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“President Donald Trump fired the new top U.S. prosecutor in Seattle on Wednesday less than an hour after the attorney was unanimously appointed by the federal judges in the district, highlighting tensions between the courts and the president over the powerful positions,” the Associated Press reports.

“They won’t say who attended. They won’t say where it happened. They won’t even say — on the record — what day it took place,” MS NOW reports. “What House Democrats are willing to acknowledge is that more than two dozen lawmakers gathered this week for a closed-door strategy session to game out how they […]

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Roger Rogoff had the job for less time than it takes to watch a sitcom rerun. The federal judges of the Western District of Washington unanimously appointed Rogoff — a former King County Superior Court judge and 26-year prosecutor — to the US attorney post Wednesday morning...

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Tesla shareholders have flooded the company’s Q2 2026 earnings Q&A portal with questions, and the most-upvoted ones tell a bleak story: retail investors are now demanding that Elon Musk explain why the company keeps missing its own short-term goals.

The tone has shifted from asking about Tesla’s grand vision to asking why almost none of it is showing up on schedule — on robotaxi, “Full Self-Driving,” and Optimus.

T-Mobile to restore free lines lost during plan migration, but price hikes remain.

As wildfire smoke threatens air quality and safety for millions, here’s your playbook to keep your family safe from the damaging effects of smoke.

The City Council voted unanimously to approve a one-time $10,000 payment to most of the public school paraprofessionals on Thursday, an effort to boost retention and recruitment for the badly-needed – but low-paying – jobs with students.  But Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who could try to stop the bill, said it is in “direct violation” of […]

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Signed into Auphonic for the first time in a while. Nice minor UI cleanup here and there since I last used it. The best web apps just get a little bit better over time without dramatically changing everything.

Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.

Elon Musk's xAI files first lawsuit against Grok user accused of making child sex images.

In an era of remarkable technology (say, since the early internet of the 1990s) it now beggars language itself to assert that a remarkable aspect of this age's new tools is that the tools themselves can think, reason, and speak back to their 'users.' For example, this w...