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Michigan's state health department says the two people who died had "significant underlying health conditions that may have been affected by the disease and related dehydration."

The wars in Iran and Ukraine continue without an end in sight.

Mayor Michelle Wu joined WBUR's Morning Edition to talk about what the city is doing to improve bike safety, after city transportation planner Louisa Gag was hit and killed by a truck while riding her bike last month.

Thousands signed a letter accusing Wu of slow-walking the transportation safety agenda she ran on. But the tragedy is also personal for the mayor. Gag once interned in Wu's old city council office.

Today, 100% of Boston’s residents live within a 10-minute walk of a park — but not all parks in the city serve the surrounding community equally. “This matters because at a time when cities are balancing competing priorities and limited resources, parks represent an investment that delivers multiple benefits,” writes Jodi Valenta of Trust for Public Land.

Helmed by founding artistic director Steven Maler, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's 30th anniversary production is about love and the rollercoaster of emotions it elicits. And it's "packed with a wonderful cast," reviews critic Jacquinn Sinclair.

“Congressional candidate Amir Hassan, whom President Donald Trump endorsed last month, appears headed for defeat in the Republican primary for Michigan’s 8th Congressional District, as he trails rival Thomas J. Smith, who suspended his campaign and endorsed another candidate less than three weeks before Election Day,” Newsweek reports.

Matthew Yglesias: “Democrats are, to put it mildly, not exactly enjoying intra-party peace, unity, and good vibes this summer. But that trend has attracted so much attention that I think we’re largely missing the other big politics story of this season: The Republican Party is in a bizarre level of array for a party whose […]

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I never thought I’d become a journalist. When I was younger, I resented journalists because news headlines were how I found out my dad was facing life in prison — […]

The post I taught prison reporting because I know how bad coverage can hurt appeared first on Poynter.

The start of a new school year will also mark the beginning of a new chapter at Roy C. Ketcham High School in Wappingers Falls, NY. Continue reading…

This is the first article in a series about post-training. Follow along on Radar. Before post-training, there was a major problem with LLMs: Almost nobody could use them. The story of post-training is also the story of how AI went from a research curiosity to a product used by about a billion people. Post-training is […]

“With 90 days until the midterms, the DCCC is adding 12 Republican-held districts to its offensive battlefield, bringing its target list up to 58 seats,” Politico reports. “The expansion puts several prominent Republicans in Democrats’ sights, notably including Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s 4th, Victoria Spartz in Indiana’s 5th, French Hill in Arkansas’ 2nd, while also […]

“Texas state Rep. James Talarico voted in five elections using his parents’ address after purchasing a home for himself nearby, a practice that may have violated state voting laws,” ProPublica reports. ”This comes weeks after Talarico accused Attorney General Ken Paxton, his opponent in the race for U.S. Senate, of voter fraud for similar actions. […]

“Everyone got a little bit of what they wanted in Tuesday’s primary elections. It was a good night for the Democratic establishment, the progressives and Republican candidates endorsed by President Trump,” NPR reports. “Some of the primary races for House and Senate in Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia and Washington are critical to which party will […]

Making American hungry and uninsured again

Mugshawtys and similar pages often frame mugshots as thirst traps. The women featured are humiliated and are sometimes harassed for months and years after their arrests.

Photo from March by Stacie Joy  The long-vacant development site on the east side of Second Avenue between Second Street and Third Street appears to have found a buyer.  The listing from brokerage BKREA is now marked SOLD, though the transaction has not yet appea...