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Why beef is more expensive than ever

The U.S. produces billions of pounds of commercial beef every year. But it’s getting more and more expensive for Americans to get beef on the table – and for ranchers to raise the cattle it comes from.

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Lionel Messi Refuses To Let Time Win

Lionel Messi Refuses To Let Time Win
For 79 minutes of Tuesday afternoon's round of 16 match against Egypt, Lionel Messi was terrible, and by extension so was Argentina. "Terrible" might be overstating it, but when confronted with the enormity of Messi's talent, even at this sunset period of his career, anythin...

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Will Apple Give Us Truly Personal AI?

A couple of weeks ago, in The George Carlin Model of AI, I said personal AI needed to work first on what George called a place for my stuff. Should Apple occupy that whole personal space, kinda like René Magritte visualized in a surrealist painting seventy-five years ago? I think that’s where they’re going. You […]

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BYD’s electric GT resurfaces after its first public sighting

A year after the Song L GT was revealed, BYD’s electric GT was spotted in public for the first time.

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ChargePoint adds 200+ new EV charging ports in the Southeast

ChargePoint is expanding its partnership with charge point operator Optimus Energy Solutions to install more than 200 new public EV charging ports across the southeastern US.

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Nigel Farage resigns as MP for Clacton, triggering by-election which he says he will stand in - BBC News

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The Reform UK leader's statement follows reports he failed to declare financial support from an ally. He has also faced questions over an unregistered £5m gift from a donor.

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Columns buckle at Midtown building: FDNY

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NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — A large FDNY response is underway in Midtown after two columns buckled and five floors caved in at a building under construction Tuesday morning. FDNY said the call came in …

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Midtown Manhattan buildings evacuated after columns found buckling at high-rise construction site

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Mayor Mamdani says "the building remains unstable" as there has been additional movement in one of the columns since city officials arrived.

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Takeaway meals contain more salt than advertised, study finds

Almost half of the takeaway meals tested contained more salt than advertised, with some dishes delivering nearly twice the recommended daily limit in a single serving. Surprisingly, classic fish and chips ranked among the lowest-salt options, while pasta, pizza, and curries were often the saltiest.

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World Cup Wallpapers for Your Phone

Marcos Paulo has been making all sorts of phone-sized wallpapers for the World Cup and posting them to Threads. You have to poke around to find them in his account, but here are a few direct links: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Tags: design · fashion · iPhone · soccer · sports · World Cup 2026

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The Hot Take Industrial Complex Cannot Be Killed By Conventional Means

The Hot Take Industrial Complex Cannot Be Killed By Conventional Means

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we're talking malls, flopping, hero instincts, and more.

Before I get started today, let's go ahead and open up the submissions for Why Your Team Sucks 2026. Does your NFL team suck? Well then, email us here and tell us why. A quick refresher of the guidelines for you. One: put your team's name and "WYTS" in the subject line. Two: Your team only, please. If you're some asshole Steelers fan sending in a missive about how pathetic the Browns are, right into the dustbin it goes. Got all that? Good. Then let's get down to business.

Your letters:

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This is unbelievable. A new lawsuit states that the Trump administration shared the names and immigration records of Iranian asylum seekers with the Iranian government, allowing Iranian officials to identify people they wanted returned.

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Trump’s crazed lies about ‘communists’ demand media debunking

But our major news outlets apparently aren’t up to the job.

The post Trump’s crazed lies about ‘communists’ demand media debunking appeared first on Press Watch.

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AOL's Instant Messenger was the unsung hero of the early-aughts

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It's kind of incredible that these days, barely a day goes by that I don't think about AOL Instant Messenger (or AIM, as I'll call it throughout) at some point.

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Publishing on the Atmosphere with Standard.site

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Standard.site provides a set of lexicons for publishing long-form content on the internet using the same protocol used under the hood by Bluesky.

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Miley Cyrus Finally Has Her Own Iconic Barbie Doll

Miley revealed the details behind her very own Barbie and what it means to her. Continue reading…

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Summer Camp: The Upside-Down Tree

Welcome back to Circle Round Summer Camp! We're revisiting our favorite stories about the outdoors.

Comedian Alonzo Bodden (Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!, Heavy Lightweight) headlines this African legend about how one animal’s mischief created the savanna’s most majestic, magical trees.

This Circle Round episode originally was released on Nov. 7, 2023.

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they WERE Bodhisattvim ::chuckle::

[ Being: an early July screed in defense of an assertion... ] It was late on a weekday evening, shading towards midnight, sometime in the early winter months of last year, and I was walking back home on my daily constitutional. Somewhere along Chestnut Street near Gough, I ...

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Meet The Broadway Actor Teaching Public Defenders How To Win In Court

Meet The Broadway Actor Teaching Public Defenders How To Win In Court

On Sunday, June 7, LeeAnne Hutchison was at the Tony Awards watching her Broadway debut Liberation win for Best Play. The next morning, she woke up and clocked in at The Defenders Academy—a week-long trial skills program for public defenders from across the country. She’s spent the last two decades using her acting skills to teach lawyers how to be more compelling in court. 

Hutchison and I met over Zoom to talk about what a court room has in common with a theater, and what keeps bringing her back to sharing her talents with public defenders. Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity.