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Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign is touting her as a tough-on-crime prosecutor who "put murderers and abusers behind bars" as part of a $50 million ad blitz in several battleground states. But that PR effort will have to contend with Harris’s record as San Francisco district attorney, which includes lenient plea deals and probation for a string of career criminals—a serial domestic abuser who later murdered his girlfriend, a repeat felon who gunned down a newspaper editor in Harris’s hometown of Oakland, and others. Читать дальше...

Adele has been working out like an athlete to get in shape for her Munich residency.

Charli XCX appears to be teasing a Billie Eilish-featuring remix of her Brat deluxe edition track Guess.

Your smartwatch can do a lot more than you likely realize.

The Trump campaign begins the work of defining Kamala Harris. It is not a heavy lift.

The school year is about to kick off, and students are looking for better, quicker ways to get help with their coursework.

A Venice exhibition comments on colonial commerce.

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Eight men and four women remain in contention for gold in the singles competitions on the red clay of Roland-Garros.

The dog days of summer have arrived, but as we wind down the summer of 2024, movie theaters are already looking to the spookiest month of all: October. This August, studios are doubling down on horror with new movies from M. Night Shyamalan and a biopic about Ronald Reagan starring Dennis Quaid. But as scary as Jon Voight playing Viktor Ivanov sounds, it’s got nothing on space, where no one can hear you scream. The Xenomorph returns to screens with Alien: Romulus, and so does The Crow, with a brand-new... Читать дальше...

1. It’s time for a West Coast reset after Jazz Chisholm Jr. and the Yankees swept Bryce Harper and the Phillies  The Philadelphia Inquirer
2. 'It definitely felt good': DJ drives in career-high 6 as Yanks sweep Phils  MLB.com
3. Today on Pinstripe Alley - 8/1/24  Pinstripe Alley
4. Yankees’ DJ LeMahieu feels like he’s ‘onto something’ after six-RBI breakout versus Phillies  New York Post
5. Yankees 6-5 Phillies (Jul 31, 2024) Game Recap  ESPN

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Chemotherapy deserts are expanding across the United States as hospitals winnow services to save money, creating financial and logistical hurdles for rural patience seeking cancer treatment.

Rachel Hoobing worked white-collar jobs after going to college, but switched to a trade in her 40s.

Boreal forest blazes are being fuelled by warmer and drier conditions across Russia, Canada and the northern US

Current climate policies imply a high risk for tipping of critical Earth system elements, even if temperatures return to below 1.5°C of global warming after a period of overshoot. A new study indicates that these risks can be minimized if warming is swiftly reversed.

Much of the water in the U.S. West is transported across vast geographical areas by large infrastructure projects known as interbasin water transfers. Two of these projects in particular make up 85% of all energy-related greenhouse gas emissions associated with U.S. interbasin transfer—one in Arizona and the other in California—according to the new research published this week in the journal Nature Water.

A woman told Newsweek how an SSA compensation payment for unpaid benefits left her unable to access Medicaid and other insurance programs.

Six decades later, 150 million passengers crisscross the country in bullet trains each year.

1. ‘Every 0.1C’ of overshoot above 1.5C increases risk of crossing tipping points  Carbon Brief
2. Achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions critical to limit climate tipping risks  Nature.com
3. Study finds major Earth systems likely on track to collapse: 5 things to know  The Hill
4. Climate risks from exceeding 1.5° C reduced if warming swiftly reversed  Imperial College London
5. Climate tipping points are a major risk even if we hit Paris targets, study shows  Axios

People are tempted to think we need government regulation and intervention in product safety.

The historical facts tell us that socialism's greatest political victory—the creation of the Soviet Union—was neither inevitable nor a response to the demands of the majority.

For cash-strapped researchers, fees are exacerbating long-standing inequalities in global science

The presumptive Democratic nominee can appeal to the working class by slapping a higher tax rate on corporations that lavish money on their chief executives but don’t adequately pay their workers.