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A young woman whom I adore looked me square in the eye yesterday and said, gleefully, “I used to watch you on TV when I was a kid!” 😂

James Talarico is seen holding a microphone and wearing an open white shirt and jacket. A headline reads: James Talarico Wins Democratic Senate Primary in Texas. Photo by Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times

James Talarico, a 36-year-old state legislator, won the Democratic nomination for Senate in Texas, finishing ahead of Representative Jasmine Crockett as his party’s voters put their faith in him to pursue an elusive decades-long goal of turning the state blue. nyti.ms/4u8ZS3k

“This ain’t gone go how you think it is.” -T.I.

A Saudi official saying this on Al Jazeera, a Qatari media outlet, is far more telling than any nugget of information carefully leaked to an American media outlet.

This war will permanently alter the relationship of the Gulf states, the US, and Israel.

Trump Administration Abandons Efforts to Impose Executive Orders on Law Firms The move amounts to a surrender in a clash that has led many law firms to submit to the president rather than face the threat of his executive orders.

Breaking News: The Trump administration abandoned its efforts to impose potentially crippling orders against law firms that refused to bow to the president.

Threat from Iran conflict spreads across Middle East in 72 hours In less than three days, the conflict ricocheted beyond the original targets in Iran, Israel and Iraq to threaten some 300 million civilians across more than a dozen nations.

Less than 72 hours after the first U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, the conflict had ricocheted well beyond the original targets, threatening some 300 million civilians across more than a dozen nations.

It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État During the campaign, it was kind of hard to picture the specifics of how Trump might pull such a thing off. Alas, it’s getting less hypothetical by the week.

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Opinion | Trump’s Attack on Iran Is Reckless

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THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future

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Well, the next edition of @status.news should be a doozy.

I joyfully slept through it in a Barcelona hotel room with the windows cast open...

Goldie Taylor

Following her recognition on Ragan's Top Women in Communications Class of 2026 list, @goldietaylor.bsky.social, Senior Vice President, Chief Communications and Marketing Officer, has been named to the 2026 Top Women in Communications Hall of Fame honorees list. Learn more: bit.ly/4rZDCap

Cancer du sein triple négatif : les premiers pas d’un vaccin personnalisé La société BioNTech a évalué la réponse immunitaire de 14 femmes à un vaccin thérapeutique à base d’ARN, ciblant des fragments de protéine mutée ou anormale de la tumeur de chaque patiente. Un essai préliminaire, mais porteur d’espoir concernant ce cancer agressif.

Cancer du sein triple négatif : les premiers pas d’un vaccin personnalisé

Opinion | The Former British Prince and the Very American Outrage At least monarchies have developed limits on arbitrary power.

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“No one is likely to mistake contemporary Britain for a model democracy,” Fintan O’Toole writes. “And yet it is in Britain that some semblance of justice for the women and girls so ruthlessly exploited by Mr. Epstein’s network of well-connected men may be finally beginning to emerge.”

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Leader Who Sought the Presidency, Dies at 84

He paved more roads than he ever spoke of. He was in rooms taking up space, demanding space people of color even as some of those same people mocked his name. 🙏🏽

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OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”

You can’t trust chatbots.

I have Scots-Irish and English ancestry. Does that mean I get to stay or nah?

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned by deadly 'dart frog' toxin, Europeans say — NBC News There is no innocent explanation for the presence of the toxin detected after Navalny's death, European allies say, noting the frogs are not found in Russia.

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Trump's EPA will stop regulating greenhouse gases, setting up a legal fight The Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change.

Update: The Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change.

My happy boy 🐶❤️

Oh, wow.

The Epstein Emails Show How the Powerful Talk About Race The files reveal the disgraced financier’s interest in “race science.”

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C'était un ballon?!

James Van Der Beek, Dawson's Creek actor, dies aged 48 The father of six starred in multiple popular shows and films in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including Dawson's Creek and Varsity Blues.

"All these beautiful things that I love, and I used to define myself as—a father, a provider, a husband—all that got taken away, or at least paused ... I had to sit there and say, 'Well, what am I?' And it was, 'I'm still worthy of love.'"

This broke me.

James Van Der Beek, Teenage Heartthrob of ‘Dawson’s Creek,’ Dies at 48

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La joie est un acte de résistance.

He wants to know why you are not sharing your meal.