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"I love the poorly educated." "Smart people don't like me." "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, ok?" Ever since the moment he came cruising down that damned gold escalator, Donald Trump has had a nasty little h...

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The Hunter WOLF military robot is one of six private-sector projects chosen for US Army’s Infantry Last Tactical Mile (ILTM) initiative – an advanced research initiative designed to modernize infantry support for soldiers on the battlefield.

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I try to get the most out of ingredients, so I've built up a reportoire of ways to divert what would otherwise be food scraps into other productive uses. If I were going for influencer points I might call these food hacks or something, but really all this is is a way of taki...

I walk into my office to write in my notebook, but my mandolin is on my chair. Without thinking, I strap it on instead of moving it aside. 
This sort of wandering mind has dogged me since our road trip to California last week. Starting one thing, turning to another, forgetting what I meant to do. After several days on the road, my mind remains scrambled and scattered.

Brazilian electric motorcycle and battery-swapping company Vammo is hitting several major milestones as it prepares to take its model beyond its home of São Paulo, including reaching EBITDA profitability, surpassing 10 million battery swaps, and growing to more than 10,000 active riders.

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Last week, Fox News turned 30 years old. One of that network’s most respected reporters, Jennifer Griffin, has been there for nearly all of it. Griffin has had an amazing […]

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To save endangered languages, tech companies like Apple are working with Indigenous communities to meet the next generation where they type.

Investigators also sought permission to use an invasive surveillance tool called a cell-site simulators against journalist Georgia Fort and a Minnesota state Senate candidate.

Six months with AlterMe’s smart ring and a fitness app helped me build better habits, but the genetic insights were less revealing than I’d hoped.

After four weeks of using the cream, participants lowered the biological age of their skin by about two years on average.

Inspired by new guidance from the Trump administration, right-wing election groups are targeting nursing homes, baselessly claiming that left-wing groups are stealing residents’ votes.

Solar geoengineering could buy humanity time against climate change—or trigger a dangerous new arms race. A first-of-its-kind simulation offered a glimpse of what happens when geopolitics takes the wheel.

A Rhinebeck man is now facing charges after police say he set a Flock surveillance camera on fire in Dutchess County, causing a brush fire late Saturday night. Continue reading…

Republican Majority whip Tom Emmer was reduced to spewing John Birch Society conspiracies while also confusing socialism with communism for the sole purpose of smearing the Democratic party, after he failed to blame Biden for Trump's horrific economy. Emmer reminded me of a...

Sunday was Rep. Glenn Grothman's turn to try to defend the complete clusterfuck that Trump has made of everything. He did as well as you might expect. GROTHMAN: I said, you know, gas was a lot more expensive under Joe Biden, but people have forgotten that. So we've gone...

I know you don't want to face it. And Lord knows, I don't want to face it. But we have to accept the fact that an American animated television program called "Partridge Family 2200 A.D." did exist and was aired on American television 52 years ago. And on this date in 197...

On this week’s Epstein Update, Kait & Cliff turn to Cornell, where follow up on a student assaulted by multiple fraternity members went nowhere for 2 years. Cliff, whose mother went to Cornell, and Kait, a mother of 3 daughters, wonder how many failed for no one to be c...

It appears that Stephen Miller was pushing a smear attack on James Talarico before an unlawful phone call happened.

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