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Trump Put Words In Dead Soldiers' Mouths/Ossoff Rips Hegseth

There's a version of the presidency that shows up at a dignified transfer to grieve with the families. This isn’t it. On his way to receive Americans killed in Iran, Trump claimed the fallen had personally told him—“very strongly”—that Iran must never get a nuclear weapon. ...

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‘60 Minutes’ makes big hires, including one that will raise eyebrows

Some are calling it a coup — an inspired, out-of-the-box great hire meant to shake life into a long-running news show. Others are saying it’s a bizarre, risky hire — of […]

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“Now, it wasn’t AI that killed all that. Social networks like Facebook and Twitter were the main culprits, especially once they started treating corporations like users and users like product, sacrificing quality for quantity. AI just danced on our grave.”

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ICE wants to deport a Philly man who has lived legally in the U.S. for 20 years. He fled Guinea after being jailed by the government. (share.inquirer.com)

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In Ohio, Toxic Wastewater Is Bubbling Up Out of the Ground (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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The Estrogen Patch Surged in Popularity. Now It’s in Shortage. (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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Waldbrände in Frankreich: Eine Stadt wartet auf das Feuer (zeit.de)

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We Need To Keep Human Writing Human (jproco.medium.com)

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Trump’s Tariffs Are Sending Some Companies Back to China (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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A New Dawn of Missiles Shapes Battlefields From Ukraine to Iran (bloomberg.com)

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Power station: A quieter generator arrives at the 9th Precinct

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy  A quieter generator has replaced the one powering systems at the 9th Precinct stationhouse on Fifth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue since early summer.  The original generator was installed after an electrical pro...

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Post announces an August close

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You're on the clock now for a last meal at Post. 

The cafe, which serves a variety of comfort food and cocktails, recently announced it will be shutting down at 317 E. Third St., between Avenue B and Avenue B. 

No official reason was cited, but in a reply on Instagram, ownership noted: "...it's time. New York has been really good to us. But sometimes you have to get out while the gettin is good." 

The breakfast-and-dinner spot debuted here in July 2021 after a move from 42 Avenue B, where they opened in November 2016.

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Subway snack stop: Vending machines arrive at the 1st Avenue F station

Photos by Stacie Joy  We've seen a few social media reports in recent days of cashless Coca-Cola vending machines arriving at subway stations... and lo and behold, there's now one in the First Avenue entrance of the Second Avenue F stop... ... so you have your choice of sodas and various snacks (thankfully, no option for Funyuns — no fun for enclosed train cars)... Two years ago to the day, we read in Crain's about the MTA's desire to have "the vending machines in place of empty retail spaces" to "add a bit more liveliness to the system" ... not to mention revenue.

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ICYMI: Temakase Hand Roll Bar has left 2nd Avenue

Photo by Steven A recent closure to note... Temakase Hand Roll Bar has closed at 157 Second Ave. between Ninth and 10th Streets.  Temakase founder Liron Michaeli shared this on Instagram on July 1:  Temakase was a COVID baby. We signed our lease just two weeks be...

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eBay agreed to pay nearly $50 million to Mass. couple sent cockroaches, bloody pig mask

eBay agreed to pay nearly $50 million to Massachusetts journalists David and Ina Steiner under a newly finalized settlement resolving a lawsuit over a 2019 cyberstalking campaign carried out by former company employees.

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Residents want a judge to pause Lowell data center expansion

The residents are expected to argue that state environmental regulators violated the law and their statutory authority when they allowed the Markley data center to add more diesel generators on the property.

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Warming oceans bring new shark species to New England coastlines

Spinner, tiger and smooth hammerhead sharks have all been spotted either by research teams or by members of the public off the coast of New England this year and in the past few years. They’re likely here because of climate change, says researchers.

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Gardening is a dose of reality

Julie Wittes Schlack is retired, free to spend her time however she pleases. "It scares me a little to think that I no longer need to work, and terrifies me to think that I’m no longer capable of it," she writes. So, she signed up for weeding duties in the garden at her co-housing community.

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Boston author gives Muslim children chance to see themselves on the page

Autumn Allen's young adult novel "You Only Live Twice" captures the giddiness of first love, the joy of Islam and the harsh realities of being visibly Muslim in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing. She wrote the book so that her niece could “read with an eye to emotional truth” and know this story is for her.