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Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of “The Odyssey” is raking in an epic box office haul.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is accusing the U.S. of trying to interfere in his country’s elections — a claim Washington strongly denies.

This weekend marks the first time in 70 years that the best women baseball players in the world will compete on a professional stage.

Goodwill reported a record $7 billion in revenue last year.

Trump on Friday said Hamas has agreed to disarm.

Seven western states will share water from the drought-stricken Colorado River.

There’s a ban on most states systematically purging voter rolls within 90 days before Election Day.

Under the terms, Hamas would disarm, and Israel would withdraw its forces from Gaza.

The federal government is releasing a plan to intervene, and it could include major curbs for big cities down river.

Under the terms of the settlement, Christopher Hood, the founder of NSC-131 who is from Massachusetts, will pay $2,500 and perform 250 hours of community service after admitting he violated the state’s antidiscrimination laws.

President Trump suspended the nation’s refugee program early in his second term, but created a controversial carveout for for white Afrikaans-speaking South Africans. Vermont is expected to resettle more than 100 Afrikaners before the end of September.

The city of Boston is extending the monthlong window for residents to submit ideas for its third-ever round of participatory budgeting an extra week — until Aug. 7.

“To America’s allies, President Trump’s war in Iran, now in its sixth month, seems headed for a strategic defeat,” the New York Times reports. “They worry that the inability of the United States to turn military superiority into a sustainably changed Iran has displayed a vulnerability that Russia and China will welcome. In addition, Mr. […]

“The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee ​has scheduled an ‌executive business meeting for Tuesday to ​consider the ​nomination of Todd Blanche ⁠to be ​U.S. attorney general, according ​to the committee’s website,” Reuters reports. ”Blanche’s nomination has been stalled ​after a ​standoff with fellow Republicans over ‌a ⁠plan by President Donald Trump for $1.8 billion ‘anti-weaponization’ fund […]

I’ve updated my rss chat server on my Raspberry Pi: John’s Pi chat. A new feature is adding a menu of commands to the menubar. I followed the instructions. Just for fun I decided to edit the example in drummer rather than locally. This lead to a mistake where I used the link button to add a link 🔗, rather than a url attribute, with the suitcase button . Anyway easy to fix. I made the outline public and used that in the config. Using Drummer for the first time in a long while reminded me of the scripts menu which, in my mind links to today a type="link" node opens its url in a new tab; other types get their behaviours later. Other types sounds interesting.

Piet Mondrian, Sun, Church in Zeeland; Zoutelande Church Facade, 1909 #tatemuseum #pietmondrian