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Chief Justice Roberts, once such a lawyer, has said he has mixed feelings about the trend.
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A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 stage crashed into the Moon on Aug. 5, leaving behind a newly formed crater about 60 feet wide. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured detailed images showing bright and dark streaks of debris blasted across the surrounding surface. The impact even exposed fresh material buried beneath the Moon’s weathered exterior.
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The “Asian Water Tower” is losing roughly 24.2 billion tonnes of groundwater every year, with some of the worst declines hitting densely populated farming regions. Glacier melt may temporarily soften the crisis around the 2060s, but without changes in water use, researchers expect depletion to accelerate afterward.
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Analysts said the recent rise in Treasury yields partly reflected investor expectations that A.I.-driven growth could keep interest rates elevated.
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Even as the White House claims to be focused on transparency, it has ignored a congressional requirement to disclose a report on foreign meddling in the 2024 election.
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The Department of Homeland Security told Nevada election officials that it identified 185 “potential” noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls, not the nearly 16,000 it claimed last month.
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The impact from the bond market sell-off could prove more enduring, wide-ranging and globally consequential than prior episodes of market volatility.
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Plus, America’s colleges hurtle toward an enrollment cliff, and Hawaii chases the startup wave.
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The server maker ended an investigation into an alleged scheme by two employees and a contractor to smuggle Nvidia chips to China.
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The problem isn’t tax cuts. Spending is way above historical norms.
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From recreating the timeline of events to bringing together survivors and their rescuers, these television specials— ‘102 Minutes Inside the Towers’ on the History Channel, ‘9/11: United We Stand—25 Years Later’ on ABC and ‘9/11 Reunited’ on National Geographic—honor the anniversary of September 11, 2001.
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The stalled operation, code-named “M&Ms,” sought to isolate Russian elites and force Vladimir Putin to negotiate a truce.
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A bookish form of protest is opposing Trump’s changes.
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Americans could soon feel the artificial intelligence boom in an unavoidable place — their monthly electric bills.
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How psychedelics can help us feel at one with existence. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.
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Recreating the universe’s earliest moments could help us learn more about the elusive quark-gluon plasma. The post Scientists smash atoms together to create ‘little’ big bangs appeared first on Popular Science .
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Pope Alexander II may have punished the English king for siding with his rival during the Norman invasion of 1066. The post Long-lost letter reveals bitter struggle between two rival popes appeared first on Popular Science .
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Nathan Cofnas says he is being investigated for discriminating against the late Cambridge professor.
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Khan was taken from Adiala jail and sent to Shifa International Hospital under heavy security, according to his party.
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The race, scheduled for Aug. 22 and 23, is the latest — and the fastest — of the major events President Donald Trump has hosted against the backdrop of America's 250th birthday.
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Jessica ​Bowie, 35, of Albany, allegedly planned to deploy explosive before fleeing ⁠to IS-controlled territory in Syria US authorities arrested and charged a New York woman with ⁠planning to carry out an Islamic State-inspired attack on the state’s capitol building in Albany, the justice ⁠department said on ⁠Thursday. Jessica ​Bowie, 35, of Albany, was charged with planning to deploy an explosive device at the state ⁠capitol with the intention of killing public officials and destroying “as much of the building as possible” before fleeing ⁠to IS-controlled territory in Syria, according to John A Eisenberg, assistant attorney general ​for national security. Continue reading...
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WHO says vaccines for Ebola virus disease being allocated to DRC amid largest outbreak that has killed nearly 2,500.
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WWatch highlights as Harry Brook shines in the Headingley gloom as England build a commanding 195-run lead over Pakistan on a shortened second day of the first Test.
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Arsenal have already spent more than £100m this summer as they look to defend their Premier League title - so why do they want Ezri Konsa as well?
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Volodymyr Zhuravlev had been consulted on Snake Island, a dramatised reconstruction of incident Earlier this month locals in Zagreb noticed something odd outside an art deco building. Sandbags and barricades appeared in front of the Esplanade hotel, along with a film crew and extras sporting Ukrainian military uniforms. Soon afterwards the actors Sean Penn and Adrien Brody were spotted on the set in the Croatian capital, together with Doug Liman , the Hollywood director of the Jason Bourne movies. Liman had come to shoot his latest fictional political thriller. Its subject: the 2022 Nord Stream explosions, in which a team of Ukrainian divers allegedly blew up a pipeline supplying Russian natural gas to Germany. One of the chief suspects, Volodymyr Zhuravlev, had twice eluded the Germany authorities: once allegedly slipping out of Poland in the boot of a diplomatic car, and on another occasion freed by a court. Continue reading...
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Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz is set to make his return at the US Open after missing four months with a wrist injury.
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The 62-year-old said that his "world was turned upside down" when a brain tumour was discovered.
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Far-right minister says those convicted in military courts of terror offences will be executed after passing of death penalty law that does not apply to Jewish extremists Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has posted a gloating video of the construction of a gallows complex where Palestinians convicted of terror offences – but not Jewish extremists accused of similar crimes – will be hanged. Ben-Givr, who has previously attracted international sanctions and condemnation for his activities, said the new execution site would be equipped with viewing booths for families of victims to watch the hangings. Continue reading...
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The sudden decision to return leaves lots of questions for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and Royal Family.
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The aircraft carrier and its 5,000 crew members will return to San Diego after an approximately nine-month deployment.
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A man who, instead of rating movies or restaurants, rates benches on Instagram, just gave out his first 10/10, a milestone seven years and 300 reviews in the making. Tony Dokoupil has the story.
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The U.S. Army decided to phase out a new drone battalion set up earlier this year to help the U.S. catch up in its use of the crucial technology. The decision to shut it down came amid tension between top Army officials, including two who were fired or forced into early retirement. Charlie D'Agata reports.
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A dangerous drug mix-up at a Tennessee hospital left several patients badly injured this week. Nicole Valdes reports.
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President’s one-time ‘attack dog’ became his fierce critic – but now Cohen says he has forgiven his former boss Donald Trump has given a radio interview to none other than Michael Cohen , his former longtime personal fixer turned fierce critic, after an apparent reconciliation set the stage for their first public conversation in eight years. Cohen once had such a tight relationship with the US president that he described himself back in the day as his “attack dog with a law license”, but later became the star witness in Trump’s 2024 criminal trial over his hush-money payments to the adult film star Stormy Daniels. Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records in an effort to interfere with the 2016 election. Continue reading...
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Warning: disturbing video. A deadly collision was caught on camera in Pennsylvania on Wednesday. A small plane slammed into a state police helicopter at an airport outside the state capital of Harrisburg. Michael George reports.
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Disney and ABC is suing the government over claims that it restricted its First Amendment rights by requesting early license renewals in response to content critical of the Trump administration. CBS News' legal contributor Jessica Levinson gives her analysis.
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A line of potentially dangerous storms slammed the Mid-Atlantic on Thursday after downpours earlier in Ohio triggered dozens of flash floods. Lonnie Quinn tracks it all.
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The FBI announced the arrest of a 35-year-old woman they said had converted to Islam, expressed support for terrorism online, and allegedly developed a plan of her own to blow up the New York State Capitol. Meg Oliver reports.
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Once a giant of African politics, the PDP is in danger of being wiped out after January's elections.
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Gov't forces carried out 81 attacks in the last 24 hours as Houthis claim to have hit two targets in Saudi Arabia.
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Iran has so far proved adept at finding ways around years of already punishing sanctions on its economy.
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After Hayden Panettiere's death, fans resurfaced her claim that Neutrogena had fired her in 2015 over her comments about postpartum depression.
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President Trump appeared to suggest that the United States would impose economic penalties on countries that do business with Iran, though he did not specify what actions he would take.
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The State Department informed Congress of its intent to fund the stabilization force on the same day the president’s Board of Peace announced a plan to disarm Hamas.
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U Min Zin, a scholar who studied Myanmar, is one of two U.S. citizens the department has designated as wrongfully detained in China.
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President Trump’s threats of an “economic D-Day” carry a clear signal to Iran that he does not want to go back to war.
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Japan had tried to dissuade the U.S. from imposing sanctions on Tomoko Akane, president of the International Criminal Court, but the White House pressed ahead.
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Hakeem Jeffries calls it a MAGA ‘subsidiary.’ A new poll says otherwise.
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A few recent losses for Trump-endorsed politicians are hardly a sea change, but they do complicate the president’s narrative.
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Experts worry that the conflict in Iran and other regional dynamics are setting the stage for a Somali pirates’ comeback.
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Moscow is taking advantage of Ukraine’s depleted stock of interceptors and is intensifying attacks, worsening the civilian death toll.
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The West African nation recently entered an agreement with the Trump administration to accept up to 1,200 people in the next year.
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The National Park Service changed the way it prioritizes projects so that the president’s requests are quickly approved.
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Also, Russia takes advantage of Ukraine’s depleted stockpile. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.
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Jake Lang has descended four times on Dearborn, Mich., which is majority Arab American. His rhetoric and protests have stirred fear among residents.
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Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey spoke with detainees at the Newark detention center who said they had trouble accessing medical care. Staff members there disputed that account.
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Human rights experts have said that the U.S. attempts to squeeze Cuba’s economy, including an oil blockade, have caused a severe humanitarian crisis.
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Most sex crimes are prosecuted by state and local authorities. The federal agents appeared to be using civil rights statutes to scrutinize Mr. Swalwell’s conduct, a person familiar with the case said.
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With demand for the interceptors growing in the Middle East, the Ukrainian capital is now more exposed to Russian attacks.
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The firing of a high-profile economist reveals Putin’s anxiety over insiders’ opposition to the war.
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Care for the elderly is subsidized by private insurance payments.
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James Fishback lost badly in Florida but showed that there’s support for bigotry among the young.
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The much-derided movement was right about Trump’s nature, and how to defeat him.
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While President Trump has declared that the two countries effectively have a deal, a Canadian trade official said progress continued ahead of the Saturday deadline.
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The detentions of the workers, who have been released, are a sign of legal pressure that the world’s largest crypto exchange faces in the Emirates, which is home to its main regulator.
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Senators Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren, ranking Democrats on the Finance and Banking Committees, have urged regulators to require brokerages to provide stronger customer protections.
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Walmart and other big U.S. retailers have warned that consumers were being cautious, even if household balance sheets seemed healthy.
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E-commerce, membership and advertising are driving the retailer’s growth. Walmart’s stock fell more than 9%.
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U.S. stocks fell as the brief calm in the bond market evaporated.
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A court found Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan, a Harvard donor, responsible for large-scale fraud to hide debts.
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The home builder swung to a third-quarter loss as it continues to cope with a stagnant housing market
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Mixed results from Walmart and other retailers offered more gloom on the health of the American consumer.
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The off-price retailer now forecasts earnings per share of $8.61 to $8.77 for the year as its second-quarter profit and sales gained on higher traffic.
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Plus, claw arcades bring life back to malls and the FTC says dynamic pricing requires disclosure.
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The five owners of Florida-based EverBank clashed over its strategy after their 2023 purchase.
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European stock indexes were mixed, with gains in autos and semiconductors unable to lift the lift the Europe-wide Stoxx 600 index.
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The Treasury Department’s plan for bond interventions has calmed markets. But Wall Street is worried about the fallout for inflation and more.
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Canadian manufactured goods prices rose again last month, driven higher by a jump in fuel costs with a resumption of the conflict in the Middle East.
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The Fed is becoming less willing to subsidize spendthrift lawmakers. This is a welcome turn.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is reinventing the government’s role in the world’s most important bond market.
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Limited usable transport routes on major rivers and sharply rising transport costs were likely to significantly impair industrial production and export growth, according to the central bank.
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Japan’s consumer inflation picked up last month as the effects of higher oil prices caused by the Middle East conflict broadened.
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The Conference Board’s Leading Economic Index rose by 0.2% to 99.5, indicating that moderate growth could be coming.
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The number of people who filed for unemployment benefits was 206,000 in the week through Aug. 15, 6,000 lower than the upwardly revised 212,000 reported a week earlier.
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The reserve bank’s manufacturing business outlook survey showed that the current-activity index rose to 47.4 in August from 41.4 in July.
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Oil futures rose for a fifth straight session as the U.S. planned what President Trump called unprecedented economic isolation on Iran.
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Find insight on oil futures, Ithaca Energy and more in the latest Market Talks covering energy and utilities.
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Oil futures fell on a likely technical correction after the futures rose for a fifth consecutive session on Thursday.
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U.S. natural gas futures settled lower with little consolation from the smallest inventory build of the season to date.
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A deal that includes Standard Life, CVC and Goldman Sachs is the latest to tap an increasingly popular source of investor cash.
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James Hardie Industries will sell its European Fermacell business to Swiss building-materials company Holcim as it seeks to focus on higher-growth and higher-return markets.
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At least a half-dozen federal agencies have moved to undermine the state’s environmental efforts.
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Plus: How Elon Musk leaned in to fossil fuels, a triple-digit crack spread and a new Arctic shipping route.
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A storm is forming in the Pacific just as the Big Island assesses damage from last weekend’s indirect hit.
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Recent images of the moment of release—when many different kinds of animals were reintroduced to their natural habitats after rehabilitation, or as part of repopulation efforts, or simply to help grow an ecosystem
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‘Lielaphis slashi’ is a nonvenomous groundsnake discovered in the forests of New Guinea The post New snake species named in honor of Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash appeared first on Popular Science .
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We know that trees are good for cities. A new study finds that mature trees are especially good.
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The Natufians knew how to butcher their reptiles. The post 15,000 years ago, desert dwellers dined on snakes and lizards appeared first on Popular Science .
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From tree bark to cuttlefish to researching by moonlight, the world of science is very cool. The post 11 stunning images celebrating Earth’s life—and the scientists who study it appeared first on Popular Science .
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FILM MEDIA7
Generation wars, side gigs and unemployment are just some of the career struggles captured in recent shows.
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The hit musical became a battleground for competing ideas about capitalism, artistic value, and commercial theater. The post The Culture Wars of The Phantom of the Opera appeared first on JSTOR Daily .
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Matt Calkins, a longtime sports columnist, said editors had refused to publish a column about transgender athletes in women’s competitions.
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A 2023 article incorrectly reported that a University of Alabama basketball player was at the scene of a deadly shooting. A jury awarded $9.25 million in damages.
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In this Polish feature, an artificial intelligence system rules over a downtrodden population. Trouble arrives, in the form of Rana (Noomi Rapace).
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The actor stars as a bodyguard out for revenge and on a cargo ship in this lackluster action thriller.
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Despite the presence of such veteran actors as Robert Sean Leonard, this staging of Wendy Wasserstein’s dated, creaky 1997 play—about a female surgeon-general nominee embroiled in controversy—suffers from Jean Lichty’s stiff central performance.
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The author scoured the literature on PTSD in a quest to help her partner. She found that becoming a caregiver held its own perils.
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Did you mix something up? Maybe you’re just “hallucinating.”
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Belle Burden’s divorce memoir is prompting readers to look at their finances and prenups. We asked attorneys and financial advisers for their best advice.
WSJ Personal Finance4h4
The term ‘hate crime’ didn’t exist when I was growing up in Queens in the 1970s.
WSJ Lifestyle7h3
The former wife of Jeff Bezos is unspooling an 80,000-word novel in serialized form after a decade away from publishing.
WSJ Arts & Culture4h3
The family of the “Godfather of Go-Go," Chuck Brown, has pulled their support for this weekend’s “Chuck Brown Day," one of D.C.’s biggest celebrations of Go-Go music.
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We all just want the kids to have fun. And maybe play one less game per weekend.
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Does AI actually belong in an art museum?
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Readers responded to a column begging readers not to use A.I. to write. Also, a rush to build the White House ballroom; a Trump voter’s wife is detained by ICE; and Trump derangement syndrome.
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STRATEGY BUSINESS5
Some universities are now allowing students and their families to pay tuition through PayPal and Venmo. Here's what to know.
Fox 5 DC News5h5
Watch as Sony President and CEO Hiroki Totoki explains how the company pivoted from hardware to become an entertainment powerhouse.
WSJ World News6h4
PublicSquare racked up costs—and consulting fees—before shifting into fintech; a 99% stock drop.
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The cuts affect the company’s corporate staff in technology and coffeehouse development. The reductions don’t involve cafe closures.
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The bulk settlement relates to the Gill lawsuit, in which a Missouri jury ordered the company to pay $495 million in damages after determining it failed to warn that its formula for preterm infants increased the risk for a bowel disease.
WSJ US News2h3
CREATIVE CRAFT1
Our colleagues at The Amplifier newsletter have music recommendations for the final sun-basking days of summer.
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MISC25
“Life of M,” Rachel Cusk’s new book, has a protagonist with an uncanny resemblance to Natalie Portman. But in an interview, Cusk says she never expected it would cause such a frenzy.
NYT Home Page3h4
In an increasingly morbid world, we can learn from graveyards.
NYT Home Page2h3
The department opened a criminal investigation after a couple said they were shocked with a stun gun and beaten during the Aug. 5 encounter.
NYT US News1h3
The pen Mr. Paxton pocketed more than a decade ago has resurfaced as a campaign issue.
NYT US News6h3
A Virginia elected official is facing criminal charges after an argument that turned physical followed a public hearing.
Fox 5 DC News2h3
The couple are moving back after six years in the United States. What they will do, and much else, are still unclear.
NYT Home Page10h2
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle self exiled to the ultrawealthy enclave of Montecito in 2020. “They wave. They drive. They close the gates,” a neighbor said.
NYT Home Page3h2
When Jameka Wilson encountered a man wearing a Chucky-style Halloween mask, her stage combat training kicked in. Now she’s a minor local celebrity.
NYT US News1h2
While Customs and Border Protection said it intercepted more than half a ton of khat, which is classified as a controlled substance, experts say far more of the East African plant makes it into the country.
NYT US News2h2
A Massachusetts woman who was known as an advocate for the mental health of emergency workers is being sought by the police after her husband, an officer, was found dead.
NYT US News1h2
Ms. Clancy has pleaded not guilty to murder, citing postpartum psychosis. Two defense witnesses said she spoke lovingly of her children after the killings.
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Two Pennsylvania State Police troopers were injured in the crash at Carlisle Airport, officials said.
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A Coast Guard investigation led to the arrest of Manuel Hernandez, who had been charged with misconduct and neglect after the deaths of a mother and her child.
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Find tips and guidance for the best way to spend a day in and around Arthur Ashe Stadium for the 2026 U.S. Open.
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See the likely path of the storm.
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A Texas woman watched in astonishment as an Amazon drone dropped her package into her backyard swimming pool.
Fox 5 DC News1h2
A foreign policy specialist, she was politically savvy and well versed in global issues, and traveled widely with her husband, Henry A. Kissinger, on his diplomatic missions.
NYT Home Page1h1
The woman, who is 44, stabbed two of the girls and slashed the third during a dispute in Brooklyn on Wednesday, the authorities said.
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A woman was shot inside a Bowie, Maryland, home on Thursday evening, according to city police.
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Investigators have identified a 76-year-old woman as the victim in a deadly home explosion in Annapolis Wednesday that also left a man injured.
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A 12-year-old boy appeared in D.C. court to face charges in the deadly shooting of his 13-year-old friend.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has filed a detainer with Fairfax County for the Salvadoran man charged in the fatal stabbing of Carmen Lizet Puch near a Great Falls trail on Monday, according to FOX News.
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A South Dakota mayor and his two children were involved in a paraglider crash northeast of Aberdeen on Wednesday, leaving his 8-year-old child dead.
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A South Carolina sanitation worker died after falling from the rear platform of a garbage truck on his first day on the job.
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A Colorado elementary school teacher was found dead inside her home, and investigators said evidence at the home raised questions about her husband's account of what happened.
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