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Americans are currently bracing themselves for the 2024 presidential election this November, which will now almost certainly be a rematch of the race that was already run four years ago between President Joe Biden and then-President Donald Trump. Some elected officials, however, have begun to think even further ahead. Their thoughts bring little comfort.

Percival Everett is a compulsive problem solver who doesn’t care much whether he ultimately arrives at a solution. As he told Paris Review seven years ago, “I start with something that bugs me, some philosophical problem, and then I look for a way to explore it.” Many readers and not a few reviewers have found this tendency exasperating, especially those who find Everett’s fiction inscrutably, even perversely, unresolved. Process is what matters most to him, and even if the jokes he tells don’t always carry a punch line... Читать дальше...

Florida is in the midst of a historic crisis. Thanks to devastating climate-fueled hurricanes over the last several years, the average cost of home insurance in the state is now more than triple the national average—and three times what Floridians themselves paid in 2018. Naturally, Florida’s Republican-controlled government is taking action: to ban types of meat that aren’t for sale.

On a subtropical overcast late afternoon in January, no bumper-to-bumper vehicles and no horde of pedestrians lurch across the McAllen-Hidalgo International Bridge, usually one of the busier ports of entry in the Rio Grande Valley. Some days, thousands of people and vehicles make the northbound two-hour crossing to Texas from Mexico to work, to shop, to visit family and friends. But little is moving on this day, at this hour, on the eight-lane bridge except the southbound evening rush of pickup trucks... Читать дальше...

No one is saying we do not need aggregate. But we also need much better safety measures, adequate oversight, and setbacks large enough to protect people, water and the air.

The 2024 general election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump has a long way to go until Election Day, but the president isn't waisting any time.

Sakhile Bhekisisa Mhlungu cruised the streets of small KZN towns over two years, in broad daylight, searching for victims

12th Hong Kong Men's Quadrangular Hockey Tournament
Hong Kong (HKG)

All times GMT +8

8 Mar 2024 13:00     THA v MAC (One Pool)     4 - 0
8 Mar 2024 17:30     TPE v HKG (One Pool)       1 - 1
9 Mar 2024 11:30     THA v TPE (One Pool)       3 - 2
9 Mar 2024 18:15     MAC v HKG (One Pool)      0 - 6
10 Mar 2024 12:15     TPE v MAC (One Pool)     11 - 0
10 Mar 2024 16:45     HKG v THA (One Pool)     3 - 0

Pool Standings

The annual switch from standard time to daylight saving time yesterday renewed debate about the potential harms of switching the clock twice per year, such as increases in car crashes, hospital visits, and heart attacks in the week after the change. What do you think?

Lewis Hamilton is enjoying his final year as a Mercedes driver ahead of a fairytale switch to Ferrari in 2025.

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Holcombe made it back-to-back wins to end phase two of their Premier Division campaign.

1. Biden budget proposal would raise taxes on large corporations, lower deficit over 10 years  The Hill
2. Opinion | And the Award for Best Performance at the State of the Union Goes to …  The New York Times
3. Biden's 2025 budget marries progressive tax hikes with populist campaign planks  CNBC
4. Why Biden's Agenda Is Filled With Old Ideas  The Wall Street Journal
5. Opinion | Biden hoped to be a peacemaker. Now, he knows he must be a warrior.  The Washington Post

At least one restaurant chain plans to hold the line on what it charges customers even as others are raising prices in California because of the state’s minimum-wage boost for fast-food workers.

Paul Singer’s Elliott Investment is plowing money into a $1.6 billion continuation fund that lets Quantum Capital retain HG Energy as an investment.

Apple is preparing to open its eighth store in Shanghai this month amid slipping iPhone sales in the world’s largest smartphone market.

The head of American forces in South Korea says ‘readiness is perishable’ as joint military field exercises roughly double in scale.

Special counsel Robert Hur is set to testify on Capitol Hill this week, roughly one month after he published a controversial report that stopped short of bringing charges against President Biden for “willfully” retaining classified documents, but raised questions about his mental state and memory. The report sparked outrage on both sides of the aisle: Republicans...

Keeping waking in the middle of the night to pee? Here’s why – and what to do about it  The Guardian

EXCLUSIVE: Jacob Smith will be hoping to follow up his knockout of Walter Goncalves last December with a similarly devastating finish when he takes on Denis Puric in ONE Championship

EXCLUSIVE: Roxxy Clark has endured a 'horrific' life but is now giving her daughter an upbringing to remember thanks to her work at Babestation – but she is still slated for it

Yoel Roth suffered targeted harassment after quitting as top content cop at Elon Musk’s Twitter. Now he’s head of trust and safety at dating giant Match Group, owner of Tinder, Hinge, and more.

Rainforests in South America are burning this year faster than ever before, setting the course for a collapse of the Amazon in the coming decades.

A man wears an NRA hat in front of the US Supreme Court building. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images

It’s one of two cases asking whether the government is allowed to speak freely to private companies.

Something is rotten in the state of Egypt.