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Whisper it, but is now a good time to holiday in Paris?
James Fitzgerald / BBCFor all those concerns about high prices and big crowds ahead of the Olympics, now might just be an unexpectedly good time to holiday in Paris. More »
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August 2024
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New Polling Shows Harris Can’t Be Counted Out in PA
SP&R’s two most recent polls – one showing Joe Biden up 5 points in March and now Kamala Harris up 4 points in July (conducted July 22-28), suggest the race is far from over in Pennsylvania – and Harris can’t be counted out. In our latest poll, Harris holds a... More »
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Pump and Trump
Inside the MAGA-fueled fever dream of the 2024 Bitcoin Conference.By Gaby Del Valle, a policy reporter. Her past work has focused on immigration politics, border surveillance technologies, and the rise of the New Right.There were rumors that Elon Musk would in... More »
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Senator calls grow for OpenAI to prove it’s not silencing staff
OpenAI should turn over documents proving it does not silence employees who wish to share concerns with federal regulators about how the artificial intelligence company is developing its tools, a senior senate Republican demanded in a Thursday letter, showing ... More »
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Can Kamala Harris Rebuild the Democratic Coalition?
Early polling suggests she has made some progress since President Biden’s exit.Kamala Harris will try to win over young nonwhite progressives as well as older white moderates.Rachel Wisniewski/ReutersWith a little over three months until the presidential elect... More »
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Ex-CNN star Lemon sues Musk over cancelled X show
Former CNN star presenter Don Lemon has sued multi-billionaire Elon Musk and his social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, over the cancellation of a talk show deal. More »
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This Election Is About Ideology, Not the Candidates
It makes little difference whether the Democrat candidate is Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, or someone else. Both parties are guilty of incivility, hyperbole, hubris, and engendering turmoil. But, there is a binary choice in what this election means for freedom, pr... More »
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Intel, eyed for billions in U.S. grants, will fire 15,000 workers
Chip maker Intel said Thursday that it plans to lay off 15,000 people, a troubling sign for the Biden administration’s multibillion-dollar plan to rebuild the U.S. chip manufacturing industry.The layoffs will affect more than 15 percent of its workforce, Intel... More »
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How 2024 Became a Crypto Election
I didn’t anticipate the political twists and turns of the past few weeks, but then, who did? One thing I do blame myself for not seeing coming, however, is the extent to which this has become a crypto election.Six years ago I argued that Bitcoin and other cryp... More »
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Ryan Seacrest reacts to Carrie Underwood returning to ‘American Idol’ as judge: ‘Welcome home’
Carrie Underwood is returning to her “American Idol” roots. The country music superstar and former “Idol” Season Four winner is the new judge for the franchise's 23rd season, ABC announced Aug. 1. The news was shared in a special video that revisits when Under... More »
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The Dangerous Game That Iran Is Playing
One of my ironclad rules of reporting in the Middle East is that sometimes you need to rereport a story to see things even more clearly than you did earlier. I’m having that experience with the Iran-Israel-Hamas-Hezbollah war, which could soon draw in the Unit... More »
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Whitmer, Buttigieg and the Veeps Who Might Have Been
With Vice President Kamala Harris’s announcement of her running mate only days away, I should probably be placing odds on who will get the nod.But my thoughts dwell on three extraordinarily gifted politicians who almost certainly won’t.They belie all the compl... More »