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Jack Dorsey’s Cash App Wants More Than Your Occasional Payments

The payments company is wooing skeptics with ETF trading, Bitcoin and sparkly debit cards.

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New York Times politics
Democratic Candidate Mary Peltola Says She Didn’t Know About Alaska Ballot Stacking (Gift Article)

Peltola told supporters on Thursday that she “knew nothing" about decoy Senate candidates recruited to run.

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Bloomberg politics
Private Equity Is Boosting Republicans Over Democrats in Midterms

The investing industry is throwing its weight behind Republican allies ahead of the US midterm elections in an effort to stem a populist wave it fears will bring greater scrutiny of private equity’s r...

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New York Times politics
Colombia’s ‘Narcoterrorist’ Crackdown Raises Questions Over Killings (Gift Article)

Military-involved deaths have roiled a country with an iron-fisted new president — and a history of extrajudicial killings.

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Why Kalshi Wants to Repeal a 1958 Law About Onions (Gift Article)

A law enacted after a brazen scheme to rig onion prices in the 1950s puts the vegetable, as well as box office receipts, off-limits for prediction markets.

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New York Times politics
Distaste for Lavrov Forces U.S. to Cancel G20 Photo Session in Atlanta (Gift Article)

Some European foreign ministers had refused to pose alongside Russia’s top diplomat, Sergey Lavrov, at a Group of 20 gathering hosted by the United States.

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New York Times politics
A Resurgent Justice Democrats Could Reshape a Democratic Congress (Gift Article)

Justice Democrats, which gained prominence backing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is on track to see more of its candidates elected. Will the party listen to them?

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Can Republicans Hold the Senate? They Need These Midterm Voters. (Gift Article)

Republicans need the support of both longtime stalwarts and newly minted supporters to have any chance of holding onto the Senate.

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Bloomberg politics
Vail Resorts Wins Large Shareholder Support in Fight with Oasis

Baron Capital, one of Vail Resorts Inc.’s largest shareholders, is supporting the company and its nominees, as the ski resort company tries to fend off a proxy fight against activist investor Oasis Ma...

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New York Times politics
Are the Polls Still Missing ‘Hidden’ Republicans? Here’s What We’re Doing to Find Out. (Gift Article)

There’s no breakthrough in our experiment yet, but the differences are intriguing.

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Bloomberg businesspolitics
Here’s How Much You’re Paying for Trump’s Tariffs and Iran War

Goods and energy cost thousands more as a result of the president’s policies.

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Mailers About Transgender Students Mysteriously Appear at Texas Homes
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Medium cultureopinionpolitics
The Lost Tribe of the Enslaved

The spiritual homelessness of modern Black America.

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‘She’s One of Us’: Mary Peltola’s Bumpy Rise to Political Power
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‘I’m Not That Informed on National Security,’ Graham Says in South Carolina Debate (Gift Article)

Senator Darline Graham made the remark in a debate against Representative Ralph Norman, her opponent in the runoff election to succeed her brother, Lindsey Graham. Here are five takeaways from the deb...

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The Atlantic politics
Israel’s Latest Last Chance to Save Itself

This vote will not be the end of Israel. It also won’t answer the question of what kind of country Israelis want it to be.

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Defector politics
Russia Is Coming Back To International Hockey | Defector

Russia, which has been functionally banned from international hockey for more than four years, must be allowed to return to international events starting in December in Canada. That’s the ruling today...

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Column | Ajacied Ouazane, wereldtalent in wording?

‘Wat goed is, komt snel.” Een ooit door de sportjournalist Joris van den Bergh bedachte uitdrukking, die je weinig meer hoort, maar nog niets aan geldigheid heeft ingeboet. En zeker opgaat voor een gr...

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De Rekenkamer had tóch gelijk, justitieminister Van Weel komt terug op onenigheid onbehandelde aangiften politie

Aangiften: De politie zal een deel van de ruim 10.000 onbehandelde aangiften en meldingen uit 2024 opnieuw beoordelen. Eerst worden alle aangiften en meldingen over pogingen tot moord en doodslag onde...

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The Times (UK) businesspoliticsworld
Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta closes under Kremlin pressure

The paper’s editor-in-chief said the ‘Russian authorities and the Russian special services’ had forced journalists to stop work

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Police Investigate Former Prince Andrew and Epstein’s Time at Balmoral, Royal Estate in Scotland (Gift Article)

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor spent time with Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender, and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, at Balmoral, the royal family’s Scottish retreat.

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The Times (UK) politics
Senior Greens warn party being taken over by pro-Palestinian activists

Party figures call for a conversation about its direction as figures reveal 18,000 members have left since May

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Opinion | In Six Decades of Public Life, I Never Thought I Would Write This Piece (Gift Article)

Trump’s meddling would have dark consequences for our democracy and our prosperity.

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Opinion | The Taliban Have Reached a New Low. How Can the World Respond? (Gift Article)

New rules that make a woman’s voice illegal in public show why the world must make gender apartheid a crime against humanity.

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Washington Post businesspoliticslegal
Trump’s Kennedy Center stays mum on why it hired unlikely architecture firm for overhaul

ATSR, a Minneapolis firm known largely for designing schools and churches, has been tapped to help lead the $257 million renovation of one of Washington’s most prominent landmarks.

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Polymarket and Kalshi Face a Major Accuracy Test: The Midterms (Gift Article)

Studies have shown that the betting sites can predict races correctly, but their ability to forecast U.S. midterm elections is an important proving ground.

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San Francisco Chronicle businesspolitics
Sutter promised a $1 billion new hospital in the East Bay. Now, it’s pulling the plug

The healthcare giant is scrapping plans for a new East Bay flagship campus announced last year..

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Will Taylor Swift’s Endorsement Actually Affect the Election? (Gift Article)

What the research says about celebrity endorsements — and what might make this one different.

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Novaya Gazeta, Fiercely Independent Russian News Outlet, Says It Will Shut Down (Gift Article)

Journalists at Novaya Gazeta, whose co-founder received the Nobel Peace Prize, said the government had orchestrated its demise: “They killed us.”

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Pope Leo Votes by Mail, From the Vatican, in Illinois Midterm Election (Gift Article)

Pope Leo may be the first pope to vote in a national election, Vatican experts said.

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New York Times politicslegal
Female Student Sues for Gender Discrimination After Losing Male Lead Role in Play (Gift Article)

Texas officials feared the casting in “Little Shop of Horrors” violated a state law limiting diversity efforts. The student has sued for gender discrimination.

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2 Helicopters Collide Midair in Oregon, Killing All 3 Aboard (Gift Article)

A student pilot and a flight instructor were killed, along with the person in the second helicopter, officials said. The cause has not been determined.

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As Voters Worry About Prices, Many Senate Candidates Are Millionaires (Gift Article)

The wealthy are well represented in the ranks of major candidates for the chamber, according to a New York Times review of financial disclosure forms.

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The Atlantic politics
‘The Best Thing That Happened to Him Was Losing in 2020’

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan explain how the four years between Donald Trump’s first and second terms changed the presidency.

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New York Times politics
Seth Meyers Cheers ‘Stand-Up Obama’ for Riling Republicans (Gift Article)

“He’s working on material for his next special, ‘Hussein in the Membrane,’” Meyers said after the former president ruffled feathers with jokes about the Cheesecake Factory.

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Medium opinionpoliticsbusiness
Horror-Themed Collection

Some of my horror-themed twisted nursery rhymes

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The Atlantic politics
Redistricting Isn’t Going as Republicans Planned

A North Carolina Democrat is trying to keep his seat in a district that’s been redrawn twice.

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New York Times politicsworld
Are Trump Voters Refusing to Take Polls? And Other Polling Risks. (Gift Article)

Answers to readers’ queries about the reasons a survey could misfire.

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New York Times politicshealth
Is New England a State?
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Mosquito Lasers (Gift Article)

China has come up with an innovative way to kill the insects.

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Medium culturelegalpolitics
‘The Ghost of Oyuki’ and Her Twin

‘Hangonkō no Zu' and other Ghost Paintings by Ōkyo Maruyama templated the genre and defined ghosts in Japan…

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National Observer businesspoliticstechnology
Ottawa investing up to $1.6B in Canadian AI company Cohere

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday his government will invest up to $1.6 billion in Canadian AI company Cohere. "We are not waiting for the future of AI to be decided somewhere else by those we ...

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National Observer politics
Stelco workers grapple with uncertainty as calls for nationalization mount

Union workers rallied to protest 175 layoffs at steelmaker Stelco after the company reported its strongest quarterly earnings since being acquired by the US-based Cleveland-Cliffs in 2024. Just one da...

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‘My Body Hurts’: Christa Pike Describes Pain and Isolation After Botched Execution (Gift Article)

Convicted of a 1995 murder, Ms. Pike released her first statement since the failed attempt to execute her last month.

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Russia allowed to return to international hockey after CAS ruling (Gift Article)

The International Ice Hockey Federation had banned Russia from its competitions following its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

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Medium politicsworldscience
Monetary power, climate breakdown: how China finances the green transition while European monetary…

Only China has realised that monetary policy can be used to expedite the energy transition

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The Atlantic politicsbusiness
Why Democrats Might Choose to Impeach Cabinet Members

The power to impeach secretaries and other executive-branch officers is not well known, but it’s an effective accountability measure.

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The Times (UK) businesspoliticsculture
St Andrews bans rector for seven years over bullying claims

Stella Maris has been told to stay away from the university’s campus after an investigation found her behaviour was ‘unprofessional and aggressive’

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New York Times politics
The Best Trick-or-Treating Happens in Apartment Buildings (Gift Article)

We asked readers to share their Halloween tales of going door to door in New York City.

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New York Times politics
A 360° Tour of Trump’s D.C. Makeover (Gift Article)

This panorama of Washington shows the president’s growing imprint on the city.

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