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It’s Poll Watcher Training Season. Distrust Is on the Lesson Plan.
Groups are preparing thousands of observers for midterm elections in November. Some volunteers are being conditioned to expect bad behavior. source …
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NPR News: Ex-CIA chief issued subpoena in Trump 'grand conspiracy' investigation, lawyer says
Ex-CIA chief issued subpoena in Trump 'grand conspiracy' investigation, lawyer says John Brennan has been subpoenaed to testify before a Flo…
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Architects of Japan’s Easy-Money Policies Are Changing Their Minds
As the Bank of Japan weighs another rate increase on Friday, a divide over how Japan should confront inflation is widening. source https://www.nytim…
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Oil Prices Jump on Energy Supply Worries
Oil prices jumped and stock futures fell slightly on concerns that energy supplies from the Persian Gulf would be further diminished by a drone attac…
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NPR News: Russian drone hits train near Ukraine-Poland border soon after dignitaries passed through
Russian drone hits train near Ukraine-Poland border soon after dignitaries passed through A Russian drone struck a train near the Ukraine-Poland bor…
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NPR News: Amazon suspends use of 21 Air, cargo carrier whose plane careened off Miami runway
Amazon suspends use of 21 Air, cargo carrier whose plane careened off Miami runway Amazon said it's decided to pause operations with 21 Air as t…
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They Built a Shrine to Cable TV. Then Everyone Cut the Cord.
They set out to celebrate the power and prestige of an industry that spanned MTV, HBO and Nickelodeon. Now, as cable’s fortunes have waned, the insti…
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How Candidates Have Addressed Affordability in the Midterm Campaigns
Inflation and the cost of living have been the biggest drivers of campaigns this year, but the broad term “affordability” breaks down into specific i…
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Business
Want to Entice New Residents? Offer Cash, for a Start.
Relocation incentives have a mixed record of helping cities and towns stand out as people return to rural America. source https://www.nytimes.com/20…
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NPR News: BRICS leaders meet in India as wars and US tensions test the bloc
BRICS leaders meet in India as wars and US tensions test the bloc Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosts Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chines…
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NPR News: Yemen's Houthis capture a Red Sea island in threat to shipping
Yemen's Houthis capture a Red Sea island in threat to shipping Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have captured a strategic island in the Bab…
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India Wants to Buy Fewer Chinese Imports, but Keeps Needing More
Trade between India and China has nearly doubled in five years, leaving New Delhi with a widening deficit and a difficult choice over how to build it…
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Oil Keeps Rising and Diesel Hits $6 a Gallon as Middle East Tensions Mount
Prices for the fuel jumped to a new high over mounting fears that the fighting between the United States and Iran could expand into a full-scale war.…
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NPR News: Hong Kong court sentences 3 Tiananmen vigil organizers to prison
Hong Kong court sentences 3 Tiananmen vigil organizers to prison The activists were sentenced to about 5 to 7 years in prison in a case widely seen …
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NPR News: Iran-backed Houthi rebels seize strategic Red Sea port in Yemen
Iran-backed Houthi rebels seize strategic Red Sea port in Yemen The rebel group took over Yemen's port of Mokha, an area vital to controlling sh…
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7 Takeaways From the Republican Midterm Convention
On the second night of the Republican gathering in Dallas, Vice President JD Vance was the headliner. But President Trump returned to center stage. …
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NPR News: A huge 11th-century tapestry of the Norman Conquest has (carefully) traveled to England
A huge 11th-century tapestry of the Norman Conquest has (carefully) traveled to England Part war propaganda, part comic strip, the 230-foot Bayeux T…
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NPR News: A pilot of the Amazon cargo plane in Miami crash warned it was coming in too fast
A pilot of the Amazon cargo plane in Miami crash warned it was coming in too fast For nearly two minutes, one of the pilots of the Amazon cargo plan…
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Eurail, the Longtime Savior of Shoestring Backpackers, Ditches Its Name
The flexible train ticket is rebranding itself as the Interrail Pass. For many travelers, the old name evokes a bygone era of freewheeling European t…
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NYT > U.S. News
Trump’s Promise of $5,000 Dividend Checks Follows Past Cash Pledges That Never Materialized
President Trump is again talking up the possibility that the federal government will send Americans thousands of dollars in cash. from NYT > U.S.…
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