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The U.K. competition and consumer protection authority sent a formal letter to Meta to discuss its new commercial terms of service. On Tuesday, Will Hayter, the executive director for digital markets at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), shared the update during a session of the communications and digital committee of British Parliament, after a...

More than 100 million voters are expected to cast ballots in the 2026 U.S. midterm elections. In recent election cycles, political reporting based on voter polling has drawn criticism, prompted scrutiny, and found defenders. As the debate over the value of polling continues, The Wall Street Journal is exploring new ways to cover public opinion...

Reba McEntire's son Shelby and his wife Marissa have welcomed a baby boy! Continue reading…

BYD is set to launch the Denza N8 EV next week, a large five-seat luxury electric SUV with a CLTC range of over 623 miles (1,000 km).

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Our imaginary reviews of the iPhone Duo, how we stay open-minded and curious instead of becoming the “Old Man Yells at Cloud” meme, our current read-it-later methods, and pouring one out for the iPod and MP3 players.…

To shore up their narrative that Abdul El-Sayed has a problem with Black Democrats, Mike Rogers bought himself a couple of Black Democrats. Fox News dutifully gave one of them, Melanie Rutherford, a platform this past week, probably after her check cleared from the Mike Rog...

Trump on Vivek Ramaswamy's ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother:

I don't know anything about it. It's a very unusual situation to have a mother hate a daughter that much. But I don't think that has anything to do with Vivek.

[ in process of being co-written, as the day is in progress... ] wholeness My days have taken a numinous edge, the febrile hours passing unmarked yet distinct, the Weeks fleeting, as if like spectral lightning: something is glimpsed. An old word returns with the g...

Never seen this before. Iced coffee in a bag at 787 Coffee. I guess handy for keeping it tightly closed, but pretty awkward for everything else. ☕️

Roy Lichtenstein, Peace through Chemistry II, 1970 #printsanddrawings #minneapolisinstituteofart

Tesla says it now has 1.74 million active “Full Self-Driving” subscriptions, up 67% from a year ago. A footnote in its Q3 2026 shareholder letter explains how it gets there: the metric follows “our 2025 CEO Performance Award” and “includes both upfront payment and monthly subscriptions.”

So owners who bought FSD outright, some of them years ago, count as subscribers. That matters because 10 million active FSD subscriptions is one of the milestones Elon Musk has to hit to earn his 2025 pay package. It also matters because hundred of thousands of those FSD “subscribers” were sold unsupervised self-driving, which Tesla has yet to deliver.

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From Trump TV to a Shark Tank knockoff, the president’s latest entertainment ventures are a steep decline from his days on The Apprentice.

Trump to a woman reporter: Are you a stupid person? You're a stupid person

Trump on the Iran war: I think it's one of the greatest things we've done

Washington, September 2026.

From the video I finally found the image I was looking for in the mountains of Washington.

Everyone remembers Scrooge as a mean, cold-hearted man, even though his entire arc is that he becomes a better, kinder man and develops empathy. Author A. T. Sayre’s main character in The Asterist is quite the Scrooge, too, but maybe we’ll end up remembering him in the better light he deserves by the end. A. […]

Her reign from 1558 to 1603 is considered a golden age of English history. 

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The Renaissance master was far more than a talented artist: He was an engineer, inventor, and student of seemingly everything.

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Dolly Parton grew up impoverished in rural Tennessee, but she didn't let that stop her from achieving all of her dreams. Continue reading…

Opinion: In a world of AI slop, showing the human hands making things helps.