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VW could stop building cars at four German plants as it prepares to cut another 50,000 jobs worldwide – bringing its total planned workforce reduction to around 100,000.

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Over 1 million Game Pass subscribers will have to pay more for their heavy streaming use.

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“Minnesota congressional candidate Matt Little (D) is eyeing an ambitious goal this week: More than 13,000 handshakes in eight hours, which would be a new world record,” NOTUS reports. “He said it’s been on his mind for more than a decade: a record so untouched it has only been held by two other people, an […]

“Administration officials Thursday announced they would soon begin work to build President Donald Trump’s planned 250-foot-tall triumphal arch, his most significant change to Washington’s skyline,” the Washington Post reports.

Fox's Martha MacCallum pushed Lara Trump on when Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton is finally, if ever, going to see some of that MAGA Inc. PAC money coming his way. From some of the reporting in Politico this week, it seems the answer could be never: MAGA Inc. sits on camp...

The PV7 was spotted testing days after Kia previewed the larger electric van for the first time, and it makes the PV5 seem tiny.

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“America has fought a lot of wars since I’ve been alive. Forty-two years. And we have won almost none of them until Donald J. Trump became the president.” — JD Vance, speaking to reporters.

“House Republicans’ national campaign arm is joining with embattled GOP Rep. Max Miller to buy TV airtime as allegations of domestic abuse against him put the previously safe north Ohio seat into play,” Politico reports.

Vice President JD Vance said advice from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “is what got him on his weight loss journey,” Fox News reports. “He said he called Kennedy and told him he was thinking of giving up sugar.” Said Vance: “Bobby Kennedy says, ‘No, no, no, no, I’ve got something that’s way better […]

“As legal battles over the U.S. Postal Service’s new regulations for mail ballots move forward, state and local election officials are raising concerns about the logistical hurdles they will have to surmount to implement the requirements just weeks before the November elections,” CBS News reports.

Gloria Steinem was an icon and a trailblazer. Her advocacy - from championing reproductive freedom, to fighting for workplace fairness - moved our country forward. All of us can and should draw on her legacy of leadership and advocacy to strive towards making America a better place.

Victor Brauner, The Snake Charmer, November 4, 1943 #museumofmodernart #victorbrauner

Paul Gauguin, Mahana no atua (Day of the God), 1894 #europeanart #artinstituteofchicago

As Labor Day approaches, we’re entering the traditional stretch run of the campaign. But history says the national picture probably won’t change much before Election Day.

I didn’t see Apple’s Knowledge Navigator video until the early 1990s, a few years after it was produced. I was pretty struck by it. It has taken a few decades, but we’re basically there now: OpenAI’s Astra intro video.

Bernie Sanders is pretty freaked out about the Hugging Face hack. From a quote on Politico:

Nearly every day, there is a frightening new story about how Big Tech companies are losing control of the technology they are developing, with potentially cataclysmic results.

Uh, cataclysmic? An earthquake is cataclysmic. The hack on Hugging Face, while quite bad, didn’t hurt anyone. Working on stronger safety measures is the right response and that appears to be what OpenAI has done.

The donation in support of District 10 candidate Theo Ellington is among the largest ever made to a group backing a single candidate for San Francisco office.

Within just a few minutes, Donald J. Trump somehow managed to call the press "treasonous SCUM" for reporting a munitions shortage, then spent his next post insisting the U.S. has "virtually unlimited" ammo and is producing "levels never seen before" — the kind of overcorrec...