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July 10, 2026
Haves, have-nots and know-nots: Inside AI's new class divide
A staggering class divide now separates how Americans experience artificial intelligence:For frontier power users, AI feels like a revolution: a force capable of conjuring companies, building softw...
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July 3, 2026
Democrats plot subpoena storm over Trump's $2 billion gold rush
Democrats are preparing a hostile audit of President Trump and his inner circle, intent on exposing — and ultimately ending — the most lucrative presidency in American history.Why it matters: Since...
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June 23, 2026
Ten years after Brexit, the U.K. marks a lost decade
On June 23, 2016, the Brexit referendum unleashed a populist tide that rewrote the rules of Western politics.Ten years later, a diminished and fractured United Kingdom is preparing for its seventh ...
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June 19, 2026
Trump's "Great Man" theory: "No limits" to his power
President Trump declared on "The Axios Show" on Thursday that he's discovered "no limits" to his power since going to war with Iran.A forthcoming book reveals he's been entertaining an even grander...
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June 17, 2026
MAGA hawk mutiny deepens Trump's isolation on Iran
President Trump's Iran deal has opened an explosive second front in MAGA's civil war, waged by hawkish allies who view U.S. concessions as an existential betrayal of Israel.Why it matters: Across t...
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June 12, 2026
"Tell me a bigger sports story": How the UFC conquered Trump's Washington
Dana White likes to say he sells "holy sh*t moments for a living." Sunday night, the UFC CEO will attempt his magnum opus on the biggest stage in combat sports history.Why it matters: The UFC and P...
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June 11, 2026
Race-obsessed, untouchable Musk hits escape velocity from CEO rulebook
Elon Musk is on the verge of financial immortality: The world's richest man — and potentially its first trillionaire — has built a sovereign corporate kingdom that is too systemic to fail.And yet, ...
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June 9, 2026
California's "red mirage" feeds MAGA fraud frenzy
LOS ANGELES — California's plodding, weeks-long tally of mail-in ballots has become Exhibit A in President Trump's campaign to delegitimize the November midterms.Why it matters: Glacial vote-counti...
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June 6, 2026
Revenge of the AI bubble
The AI bubble debate has lurched through at least three frenzied phases in the span of three years:Suspicion: Historic sums of capital poured into AI before anyone proved it could reliably automate...
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June 5, 2026
"Someone called me the MAGA whisperer": Hunter Biden charms his trolls
Hunter Biden is staging one of the most unlikely reinventions in politics, attempting to charm and disarm the internet trolls who feasted on the darkest moments of his life.Why it matters: Former P...
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May 30, 2026
GOP's anti-"woke" playbook faces ultimate test in Texas
The Texas Senate race has become a national laboratory for anti-"woke" politics, testing whether voters still recoil from the language of 2020 amid the economic pain of 2026.Why it matters: Republi...
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May 29, 2026
"The pitchforks are here": Billionaires work to contain AI's populist revolt
America's billionaires are developing their own prescriptions for AI-fueled inequality, anxious to defuse a populist revolt aimed at their ballooning fortunes.Why it matters: The AI boom has dramat...
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May 21, 2026
Two hours that changed AI
Over the course of two hours Wednesday afternoon, the AI industry produced an extraordinary stream of headlines mapping out the vast architecture of its ambitions.Why it matters: One historic news ...
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May 19, 2026
"I'm allowed to": Trump's presidential profit machine bursts into the open
Democrats erupted Monday over President Trump's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund for MAGA allies who claim political persecution, vowing to investigate what they called textbook corruption.Wh...
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May 15, 2026
Trump aims to defy gravity with Beijing friendship summit
President Trump's summit with Xi Jinping was staged as a reunion between old friends, concluding Friday with a private tour of Zhongnanhai, the Chinese Communist Party's leadership compound.Strolli...
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May 13, 2026
Trump shrugs off rising inflation as war deepens economic spiral
President Trump flew to Beijing on Tuesday under some of the darkest economic clouds of his political career, leaving behind a country reeling from the cost of everyday life.Why it matters: The bot...
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May 11, 2026
Iran, China and AI collide in Trump's legacy-defining week
Three generational forces will converge this week — first in Washington, then in Beijing — in what could prove a hugely consequential stretch of Donald Trump's presidency.Why it matters: The coming...
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May 8, 2026
California dysfunction puts backlash on the ballot
LOS ANGELES — The two most consequential races in California have devolved into twin spectacles, with years of visible dysfunction hollowing out Democrats' case for competent leadership.Why it matt...
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May 5, 2026
New frontier of AI forces Trump's heavy hand
President Trump set out on his first day in office to free artificial intelligence from government constraints.15 months later, his own White House is preparing to become a gatekeeper for the most ...
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April 29, 2026
Red-meat retribution: Trump escalates campaign against MAGA foes
The Trump administration moved Tuesday against three enemies of the MAGA coalition: a former Anthony Fauci adviser, Somali-run daycare centers in Minneapolis, and Jimmy Kimmel.A fourth, former FBI ...
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April 27, 2026
Trump's 24-hour truce with the media
One uncomfortable question was all it took for President Trump to resume hostilities with the Washington press, less than 24 hours after their shared brush with death.Why it matters: In just a few ...
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April 25, 2026
Term-limited Trump mortgages GOP's future
President Trump is governing like a man who will never face voters again, mortgaging his party's future on promises he won't be around to keep.Why it matters: Trump's approval has plunged to a seco...
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April 23, 2026
Anthropic's growing pains mount ahead of OpenAI showdown
Anthropic is hitting turbulence at a critical moment, with a cascade of challenges converging ahead of a potential IPO that could value the company near $800 billion.Why it matters: The AI darling,...
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April 21, 2026
Silicon Valley is building its own news-industrial complex
Marc Andreessen on MTS. Screenshot via XSilicon Valley's most powerful venture firm helped launch a 24/7 livestream on X Monday, joining a wave of tech money piling into the news cycle as the inte...
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