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El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds

El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds

“One more warning sign here of what we're facing in a warmer world.”

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Google Maps renames "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" even faster than US government

Google Maps renames "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" even faster than US government

Google rolled out the Lake America change on Saturday, while the official US government maps are still waiting.

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Juliana Stratton: Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in history. He’s using his office to get rich while everyday Americans struggle to make ends meet.

Political Wire
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Trump’s Approval Hits Another New Low

A new University of Massachusetts Amherst poll finds President Trump’s approval at a dismal 32%, while 64% disapprove. Trump Approval Approve 32%   Disapprove 64%   University of Massachusetts Amherst poll · ±3.5%

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Supreme Court Allows Ballroom Construction to Continue

“A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed the White House to continue construction on a $400 million ballroom project as lawsuits play out,” the Associated Press reports. “The decision replaces a temporary order from Chief Justice John Roberts previously issued hours before a lower-court decision halting the work would have gone into effect.”

Political Wire
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Vance Says Abdul El-Sayed Is ‘Evil’

“Vice President JD Vance described Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s Democratic nominee for Senate, as ‘evil’ during a campaign rally here Monday,” NBC News reports. Said Vance: “I realize that there’s something about Abdul El-Sayed that is very, very evil and on the rise in the United States of America today.” He added: “And it’s people who […]

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LISTEN: The Brooklyn Dems Bring ‘Veep’ to Real Life

A screenshot of Rodneyse Bichotte-Hermelyn with the caption "GRABBING POWER"

“I don’t do much reporting on the Brooklyn Democratic Party because so many other people in our newsroom usually do, but because I’ve been living in Rockaway, I said to my hardworking colleague and friend Gwynne, ‘I’ll go. I’ve got a car and it’s 15 minutes from where I’ve been living. It’s all good.’  “Well, […]

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Historic La Loma house coming on the market

The renovation of 1514 La Loma Ave. has made the house modern and sustainable, while preserving the architectural heritage of the home designed by John Knox Ballantine Jr.

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How to tap into network debugging

Glenn Fleishman, art by Shafer Brown

I know there’s no connection between my local area network and our house’s plumbing system, but when the faucet started running uncontrollably literally seconds after I fixed a network outage, I had to wonder: did we have a poltergeist?…

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‘The fan who built an alternate MLB app got hired by the league’ ↦

Joe Lemire of Sports Business Journal has a detailed story about how MLB came to hire Jason Weingradt, the developer behind the amazing baseball app Mosaic:

By drawing on public application programming interfaces (APIs) from the league and other sources, Weingradt built an app in TestFlight — Apple’s home for products still in beta — and shared his new creation, Mosaic, by posting on Threads and tagging #buildinpublic to solicit early adopter feedback….

Political Wire
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Sununu Takes Lead in New Hampshire Senate Race

A new University of New Hampshire Survey Center poll in New Hampshire finds John E. Sununu (R) ahead of Chris Pappas (D) in the U.S. Senate race, 45% to 43%. New Hampshire Senate Race John E. Sununu (R) 45%   Chris Pappas (D) 43%   University of New Hampshire Survey Center poll

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Alaska Democrats Back Independent in House Race

“The Alaska Democratic Party is encouraging its members to back independent Bill Hill in the state’s sole House seat,” the Washington Post reports.

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Trump: We're now an economic force like we've never been before

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Trump tells Big Pharma executives their stock has gone up after he signed pharmaceutical deals

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Trump: Affordability—I inherited that from the Biden administration

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Dr. Oz hints at raising the retirement age:

"If we can get Americans to feel so healthy and so vibrant they want to work just one extra year, that's worth $1 trillion to our GDP every year"

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MCP was supposed to solve the agent tooling problem. It missed a step.

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Connecting an AI agent to a tool is relatively straightforward. Things get more complicated once an organization has hundreds or

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Administration Escalates Deportations To Haiti As Violent Gang Attacks Escalate In Haiti

I can’t assume the Trump administration hoped this would happen. But I can’t believe no one in the administration (Trump, Stephen Miller, Tom Homan) isn’t secretly thrilled that this has happened. The administration managed to revoke temporary protected status for Haitian refugees in America, a decision that affects nearly 350,000 people. The revocation of this […]

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Mamdani Rushes To Patch up NYC Childcare Payments After Providers Report Delays

Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at the Ditmas Park public library about restoring funding for branches across the city,

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday pledged to address payment delays that are threatening the rollout of his signature free childcare program for 2-year-olds and pushing some providers to the brink of closure ahead of the Sept. 10 school opening. Mamdani, who made the expansion […]

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Political Wire
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Kalshi Suspends GOP Candidate for Betting On Her Race

“Online prediction market Kalshi suspended a Republican House candidate Monday after it found that she was wagering on her own race,” the Washington Post reports. “The candidate, Laurie Buckhout, is running in a district in northeastern North Carolina, a swing district that Republicans see as a pick-up opportunity.”