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WASHINGTON — Democratic bigwigs are rushing to embrace Michigan Senate hopeful Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and present a united front, with California Gov. Gavin Newsom expected to visit him Monday and former President Barack Obama giving him a call. The Dem powerbrokers are seemingly trying to soothe moderates in the Wolverine State who might have found El-Sayed too extreme during the bruising Senate primary and encourage them to back the progressive in November. Newsom, a long-speculated 2028 aspirant, hailed El-Sayed as a “fighter” and called for Dems to unite due to the “existential” moment the country faces. “House races are important,...

Jason isn’t asking his father for an allowance, a luxury car, or even help with rent. The 38-year-old New York City-based comedian has spent years making what he considers “reasonable requests” with a clear plan and proposal. He wants a shot at the big time — a $600 improv class, a plane ticket to Los Angeles for a gig that will bring exposure and connections, the occasional investment in a career he’s been building while juggling two jobs. Despite his father recently inheriting millions, the answer is almost always no. But Jason, who asked to use a pseudonym, sees things...

Do we really need another social media platform? Web users are intrigued by the persistent rumors that a legacy online platform may be coming back to our devices. We are talking about the potential relaunch of MySpace. While such a move is expected to unleash a wave of nostalgia, no one expects the company to have an easy time competing in the current cut-throat market. The owners of MySpace say they are planning to relaunch the social media platform "We're just waiting for the right time to do it. And if that one doesn't work, we'll do it again" pic.twitter.com/6EXoWILrOH...

Representational image of a nuclear fusion energy. Commonwealth Fusion Systems A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have looked into the economic challenges of fusion power and built a framework to make it commercially feasible. The framework is technology agnostic and takes into account the physical inputs need to build and operate a fusion power plant which is competitive in energy markets. Nuclear fusion is regarded as the future of energy, which is non-polluting, abundant and cheaply available. In principle, it recreates the reactions that occurs in stars, where hydrogen in a state of high temperature...

2026's El Niño is on course to be the most severe on record, even hotter than the 1997/98 event that caused trillions in damage and thousands of deaths. An El Niño event like nothing we’ve ever seen before is cooking in the Pacific. Its mounting strength is so unprecedented that climate scientists aren't even sure what impact it will have when it hits full tilt, but they say this “uncharted territory” should be a cause for concern. What is El Niño? And why is 2026 so weird? El Niño is a climate phenomenon characterized by warmer ocean temperatures across the...

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The push is back on for slavery reparations. In July, the New York Civil Liberties Union issued a report urging the immediate adoption of reparations. As Lanessa Owens-Chaplin — one of the report’s authors and Director of the Racial Justice Center at NYCLU — puts it: “Reparations are a debt that is owed. Enslaved Black people built the foundation of New York’s economy… Reparations must be extended to all Black New Yorkers descended from those enslaved by New York State.” The NYCLU report is predicated on an undeniable reality: the persistent wealth gap between black and white households. But all...

Xanthos, the ancient center of Lycia, boasts the longest extant Lycian inscription, an array of pillar tombs, and a Roman theater adapted for bullfighting in late antiquity. The Mysterious Tombs of Xanthos | 8:44 Scenic Routes to the Past | 61.4K subscribers | 16,252 views | July 17, 2026 Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:42 Theater 2:03 Harpy Tomb 3:03 Lycian Acropolis 4:22 Inscribed Pillar 5:33 Roman Agora 6:13 Nereid Monument 6:55 Decumanus Maximus 7:56 East Basilica

I ask for your patience, this is an experiment. This is an AI summary of a video that Jay Martin released yesterday so that you don't have to spend 25 minutes watching the video, which I recommend but which few of you would bother doing. I firmly believe that we are heading down a perilous economic path that few here have an understanding of. Executive Briefing: 2008 vs 2026 — The Same Dominoes Are Falling1. Executive Summary & Core Thesis• High-Level Overview: This briefing provides a detailed structural breakdown comparing the subprime mortgage mechanics of the 2008 Financial Crisis with...

Tedde Moore – who starred as Miss Shields in “A Christmas Story” – has died at the age of 79. The Canadian-born actress, who battled multiple sclerosis, died on Wednesday in Huntsville, Muskoka, “surrounded by family physically and spiritually,” a statement shared on her Facebook page said. Moore’s cause of death hasn’t been revealed. “Her bravery in this choice was almost overwhelming, beyond beautiful and also difficult,” her family said.

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed wants Americans to believe that opposition to Sharia in state courts belongs in the same historical indictment as some of the darkest crimes ever committed on American soil. That is not a paraphrase invented by his opponents. It is the unmistakable thrust of his own remarks. Speaking to the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in October 2022, El-Sayed declared: “You can’t understand a Sharia ban without understanding the Trail of Tears.” He then invoked white supremacy and said the “same exact forces” were behind Native American removal, the destruction of Black...

Dem Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed on Sunday refused to break ties to notorious hate streamer Hasan Piker — while hinting he wants to sock the middle class with the bill for his Medicare for All plan. El-Sayed even left the door open to continuing to campaign with Piker in the pol’s general election matchup against Republican Mike Rogers — despite arguing that the notorious Twitch streamer’s 2019 comment, “America deserved 9/11” was dumb. “It was a dumb statement,” El-Sayed told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “He disavowed it. So yes. America didn’t deserve 9/11. “But to sit here and play...

Iran released a rare video Sunday of its supreme leader appearing in prime condition amid his long absence from the public eye and swirling reports of deteriorating health. The country’s semi-official Mehr News Agency flaunted video of Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, sitting in a circle and speaking with a group of men, with no context of when or where the scene took place. Khamenei was notably free of any of the horrific injuries he was believed to have suffered in the initial airstrikes of the war that killed his father, suggesting the video was taken before the conflict began. The supreme...

Eighty-two years ago, on November 1, 1942, America's distilleries were faced with a second prohibition, this time coming from the War Production Board. No more liquor would be produced by the nation's distilleries, as the entire efforts of their industry was needed to produce war alcohol. It is one of the many ways that America's booze was affected by the World War. Bullets and Booze: How WWII Changed America's Drinks | 16:30 The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered 1.64M subscribers | 150,246 views | November 1, 2024

A parody artificial intelligence chatbot launched by a candidate trying to replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress was taken down Friday after the former House speaker attacked the bot for being “sexist.” California state Sen. Scott Wiener launched the chatbot this week to mock fellow Democrat and city supervisor Connie Chan, who earned Pelosi’s endorsement. Wiener and Chan will face against each other in November for Pelosi’s seat. The website ConnieChan.ai bills itself as “the world’s first AI trained to say no to anything you ask,” a knock on Chan’s reputation among critics as a progressive NIMBY who has opposed numerous...

They’re struggling to foot the Z bill. Gen Z can no longer afford to revel in the footloose and fancy-free freedom of youth, as nearly half of twenty-somethings are financially supporting both a child and a parent simultaneously, forcing most to tap into their retirement savings just to stay afloat, per alarming 2026 data. It’s a tough break for the youngsters amid the surging cost of living crisis, a squeeze leaving roughly 70% of Americans in danger of healthcare, food and housing insecurity. And these newcomers to adulthood are left holding the bag. Oft-maligned as “lazy,” skittish brats with zero...

A California city pulled the plug on its entire computer network after a cyberattack knocked out key systems, including 911 routing and police and fire dispatch. Suisun City declared a state of emergency Saturday after malicious software breached its IT systems at about 5:45 a.m. Friday. The city’s response was drastic. Officials shut down the entire network to stop the threat from spreading and protect evidence for a federal investigation. Despite the digital chaos, Suisun City officials said residents are not facing an immediate danger. Emergency crews remain on the streets, with city dispatchers routing calls through the Solano County...

One of the top honchos with the Democratic Socialist of America struggled to explain what “taxing the rich” meant and appeared clueless about the Clinton era landmark Israeli Palestinian peace effort, during an embarrassing radio interview with The New Yorker Friday. Megan Romer, one of the two national co-chairs of the organization, seemed bewildered by a question from the magazine’s editor David Remnick about one of the DSA’s signature positions. “Well, what does ‘taxing the hell out of them’ mean?’” Remnick asked on the episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour titled “How Socialist Is the DSA? Megan Romer Explains“....

Two weeks ago, I discussed the committee authorship of the Declaration of Independence and its adoption (after significant edits) by the Continental Congress.Today, I want to discuss the extraordinary edits concerning the issue of slavery. As is well known, the Continental Congress assigned an editorial committee of five men: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston and Benjamin Franklin.Thomas Jefferson penned the first draft, which was then edited by the committee and then the Continental Congress in session. As noted before in my July 24th column, they made significant edits. However, the most significant and the most extensive edit...

National Republicans are rallying around a complete political unknown who stunned the party by winning a Michigan congressional primary over President Trump’s hand-picked candidate. Thomas Smith, a retired GM engineer who sells salsa that retails at Flint farmer’s markets, spent virtually nothing yet convincingly beat Trump-backed Amir Hassan — a US Navy vet and former federal law enforcement officer who raised $727,000. “He’s just as shocked as everyone was on election night,” a Smith campaign consultant told The Post. “He understands that this was not expected, but he also understands that people have spoken.” Smith won 50.4% of the vote...