Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics head. In Argentina, the government manipulated the inflation rate. Economists went rogue to calculate the real rate, and people lost trust in the numbers. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: When President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, it set off worries that economic data might not be as trustworthy in the …
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PublishedAugust 13, 2025 4:22 PM EDT•UpdatedAugust 13, 2025 4:22 PM EDT Facebook Twitter Email Copy Link Well, if the SEC’s self-obsession and aggrandizement isn’t enough reason to root against them in the rapidly approaching 2025 college football season, Paul Finebaum’s latest hyperbole should be. Finebaum, who like most ESPN personalities, is a devotee of the relentless campaign to promote SEC …
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The Mafia series of games has always benefitted from a strong sense of time and place. As a Chinese immigrant, I’d often find ways to connect to these games, even if I didn’t directly associate with the focus on Italian crime families. From the Chinatown area in the first Mafia to the Triads in Mafia II, I always felt a …
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The Swiss government is telling its domestic companies that they have not, in fact, found a clever way to skirt President Donald Trump’s tariffs by routing goods through the tiny neighborhood country of Liechtenstein. Switzerland and Liechtenstein share a 102-year-old customs treaty allowing the 25km-long principality to share the Swiss economic area. But that agreement, which makes it nearly impossible …
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Mafia continues to feel a tad dated in its design trappings, but there’s a fascinating mix of beauty, efficiency and nuanced performances here that are well worth your time. I hate to start a review with a cliché, but reader, I’m doing it. Mafia: The Old Country is that occasional sort of experience that is ‘more than the sum of …
Read More »Although I live in the US, I’m a born traveler at heart. I’ve been to over 90 countries and have no plans to stop exploring. However, my approach to travel is usually one-and-done. Why see the Colosseum again when I haven’t seen the Great Pyramids or Antarctica? Yet, there’s one country that keeps pulling me back: Iceland. I’ve already visited …
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Cases of chikungunya virus continue to rise in China, as the country battles its largest-ever outbreak of the illness. Another 1,387 cases of Chikungunya virus were confirmed last week, Chinese authorities said, with almost all in the southern manufacturing city of Foshan. It takes the tally to more than 10,000 cases overall, with infections also reported in Taiwan and Hong Kong, …
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Even when your dreams are coming true as fast as you can dream them, sometimes you’ve just got to pump the brakes. For Ella Langley, the Hope Hull native who has enjoyed a rocket ride to country music stardom over the last year, this appears to be one of those times. She posted a message Monday morning on Instagram saying …
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Last week, 2K Games released Mafia: The Old Country. Powered by Unreal Engine 5, it’s time now to benchmark it and examine its performance on PC. For our benchmarks, I used an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, 32GB of DDR5 at 6000Mhz, AMD’s Radeon RX 6900XT, RX 7900XTX, RX 9070XT, as well as NVIDIA’s RTX 2080Ti, RTX 3080, RTX 4090, and …
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Country star Zach Bryan vowed over the weekend he’ll fly like an Eagle over Kansas City and never play that town again. The Grammy winner and devoted Philadelphia football fan has been sniping with K.C. Chiefs fans for months and that beef reached a new ball-spiking level after one fan asked why he’s “singled out one fanbase” which “sells out …
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