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In the final stretch of the midterm election campaign, polls have found that voters are latching onto the perceived corruption of the Trump administration. Kenneth P. Vogel, a New York Times investigative journalist, explores one major story line feeding that perception: how...

In their last show before Election Day, Joe and Alex break it down - what's going to happen on Election Day? What's the national environment pointing to? And what are polls still getting wrong? Are we still headed towards a change wave? Any surprises Joe and Alex are watching as we careen towards Tuesday? Hint: Don't sleep on the South, folks.

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Harley-Davidson-born electric motorcycle maker LiveWire has issued a troubling warning about its financial future, announcing that it has substantial doubt about its ability to continue operating as a going concern. The news sent LiveWire’s stock plunging more than 40% on Thursday morning as the company withdrew its full-year financial guidance.

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Last week’s book list was a success, and I realized that it would work even better with others. Bookstores work precisely because they stack the books right next to each other. Even though each of these authors has a book out this fall, they’re not my competition. Too often, we avoid cooperation because we’re embracing […]

Donald Trump is in a dark mood about the midterms, reports The New York Times in an epic piece. Numerous administration insiders confide that he’s raging at naysayers and negative press. And they’re also leaking that he’s “increasingly cloistered” with “acolytes” like Natali...

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Flávio Bolsonaro’s escape from Brazil to Miami turns out to have been arranged, in part, by White House officials including Trump advisor Jason Miller, who arranged for a charter jet to take the Bolsonaros from Argentina to Florida.

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The ALSO TM-B is one of the most technologically interesting new e-bikes to hit the road in years, largely because it does away with one of the most fundamental parts of a bicycle: the mechanical connection between the pedals and rear wheel. With only copper wires connecting the pedals to the rear wheel, the TM-B is one of the most revolutionary new e-bikes in years.

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Halloween costume Brutalist slide in the Balta Albă neighborhood of Bucharest, 1960s. Looks perfectly safe. zpravobot.news/@eastbloc…

The award-winning actor died yesterday at his home in Los Angeles, according to a statement shared on his social media.

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Proton CEO Andy Yen projects a calm persona and rails against Big Tech and critiques AI. Internally, he is pushing engineers to build Proton with AI, even when they have security concerns.

Hundreds of applications later, even being rejected by an actual human being counts as a victory.

Bluesky tells WIRED it blocked links to a leaked archive of information on 41,000 ICE, CBP, and other DHS workers because it contains people’s contact information, shared without their authorization.

An activist group published a searchable database of more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors, saying it was seeking transparency into agency activities.

The top 25 individual donors account for nearly 20% of reported federal campaign contributions so far in 2026, with Elon Musk a major share.

President Trump’s private dining room, located just off the Oval Office, is where he goes to watch television, make phone calls and sift through stacks of printed-out news articles and documents that eat up most of the space.

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