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“America’s grocery squeeze has thus far been most painfully felt in a few expensive categories, like beef, coffee and chocolate,” Axios reports. “Now, the forces pushing up food prices are starting to pile up: expensive grain, soaring fertilizer and fuel, plus unpredictable weather and raging wars.” ”The next grocery price shock could hit much harder […]

“When Vanity Fair published close-up photos of President Donald Trump’s core advisers at the end of 2025, the group included five staffers alongside the vice president and secretary of state. Now two of those five aides are gone from the West Wing, turnover that’s reshaping the management of a deeply personal presidency,” Semafor reports. “Two […]

Washington Post: “It is a risky strategy two months before Election Day. Vulnerable Republicans cannot afford to antagonize Trump because they need his help to turn out his base and tap into the $400 million war chest he controls. And he is not extending the leeway past presidents have for candidates to run their own […]

New York Times: “All across America, the midterm elections are drowning in dark money.” “A New York Times review of advertising data, campaign-finance filings and tax records revealed that about $1 billion in anonymous money is sloshing through the political landscape in 2026, a staggering sum and yet almost certainly a low-end estimate, given how […]

“Russia’s Defense Ministry said it is planning ‘massive strikes’ on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, days after launching a devastating attack on a warehouse near Kyiv, amplifying fears of another winter assault,” CNBC reports.

Nate Cohn: “The New York Times/Siena Poll has traditionally been a telephone survey, but over the last few years we’ve experimented with most of the major methods for contacting voters. These include sending them text messages (and sometimes offering financial incentives to participate), sending them mail with financial incentives, and getting data from panels of […]

“Lawmakers can spend years trying to land seats on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee. Several could finally get their chance in the next Congress,” Politico reports. ”The panel with vast jurisdiction over health care, artificial intelligence, energy and telecommunications will have at least eight empty slots in the next Congress — four on […]

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As governments consider banning social media for under-16s, Meta is turning to influencers to argue that parental controls are a better solution.

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This summer, Fernando Alfonso, the Texas editor for The New York Times, got in a car with a man named Philip. They drove around the suburban streets of Dallas searching for traffic cameras — not for a red-light camera, or a speed-trap camera, but something new, an automatic ...

“A plan in one of Texas’ largest counties to use dozens fewer polling locations than in previous years is drawing protests from Democrats who say the reductions could create confusion in the November midterm elections,” the Associated Press reports. “The proposal, set for a vote Tuesday, would reduce the number of polling locations across booming […]

Punchbowl News: “It’s striking that Republicans have settled on a message that Trump is on the ballot in 2026. The election will be all about him anyway, so this is an attempt to turn necessity into a political virtue.” ”Yet Trump’s approval ratings are well under 40%, especially on his handling of the economy. He’s […]

“The House is back in session, but it might be a short one,” Politico reports. “Speaker Mike Johnson is looking to tick off the lone essential item on the chamber’s to-do list in lawmakers’ first days back: a Senate-passed, shutdown-averting spending bill.” “A handful of other priorities are caught up in partisan battles and Senate […]

“The rate at which mail votes have been rejected for arriving late has ticked up in primaries this year and general elections last year in roughly a dozen states, prompting election officials to worry that the U.S. Postal Service is ill-equipped to deliver ballots in the fall midterms,” the New York Times reports.

Frederick Taylor taught Henry Ford how to do mass production. Deming brought quality, systems understanding and respect for the worker. And operations research brought insight. If you have a repeated production process, the method for improving it is almost always the same, regardless of what you and your team produce: 1. Measure before you change. […]

Take-Two has informed U.S. federal courts that its investigation into the GTA 6 leak is "rapidly evolving." On the heels of its Netflix preview, the gaming company filed a new DMCA subpoena request, asking the court to keep it sealed to prevent tipping off the alleged infringers. Meanwhile, Take-Two dropped its DMCA subpoena against YouTube, as it is no longer needed.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Former Rep. Max Rose helps lead an influential network intervening in Democratic primaries — while quietly advising a tech-funded political operation targeting AI regulation.

New York City cabbies paid tribute to one of their own Sunday on the Harlem block where a driver died at the wheel during a July heat wave. The solemn memorial came two days after their fundraising campaign shipped his remains to his family in Ivory Coast. Richard Coulibaly, a taxi driver for nearly 20 […]

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Ten human remains found at a historic African burial ground in Queens were disinterred and placed in storage. Now, the pastor of the church that is steward of the site wants them reburied and the plot transformed into a memorial to the slaves and freed slaves still buried there. The Rev. Kimberly Detherage, pastor of […]

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