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Bradley Bartell and Camila Munoz have been reunited after she spent 49 days in ICE detention.

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Companies have long faced external attacks from hackers. Now, thanks to generative AI, another threat has emerged: Employees who aren't who they say they are.

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Cars haven’t exactly been cheap in the US for a long time. But Trump’s auto tariffs may sound the death knell for the somewhat accessible, under-$30,000 car.

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Germany's conservative chancellor-in-waiting has cast doubt on some of the commitments he had made to secure a coalition with the Social Democrats, hinting that his government might not deliver on promises of lower income tax cuts and minimum wage hikes reut.rs/4cvel19

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This is how tariffs work. ..and now I want Crab Rangoon.

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Trump’s tariffs are aimed at restoring US manufacturing in the name of national security. Instead, he’s alienating the allies he’d need in a potential war with China

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Southern California Edison, the electric utility whose equipment has been the focus of investigations into the deadly Eaton fire, said on Friday that it planned to bury over 150 miles of power lines in fire-prone areas near Altadena and Malibu — one of the top requests from fire-ravaged communities.

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Trump exempts smartphones and computers from reciprocal tariffs, including from the larger levies on Chinese imports

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Britain said it will expand financing support for exporters by 20 billion pounds ($26 billion), including those affected by US tariffs, in an effort to give them stability and certainty in what it described as a new era of global trade reut.rs/44mQkHx

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He’s got a point. After his stint working in the government I’d like him to go work in the mines.

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NEW: An email sent by the Department of Homeland Security instructs people in the US on a temporary legal status to leave the country. But who the email actually applies to—and who actually received it—is far from clear.

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The war in Ukraine is now largely being fought with drones. Ukraine made 2 million last year. Drone makers churn them out in factories and mom-and-pop operations like one in a Kyiv basement apartment.

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Dr. Oz, the new administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), spent much of his first all-staff meeting last week promoting the use of AI at the agency, even discussing possibly prioritizing AI avatars over frontline health care workers.

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Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism" "That theory has been debunked" "One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"

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A state judge in Idaho — which has one of the strictest abortion bans in the nation — appeared to slightly broaden access to abortion there on Friday. In situations where a mother faces risk of death, the ruling allows for abortions even when death isn’t imminent.

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"Donald Trump’s erratic and foolish actions have turned the most desirable financial haven in the world into a whirlpool of risk. The safest way to conduct business now is to avoid the United States to the greatest extent possible."

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RFK believes that he is one of the genetic elect and that it is a violation of the natural order to either impose on the genetic elect with public health OR prevent nature from taking its course with those who are predestined to biological damnation.

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The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.” That is dangerously false. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

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This “genius” genuinely believes that healthcare budget analysts can simply be reassigned to making toasters.

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The Australian government pledged to spend A$10 billion ($6.29 billion) on grants and loans to build up to 100,000 homes for would-be home buyers, ahead of a May 3 general election that has housing affordability as a key issue reut.rs/4j8amtW

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Kinda hard to see a free and fair 2028 election where she doesn’t win by a lot.

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They never don't look painfully stupid

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Recent orders from the Trump administration run a real risk of muzzling professors like me who teach about the racism of the country’s past, Phillip Atiba Solomon writes.

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Police attended British Steel plant earlier today after officials from Chinese owner could not access site - follow updates

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NPR first reported on the case of Charles Givens, a disabled inmate at Virginia's Marion Correctional Treatment Center, in 2023. Four corrections officers were accused of beating him to death and a fifth accused of negligence. Givens' sister, Kymberly Hobbs, sued the five men.

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MTG is the dumbest person on the planet.. except when it comes to the stock market? 🤔

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An email sent by the Department of Homeland Security instructs people in the US on a temporary legal status to leave the country. But who the email actually applies to—and who actually received it—is far from clear. www.wired.com/story/homela...

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It's nearly impossible to avoid narcissists. To spot them, notice the phrases they use. Here are the ones they love to use, says Harvard psychologist Dr. Cortney Warren — and how she responds to them every time.

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For the House GOP, "it would be an unconscionable risk to allow a panicked or aggrieved bipartisan coalition to revoke the president’s unilateral authority to impose the tariffs." ICYMI @cheetah.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/do-congres...

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UK officials ready to take control of British Steel plant, BBC told, after bill to save it approved by Parliament

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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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"The president is no longer bound by law, but he is protected by laws. The same laws that now permit him to, say, instruct Seal Team Six to assassinate the chief justice, also provide for him to complete his presidential term."

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Coachella Unveils Premium VIP Areas Where Fans Will Be Able To See, Hear Bands theonion.com/coachel...

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Let’s send food safety inspectors to the coal mines’

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House sparrows go completely silent and disappear from my yard whenever a hawk flies over. They don’t help the hawk. I wish US voters were as smart as birds.

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After months of striking, some therapists with Kaiser Permanente stopped eating for five days to bring attention to their union's demands for parity with how the company's other workers are treated.

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Report: Majority Of Nation’s Civic Engagement Centered Around Oppressing Other People theonion.com/report-...

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Several top executives in wealth management said that unlike the crashes in 2020 or 2008, high-net-worth investors were feeling less pressure to sell.

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‘Fawning’ is a response where a person gives a servile display of exaggerated flattery in order to gain favor or advantage. AKA: ass-kisser, bootlicker, toady, suck-up brown-noser, etc.

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For fathers in search of friendship, a growing group has emerged: the Brooklyn Stroll Club. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/s...

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The dream is dead

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Imagine being a small business with debt, that you used to import products you had manufactured in china. In the time it took to make the products, tariffs were added, that more than doubled your cost. They are crushed Are there any states offering support for their businesses ?

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'My border collie could do a better job': @steverattner.bsky.social slams 'worst' economic policy www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sVN...

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whoops

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"I’m not used to a president of France having a better understanding of the preconditions for sound business investment and sustained economic growth than a president of the United States."

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