| Energy Markets Rattled After Saudi Pipeline Attacks
- The price of U.S. diesel fuel hit a new high over mounting fears that fighting in the Middle East could further threaten oil supplies.
Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:17:37 +0000
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| Houthis Seize a Key Red Sea Island, Threatening Another Global Oil Route
- The Iran-backed militia’s ground offensive has reached Bab al-Mandab, a Red Sea strait that is a choke point for global trade.
Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:08:31 +0000
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| This Is Really Bad
- We can no longer pretend that A.I. is safe.
Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:03:38 +0000
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| Influencers Invited to the Republican Midterm Convention Largely Avoided Talking About The Economy
- 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.
Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:38:14 +0000
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| Are Our Expectations Too High for Democracy? Adam Przeworski Thinks So.
- What is democracy, and is it in crisis?
Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:36:00 +0000
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| Court Strikes Down Trump Order to Keep an Aging Coal-Burning Plant Running
- 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.
Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:35:31 +0000
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| AARP Projects 2027 Social Security COLA at 3.6%
- If the AARP’s projection holds, the cost-of-living adjustment would be the largest since 2023.
Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:28:17 +0000
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| What Are Kalshi and Polymarket?
- Prediction markets have taken off in popularity, drawing billions of dollars in trades. Some states have tried to ban them.
Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:07:35 +0000
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| Holdout Juror in Lindsay Clancy’s Mistrial Highlights a Divide in America
- 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.
Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:48:54 +0000
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| Reflecting Pool Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Damage
- 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.
Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:39:48 +0000
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| The Incredible Art of Being Jeff Koons
- For five decades, the artist has made sculptures that are larger-than-life — and also singularly reflective of his own.
Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:34:10 +0000
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| Trump’s Grand Midterm Convention Finale: ‘I’m a Little Bit Tired of Politics’
- 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.
Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:01:12 +0000
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| How Did a Heart Drug With So Much Promise Fall So Flat?
- Cardiologists are struggling to figure out why a drug that should have prevented heart attacks didn’t work at all.
Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:31:02 +0000
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| Elevated Inflation Keeps Pressure on Fed to Raise Rates
- 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.
Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:47:38 +0000
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| How Trump Is Using the Postal Service to Intervene in Elections
- Our politics reporter Reid Epstein explains how the Trump administration is using the Postal Service to intervene in mail-in voting in state elections.
Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:08:32 +0000
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| How Minnesota Became the Front Line in the Fight Over Prediction Markets
- 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.
Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:35:45 +0000
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| Trump’s ‘Midterm Convention’ Tried to Reach Die-Hard Republican Voters, but Lacked Oomph
- The long, odd two-night TV production hoped to reach a select audience of die-hard voters (if football didn’t intercept them).
Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:25:25 +0000
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| Boy, 15, Drifted for Days on an Overturned Boat Before Rescue
- 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.
Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:04:42 +0000
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| Trading Keggers for ‘Wellness Darties’
- A new crop of college students is finding balance at daytime parties with yoga, saunas and cold plunges.
Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:04:11 +0000
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