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The Emerging Link Between Microplastics and Heart Disease
—Carol Yepes—Getty Images The tiny pieces of plastic that flake off of water bottles; rinse out of polyester blouses; and chip off of cutting boards, coffee pods, and myriad other objects don’t just build up in the environment. Scientific evidence is suggesting that microplastics also accumulate in our bodies—and they might not be harmless. A…
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Reading a 3,000-Year-Old Poem to a 3-Year-Old Boy
In Book 12 of Homer’s Odyssey, a band of war-weary sailors is navigating home when a narrow strait appears on the horizon. The ship, captained by their king, Odysseus, is blocked on one side by a high cliff where a six-headed monster named Scylla is waiting to devour those who pass beneath. On the other…
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‘He knows he’s a loser’: GOP fans flames as Dems shoot down Trump’s primetime address
WASHINGTON — The 2020 election just won’t go away, and not just because of President Donald Trump and his primetime address Thursday evening. Some of the president’s prominent allies on Capitol Hill are eagerly fanning the flames ahead of this year’s midterm elections. “Who won the 2020 election?” Raw Story asked Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL)…
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James Gray’s ‘Paper Tiger’ to Open 2026 New York Film Festival
James Gray’s “Paper Tiger” will open the 64th New York Film Festival, Film at Lincoln Center announced Thursday. The film, which debuted in competition for the Palme d’Or at Cannes in May, will have its North American premiere at the festival’s Alice Tully Hall on Friday, Sept. 25, ahead of its Nov. 13 theatrical release…
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How the Smithsonian Could Fall
Photographs by Caroline Gutman The Trump administration wants to control the Smithsonian, but it won’t be so easy. When experts talk about the institution’s relationship to the federal government, the world’s largest museum complex can start to sound like a bureaucratic outcast. The Office of Legal Counsel has called the Smithsonian a “very unusual entity”…
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In Case You Still Think Insider Trading on Prediction Markets Isn’t Real, Trump’s Teleprompter Guy Just Got Busted for Getting Rich on Betting What He Would Say
Insider trading has long run rampant on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket. We’ve seen shady accounts profit from accurately predicting the US invasion of Venezuela, resulting in arrests, or correctly guess everything that was going to happen at this year’s Super Bowl half-time show. Now, in a particularly egregious instance of the worrying trend,…
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Trump’s teleprompter operator pocketed $100K betting on his speeches: report
The man who loads President Donald Trump’s words into the teleprompter has been quietly betting on which of those words the president would actually say — and winning big, sources told ABC News. Gabriel Perez, a technical assistant who has run Trump’s teleprompter since 2016, allegedly pocketed more than $100,000 on the prediction market Kalshi…
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Goal! Inside ‘Daffy Season,’ the First Theatrical Looney Tunes Short in 14 Years | Exclusive
The Looney Tunes characters have been a part of our lives for so long, it’s odd to think of a period of time without them, in some form. The animated shorts debuted back in 1930 and, along with the spinoff series “Merrie Melodies,” introduced the world to characters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig…
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The Unapologetic Crime Fiction of Colson Whitehead
Sturdy, steady, and as reliable as a well-tooled construction, Ray Carney, the “cool machine” that powers the third volume of Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy, is a time-worn but still fully functional version of the man in the first two books. Carney, a furniture salesman who fenced stolen goods and navigated the consequences in Harlem Shuffle…
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A Trump-backed Arizona candidate faces tough House primary after sex scandals
A self-funding businessman is seizing on messy scandals to try and topple President Donald Trump’s endorsed candidate for a deep-red House seat. Republican Daniel Keenan is making a hard run at former Sheriff Mark Lamb in Arizona’s 5th District, pouring over $1.6 million of his own cash into the effort and raising questions about Lamb’s…