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    Judge Dismisses Federal Antisemitism Case Against Harvard

    A federal judge threw out the Trump administration’s antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard University on Thursday, a blow to the government’s efforts to force the university into a settlement. Read more ›
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    Stagflation, the Scourge of the 1970s, Is Back

    By Phillip Braun Mr. Braun is a clinical professor of finance at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Some readers may recall the misery of rampant stagflation in the 1970s. The fusion of inflation and stagnant economic growth destroyed millions of jobs while eroding...
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    Patriot Games

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    Global Temperature Anomalies 1880-2024

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    What’s a band with an underappreciated catalog or are overlooked as musicians?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockpile also Be Bop Deluxe and Roxy Music
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    Trump administration set to spend at least $900 million on White House construction

    The Trump administration plans to spend at least $900 million for construction projects on the White House grounds, a significantly larger price tag than has been previously reported and one that would be covered primarily by taxpayers, according to records reviewed by The Washington Post...
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    How Nigel Farage Ended Up Running Against a Man Dressed as a Trash Can

    Count Binface, played by the comedian Jon Harvey, being interviewed at a studio in London last month.Credit...Kirsty Wigglesworth/Associated Press Count Binface, a man in a trash can costume, was trying to explain why he would be a winner no matter what happened on Thursday in the most...
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    Lakers to be sold to Bob Iger, Joshua Kushner 1 year after Mark Walter bought team

    The Los Angeles Lakers are being sold. Again. Only 14 months after agreeing to purchase the Lakers at a record-setting $10 billion valuation, Mark Walter is selling the team to Bob Iger, the former Disney CEO, and Joshua Kushner. The deal would value the Lakers at $12.5 billion, according to a...
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    ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks intended to gain compliance from combative individuals. ICE plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices” for...
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    Trump Administration Kills a Flagship Annual Report on the Arctic

    Deplorable: The Trump administration has pulled federal funding for an annual report chronicling the changing environment of the Arctic, where rapid warming is upending ecosystems, reconfiguring trade routes and scrambling Great Power strategy. Every year for the past two decades, the Arctic...
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    To Improve Student Mental Health, University of Michigan Eases Grading

    The University of Michigan will replace traditional letter grades for some first-semester freshmen with a pass/fail-style grade, to more gently ease new students into academic life. The plan will go into effect in the fall of 2027 at the university’s College of Literature, Science and the Arts...
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    John Gotti grandson Carmine Agnello denied more time to give mom kidney, ordered to prison today

    Monday was deadline day for John Gotti’s grandson Carmine Agnello to donate a kidney to his mom, Victoria Gotti, or go to prison — and a federal judge rejected the “Growing Up Gotti” star’s last-minute request to push back his date to surrender on fraud charges. Agnello, 40, was given an...
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    Groups sue the Trump administration over its targeting of the International Criminal Court

    Human Rights Watch and three other advocacy groups sued the Trump administration on Tuesday to challenge its campaign against the International Criminal Court, arguing that sanctions against ICC judges and prosecutors are undermining the ability to prosecute people responsible for humanity’s...
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    He Says Obscene Things About Mothers and Children. Mike Johnson Is Raising Money for Him.

    Because this is a family newspaper, I cannot quote the piquant term that Brandon Herrera, a Republican House candidate in Texas, used to refer to children in a 2023 video. I can only report that he called them “trophies” for getting a man to ejaculate. Nor, alas, am I allowed to repeat the...
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    He’s Not a Democrat. Democrats Love Him Anyway.

    Since his last run, Mr. Osborn has worked to up his game. He has traveled the state, talking with health care workers and bartenders, farmers and ranchers. (Nebraska is a huge ag state.) His supporters say he has gotten better on the stump. He is not a smooth or charismatic speaker, but he comes...
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