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Nov 10, 2026
Russell Brand Got Ten and a Half Years, Which Is One More Platform He Won't Be Monetizing
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Nov 10, 2026
October CPI Came In Hot, and the Government Literally Cannot Tell You What Inflation Was Last Year
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Nov 10, 2026
The Mine Safety Agency Announced Five Fewer Rules About Mine Safety, and Assured Everyone It's Fine
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Nov 10, 2026
Hegseth Called His Impeachment a "Farce" at a Pentagon Podium Built for Exactly This Kind of Day
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Nov 10, 2026
Republicans Just Chose Their Leader for the Minority by Promoting the Guy Who Got Them There
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Nov 10, 2026
FDA Finally Puts the "May Blur Your Vision" Fine Print on the Miracle Weight Loss Drugs
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Nov 10, 2026
China Just Banked Another Trillion-Dollar Trade Surplus With Two Months to Spare
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Nov 10, 2026
Michigan Voted 81% to Kick Utility Money Out of Politics. The Utilities Sued Before the Ink Was Dry.
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Nov 10, 2026
They Sealed Seven Migrants in a Shipping Container on a 90-Degree Day. Now 14 People Are Charged.
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Nov 10, 2026
Wemby Just Uploaded 40 Points and 9 Blocks in 25 Minutes, and the NBA's Legal Team Should Look Into It
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Nov 9, 2026
Vanderbilt Told 20,000 People to Unplug Everything, Because a Ransomware Gang That Names Itself 'BYOD' Decided to Drop By
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Nov 9, 2026
Wall Street Decided the AI Panic Was Overdone by Monday Lunch, and the Only Chipmaker That Couldn't Rebound Did It to Itself
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Nov 9, 2026
Massie Forces a House Vote to Impeach Pete Hegseth With Eight Articles, and Suddenly Everyone's a Constitutional Lawyer Again
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Nov 9, 2026
The CFTC Just Ordered Eight Unregistered Forex Pitchmen to the Bench, and the Penalty Is Apparently Just Not Being Allowed Back in the Game
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Nov 9, 2026
Mississippi's Senate Race Is Still Counting: Colom's Lead Hits 2,500 and Nobody Knows How Many Ballots Are Left
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Nov 9, 2026
The Election You Think Is Over Isn't: Certification Week Starts Now
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Nov 9, 2026
FinCEN Slams the Door on MEXC, Then Quietly Shreds the Paperwork Behind It
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Nov 9, 2026
Swayman Slams the Door, Boston Locks Down the Atlantic, and Cooper Flagg Just Casualty-Reported Brooklyn
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Nov 9, 2026
Broken Tailbone, Broken Precedent: The Supreme Court Decides If You Can Sue a Federal Officer
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Nov 9, 2026
Berkshire's $377 Billion Shrug: Profit Dips, Buybacks Double, and the Smartest Money in America Just Buys Itself
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Nov 7, 2026
The Labor Market Decided to Show Off: 165,000 Jobs and a Fed That Now Has No Excuses
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Nov 7, 2026
The DOJ's National Security Chief Just Walked Out the Door, and the Timing Is Not a Coincidence
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Nov 7, 2026
EPA Green-Lights Pollution Piggybacking: Arizona Can Now Trade Tailpipe Credits for Smokestack Permits
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Nov 7, 2026
The Gavel Scramble: Democrats Set Leadership Elections as Jeffries Makes the Speaker Bid Official
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Nov 7, 2026
Luka Just Dropped 53 and Now He's Knocking on Wilt Chamberlain's Door, Which Should Be Illegal
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Nov 6, 2026
Michigan Broke Its Midterm Turnout Record. Now Comes the Part Nobody Tweets About.
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Nov 6, 2026
Medicare's New Rule: Doctors Get a Pay Cut, Hospitals Get a $7.8 Billion Clawback, and You Get a $900 Coupon
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Nov 6, 2026
Curry Passed Oscar Robertson Like It Was No Big Deal, and the Warriors Forgot How to Lose
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Nov 6, 2026
Qualcomm Beat Earnings and Lost 9% Anyway. Welcome to 2026.
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Nov 6, 2026
The DOJ Just Discovered the "Interests of Justice," and It Looks Exactly Like Steve Bannon
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Nov 5, 2026
Three Measles Deaths in One Week, and a Country About to Argue Over Its Elimination Status
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Nov 5, 2026
Five Tankers, a Tugboat, and a Minefield: The Strait of Hormuz Didn't Get the Election Memo
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Nov 5, 2026
Two Senate Races Are Still Counting, and Mississippi Brought a Knife to a Recount Fight
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Nov 5, 2026
Democrats Won on Everything. Now They Want a National Data Center Pause, Too.
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Nov 5, 2026
The Markets Voted Twice in 24 Hours. The Second Ballot Was a Thousand-Point Down Ballot.
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Nov 5, 2026
Recount Season Opens: Florida Gets a Machine Recount Trigger, Mississippi Gets No Recount Law at All
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Nov 5, 2026
He Pocketed Top Secrets and Asked Ethiopia to "Send Drones": The Help-Desk Spy Pleads Guilty
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Nov 5, 2026
Congratulations, Billion-Dollar Advisers: You're Officially "Small" Now
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Nov 5, 2026
Wembanyama Dropped 52, 24, and 8 While Sick: The Alien Is Just Showing Off Now
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Nov 5, 2026
CVS Just Broke Up With Its Own $78 Billion Mistake, and Wall Street Sent Flowers
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Nov 4, 2026
America's Election-Night Receipt: One Blue Congress, Four Governorships, Zero Sympathy
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Nov 4, 2026
The EPA Just Told Factory Farms: Nobody's Counting Anymore
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Nov 4, 2026
Blue Sweep, Red Ink: Wall Street's Election Night Futures Freak-Out, Explained
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Nov 4, 2026
While America Stood in Line to Vote, the NBA Ran 15 Games and Luka Dropped 42
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Nov 4, 2026
The United States Traitor Elimination Army Was One Guy With Flour: DOJ Charges Oklahoma Man Behind 700 White-Powder Letters
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Nov 3, 2026
The First American Pope Just Voted in His First American Election, and the Vatican Kept It as Dry as Canon Law
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Nov 3, 2026
Your 2 PM Workout Can Seesaw: A New Study Links Energy Drinks to Cardiac Arrest Reports in Young Adults
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Nov 3, 2026
The Labor Department Finally Made PBMs Show Their Receipts. The Rebates Were Hiding in Plain Sight the Whole Time.
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Nov 3, 2026
The DOJ Sent 1,000 Election Monitors to All 50 States for the First Time. Mostly to Cities. Guess Which Ones.
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Nov 3, 2026
The Supreme Court Looked at the DOJ's Ballot-Seizure Wishlist and Said: No Dissent, Just No
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Nov 3, 2026
Two Vote Centers Blinked, a Million Ballots Didn't: Maricopa County Opens Election Day Telling America to Calm Down
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Nov 3, 2026
Weaponization, Says the Judge: DOJ's Rushed FBI Official Case Collapses Two Weeks Before the Midterms
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Nov 3, 2026
The FCC Just Erased a 57-Year-Old Reporting Rule While You Were Busy Voting
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Nov 3, 2026
Seventeen Points of Silence: The Seahawks' 30-Game Streak Just Died on Monday Night
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Nov 3, 2026
Apple Just Posted a Record $114.5 Billion Quarter and Wall Street Yawned: A Margin Story for the Rest of Us
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Nov 2, 2026
A Learjet Broke Apart Over South Florida and Killed Everyone Aboard. The Mayday Call Mentioned Ice.
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Nov 2, 2026
57 Million Americans Already Voted, and 23 States Blew Past 2022. The Campaigns Can Stop Yelling Now.
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Nov 2, 2026
The EPA Wants to Scrap the Program That Lets Anyone Report Giant Methane Leaks. The Oil Industry Sends Its Regards.
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Nov 2, 2026
A Democratic Congresswoman Endorsed the Republican for Senate Two Days Before the Election. The Party's Response Was a Single Word: "Betrayal."
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Nov 2, 2026
The Day Before the Election, the DOJ Asked the Supreme Court to Seize 20,000 Ballots. Sure. Why Not.
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Nov 2, 2026
"Unsafe or Unsound" Finally Means Something: Your Bank Regulator Just Got a Rulebook
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Nov 2, 2026
Trump's $10 Billion WSJ Lawsuit Is Dead, and the Judge Didn't Even Break a Sweat
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Nov 2, 2026
Oil Drops 3% in One Morning Because People Talked: Brent Slides to $109.75 on Qatar's Latest Peace Pitch
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Nov 2, 2026
One Play, One Thumb, One Possibly Finished Ravens Season
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Nov 2, 2026
Seven Races, One Caveat: The Final NYT/Siena Poll Has Democrats Ahead Everywhere and Sure of Almost Nothing
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Oct 31, 2026
Jordan Love Dropped an Ambulance Catch and a Three-TD Night: Packers 27, Panthers 19
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Oct 31, 2026
The Fake AP Tweet That Erased $136 Billion Finally Got Its Day in Court
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Half a Million Louisianans Voted Early — Somebody Tell the Campaigns the Election Already Started
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Oct 31, 2026
Intel Posted Great Numbers and Still Had Its Worst Day Since 1974
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Oct 31, 2026
Your Spare Parts Now Get Graded: CMS Decides Organs Should Actually Reach People
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Oct 30, 2026
Patrick Stewart (1940-2026): There Are Four Lights
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Oct 30, 2026
$23 Million vs. One Swing District: The WA-03 Race Has Become a Super PAC Food Fight
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Oct 30, 2026
Twenty-Eight Years of We'll Get to It: FDA Finally Rewrites Baby Formula Rules
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Oct 30, 2026
Ghost Students Never Skip Class: Inside Operation Ghostbusters and the $200 Million FAFSA Heist
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Oct 30, 2026
Amazon Just Burned $42.4 Billion in a Year to Teach Robots to Talk, and Wall Street Said "Thanks, Sold"
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Three Million Dead From Heat, and the Arsonists Still Get a $6.2 Trillion Allowance
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Oct 29, 2026
The Brewers Won the World Series, Milwaukee Has Been Waiting 57 Years for This, and Somewhere a Rays Fan Is Still Explaining Game 4
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Oct 29, 2026
The Economy Grew 3.4% Last Quarter, Which Is Great News for Everyone Who Can Afford Eggs
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Oct 29, 2026
DHS Just Banned Imports From China's Biggest Genomics Companies, and Your Sequencing Data's Supply Chain Just Got Political
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Oct 29, 2026
Alaska Has Two Dan Sullivans on the Ballot and Now Everyone From the DOJ to the House Oversight Committee Has an Opinion About It
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Oct 29, 2026
The DOJ Subpoenaed California's Election Officials, Because Apparently Losing in Court Is Just a Prompt to Try Harder
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Oct 29, 2026
Your Flight Price Is Watching You: The FTC Just Ordered Nine Giants to Explain Their Pricing Secrets
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Oct 29, 2026
Five Days Out, the Senate Map Has Stopped Making Sense: Talarico Leads in Texas and Nobody Leads in Kansas
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Oct 29, 2026
Google Burned $9 Billion in Cash in One Quarter and Wall Street Still Said "Not Good Enough"
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Oct 29, 2026
Five Years for $100 Million in Chaos: The Ransomware Affiliate Who Attacked Hospitals During a Pandemic Finally Gets His Sentence
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Oct 29, 2026
48 New Suspects: The Largest Alzheimer's Genetics Study Ever Just Rewrote the Lineup
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Oct 28, 2026
The Rays Refused to Get Swept in the 12th Inning, the Brewers Dropped the Ball Literally, and Now Milwaukee Has to Do This History Thing All Over Again
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Oct 28, 2026
A Judge Ruled L.A.'s Top Federal Prosecutor Isn't Legally Serving. He Heard This Twice Now, and the Job Title Just Keeps Changing
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Oct 28, 2026
Washington's Top Election Official Looked at the DOJ's Noncitizen Voter List and Found Actual Citizens on It, So the Ballots Stay
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Oct 28, 2026
The CFTC Is Suing Utah to Protect Your Right to Bet on Elections, and Federal Preemption Has Never Sounded This Exciting
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Oct 28, 2026
The Fed Held Rates and Two Dissenters Wanted to Raise Them, Because Apparently the Problem Is That Things Are Too Affordable
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Oct 28, 2026
Top News Review: Overnight Developments (Oct 28, 2026)
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Oct 28, 2026
The Wings Are the Hard Part: Boeing Posts Its Best Quarter in Years and the Stock Falls 10% Anyway
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Oct 28, 2026
Apparently Breathing Is a Pregnancy Risk Now: A Study of 893,212 Kids Links Wildfire Smoke to Autism Risk
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Oct 28, 2026
EPA Declares War on the Word "Methane": $45 Billion in "Savings," One Planet Not Consulted
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Oct 28, 2026
Justice Department Plays Musical Chairs With the Top Prosecutor Job in L.A., Judge Says the Music Never Lawfully Started
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Oct 28, 2026
Texas Two-Step: Trump Rallies Twice in One Day for Ken Paxton, and Lubbock Lines Up Around the Block for the Other Guy
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Oct 27, 2026
The EPA's Own Watchdog Is Now Investigating the EPA's East Palestine Response, and the Irony Wrote Itself
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Oct 27, 2026
The Brewers Scored 8 Runs With Two Outs, the Cowboys Hung 38 on the Eagles, and the Sports Equinox Turned Into a Blowout Buffet
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Oct 27, 2026
Wall Street Found $63 Billion to Loan Anthropic for Chips, and Everyone Involved Is Somehow the Collateral
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Oct 27, 2026
The Supreme Court Let a Texas-DOJ Deal Kill Deportation Delays Stand, and Called It a Day Without Writing a Word
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Oct 27, 2026
The Final Pre-Election Poll Hands Democrats an 8-Point Lead, and Nobody Who Remembers 2016 Is Celebrating Yet
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Oct 27, 2026
Shelf Says $2.75, Register Says $5: FTC Finally Asks Dollar General Which Part of "Dollar" It Doesn't Understand
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Oct 27, 2026
DOJ Charges James Comey a Third Time, Apparently Because Twice Wasn't Embarrassing Enough
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Oct 27, 2026
Texas Just Cast 4.5 Million Ballots Before Halloween, and Somebody Spent $490 Million to Interrupt Them
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Oct 27, 2026
MIT Puts a Tiny Ultrasound Speaker in Your Skull, and Honestly It's About Time Cancer Got Some Bad News
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Oct 27, 2026
Anthropic Lost $80 Billion in Six Months and Now Wants Your Money: The 'Age of Miracles' Comes With a 94-Page Disclaimer
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Oct 27, 2026
Beyond the Final Frontier: Remembering Walter Koenig
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Oct 26, 2026
A Three-Hour Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Just Outgrossed Its Own Opening, and Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do About It
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Oct 26, 2026
The Mecca Pact Kids Show Up in Tehran: Can Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkiye Talk Iran Off the Ledge?
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Oct 26, 2026
FCC's New Robocall Rule: Reply STOP, But Only If They Tell You How First
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Oct 26, 2026
SpaceX Just Borrowed $40 Billion to Buy Computer Chips and That's the Good News
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Oct 26, 2026
The Feds Want 20,000 Ballots Seized Nine Days Before an Election — On a Sunday, No Less
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Oct 25, 2026
Venezuela's Nobel Laureate Just Walked Back Into the Country That exiled Her. She Wants One Thing: an Election Date.
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Oct 25, 2026
A Three-Hour Elizabeth Holmes Doc Out-Earned a Superhero Movie, the 49ers Lost Their Perfect Season, and the NFL Played Its First Game in Paris
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Oct 25, 2026
Measles Just Doubled Last Year's Score: 4,588 Cases, 43 Outbreaks, and One Disease We Eliminated in 2000 Doing an Encore
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Oct 25, 2026
The $8 Billion Farm Bailout Announced Before the Election Pays Out After It. Diesel Costs Say Thanks for Playing.
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Oct 25, 2026
Polls Say Democratic Sweep. The Map Says: Hold On. Nine Days to the Midterms.
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The 9th Circuit Got Dragged in on a Sunday to Quarantine 20,000 Ballots. Even Trump's Own Appointee Asked "How?"
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Oct 25, 2026
Ballot Quarantine, Explained: What the DOJ's 48-Hour Letters Actually Demand
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Oct 24, 2026
The Pentagon's New UFO Files Describe a Silent Black Triangle. The Government Wants You to Know It Has No Idea Either.
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Oct 24, 2026
Texas Just Sued OpenAI for Calling ChatGPT Safe. The Chatbot Has Entered the Chat.
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Oct 24, 2026
American Express Is Cutting 3,500 Jobs to 'Prepare for AI.' The Machines Said Thanks.
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Oct 24, 2026
A Million Seniors Just Learned Their Health Plans Are Vanishing. Enrollment Ends December 7.
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Oct 24, 2026
The Justice Department Just Sued to Stop an Election From Being Certified. Read That Again.
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Oct 24, 2026
Clayface Conquers the Box Office While a Documentary About a Fraud Becomes a Hit
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Oct 24, 2026
Thirty Years of Reasonable Doubt: Jay-Z Brought His Daughter to Play Piano on the Classics
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Oct 24, 2026
EA Shuts Down BioWare and Cancels Mass Effect: The Citadel Falls
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Oct 24, 2026
Tatum Went Clutch, Amen Thompson Went Airborne, and Opening Night Was Perfect
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Oct 24, 2026
The Student Loan System Just Got Rewritten. Here's the Receipt.
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Oct 24, 2026
The Supreme Court Just Said Not Yet to the Trans Prisoner Care Ban
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Oct 24, 2026
Illinois Judge Shields Catholic Hospitals From the Assisted Suicide Law — For Now
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Oct 24, 2026
Foie Gras on the Ballot: José Andrés vs. Initiative 86 in the Nation's Capital
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Oct 24, 2026
Recall Season: VW Tells 72,700 EV Owners to Charge to 80% and Pray
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Oct 24, 2026
Airbnb Finally Admits Guests Shouldn't Have to Do the Chores They're Charged For
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Oct 24, 2026
Cloud House: The Pink Postmodern Love Letter That London Argued About
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Oct 24, 2026
Four Thousand Five Hundred and Eighty-Eight: Measles Is Back and It Brought Friends
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Oct 24, 2026
Forty-Two Percent: The Personalized Cancer Vaccine That Just Worked, and the Stock Market That Yawned
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Oct 24, 2026
Hold First, Hike Later: The Fed's Big Week, and the Earnings Wave Right Behind It
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Oct 24, 2026
Diplomats Out, Bags Packed: The Gulf Drawdown Nobody's Calling a Withdrawal
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Oct 24, 2026
Two Sullivans, One Lawsuit: The Justice Department Wants a Say Before Alaska Counts a Single Vote
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Oct 24, 2026
103.5 Miles an Hour: Misiorowski Opens the World Series by Breaking Physics and Chapman's Record
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Aug 28, 2026