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Reflecting Pool Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Damage
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9/11/2026 10:39 AM
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| The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show. |
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Court Strikes Down Trump Order to Keep an Aging Coal-Burning Plant Running
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9/11/2026 11:35 AM
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| The 64-year-old Michigan power plant was set to retire. Then the Trump administration intervened in a way that overstepped its authority, a court ruled. |
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Trump’s Grand Midterm Convention Finale: ‘I’m a Little Bit Tired of Politics’
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9/11/2026 10:01 AM
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| The president made clear as his convention wrapped up that he wants to carry his party through a tough midterms. He just won’t go too far out of his way to do it. |
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How Trump Is Using the Postal Service to Intervene in Elections
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9/11/2026 8:08 AM
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| Our politics reporter Reid Epstein explains how the Trump administration is using the Postal Service to intervene in mail-in voting in state elections. |
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Trump’s ‘Midterm Convention’ Tried to Reach Die-Hard Republican Voters, but Lacked Oomph
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9/11/2026 7:25 AM
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| The long, odd two-night TV production hoped to reach a select audience of die-hard voters (if football didn’t intercept them). |
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Influencers Invited to the Republican Midterm Convention Largely Avoided Talking About The Economy
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9/11/2026 11:38 AM
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| Online media stars eager to promote President Trump and Republicans worked to find a message that would resonate with an audience that is struggling with an affordability crisis. |
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Houthis Seize a Key Red Sea Island, Threatening Yet Another Global Oil Route
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9/11/2026 9:27 AM
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| The Iran-backed militia’s ground offensive has reached the Bab al-Mandab, a Red Sea strait that is a choke point for global trade. |
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Israel Destroys Underground Hezbollah Base in Southern Lebanon
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9/11/2026 11:45 AM
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| The complex sat below Ali al-Taher ridge, a strategic hilltop that overlooks the region and that has seen intense fighting. |
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Trading Keggers for ‘Wellness Darties’
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9/11/2026 2:04 AM
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| A new crop of college students is finding balance at daytime parties with yoga, saunas and cold plunges. |
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Elevated Inflation Keeps Pressure on Fed to Raise Rates
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9/11/2026 8:47 AM
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| The odds of a quarter-point rate increase at the Federal Reserve’s meeting next week surged to 90 percent after August’s Consumer Price Index report. |
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AARP Projects 2027 Social Security COLA at 3.6%
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9/11/2026 11:28 AM
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| If the AARP’s projection holds, the cost-of-living adjustment would be the largest since 2023. |
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How Did a Heart Drug With So Much Promise Fall So Flat?
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9/11/2026 9:31 AM
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| Cardiologists are struggling to figure out why a drug that should have prevented heart attacks didn’t work at all. |
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The Incredible Art of Being Jeff Koons
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9/11/2026 10:34 AM
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| For five decades, the artist has made sculptures that are larger-than-life — and also singularly reflective of his own. |
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Holdout Juror in Lindsay Clancy’s Mistrial Highlights a Divide in America
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9/11/2026 10:48 AM
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| The nation’s reaction to the 11-1 deadlock that resulted in a mistrial for Lindsay Clancy was, like the jury itself, fiercely and unbridgeably divided. |
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How Minnesota Became the Front Line in the Fight Over Prediction Markets
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9/11/2026 7:35 AM
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| The state was the first to pass a law banning Kalshi and Polymarket. A lawsuit filed by a federal agency may set a precedent on who gets to regulate them. |
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What Are Kalshi and Polymarket?
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9/11/2026 11:07 AM
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| Prediction markets have taken off in popularity, drawing billions of dollars in trades. Some states have tried to ban them. |
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Are Our Expectations Too High for Democracy? Adam Przeworski Thinks So.
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9/11/2026 11:36 AM
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| What is democracy, and is it in crisis? |
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This Is Really Bad
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9/11/2026 9:53 AM
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Open Story
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| We can no longer pretend that A.I. is safe. |
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Twenty-Five Years
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9/11/2026 5:35 AM
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| We look back at Sept. 11, 2001. |
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Boy, 15, Drifted for Days on an Overturned Boat Before Rescue
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9/11/2026 2:04 AM
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| The teenager survived in the Bering Sea off Alaska without food or water before a fishing vessel pulled him to safety, the Coast Guard said. |