| 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 20:36:02 +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 20:35:24 +0000
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| Saudi Oil Exports Face Heightened Threats After Attacks on Pipeline
- Ship operators already faced severe risks in navigating the region, and now the danger is higher as Houthi militias assert control in the Red Sea.
Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:19:10 +0000
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| 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 19:28:34 +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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| 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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| Was Francis Fukuyama Right All Along?
- The political scientist Francis Fukuyama looks back on his 1992 book, “The End of History and the Last Man,” and what it has predicted about the state of liberalism today.
Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:15:57 +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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