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If you believed that the point of the DMA was to open up competition, choice, and freedom for developers, yeah, I bet it does seem bonkers that the European Commission has signed off on compliance where Apple charges 15 percent commissions on links to the web from apps distributed on the App Store, and that Apple will collect a 5 percent Core Technology Commission even for apps distributed on third-party app marketplaces, using third-party payment processing.

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Following a four-year phase-out, Governor Hochul's office has announced the official end of certain mandatory fees for SUNY student workers in master and doctoral level study. Continue reading…

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This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Political action committees are responsible for nearly two-thirds of all federal election funding, with about US$6.3 billion raised and $4.8 billion spent since January 2025. But their outsized political influence does not just come from their wallets. It’s also generated from their names. […]

The Port of San Diego has effectively green-lit the new Skycharger flagship solar + electric semi project on a 4.8 acre site near the National City Marine Terminal, promising to fleet electrification easier, more affordable, and more accessible to the area’s port and logistics fleets.

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School rankings are out for the upcoming year, and U.S. News has revealed which New York high schools are leading the pack. Continue reading…

The blaze forced temporary evacuations and briefly shut down a stretch of Route 17. Continue reading…

“President Trump has stuck his neck out for Senator Darline Graham,” the New York Times reports. “In the weeks leading up to South Carolina’s primary election runoff for Senate on Tuesday, Mr. Trump traveled to Myrtle Beach to rally supporters and personally called high-level state officials to compel them to endorse Ms. Graham. A super […]

“Speaker Mike Johnson crisscrossed New York and New Jersey last week promoting tax cuts from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act while mostly warning voters: Vote Republican to save us from the communists,” NOTUS reports. “House Republican leaders are relying on keeping and flipping a handful of swing seats in and around New York state […]

The EU gives up and settles with Apple, John Ternus’s new home strategy starts to come into focus, and people at Apple just love the folding iPhone.…

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In April 2026, a federal grand jury returned indictments charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with wire fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

The indictment alleges the SPLC, a nonprofit legal advocacy group, secretly funneled more than US$3 million in donated funds to people associated with violent extremist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Nations.

Prosecutors allege that the SPLC secretly paid members of those groups to act as confidential informants without telling donors. Eight informants received the money between 2014 and 2023, according to U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche.

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U.S. Vice President JD Vance will be in Maine today, holding a rally in the Bangor-Brewer area, presumably to bolster Republican candidates. However, one notable absence will be U.S. Senator Susan Collins. Though she spent yesterday in Madison, a short drive from Brewer, Ma...

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Plus Modern Times returns, RIP Chaz Millionaire, and depression is the real serial killer in today's Flyover news roundup.

Ontario premier Doug Ford took questions from reporters: REPORTER: You sound more subdued than you did this morning when you said Donald Trump can kiss your ass. Did the Prime Minister tell you to tone it down? FORD: No, he didn’t. I have a lot of real estate on my ass, so he has a […]

First Up: Qatari Jets and Crypto Schemes I received an email from Stand Up America last week about Sen. Elissa...

Tesla’s “Robotaxi” service is racking up a wave of terrible rider experiences in Texas — and the complaints are increasingly coming from Tesla’s own fans and ambassadors.

A self-described “Tesla Ambassador” says the service quoted him 66 minutes for a 2.3-mile trip and left him to call an Uber, while a four-time Tesla owner has logged a string of missed pickups and drop-offs left blocks — sometimes miles — from the destination.

Hutchison Ports Pakistan is pouring a planned $76 million into a new decarbonization plan that promises to deploy more than 70 new electric terminal tractors at its Karachi container terminal as part of a bigger plan to clean up the Pakistani port operations.