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The Data Center Backlash Bursts Into the Midterms
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8/23/2026 2:01 AM
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| With opposition to the centers mounting, many Democrats and a growing number of Republicans are campaigning against them. |
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Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly
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8/23/2026 2:02 AM
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| President Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together. |
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The Midterms Feel Like 2006 All Over Again
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8/23/2026 2:01 AM
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| With an unpopular war and high prices agitating voters, members of both parties see parallels to an election cycle when Democrats romped. But a lot has changed. |
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What Canadian Goods Will Take Trump’s 50% Tariffs? Some Pretty Strange Items.
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8/23/2026 2:44 AM
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| Buoys, dog muzzles, capes, national flags and “base metal statuettes” from Canada are now more expensive for U.S. shoppers. |
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Trump’s Top Trade Representative Details Offer That Canada Rejected
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8/22/2026 4:02 PM
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| In an interview, Jamieson Greer, President’s Trump’s trade representative, laid out details of what the United States offered to Canada before talks crumbled. |
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U.S.-Canada Trade War: What to Know About Tariffs and the Negotiations
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8/23/2026 2:47 AM
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| Canada suspended trade negotiations, triggering President Trump’s 50 percent tariffs on a range of Canadian goods. Mark Carney said he would retaliate “dollar for dollar.” |
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The U.S. Start-Up Making Low-Cost Interceptors for the Iran War
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8/23/2026 2:00 AM
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| For Florida-based Powerus, becoming a global supplier of counterdrone technology has meant involving the Trumps, a golf course and a new way of doing business. |
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How Big Tech Captured American Schools
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8/23/2026 2:01 AM
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| Companies like Google and Microsoft have used their money, their might and their massive reach to influence nearly every step of the education supply chain. |
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This Canal System Transformed Arizona. It’s Now in Jeopardy.
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8/23/2026 2:00 AM
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| Decades ago, the state won funding for a massive Colorado River project by agreeing to be first in line for cuts at a time of deep drought. The Trump administration says that time has come. |
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Wildfires Are Turning Forests in the American West Into Shrubland
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8/23/2026 2:00 AM
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| Towering woodlands in the West are being permanently replaced by tracts of spiky shrubs. Conditions “just aren’t normal anymore,” one researcher said. |
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Someone Was Impersonating Collien Fernandes Online. She Says It Was Her Husband.
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8/23/2026 2:00 AM
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Open Story
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| The German actress Collien Fernandes set out to discover who was pretending to be her online and sending men sexually explicit material. Her answer ignited a feminist movement. |
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The Barbie Backlash
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8/22/2026 11:13 PM
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Open Story
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| ‘The Odyssey’ and ‘Barbie’ show a zeitgeist shift that goes beyond Hollywood: The hero’s narrative is corroding our political and public life. |
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An Ancient Sumerian Solution to Our $40 Trillion Deficit
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8/22/2026 9:43 AM
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| In the ancient world, debt forgiveness was a regular tool to control the economy. Why have we forgotten it? |
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Echoing Trump, Latin America’s Leaders Boost Allies Across Borders
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8/23/2026 2:01 AM
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| With cheers, endorsements and insults for rivals and “wokismo,” a new crop of right-wing leaders are openly stepping into one another’s elections. |