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Trump Warns Dems to Not Impeach Hegseth If They Win House. A Republican Is Already Planning to After the Midterms

President Trump is warning House Democrats of supposed consequences to come if they vote on articles of impeachment against the...

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An Italian farmer planted some decades-old seeds he found...

An Italian farmer planted some decades-old seeds he found in his attic. Wheat with seven ears per stalk came up and the farmer found a reference to this type of nutritious, drought-resistant wheat in the Bible’s book of Genesis.

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Want to see Valkyries make history? That’ll be $13,000

Ticket sellers are betting that fans will pay a hefty price to see Golden State try to clinch the WNBA title on Halloween.

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What to Know About China’s Top-Secret Spaceplane

This week, the Pentagon released a full-resolution image of the vehicle, the capabilities of which remain rather mysterious.

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Someday, the Republicans will again want to be seen as conservative. Don’t let them

Someday, the Republicans will again want to be seen as conservative. Don’t let them

To retreat back to states rights, they’ll need us to forget their assault on them.

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Bethel Woods Now Planning For 17th Annual Holiday Market

For the 17th year, Bethel Woods will welcome visitors for festive holiday shopping from nearly 100 local artisans and food vendors. Continue reading…

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Q: How's your health?

Trump: Good. Very good.

Q: So you not going to Kansas has nothing to do with you being sick of traveling?

Trump: Oh, you're sick to ask that question. You are sick.

The City Reporter
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Pressure Mounts on Mamdani Administration To Address Growing Number of Small Schools

The Murry Bergtraum High School Campus in lower Manhattan, once home to a single school with roughly 3,000 students, now houses four schools. Its original school has shrunk to around 90 students.

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. This is part two of a three-part series. Here’s the first story. And sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free email newsletter to be the first to know when the next story is published. As a parent leader for more than a decade, Johanna Bjorken has heard plenty of […]

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Press Forward gave $20 million to 205 local newsrooms over two years. Here’s how some of them spent it.

Press Forward gave $20 million to 205 local newsrooms over two years. Here’s how some of them spent it.

Most local newsrooms in the U.S. have one thing in common: They need more money, and many dream of dollars they can use however they want. In 2024, Press Forward, the nonprofit trying to mobilize a philanthropic army for local news, announced it would give at least 100 small local newsrooms — those with annual...

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Only 32% of Americans have high confidence that news orgs will report midterm election results accurately, survey finds

About six in 10 Americans said they have at least “some” confidence that news organizations will report the upcoming midterm election results accurately, according to a new national survey. But only 32% said they had “quite a bit” or “a great deal” of confidence that journalists would do the job. In the survey from Medill...

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Groups ask Supreme Court to leave lower court order in place halting border wall construction in southwestern Texas

A view of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on June 25, 2026.
A view of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on June 25, 2026.

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Trump lashes out at reporter who asks about his health:

"I feel perfect. You are disgusting. Put yourself in shape. You look like hell."

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Trump posts strange TikTok about Jon Husted's ass: "He has a great ass. Very powerful ass."

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Microsoft’s new Copilot harness makes agents easy — until you want to switch

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Microsoft is opening up the GitHub Copilot agent harness to outside developers through Microsoft Foundry, bringing the same orchestration infrastructure

The post Microsoft’s new Copilot harness makes agents easy — until you want to switch appeared first on The New Stack.

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Court Tosses Trump’s Clumsy Attempt To Scuttle Musk Memphis Data Center Pollution Lawsuit

Civil rights groups like the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) have noted how Elon Musk’s Colossus xAI data centers in Memphis disproportionately pollute the air in minority neighborhoods. A joint lawsuit by SELC, Earthjustice, and the NAACP filed last April argued that Musk and friends didn’t bother to get the necessary permits to run the 57 gas turbines […]

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Windows 11 gets right-click menu improvements as PC revenue slides

Windows 11 gets right-click menu improvements as PC revenue slides

The latest update also brings a cloud recovery option for PCs that won't boot.

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Pentagon IG refuses to investigate Starlink/Starshield slowdown in Ukraine

Pentagon IG refuses to investigate Starlink/Starshield slowdown in Ukraine

Inspector general rejected request from Democratic and Republican senators.

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Trump declares robot imports a national security threat

Trump declares robot imports a national security threat

President orders trade talks on foreign-made factory robots, threatens tariffs.

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Released Micro.blog 4.3 for Mac, with a redesigned photo detail window, easier to add photos in edited posts, and other fixes.

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Vivek Ramaswamy has pulled his ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother after a week of widespread backlash.

Acton's mother stayed with her husband after he sexually abused Acton as a child.