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Last Wednesday morning, I welcomed students back into my high school library. Perhaps they were trying to escape the sweltering August heat, but regardless of why they walked in, the first-day-of-school energy in Abilene was contagious. I was sleep deprived from the to-do list running through my head the previous evening, but I felt energized […]

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We’ve been catching up on Apple TV shows. Watched: Lucky. I wish they’d make a season “0” that is all heist, but I liked how it wrapped up. 📺

Tucker Carlson: Trump fully understood the consequences of starting a war with Iran

Tucker Carlson Show: Trump says he's got a great relationship with Kim Jong Un, a truly odious dictator. Suspending military exercises with South Korea is driven by the perennial Trump tendency to distract people from whatever the problem is that he's caused.

Fox: JPMorgan sees food inflation at 5% next year. So that's not good. That could be a problem.

“Two unvaccinated people in Pennsylvania have died from measles, as a large outbreak there continues to spread, the state’s Health Department reported on Tuesday morning. They were the first measles deaths this year in the United States,” the New York Times reports. “The deaths come during a record-setting year for measles in the United States: […]

“Congressional Republicans are leveling some rare and uncharacteristically harsh criticism of President Trump for his decision to increase imports of ground beef at a lower tariff rate, warning that the move will hurt American ranchers,” the New York Times reports. “The decision, announced late last week, appeared to be a bid to lower costs across […]

Golden State held Minnesota Lynx stars Napheesa Collier and Olivia Miles to a combined 17 points as the league’s top defense turned in its most impressive effort yet.

Privilege escalation attack grants "full control" and freedom from Meta's servers/apps.

A pioneering AI scientist once predicted computers would replace human radiologists. They haven't.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is Donald Trump's worst nightmare: a banker with political power. Even worse: he's learning that Canadians have Carney's back.

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“A Republican-backed election overhaul, which would add proof-of-citizenship and other identification requirements to the voting process, has stalled in Congress,” NPR reports. “But voters in a number of states are weighing in on some of these same issues this year.” “Voters in at least six states will decide ballot measures related to voter ID — […]

Image changes that would get a paper retracted are widespread among suppliers.

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Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent, KFF Health News and host of the What the Health? podcast, talks about new CDC data showing kindergartner vaccine exemptions at a record high, and the bipartisan doubts about Dr. Heidi Overton, Trump's nominee to lead the FDA.

Photo: As eight-year-old girl receives a polio vaccine, she watches a closed circuit television broadcast (showing Dr Jonas Salk as he inoculates a boy) of a training telecast for physicians and scientists, New York, New York, April 12, 1955. (PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

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Chronic flooding in Northeast Queens has prompted many residents to leave their neighborhoods altogether. Queens Borough President Donovan Richards discusses what the city is doing to bolster the sewage system and institute safety measures during floods, and unpacks the city's new potential plan to offer buyouts to homeowners in the hardest-hit neighborhoods.

Photo: A flooded intersection in Queens (Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency)

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Jill Lepore, professor of American History at Harvard University, staff writer at The New Yorker, and the author of several books, including The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State (Liveright, 2026), talks about our reliance on data and algorithms and what it means for society and government.

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“At least 1-in-4 of all the people who have played in the NFL might expect to end up with chronic traumatic encephalopathy [CTE], according to a study of hundreds of cases over a recent six-year period.”

The Arizona Diamondbacks are angry at Quintin Berry, third base coach for the Chicago Cubs. Several Diamondbacks, including manager Torey Lovullo, suspected Monday night that Berry was picking up the changeup grip of Diamondbacks starting pitcher Merrill Kelly and then using...

John Ross knows a thing or two about self-deception. The songwriter and frontman of Wild Pink fills Still Coming Down, the latest from the shapeshifting New York indie group, with stories of men who have cooked their brains and lost their souls, without gaining much in the b...