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America's Energy Divide: How Democrats and Republicans Feel on Energy

Energy and climate issues have long been a point of division in
American politics, with Democrats generally believing in investing in
renewable energy sources while Republicans are more supportive of
expanding energy production more broadly, including the use of fossil
fuels and nuclear energy.

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Israel-Gaza war live: Israeli negotiators in Cairo for ceasefire and
hostage talks as Kamala Harris urges peace
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On the third night of the Democratic national convention, the group
Muslim Women for Harris released a statement announcing that it was
disbanding in response to the Harris-Walz campaign’s refusal to
allow a Palestinian person to speak on the main stage. The Uncommitted
movement, which won 30 delegates, also began a sit in over the same
issue.

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The Kremlin is close to crushing Pokrovsk, a vital Ukrainian town -
The Economist (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=53729&nl=daily]
This is not Nina Uvarova’s first evacuation. The first time, she
fled the advancing Wehrmacht as a two-and-a-half-year-old. Now, aged
84, she is running from Vladimir Putin’s army. The retired teacher
has packed her most valuable belongings into five bags, which her son
lifts onto the 14.10 evacuation train to Lviv. The emotions of the day
bring back memories of her first escape. “The explosions, the
shooting, the hiding in basements, I still remember it all.” The
decision to leave agonised her, but Russian artillery landing in
Pokrovsk’s southern district left no choice.















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Abortion Is Not An Issue That Leans Toward Us: Trump Tells Newsmax
After Harris DNC Speech - Forbes (No paywall)
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Former President Donald Trump acknowledged Thursday that abortion was
an issue that doesn't lean towards the Republicans as he continued to
defend the Supreme Court's scrapping of Roe v. Wadeâa move Trump has
taken credit forâin an interview on Newsmax, just minutes after Vice
President Kamala Harris' speech at the Democratic National Convention
called him out for bragging about taking away "reproductive freedom."

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Q&A: To Protect the Natural World, We Need to Put a Price on It -
Harvard Business Review (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=53729&nl=daily]
Sarah Kapnick, chief scientist at NOAA, tells HBR how the agency is
developing scientific standards and low-cost technologies to measure
and value natural ecosystems. Kapnick highlights the critical role of
accurate environmental measurement in aiding businesses to understand
their impacts, create new financial instruments, and enhance risk
management. She discusses NOAA’s efforts to bridge the gap between
scientific research and practical applications, the importance of
international cooperation, and the growing involvement of the private
sector in environmental monitoring.














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Instead of Thrown, Spears Were Planted in the Ground to Kill a
Charging Mammoth - Discover Magazine (No paywall)
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Imagine being charged by a woolly mammoth. You hold a wooden spear
with a razor-sharp stone tip. Do you hurl it at the 10,000-pound
animal and hope it pierces its thick leathery skin? Or do you stay
put, plant the base into the ground and trust that the beast will
impale itself?

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Ukraine to receive $125 million in US military aid: report
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On Thursday, an official within President Joe Biden's administration
told the Associated Press (AP) that a new $125 million military aid
package will include an array of defense systems including air defense
missiles, ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems
(HIMARS), anti-armor missiles, counter-drone technology and Javelins.














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Andrew Ng's new model lets you play around with solar geoengineering
to see what would happen - MIT Technology Review (No paywall)
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AI pioneer Andrew Ng has released a simple online tool that allows
anyone to tinker with the dials of a solar geoengineering model,
exploring what might happen if nations attempt to counteract climate
change by spraying reflective particles into the atmosphere.














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Australian court rules in case that asked 'what is a woman'?
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The Federal Court found that although Roxanne Tickle had not been
directly discriminated against, she was a victim of indirect
discrimination - which refers to when a decision disadvantages a
person with a particular attribute - and ordered the app to pay her
A$10,000 ($6,700; £5,100) plus costs.

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The trial of Lucy Letby has shocked British statisticians - The
Economist (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=53729&nl=daily]
It was “feeble”. It was “very unsatisfactory”. It was, in
short, “terrible”. If you wish to annoy a statistician, ask them
about the trial of Lucy Letby, a British nurse. Statisticians will,
typically, take no view whatsoever on the guilt or otherwise of Ms
Letby, who in August 2023 was found guilty of murdering seven very
young babies in a hospital near Liverpool between 2015 and 2016, and
given 15 life sentences without the chance of parole.














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Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist
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I remember the day when, at the age of 7, I realized that I wanted to
figure out how reality worked. My mother and father had just taken us
shopping at a market in Calcutta. On the way back home, we passed
through a dimly lit arcade where a sidewalk bookseller was displaying
his collection of slim volumes. I spotted an enigmatic cover with a
man looking through a microscope; the words “Famous Scientists”
were emblazoned on it, and when I asked my parents to get it for me,
they agreed. As I read the chapters, I learned about discoveries by
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek of the world of microscopic life, by Marie
Curie about radioactivity, by Albert Einstein about relativity, and I
thought, “My God, I could do this, too!” By the time I was 8, I
was convinced that everything could be explained, and that I,
personally, was going to do it.

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What's Really Going On in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models
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It’s surprising how little is known about the foundations of machine
learning. Yes, from an engineering point of view, an immense amount
has been figured out about how to build neural nets that do all kinds
of impressive and sometimes almost magical things. But at a
fundamental level we still don’t really know why neural nets
“work”—and we don’t have any kind of “scientific big
picture” of what’s going on inside them.














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Google appoints ex-CEO of Character.AI as Gemini co-head
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Alphabet Inc.'s Google LLC supposedly appointed Noam Shazeer, the
former CEO of Character.AI, as co-technical lead on the company's
Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) model, The Information r...

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Fast food has a Gen Z problem - Business Insider (No paywall)
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Gen Z diners surveyed by Morning Consult were less likely to say that
they thought fast-food chains were a good value than all the older
generations. Morning Consult collected the data in monthly polls over
the course of this year and broke results down for other generations,
including millennials, Gen X, and baby boomers.














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An oil tycoon sold his company for $26 billion this year -- but died
before the deal closed - Business Insider (No paywall)
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The founder and owner of Endeavor Energy Resources agreed to sell the
Texas oil producer to Diamondback Energy for $26 billion this spring.
A cancer diagnosis spurred his decision to cash out, he told The Wall
Street Journal at the time. Stephens was 86 when he died last week.

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Nvidia's earnings report will test how much hype is left in the S&P
500 super stock - Fortune (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=53729&nl=daily]
Nvidia has ridden Wall Street’s mania around artificial
intelligence to become one of the stock market’s most massive
companies, with a total value topping $3 trillion. Real money
has backed the rise, and tech companies keep gobbling up Nvidia’s
chips to train their AI models.













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Blue Origin Hits a Pair of Destructive Rocket Setbacks - Inc.com (No
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Blue Origin, the space startup founded in 2000 by Amazon's Jeff Bezos,
has always been fairly secretive -- unlike its slightly younger rival
SpaceX, many of Blue Origin's advances have happened behind closed
doors and without fanfare. But reports say that even as Blue Origin is
closing in on the first launch of its giant New Glenn rocket, a
potential serious competitor to the SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft,
several destructive accidents have hit the rocket production line.

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Can Better Biotech Finally Replace Lab Animals? - Scientific American
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When it came time for Itzy Morales Pantoja to start her Ph.D. in
cellular and molecular medicine, she chose a laboratory that used stem
cells—not only animals—for its research. Morales Pantoja had just
spent two years studying multiple sclerosis in mouse models. As an
undergraduate, she’d been responsible for ­giving the animals
painful injections to induce the disease and then observing as they
lost their ability to move. She did her best to treat the mice gently,
but she knew they were ­suffering. “As soon as I got close to them,
they’d start peeing—a sign of stress,” she says. “They knew
what was coming.”

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The Speech of Kamala Harris's Lifetime - The New Yorker (No paywall)
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The Chicks sang the national anthem. The actor Kerry Washington, who,
like many of the women in Chicago's packed United Center, looked
earnestly political in a suffragette-white outfit, guided Kamala
Harris's pint-size grandnieces in a brilliant troll of Republicans who
have refused to pronounce the Vice-President's name correctly.
"Kama-la," they instructed, their tiny voices amplified by the roar of
thousands. In the days and hours leading up to the speech of Harris's
life, the Democrats featured John Legend, Stevie Wonder, even Oprah
Winfrey. The singer-songwriter Pink sang her bittersweet hit ballad
"What About Us." Eva Longoria, introduced as "actress, director, and
philanthropist," extolled the nominee as a friend and led a chant:
"She se puede!" Was there any crueller way to taunt the
celebrity-obsessed former President than to emphasize the embarrassing
glitz gap between the two parties in this most consequential of
election years? The entertainers headlining Donald Trump's final night
at the Republican Convention were Kid Rock and Hulk Hogan.

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Who is Wanda, the friend Kamala Harris mentioned during her DNC
acceptance speech?
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During her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention
Thursday, Vice President Kamala Harris recounted a story from her
upbringing that inspired her early career as a prosecutor.

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Why the Pentagon is spending billions to bring laser weapons to the
battlefield
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The Israel-Hamas conflict has shed new light on the need to defend
against threats that range from small rockets to ballistic missiles.
Israel has invested in the Iron Beam system, which produces a
high-energy laser, to complement the Iron Dome batteries used to
launch interceptors to take out incoming rockets."Interceptors are
just surface-to-air missiles that shoot down incoming weapons. And
there's obviously a limited number of them in the launcher at any
given time, and they cost money and they're expendable," said Bryan
Clark, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. "A laser, on the other
hand, gives you essentially an infinite magazine of interception
opportunities, because the laser â as long as you've got electricity
â will continue to recharge, continue to shoot down incoming
weapons."Many of these directed-energy systems are now starting to be
used more extensively in the field. The DE M-SHORAD, or Directed
Energy Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense system, was tested by the U.S.
Army in 2023 at the Yuma proving grounds. The Navy has the HELIOS, or
High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance,
installed on the U.S.S. Preble, an Arleigh Burke-class
destroyer."We're at an inflection point right now, when it comes to
the use of these directed-energy, laser weapons," said Masao Dahlgren,
a fellow with the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic
and International Studies. "Various services in the U.S. military are
prototyping these systems, bending metal, putting things out there and
experimenting with them."Watch the video to find out what the future
of laser weapons holds.

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This is not the Democratic Party of 2020 - Business Insider (No
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Granted, 2020 was unusual, to say the least. It was an election year
with a particularly divisive incumbent, in which the COVID-19 pandemic
had upended American life, and in which the murder of George Floyd
ignited a massive protest movement across the US.

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Heat Kills Thousands in the U.S. Every Year. Why Are the Deaths So
Hard to Track?
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The C.D.C. relies on death certificates reported by local authorities
for its tally, but the way these certificates are completed varies
from place to place. Many local officials do not have the time,
funding or staffing needed to investigate heat-related questions. And
officials do not apply a consistent set of criteria to determine
whether heat contributed to a death — or even consider heat as a
potential factor when filling out death certificates.

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Harris Wants America to See Itself in Her
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“I know there are people of various political views watching
tonight. And I want you to know, I promise to be a president for all
Americans,” she said. “You can always trust me to put country
before party and self. To hold sacred America’s fundamental
principles, from the rule of law, to free and fair elections, to the
peaceful transfer of power.”

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On Gaza, Democrats' Most Divisive Issue, Harris Embraces Biden's
Balancing Act
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She then went on to talk anew about the “devastating” damage and
“innocent lives lost” as the Israelis retaliated. “The scale of
the suffering is heartbreaking.” But, like Mr. Biden, she gave no
indication that, if elected, she would use the leverage of America’s
military support for Israel to pressure it to change tactics. She
offered no hint of the tension in the relationship with Mr. Netanyahu,
which she has witnessed firsthand, as a listener-in, and sometimes
participant, in the tense phone calls with the Israeli leader.

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5 Takeaways From the Democratic Convention
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“We are the heirs to the greatest democracy in the history of the
world,” she said as she neared the dramatic finish of her speech.
She was seeking to occupy some of the most frequently trod ground of
winning American campaigns.

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Full Transcript of Kamala Harris's Democratic Convention Speech
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So, America, the path that led me here in recent weeks was, no doubt,
unexpected. But I’m no stranger to unlikely journeys. So, my mother,
our mother, Shyamala Harris, had one of her own. And I miss her every
day, and especially right now. And I know she’s looking down
smiling. I know that.

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Best, Worst and Weirdest Moments of the Democratic Convention
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Toughest presidential talk. Vice President Kamala Harris, assuring
that she’s no pushover: “As commander in chief, I will ensure
America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the
world.”

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Burning Man: Why the US festival could be in trouble
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Despite being burned-out herself, Roberts says she will always love
Black Rock City. Is she worried about its future? "It's going to
survive. It might not be 80,000 people every single year, but there
will always be people that want to discover Burning Man for the first
time."

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Harris says Trump 'wants to be an autocrat' and tyrants are 'rooting'
for him
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"He was too busy sucking up to dictators and dreaming of becoming one
himself," Kelly said. "Trump thinks Americans who have made the
ultimate sacrifice are 'suckers' and 'losers.' If we fall for it
again, and make him commander-in-chief, the only suckers would be us."

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Lessons From a Bank-Robbing Guerrilla Turned President
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Last week, I traveled to the outskirts of Montevideo, Uruguay’s
capital, to visit Mr. Mujica at his three-room home, full of books and
jars of pickling vegetables, on the small farm where he has grown
chrysanthemums for decades. As the sun set on a winter day, he was
bundled in a winter jacket and wool hat in front of a wood stove. The
treatment had left him weak and hardly eating.

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Two Armed Rebels Who Led a Nation: A Love Story
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Amid war, they found love. But just weeks later, they were thrown in
prison, where they were subjected to torture and abuse. Over 13 years,
they managed to exchange only a single letter. The guards confiscated
the rest.

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Opinion | Kamala Takes Chicago
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For weeks she had been pitching herself as a “joyful warrior,” as
her husband, Doug Emhoff, put it — the bright, inclusive, graceful
antidote to Trump’s dark, repudiating gracelessness. On Thursday
night, she was all those things but she was scorching, too, calling
out Trump for trying to steal the 2020 election and then sending “an
armed mob to the United States Capitol” to achieve his ugly ends,
saying he “fanned the flames.”

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62% of Warren Buffett's $314 Billion Portfolio Is Invested in These 4
Unstoppable Stocks
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American Express and Bank of America are advertising partners of The
Ascent, a Motley Fool company. Sean Williams has positions in Bank of
America. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Apple, Bank
of America, and Berkshire Hathaway. The Motley Fool has a disclosure
policy.

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What Voters Outside the Democratic Bubble Thought of Harris's Speech
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“I really wasn’t happy with the Biden administration,” said Ms.
Reed, who like her husband is 77 and a retired schoolteacher. “But
listening to her tonight, maybe it’s not as hard to vote for her.
And, you know, I’m a little scared of what Trump will do when he
gets back in power.”

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Video: The Biggest Speech of Kamala Harris's Career
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Protests at the Democrats' Convention Weren't as Big and Disruptive as
Some Expected
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On the last night of the convention, protesters acknowledged they were
tired after days of demonstrations, but hundreds marched until after 9
p.m. Organizers summed up the week on an optimistic note, pointing out
that President Biden had mentioned “protesters out in the street”
when he addressed the convention.

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Free Booze, a Lake Cruise and Selfies Galore: How Democrats Courted
Influencers at the D.N.C.
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The treatment was part of an elaborate and unprecedented campaign to
flood social media with positive messages about Ms. Harris and Mr.
Walz as they accepted their party’s nominations this week. Democrats
treated influencers like celebrities, hoping that free stuff and
copious access in Chicago would reap buzzy posts on Instagram, TikTok
or YouTube, the primary sources of news for a critical, and growing,
slice of voters.

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Democrats Taste Victory in November. But Are They Too Confident?
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But in a series of high-profile admonitions during the four-day
convention, several Democratic Party elders issued stern warnings for
anyone believing the happy talk that Vice President Kamala Harris and
Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota are on a glide path to the White House.

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Dialing In to Fox News, Trump Offers a Rambling Rebuttal to Harris's
Speech
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His posts there, capitalized in a haphazard manner, were less directed
at her specific remarks than at broader complaints about issues that
Mr. Trump wants to keep the focus on: crime, immigration and the
economy.

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Democrats Show That Republicans Aren't the Only Ones Who Can Wrap
Themselves in the Flag
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An attack on Harris’s patriotism could have particular resonance in
some corners of the country, Democrats say. As a Black woman, Ms.
Harris faces stereotypes that white politicians don’t. She was
raised largely the San Francisco Bay Area, a part of the country long
identified with leftist politics and antiwar protests.

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Harris Promises to Chart 'New Way Forward' as She Accepts Nomination
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Although she didn’t mention it, Ms. Harris’s nomination is
barrier-breaking: She is the first Black woman and first person of
South Asian descent to accept a major party’s nomination. If
elected, she would be the first female president in the nation’s
history.

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Kennedy Withdraws From Presidential Contest in Arizona
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Those signatures, however, could be problematic. As The New York Times
reported this week, two people familiar with the campaign’s
operations said the signatures had been collected by a super PAC
backing Mr. Kennedy, rather than the campaign itself. Federal law
limits coordination between campaigns and outside organizations, and
the move would most likely have opened the campaign up to legal
complaints.

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Kerry Washington Knows TV Politics. Now She's Hosting a Real Party.
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Ms. Harris and Ms. Washington have met before, when Ms. Washington
visited the White House last year. It’s not clear what they
discussed, but in an apparent nod to her tenure as a (fictional) D.C.
operative, Ms. Harris posted a photo to social media with the caption
“Welcome back to the White House.”

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'This Is the Convention of the Woman'
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“You hear the eloquent voice of Michelle Obama. I thought Secretary
Clinton gave one of the best speeches I’ve heard her deliver in her
career,” said Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia, himself a talented
orator whose soaring speech on Monday you might have forgotten amid
all the big-ticket women, including Hillary Clinton, the former
secretary of state to whom he was referring.

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Jackson Hole History Points to Powell Sidestepping Market Shocks
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“The market pricing is pretty fair,” said John Queen, a portfolio
manager at Capital Group, which oversees $2.5 trillion in assets.
“The Fed has been pretty successful at putting the economy on the
right path, where growth is slowing but not falling apart.”

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What is the energy price cap and who gets winter fuel payments?
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In March, Ofgem said it was considering a range of options for
changing the current energy cap system, including charging different
prices throughout the day to reflect periods of high demand.

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Labour and Conservatives blame each other for rise in energy bills
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“The way to bring bills down is to build more cheap British wind and
solar power, and to mend the market so that costs are set locally -
not by global gas prices," Mr Jackson said, adding there also needed
to be "bold reform of grid connections".

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Fast fashion giant Shein finds child labour cases in supply chain
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At the time, a spokesperson for the company said: "Shein has a
zero-tolerance policy for forced labour and we are committed to
respecting human rights. We take visibility across our entire supply
chain seriously and we require our contract manufacturers to only
source cotton from approved regions."

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Practice Flights and Calm Spaces: Making Room for Neurodivergent
Travelers
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But travelers and families still need to choose itineraries that fit
their needs, factoring in details like flights, hotel menus and floor
plans, noise and crowds, and proximity to activities.

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