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“The board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted on Thursday to inscribe President Trump’s name on the building beneath the main signage, aggressively testing a federal judge’s order to remove it,” the New York Times reports. “According to the resolution approved by the Trump-allied board, the inscription underneath the institution’s […]

The Economist: “There is no evidence that vaccines cause autism. Nor is there evidence that spreading out vaccines is beneficial. In fact, doing so increases the window in which kids are vulnerable to infection. Doctors’ groups, therefore, lined up to denounce the order…” “The good news, then, is that Mr Trump’s order will have little […]

“U.S. military leaders are privately raising concerns inside the Pentagon and the White House about low morale and widespread fatigue among American service members who’ve been deployed for months to support the war with Iran,” NBC News reports. “Amid the concerns, the Pentagon plans to replace one of two aircraft carriers deployed in the Middle […]

IONNA has been operating public fast chargers for less than two years, but EV drivers already rank it higher than every other eligible US fast-charging network.

Porsche will end Taycan production by 2030, claims a German media report. The cancellation is interesting in the light of an interview just last month where the Porsche CEO said the model isn’t going anywhere.

Top Trump health official rails against "sex rejecting mutilating transgender procedures" (He is a urologist whose practice performed surgery on transgender men)

The modern English word “history” comes partly from the Latin historia and partly from the French storie (or estoire), but those terms both trace their roots back to the same place. Not coincidentally, that place is one of the bedrocks of Western civilization: ancient Greece...

While the Coinage Act of 1792 established the United States Mint and the dollar as the unit of currency for the fledgling nation, it was quite some time before a fully standardized monetary system took root. In the meantime, people in possession of valuable metals continued ...

Even with the decline of letter writing in the digital age, the ZIP code remains an American institution, a neat five-digit number that caps an address and, like an area code, can serve as a point of pride and prestige. Given the ZIP code’s place as an oft-used and universal...

Opinion: Some remarks about the new wordmark accidentally being perfectly awful.

Rachel Leingang, Midwest political correspondent for Guardian US, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Teo Armus, reporter for The Washington Post focused on politics, demographics, voters and immigration, offer political analysis of the latest primary election results, incl...

New York City Council member Lincoln Restler (District 33, Greenpoint, Northside Williamsburg, South Williamsburg, Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO, Boerum Hill, Vinegar Hill, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Navy Yard) talks about his bill, which he expects to pass, that will bring back year-round outdoor dining after the Adams administration had heavily restricted it.

Photo: People dine al fresco, or open air, in Hell's Kitchen on July 21, 2020 in New York City. (Jeenah Moon/Getty Images)

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"The more I embraced my comfort with being nonbinary, the more comfortable I felt adding that layer of androgyny into the character.”

Zena Homes advanced through two Town of Ulster reviews this week after the Planning Board issued a negative declaration for the proposed subdivision and the Zoning Board of Appeals denied a challenge from the Woodstock Land Conservancy. The Planning Board voted Tuesday to determine that the controversial project in the towns of Woodstock and Ulster […]

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“The East Wing is gone, a new helipad is spreading across the lawn, and scaffolding wraps the White House’s front columns, but the price tags for President Trump’s renovations are far less obvious,” Axios reports. “The muddled mix of funding streams — whether from private donors, the president himself or taxpayers — has fueled ethical […]

Yet another leak in the Trump boat has publicly exposed just how much Donald Trump's Kennedy Center fiasco is costing.

Axios has recently obtained a whopping 180-plus pages of internal blueprints that reveal the swelling price tag of President Trump's renovation and remaking of the world-renowned performing arts venue. Congress originally approved $257 million for the project, yet internal documents reveal that costs are on track to balloon to more than double, clocking in around $560 million so far.

Delta Consulting Group put together a two-slide construction assessment that they presented to the board of trustees, chaired by Trump himself. According to their assessment, the iconic venue's "state of disrepair is significant and escalating," resulting in the group presenting the board with two different options for repair.

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Federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security sent undercover agents to observe a climate group and into churches, and...