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Musician Amy Helm broke her silence on the intra-family dispute over Levon Helm Studios, accusing her stepmother’s advisors of executing a coordinated financial shakedown. “The hustlers who think they can manipulate her and further cash in on my father’s legacy will be exposed,” Helm, 55, said in a statement posted to social media Thursday. “Their […]

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The trailer for Wicker (starring Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Peter Dinklage, Elizabeth Debicki). “An outcast in a fishing village commissions a husband for herself made out of wicker.” Looks unhinged (complimentary).

One message came through clearly in the member survey: The comments are an important part of Political Wire — but the commenting system itself needs work. Many of you described the comment section as a genuine community. Readers often add context, expertise, links and perspectives that make the original posts more valuable. Join now to […]

After 51 years, The North Face Outlet on Fifth Street has closed. The outdoor outfitter had its headquarters and a factory in Berkeley until the 1990s.

In what way?

Out just before the midterms: Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country by Andy Beshear. Beshear is almost certainly ramping up for a 2028 presidential campaign.

“More and more uninsured patients are showing up in hospital emergency rooms and clinics, having lost their coverage under the Affordable Care Act,” the New York Times reports. “Executives running some of the biggest hospital systems, including large for-profit chains spanning many states, expressed concern over the unexpectedly sharp rise in uninsured patients and the […]

The fire that devastated a Hudson Valley firehouse is now under investigation. The cause may have been discovered. Continue reading…

A historic and record-shattering rainstorm slammed the Hudson Valley and Upstate New York. We've got the verified rainfall totals. Continue reading…

Eleven days ago I set myself a weekend challenge: build "Canva for WordPress." Not another page builder. A page builder on top of Gutenberg that a complete beginner could use with zero training. The page is the canvas. You edit on the front end. You drag, resize, rotate, snap to guides. And when you hit […]

Let’s See the Actual Language I harbor a growing suspicion that a collective hoodwinking is going on in the Senate...

The coffee shop where 162 regulars have their own mug (1977). “The cups may not be such a small thing after all. They are a town register and a history and a confirmation that life goes on in a small American town.”

BYD’s electric kei car has already secured over 5,000 orders, more than half of its target by the end of 2026 in just one week.

One of China’s newest EVs is also its fastest-charging, with the ability to fill its battery from 10-70% in 4 minutes and 22 seconds.

But that’s not the only recent announcement of a fast-charging battery that quotes how many seconds it takes to fill up, showing that the race for fast charging has entered a new era which treats seconds as the significant figure, rather than minutes.

During a press briefing on a proposed $22 billion renovation of Dulles Airport, Trump said he told President Zelensky to just end the war with Russia. There's no "renovation" of his economic polices crippling the US, are there? Any policy Trump should be paying attention to...

The White House Government Transparency Task Force releases the following fact sheet approved by the directors of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Department of Homeland Security relating to President Donald J. Trump’s recent declassification of documents. These documents were originally produced by […]

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Reporter: Since June, the ceasefire has collapsed. We've seen energy prices surge. Gas prices have come back up. So any sort of progress for the month of June is likely to be short-lived because energy prices are back up above $80 a barrel.

Host: A new poll shows 66% of Americans believe the Iran war has not been worthwhile. That includes about 40% of Republicans.

In 2020 as Kentucky faced a spike of deadly overdoses, Gov. Andy Beshear set out to help more people access drug treatment by loosening Medicaid spending controls.

But as the costs piled up, so did the warnings that the system was being abused.
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RSS reader Current has been updated with Feedly support. Nice blog post about how this came about. It’s always interesting to hear the behind-the-scenes stories like this.