Deep in the badlands of defeat, Democrats have soul-searched about what went wrong last November, tinkered with a thousand-plus thinkpieces and desperately cast for a strategy to reboot their stalled-out party. Amid the noise, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has recently championed an unlikely game plan: Forget the high road, fight fire with fire and embrace the very tactics that virtue-minded …
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Rep. Cherrish Pryor, a Democrat from Indiana, warned Wednesday that the Texas redistricting fight would have impacts far beyond the Lone Star state, saying “while Texas is on the frontlines of this fight, Indiana may be next in line.” President Donald Trump has been pressuring Republican-run states, including Indiana, to redraw Congressional boundaries and dispatched Vice President JD Vance to …
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (L) welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) in front of Chancellery on August 13, 2025 in Berlin, Germany. Filip Singer/Getty Images Europe hide caption toggle caption Filip Singer/Getty Images Europe BERLIN — European leaders met virtually with President Trump today, urging him to press Russian President Vladimir Putin for a ceasefire and security guarantees for Ukraine …
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A groundbreaking study led by Edward Forman at the University of Southampton and James Baldini at Durham University has used the unique method of analyzing stalagmites in Bermuda’s caves to track changes in the Gulf Stream over centuries. Published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, this research reveals crucial information about the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and how it …
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A nutrition expert has warned about the dangers of taking too many supplements—and how a fistful of ‘healthy’ tablets can do more harm than good. A previous survey of over 2,000 Britons by Which? found three quarters take supplements, and about one in five respondents take four or more each day. But recently, writing for the product testing website, Dr Rachel Woods, …
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If summer feels like it’s flying by – you may be right. Earth has seen a stretch of historically shorter days this month as the planet’s rotation mysteriously accelerates. The shortest, July 9 and 10, each registered 1.3 milliseconds less than the standard 24-hour day, which measures exactly 86,400 seconds long. The head-scratching phenomenon repeated on July 22 – and …
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The risk that alcohol poses to women’s health has mounted over the last two decades, as they have begun to drink more frequently and in larger quantities. Alcohol-related deaths among women more than doubled from 1999 to 2020. And deaths from alcohol-related hepatitis, a disease resulting in severe liver inflammation, nearly tripled among women over the same time period. A …
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