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“One of this year’s biggest primary elections is underway in Michigan, where two Democratic Senate candidates with deep policy disagreements are facing off in a major test of the party’s direction,” the New York Times reports. “The bitter, expensive race pits Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive former public health official, against Representative Haley Stevens, a […]

Otto Dix, Lovers (Liebespaar) from the portfolio Nine Woodcuts (Neun Holzschnitte), (1920), dated 1921, published 1922 #ottodix #museumarchive

Coauthored with Claude Unrestricted global access to frontier AI technology is ending. The US government has taken steps to control who can use the most advanced models developed by American companies. While Claude Fable and the GPT-5.6 models are now open to all users, Anthropic and OpenAI are both complying voluntarily with a program that […]

Dutchess County Executive Sue Serino wants to ban the sale of kratom across the county, saying the increasingly popular substance poses a serious risk to public health, especially for young people. Continue reading…

Equipped with newly released diary entries by former U.S. infectious disease chief Dr. Anthony Fauci, U.S. senators and others said that what he told the public at the height of […]

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And Democrats should make the most of it

Punchbowl News: “New Hampshire Democrats, furious at a DNC push to bump the state to third in the early nominating calendar, are pledging to hold their first-in-the-nation presidential primary anyway.” ”In conversations last week, Granite State Democrats running in 2026 struck a uniformly defiant tone. Each insisted the state must abide by New Hampshire law, […]

“When President Donald Trump strode into the Rose Garden in April 2025 brandishing a poster board of tariff hikes, the world leaped as if a fire alarm had gone off. Markets shed trillions of dollars, envoys rushed to Washington, more than 75 governments scrambled to negotiate, some scrapping carefully prepped countermeasures in a rush to […]

“The war in Iran, along with a cycle of threats and walk-backs, has upended President Trump’s domestic agenda at a dire political moment,” the New York Times reports. “Americans are facing rising gas prices; Republicans in Congress are being forced to fund and defend an unpopular war that they never voted to approve; and with […]

“For decades, Ronald S. Lauder, the billionaire cosmetics heir and philanthropist, has been something like a one-man bank for Republicans in New York,” the New York Times reports. “He personally funded a campaign to impose term limits in New York City, helped pay for a lawsuit to overturn the state’s gerrymandered congressional map and, just […]

“President Trump has discussed ousting Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, after Pirro’s office contradicted the president’s contention that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was damaged by vandals,” the Wall Street Journal reports.