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Trump wants taxpayers to bankroll his golf course makeover project. His administration is seeking $500 million for National Park Service “construction,” stating that the funds are intended for repairs to the East Potomac seawall.

Auditors question overspending on consultants, as not a single mile of track has been laid on a project that was meant to be complete in 2020.

If we failed to do this, I feared, we would stop leading the industry and turn into “merely the CSS trick of the week.”

The post The Day the Focus Died appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.

The U.S. economy grew at a strong annual rate of 3.4% in the third quarter of 2026 — the strongest pace in a year. President Donald J. Trump’s America First agenda is delivering as promised: faster growth, historic levels of investment, and an economy that continues to outperform the so-called “experts.” Here’s what you need […]

The post President Trump Unleashes the American Economy: GDP Surges as Investment Hits Multi-Year High appeared first on The White House.

GM Chief Product Officer Sterling Anderson, who ran Tesla’s Autopilot program in 2015 and 2016, says dropping radar for a camera-only self-driving system is “a weird religious stance that ignores physics.”

It’s the bluntest rebuke of Tesla’s vision-only bet yet from someone who helped build the original Autopilot. And it lands while Tesla is pushing camera-only Cybercabs into driverless service in Austin.

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Will this change at Washington State Penitentiary lead to violence?
https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2026/10/29/gang-rivalries-in-washington-state-prisons/

A Hudson Valley community is grieving after the son of the local police chief was killed in a crash. Continue reading…

The stars of the Netflix hit The Four Seasons have transformed a small park in Wappingers Falls into a working set. Continue reading…

The Pentagon’s new military preparedness initiative has direct impacts in the Hudson Valley. Continue reading…

Google's negative cash flow balloons to -$9.06 billion, and stock price tumbles following Q3 earnings.

The Fifth Circuit has shown itself to be especially subservient to the Trump administration since his return to office. And it’s certainly not going to rock Trump’s mass deportation boat — not when it’s sitting right on top of Texas, which contains almost two-thirds of the US-Mexico border, as well as some of ICE’s largest […]

Many MCP servers do one thing. An agent asks for data, and the server hands it back. AWS’s James Ward

The post Why MCP servers should tell agents what to do next appeared first on The New Stack.

I’ve been reading a bit about the recent election in Serbia and some of the details are fascinating. A student-led coalition toppled the 12-year corrupt reign of “the increasingly authoritarian leader” Aleksandar Vučić in recent elections. But in order to ensure voters and a...

NEW: Two new bills in Congress, backed by the plastics industry, promote misleading claims about recycling.

One environmental expert called the legislation “peak greenwashing.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/plastics-industry-recycling-legislation-congress?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Congress #Plastic #Environment #Recycling #Law #Consumer #Greenwashing

NEW on “Paper Trail”: President Trump claims hundreds of thousands of people who are not U.S. citizens have been illegally voting in our elections.

His own unprecedented efforts to root out these voters show otherwise, our investigation found.

Listen to our latest episode: https://www.propublica.org/podcast/homeland-security-investigations-noncitizen-voter-fraud-cases?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Elections #Vote #Voting #Midterms #USPolitics #Immigration #Immigrants

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'The Rings of Power' showrunners and production designer give us an exclusive glimpse into crafting an early iteration of the Elvish sanctuary.

Another telltale sign of the negativity Trump has brought to this country, Status' Oliver Darcy uncovered the latest Nielsen ratings which show a dramatic decline in Fox News viewership heading into Tuesday's election. The Daily Beast explains that "the Trump-friendly jugg...

As we get ready for the final days of the 2026 midterm campaign, I wanted to flag some key parts...

Trump DOJ’s No. 3 Official in the Hot Seat A golf course in D.C. is the improbable venue for another...