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Unpasteurised milk and the American right

Once a “fringe health food for new-age hippies and fad-chasing liberal foodies”, raw milk has “won over the hearts and minds” of the US right-wing.  Selling unpasteurised milk – straight from the cow, without heating to kill bacteria – directly to consumers was largely illegal in the US before 2008. The bacteria can be fatal, […]

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R.B.G. Award Organizer Cancels Ceremony After Fallout Over Honorees

The organizer behind an honor named for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a lifelong champion of women’s rights and liberal causes, is canceling the award ceremony scheduled for April after facing blistering criticism from her family and friends over several of this year’s planned recipients. Justice Ginsburg helped establish the award in 2019, the year before […]

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Review: Ibsen’s ‘Enemy of the People,’ Starring Jeremy Strong

Dissent is necessary to democracy, sure. But how much does it cost? That’s the fundamental question posed by Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” — and, in highly dramatic fashion, by the preview I attended of its latest Broadway revival. At that performance, on Thursday, just as the play reached its climax in a […]

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Oprah Takes on Weight Stigma in the Ozempic Era in New Weight Loss Special

Oprah Winfrey, a longtime figure in the national conversation about dieting and weight bias, devoted an hourlong prime-time special on Monday to the rise of weight loss drugs. Her goal, she said, was to “start releasing the stigma and the shame and the judgment” around weight and weight loss — starting with her own, she […]

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Mark Levin Gets Schooled On Why GOP Billionaires Will Not Help Trump

At HuffPost, we believe that everyone needs high-quality journalism, but we understand that not everyone can afford to pay for expensive news subscriptions. That is why we are committed to providing deeply reported, carefully fact-checked news that is freely accessible to everyone. Whether you come to HuffPost for updates on the 2024 presidential race, hard-hitting […]

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Chinese Magnate Admits to Making Straw Donations to N.Y. Politicians

A Chinese business titan pleaded guilty on Monday to federal charges that he made more than $10,000 in straw donor contributions to political candidates — including, a person familiar with the case said, to a New York congressman and Mayor Eric Adams. Hui Qin, 56, of Old Westbury, N.Y., who was once listed on Forbes […]

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Stability AI brings a new dimension to video with Stable Video 3D

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Stability AI is growing its generative AI model portfolio today with the release of Stable Video 3D (SV3D). As the name implies, the new model is a gen AI video tool for rendering 3D video. […]

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“The Lock-In Effect of Rising Mortgage Rates”

by Calculated Risk on 3/18/2024 08:19:00 PM Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: “The Lock-In Effect of Rising Mortgage Rates” A brief excerpt: Here is new working paper from Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) staff Ross M. Batzer Jonah R. Coste William M. Doerner Michael J. Seiler quantifying the impact of the “lock-in […]

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£58bn plan to rewire Great Britain expected to spark tensions along route

A £58bn plan to rewire Great Britain’s electricity grid to connect up new windfarms off the coast of Scotland is expected to trigger tensions with communities along the route. National Grid’s electricity system operator (ESO) has mapped out power “motorways” across Great Britain to allow for the biggest investment since the 1960s. The new “blueprint” […]

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Trump Asks To Appeal Georgia Judge’s Decision To Keep DA On Criminal Case

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Donald Trump plans to revert to pre-Obamacare health care policies

Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is zeroing in on one familiar campaign promise: He wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act. In the months since Trump first reignited calls to “terminate” the ACA, he has repeated his public attacks at least seven times. Once again, we are facing a grave threat to American […]

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49ers agree to one-year deal with QB Dobbs, per agent

Yahoo Sports NFL free agency: the good, the bad & the ugly so far | Zero Blitz Jason Fitz and Frank Schwab join forces to discuss all the latest NFL mayhem, including trades, free agency moves, cap casualties and more. The duo start off with the quarterback carousel in Pennsylvania, as Kenny Pickett is a […]

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Trump says Jewish Democrats ‘hate’ their religion

Former president Donald Trump again claimed that the Democratic Party “hates Israel,” and that Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats “hate” their religion, echoing previous attacks he’s made about Jewish Democrats. “I think they hate Israel,” Trump said of Democrats. He then said that Democrats “see a lot of votes” among Americans who oppose the […]

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UPDATE 1-US to finalize revised EV mileage rating rule in win for automakers, sources say

(Adds details, background, comments in paragraphs 4-14) By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) – The U.S. Energy Department (DOE) on Tuesday will unveil final rules that will significantly soften its proposal that would have slashed electric vehicles’ (EV) mileage ratings to meet government fuel economy requirements in 2027, sources said. The decision first reported […]

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The Internet Is a Wasteland, So Give Kids Better Places to Go

In January, I had the odd experience of nodding along with Senator Lindsey Graham, who can usually be relied on to be wrong, as he berated supervillain Mark Zuckerberg, head of Facebook’s parent company, Meta, about the effect its products have on kids. “You have blood on your hands,” said Graham. That evening, I moderated […]

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Knicks Injury Tracker: OG Anunoby has ‘unclear’ return timeline after elbow injury flares up again

Here are the latest news updates and possible return dates for Knicks players… March 18, 7:30 p.m. Knicks forward OG Anunoby is reportedly expected to miss more than just Monday’s game against the Warriors after his right elbow injury flared back up, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. “They need it to calm down,” Wojnarowski said Monday […]

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New Zealand v England: first women’s T20 international – live

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