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Monday, April 27, 2026

As Congress prepares for a House floor vote on the Farm Bill next week, lawmakers are issuing dire warnings about what might happen to American farmers if an aid package doesn't pass. read more


More than 120 organizations issued a travel warning for the United States on Thursday, telling those who want to visit for the FIFA World Cup to use caution amid the Trump administration's heightened immigration enforcement measures. read more


Whether poop speeds through your gut like a bullet train or takes a more smell-the-roses approach could have more profound implications for your overall health ... read more


A Virginia circuit court has refused to block the implementation of Democrats' new congressional map, which voters approved in a statewide special election last week. read more


A growing group of Senate Republicans are losing confidence in Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's leadership ... read more


The Trump administration on Friday dismissed members of an independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation, which finances much of the public scientific research in the United States. On Friday afternoon, National Science Board members received a terse email "on behalf of President Donald J. Trump" that said their position was "terminated, effective immediately."


But when O'Donnell, during an interview recorded at the White House on Sunday, quoted from the accused gunman Cole Allen's apparent manifesto " "I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes," she read " Trump, who'd been relatively subdued in his responses, flashed a familiar anger. "I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would, because you're horrible people. Horrible people," Trump said. "Yeah, he did write that. I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody." O'Donnell interjected, "Oh, do you think he was referring to you?" But the president blew past her question, declaring, "I'm not a pedophile." read more


A huge, unstable chunk of glacier is blocking the route up Mount Everest from Base Camp in Nepal just as peak climbing season gets under way in the Himalayas. read more


Multi-billionaire Ken Griffin is appalled that the popular and effective Mayor of NYC, Zohran Mamdani (D), used his 24,000-square-foot Manhattan penthouse last week as the backdrop for a tax-the-rich video, triggering a subtle threat to re-evaluate his firm's investment in the city. read more


A beekeeper who unleashed thousands of agitated bees on Massachusetts sheriff's deputies during an eviction has been found guilty of six assault counts. Rebecca Woods drove a trailer up and smashed open hive boxes while protesting a 79-year-old man's eviction. When told some deputies were allergic to bees, she said, "Oh, you're allergic? Good."


Nedra Talley Ross, the last surviving member of the 1960s bee-hived pop band the Ronettes, who sang the enduring hits "Be My Baby," "Baby I Love You" and "Walking in the Rain" alongside her cousins, has died. She was 80. "Show business is a thing that can be great, but it can be bad, too," Ross said during her acceptance speech to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. "For us, we had a family that gave us a core to help stabilize us in a very difficult crazy world. read more


Israeli President Isaac Herzog decided not to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, opting instead to attempt to negotiate a plea deal. Netanyahu has been on trial for six years across three separate corruption cases. A plea agreement would require an admission of guilt, in addition to likely requiring Netanyahu to resign from office. read more


"The Iranians are obviously very skilled at negotiating, or rather, very skillful at not negotiating, letting the Americans travel to Islamabad and then leave again without any result," [German Chancellor Friedrich Merz] said during a talk to students in the town of Marsberg. "An entire nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, especially by these so-called Revolutionary Guards. And so I hope that this ends as quickly as possible," he added at the venue in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.


Sunday, April 26, 2026

Paul Ford: Nearly a billion people are using ChatGPT. What appears to be a multitrillion-dollar economic bomb has been unleashed into the world. The loudest voices believe A.I. will either demolish the labor market -- creating a jobless dystopia or creating a (similarly jobless) utopia -- or reveal itself soon as a huge fraud and a bubble. read more


Finding a tick on your skin is always worrying because all it takes is one bite and a small amount of saliva for it to transmit disease-causing pathogens (like Lyme disease) to you, its host. ... Here's everything else experts suggest to quickly and safely deal with a tick bite, what to do with a tick once you've removed it and when to get in touch with your doctor. read more


The fast food chain Steak 'n Shake, which last year switched from vegetable oil to beef tallow to cook fries, is making more moves under newly appointed Chief MAHA Officer Michael Boes to go "back to the glory days of fast food." They claim it won't raise their prices. "Fortunately, we operate as a private entity, and so we believe if we do right by the customers, the market's going to reward us," he said.


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