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Other events include a forum to dicsuss a new Berkeley waterfront ferry, the play "Reposessed" and free vaccines for children.

Maz Naba’s hit pop-up is moving into the former Bar Agricole, giving the chef space to serve everything from housemade charcuterie to cocktails.

Konbini blends the spirit of a Japanese mini-mart with the mindset of an Italian deli — and makes a mean fan tuan, a Taiwanese breakfast staple.

Test-blind admissions have made Mission High one of the easiest paths into Berkeley, but the school’s students struggle to graduate.

Plus, more on the petitions for review addressing an $83.3 million defamation verdict against the president.

An AI agent feels harmless when it only produces text, but the risk profile changes the moment it calls a

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Franz Marc, Three Animals (Drei Tiere), (1912) #museumofmodernart #museumarchive

“Economic growth was weaker than expected in the second quarter while inflation in June held well above the Federal Reserve’s goal,” CNBC reports. “Gross domestic product, a broad measure of goods and services, increased just 1.5% for the April-through June period.”

Time: “A socialist stalwart who rose through Chávez’s inner circle before serving for years as Nicolás Maduro’s second-in-command, Rodríguez, 57, was among the most recognizable faces of a movement largely defined for decades by its hostility toward the U.S.” “Today, she is the steward of a remarkable rapprochement with Washington. In exchange for U.S. support, […]

A former employee at a Hudson Valley business allegedly kept helping himself to company funds long after his employment ended. Continue reading…

The latest Trump administration effort to kill off Americans and/or make life impossibly unaffordable is its decision to end subsidies for Medicare prescription premiums. “Millions of older Americans could pay more for their prescription drug coverage next year,” The New Yo...

“It turns out there are consequences for going scorched-earth. Especially if the person you scorched still has a vote in the U.S. Senate,” Bloomberg reports. “That lesson is unfolding in dramatic fashion this morning as Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Todd Blanche, faces an embarrassing delay thanks to Senator John Cornyn.” “A scheduled vote […]

“Three in 4 Democrats say they would be open to supporting a democratic socialist for president, but less than half of all Americans say they would vote for such a candidate,” according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll. “The findings from the recent survey show the ascendant strength of socialist-backed candidates among left-leaning voters — and […]

“Treasury yields are hovering at multiyear highs, reflecting worries about rising inflation and the Fed’s willingness to combat it after officials held interest rates unchanged for a seventh month,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The Middle East teetered on the brink of an expanded war on Thursday, after Iran and the United States reignited their hostilities and inflamed conflicts on other fronts that threatened to draw in more countries,” the New York Times reports. “For the first time since the conflict began in February, the authorities in Egypt said […]

“President Donald Trump won’t stop needling Senate Majority Leader John Thune, no matter how much it splinters Republicans,” Semafor reports. “The president is heaping demands on Thune as the Senate GOP looks to head home for August and try to shore up its increasingly fragile majority. Thune says much of what Trump wants is not […]

I’ve been saying this for decades. The Dems need touring comedians doing rallies all over the country. They can say whatever they want, call the president a commie. There’s been a comedy-gap.

I've been saying this for decades. The Dems need touring comedians doing rallies all over the country. They can say whatever they want, call the president a commie. There's been a comedy-gap.

Quick background: the $8 billion FCC Universal Service Fund (USF) applies a small surcharge on traditional phone lines to fund broadband expansion to unserved rural homes, schools, and libraries (of which the U.S. has a lot thanks to rampant telecom monopolization). While the USF, like all government programs, hasn’t been absent of fraud (usually at the hands of […]

Designed to help people with serious mental illness, Joliet Treatment Center repeatedly failed to prevent or respond to fires, despite two deaths. Story via @themarshallproject.org.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/24/prison-fires-joliet-illinois-mental-health