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A veteran political strategist heeds the advice of Gen Z—and the late John McCain.

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Back in the day, I had one computer. It was a laptop bought for me by my employer, and at work, I’d attach it to an external display and use it at my desk. At the end of the day, I’d close it up, put it in my backpack, and take it home.

For the last 10 years, I’ve worked at a desk at home, with a desktop Mac as my primary computer. But over the last year or so, I’ve been using my MacBook Air a lot more, whether I’m traveling or spending the winter in a heated room rather than my unheated garage. Читать дальше...

Both McLaren and Red Bull appear to concur that the energy drink-owned F1 team is unlikely to start the 2025 season as the outright favourite.

Experts are increasingly sounding the alarm on community "college deserts" that leave students without readily accessible higher education options. The deserts, locations where high schools are more than 30 miles away from all community colleges, disproportionately affect rural Americans and those of color, threatening to exacerbate existing education gaps. “These college deserts, a lot...

Signals from President-elect Trump's team that a shake-up of the White House Press Briefing Room could be coming are roiling journalists preparing to cover his second term.   People close to Trump have said in recent days he should dramatically change who gets access to the president, suggesting podcasters, internet personalities and media deemed more friendly...

Republican senators warn incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s (R-S.D.) ambitious proposal to tackle President-elect Trump’s agenda faces an array of disagreements within their party over strategy and policy. Republican senators are broadly amenable to moving quickly on a budget reconciliation bill that would provide funding to complete construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, to...

The Democratic battle for the top spot on the House Judiciary Committee is heating up as Congress returns this week to Washington, where Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) is challenging Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) to be the face of resistance to the second Trump presidency. The race has obvious practical implications, as the Judiciary panel has...

Andrew Meyer has joined YouTube as manager of federal affairs. He was most recently legislative director for Rep. Greg Pence (R-Ind.). Will Lemke is joining Monument Advocacy as vice president of public affairs in the firm’s Seattle office. He most recently managed corporate and industry communications at Zillow Group and was previously director of communications...

Kent Pastrana explodes for a huge 23-point, 16-rebound, 8-assist line to lift UST past gutsy Adamson and help forge a UAAP women's basketball finals rematch with undefeated NU

Foxes both past and present have been put forward for this year's Fans’ Footballer of the Year award - and you can help them win

Picasso, Van Gogh, Botticelli….Which of these looks would you like to see hanging in your closet?

The artist has been painting fast and furious—inspired by her anger and phrases like “be the bigger person.”

From cozy knits to party-ready pieces, Kendall Jenner shares her winter party shopping wish list exclusively with Vogue.

Tips to style your curls for the red carpet, holiday party, and beyond.

Family heirlooms are meant to be passed down through the generations. But why is the clothing of our loved ones so often gatekept?

It's all very well calling out Gregg Wallace's conduct as part of a pile-on, but where were some of those voices when they were actually needed?

The Beat writer William S. Burroughs began his second book, Queer, just months after killing his wife, Joan Vollmer, at a party above the Bounty Bar in Mexico City. Though he completed the novella in 1953, Queer was not released to the public until 1985, after Burroughs’s new agent, Andrew Wylie, had secured a $200,000 deal with Viking-Penguin for the rights to his back catalog, which kept him afloat until his death, at 83, in 1997.

Joe Biden reminded us he was still president on Sunday by pardoning his son, Hunter. This was, as TNR’s Matt Ford rightly pointed out, “a quintessentially corrupt act.” But I don’t agree with Ford’s more sweeping conclusion that Biden’s “has become a failed presidency.” On economic policy, the Biden administration was successful, even transformative, as Nicholas Lemann noted in The New Yorker a week before Election Day. And on Tuesday Biden reminded us that he’s still guiding economic policy wisely... Читать дальше...

Eleven Republican state attorneys general, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, are suing three of the world’s biggest asset managers. Blackrock, State Street, and Vanguard, Paxton’s office claims, are engaged in a “conspiracy” to “artificially constrict the market for coal through anticompetitive trade practices.” The Republicans’ case seems to hinge on the fact that these three financial firms were at one point members of Climate Action 100+ and Net-Zero Asset Managers, “investor-led” initiatives... Читать дальше...

She’s still only 6!

Trump transition officials are exploring the possibility of building immigrant detention facilities on a plot of land recently purchased by the state of Texas.

Judging by the standings alone, the stakes of Sunday’s Week 13 matchup between Tampa Bay and Carolina were remarkably low.

The shortlist the 2024 Fans' Footballer of the Year award has been revealed as players from the Premier League, WSL and beyond go head-to-head after an impressive year

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The Penguins almost blew a three-goal lead on Tuesday!

Tiger Woods and Bryson DeChambeau during a practice round ahead of the 2022 PGA Championship. | Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images

Tiger Woods touched on the current negotiations between the PGA Tour and the Saudi PIF. His remarks say it all.