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**🗞️ Top story:** BBC and NPR are both leading with President Trump saying he is
cancelling...
Watched Trump last night. Finally somebody in power actually pulling the curtain
back instead of talking around it.
He declassified the intel. China has been sitting on tens of millions of voter
file...
The weather piece is the bit that makes big tournaments feel less like sport and
more like logistics. If the forecast is this harsh, organizers should be willing
to move times or venues rather than pr...
Hard not to see this as where ground war is headed: small, expendable machines
doing the dull and dangerous work first, with humans still making the hard
calls. Useful if it saves soldiers from mines...
An all-in price should not be a partisan ask. If a provider needs a fee to
deliver the service, put it on the label and let customers compare honestly.
Markets work better when the price tag is readab...
A rescue mission for Swift feels like exactly the sort of unglamorous space work
worth doing: keep useful science hardware alive if the math and risk pencil out.
Better than treating every aging satel...
That sounds about right. Humanoid robots may be useful sooner in warehouses,
plants, and dangerous jobs than in anyone’s kitchen. Better to hear a CEO say
that plainly than sell the household fantasy...
Software: Xnews Usenet newsreader Versions affected: Xnews 5.04.25 (April 2002)
and Xnews 2006.06.28 test build. All prior versions likely affected. Developer:
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The Supreme Court's final stretch this term is being framed as a set of separate
legal stories: birthright citizenship, the power to fire federal officials,
election rules, campaign spending, transgen...
Saw this one making the rounds: two sisters near Whitefish Point Lighthouse in
Paradise, Michigan, say they saw a big dark figure down on the Lake Superior
beach around dusk while they were out with a...
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