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Federal funds can't be used to give test strips to drug users...

Scott Maucione

Last year, Baltimore had three mass overdose incidents in the span of three months in its Penn North neighborhood. In one incident, more than two dozen people were hospitalized after many were found

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Ariana Grande and the Disappointment of Diagnosis

Lauren Michele Jackson

Tell me, whos to blame?Is it the people or myself? ... This is not a cry for help ... But I am not a victim, bitchIm practically drowning in my blessings If those proclamations are autobiogr

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Why loneliness and not social isolation may be making you sick

Zoe Reed, The Conversation US

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. You can spend every day surrounded by other people and still feel lonely.

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Giving Time Back to the Rifle Company

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By First Lieutenant Max Steinbach and First Lieutenant Collin Bergstrom, United States Marine Corps First Lieutenant Max Steinbach is a Marine infantry officer serving as the company executive offic

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Senate Confirms Todd Blanche After Handful Of GOP Holdouts Th...

Nicole Silverio

The Senate confirmed acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to be the next attorney general after holdouts threatened his nomination process. The upper chamber confirmed Blanche 50-49, with every Dem

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The Wisconsin Governors Race Has Democrats Holding Their Breath

Jim Newell

Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Joshua Lott/Getty Images. Sign up for the Surge, the newsletter that covers the most important political nonsense of the week, delivered to your inbox every Sat

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Ukraine: Russia pounds Kyiv as Zelenskyy visits Serbia

Dmytro Hubenko

At least four people, including a child, were killed in overnight Russian air attacks on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, and the surrounding region, officials said on Saturday. "Last night, Russia killed t

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Vanguard Chief Economist: AI and jobs, still in an ATM phase

Adam Schickling

Every wave of technological change seems to arrive with a familiar prediction: This time, jobs are going away for good. The effect of automated teller machines (ATMs) on the bank teller profession re

Fortune

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Do Epics Need Heroes?

Orlando Reade

The Weekend Read / August 8, 2026 In recent years, the online right has contested adaptations of epic in order to make an argument about masculinity. The Odyssey is their latest target. Ad Policy

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Club Soko is cartoonishly dark and splattered with beer - and...

Christian Donlan

Sokoban games are those puzzlers that are all about pushing blocks around. They're spatial challenges at their most fiendish. I gather that the original Sokoban took place in a warehouse, and you wer

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US Senate confirms Trump's ex lawyer as attorney general

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WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Todd Blanche was confirmed as US attorney general on Saturday (Aug 8) after Senate Republicans shrugged off Democratic concerns over the po

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Senators head for the exits without meeting Trump's demands f...

LISA MASCARO

WASHINGTON (AP) Senators headed for the exits in the predawn hours Saturday, ending for now a crushing standoff over President Donald Trump's demands that they stay in session to pass a strict proof-

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Todd Blanche confirmed as US attorney general after divisive ...

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US Senate Republicans have narrowly confirmed Todd Blanche to be President Donald Trump's attorney general, capping one of the most contentious cabinet fights of Trump's second term after bipartisan

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Senate votes to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general

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The Senate voted to confirm Todd Blanche as U.S. attorney general, elevating the Justice Department's No. 2 leader and President Trump's former personal lawyer to head the entire 100,000-plus person

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Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Epictetus: It is im...

Mal James

There is a difference between knowing something and just feeling like you already know it. Epictetus built a whole piece of advice around that gap. As one modern translation of his Discourses (2.17.1

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Outlook Classic adds on-demand AI explanations with Explain This

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Highlight text instead of opening a full Copilot session Users can select a term or passage in an email and invoke Explain This for a contextual explanation based on the surrounding message. That co

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Windows 11 changes Modern Standby to hibernate sooner on low ...

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Battery level now controls hibernation Windows 11 keeps a system in Modern Standby longer when the battery is above 80 percent, preserving phone-like instant resumes. Once the charge drops below 10

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Avocados Switch Sex on a Daily Basis, And Researchers Finally...

Ivan Farkas

At some point in evolutionary history, possibly around 400 million years ago, things started having sex. This adaptational (and sensual) advance introduced multiple benefits by allowing increased ge

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Hamilton anti-racism groups give tips on how to avoid unwitti...

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An organization calling for the deportation of immigrants says it's hosting a conference in the Hamilton area on Aug. 29, prompting local anti-racism groups to take action. In an open letter , seve

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Cloudflare's Precursor Detects Bots and AI Agents Through Con...

Renato Losio

Cloudflare recently introduced Precursor, a client-side behavioral analysis engine that continuously evaluates session interactions, such as mouse movements and keyboard timing, to improve detection

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Iraq expands weapons registration under state-control drive

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BAGHDAD Iraq is expanding a nationwide network of offices for registering and licensing firearms as part of a government drive to bring weapons under state control, a senior security official has sa

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'Terror-free Trkiye bill clears parliamentary commission

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ANKARA A framework bill underpinning the terror-freeTrkiye process has cleared parliaments Justice Commission after an 18-hour session and will now advance to the General Assembly. The Bill on Str

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Human Exceptionalism Aims To Be Waylaid Due To Artificial Gen...

Lance Eliot, Contributor, Lance Eliot, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/

Will human exceptionalism change once we attain artificial general intelligence (AGI) and artificial superintelligence (ASI)? getty In todays column, I examine the belief that human exceptionalism

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