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Two boys believed to be the UK's youngest knife murderers have both been detained for a minimum term of eight years and six months.

Mel Gibson said the tale of the Great Siege was an "incredible story". Photo: Shutterstock

The Justice Department’s antitrust case against Visa, which was announced Tuesday, is best understood as an important (and, in my view, overdue) new stage in the history of money, which is basically a sad tale of tangible currency becoming ever-less-tangible and therefore ever-easier for a private third party (typically banks; in this case, Visa) to siphon away a portion without attracting notice from nice people like you and me. Other, less-nice people may notice, but when they do the third party can buy their silence. Читать дальше...

I’m not a fan of New York City’s Climate Week. As I wrote last year, the annual programming timed to coincide with the United Nations General Assembly has “devolved into a marketing opportunity for all the worst capitalists.” This year, the prominence of heavily polluting tech companies among the sponsors—in a year when Kamala Harris, the most climate-friendly major party presidential candidate on offer, is emerging as a wholly owned subsidiary of Silicon Valley—is especially worrying. Is there... Читать дальше...

One of the final vestiges of pandemic relief is set to end on Monday, with states scrambling to finalize their spending plans for Covid-era federal education block grants and reckoning with a future without additional funds. As school districts face compounding crises—including persistent learning loss among students, lower enrollment, inflationary pressures, and difficulty retaining teachers—the looming loss of these emergency funds could have far-reaching consequences.

“Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day’s refuse in the capital,” wrote Charles Baudelaire, invoking the ragpicker, a new type on the streets of his native nineteenth-century Paris. “Everything that the big city has thrown away, everything it has lost, everything it has scorned, everything it has crushed underfoot, he catalogs and collects.”

Americans should not be miserable about the economy. But they are. President Joe Biden should not be considered a poorer steward of the economy than former President Donald Trump. But he is. And if Americans really think Biden did a bad job on the economy, they should give similarly low grades to his co-pilot, Vice President Kamala Harris. But they’re not.

Therese Ryan (@thereseryan12) seemed simultaneously upset and happy after finding out the right way to use a cheese grater.

Energy firm Octopus Energy is offering a radical new tariff with zero energy bills for five years

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In a wide-ranging interview, the second gentleman revealed how the vice president pushed him to speak out about antisemitism.

Black women voters say the economy is their top concern in the presidential election. Kamala Harris has a plan to address that concern.

The New York City mayor is under federal indictment and has almost no chance of being reelected. But he doesn't sound like he'll be resigning soon.

Planetary path: five letters.

The former President’s appeal has always been his sui-generis persona and politics—take him as he is—but, this year, the campaign seems more devoted to fan service than anything else.

The New Yorker’s Sam Wolson, who co-directed a visual exploration of what happened that day in Haditha, joins the podcast to talk about the project.

What happened that day in Haditha?

Also: Rachel Syme on chef-designed weed gummies, the confessional songs of boygenius’s Julien Baker, the return of “Forbidden Broadway,” and more.

The question is not whether we should trust the polls. It’s whether the onslaught of analysis that invariably follows them actually holds any predictive or explanatory power.

Many cryptocurrency enthusiasts plan to vote for whichever candidate gives crypto the biggest boost.

Looking back, it's somewhat endearing that George Clooney didn't realize his wedding to international human rights attorney Amal Clooney (née Alamuddin) would make such a splash.  Five months...

(Telecompaper) US-based optical interconnect vendor Nubis Communications said it had collaborated with Ericsson to demonstrate a radio mast head powered by its 1.6 Tbps optical engine...

(Telecompaper) France's media watchdog Arcom has confirmed new rules for the most popular TV and radio channels and their apps to figure on the user interfaces of smart TVs and media players...

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