue threats to Iran, with the
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History Is Running Backwards
Illustrations by Nicolás Ortega Maybe you’ve seen photos of Tehran in the 1970s, just before the Islamic Revolution: images of young women going to work in miniskirts, of couples making out in parks while wearing bell-bottoms, of people at pools in bikinis. It looks like Paris or Milan or Los Angeles. But in 1979 the
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This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts
Speech-to-text capability is now baked into all modern computers. But what if you didn’t have to dictate to your computer? What if you could type just by thinking? Silicon Valley startup Sabi is emerging from stealth with that goal. The company is developing a brain wearable that decodes a person’s internal speech into words on
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UCLA gymnastics focused on delivering Bruins’ next national title
UCLA could earn another national title this weekend. Led by Olympic gold medalist Jordan Chiles, the Bruins’ gymnastics squad is having its best season since 2018 and will compete in Fort Worth in an NCAA national semifinal on Thursday for a spot in Saturday’s championship meet. The Bruins haven’t won an NCAA gymnastics championship in
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Trump’s bungled Iran negotiations didn’t have to go this way
American and Iranian negotiators are reportedly getting closer to a deal that would end the weeks-long war between the nations, following the collapse of in-person talks in Islamabad last weekend. In his announcement Sunday, Vice President JD Vance initially sounded pretty hopeless about the whole thing, as you might expect of a man whose dreams
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GOP senator refuses to be bullied by Trump in nomination fight: ‘I’m not dead yet’
Donald Trump’s drive to remake the Federal Reserve into a tool of his economic policies is meeting an immovable object in the form of Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who is using his position on the Senate Banking Committee to hold up the nomination of Kevin Warsh. According to Politico’s Jordain Carney and Jasper Goodman, Tillis
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New York’s doormen are about to go dark — here’s why one Park Avenue veteran is ready to abandon his post
By the time most Park Avenue residents wake up and reach for their coffee, Charles Vega is already there. He has been there, at the same white-glove building on the same stretch of Manhattan’s most storied corridor, for nearly 15 years. He started at 19. He will turn 34 in December. In that time, he
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A boom of independent bookstores, just when we need them most
As a blizzard blasted the East Coast in late February, a thousand booksellers from independent bookstores across the U.S. packed their winter gear, changed flights and braved snow to get to Pittsburgh by any means possible. They were there to attend an annual industry event, but this year was not like previous ones. A spirit
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The Star Trek Communicator Is Now a High-End Wristwatch
After the damp squib that was Rolex’s anniversary celebration at this year’s Watches and Wonders in Geneva (maybe Rolex will bring back the Milgauss in 2027?), we started to worry that truly WIRED timepieces would be few and far between this year. Then we found the Retrovision ’64 by Hautlence. Clearly channeling none other than
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Pay attention to the deficit, even if Trump won’t
Americans could be forgiven if they’re unaware that President Trump recently performed one of his most essential tasks and sent his annual budget request to Congress, though months late and stunningly incomplete. After all, so much else has been dominating the news lately: the Mideast war that Trump promised not to start. Price rises he’d