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‘I’m going to be fighting harder,’ Biden tells donors after disastrous debate
MPR News· 6 days agoPresident Joe Biden had planned to spend the days after his first 2024 debate against former President Donald Trump taking a victory lap with Democratic supporters and donors. President Biden ...
Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark will play on the same team for the WNBA All-Star game
MPR News· 4 days agoAngel Reese and Caitlin Clark will play on the same team in this year’s WNBA All-Star game, as they take on members of the U.S. women’s basketball Olympic team. The game will be broadcast July 20 on ABC at 8:30 p.m. ET, the league announced Tuesday.
After controversial court rulings, a Voting Rights Act lawsuit takes an unusual turn
MPR News· 3 days agoIn a closely watched legal fight over how the federal Voting Rights Act can be enforced, civil rights groups have made an unusual move. Last Friday, attorneys led by the American Civil Liberties ...
Luxury department store Saks buys Neiman Marcus, and Amazon gets a stake
MPR News· 3 days agoA luxury retailer is making its own high-end purchase: Saks Fifth Avenue's parent company is buying Neiman Marcus for $2.65 billion, in a merger that would create a dominant upscale department ...
In just a few years, half of all states passed bans on trans health care for kids
MPR News· 4 days agoTransgender people under 18 face laws that bar them from accessing gender-affirming health care in 25 states — just a few years ago, not a single state had such a law. The Supreme Court has ...
Why climate change makes a hurricane like Beryl more dangerous
MPR News· 3 days agoHurricane Beryl is tearing across the Caribbean this week, unleashing life-threatening flooding and dangerous wind as it heads toward Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Beryl has already racked up ...
Greece's new 6-day workweek law takes effect, bucking a trend
MPR News· 2 days agoGreece enacted a new employment law this week that lays out a six-day workweek — at a time when dozens of other countries are increasingly seeing positive results from experiments with four-day ...
The explosive history of fireworks, from ancient China to Revolutionary America
MPR News· 3 days agoOn any July Fourth or New Year’s Eve, it’s common to experience the loud pop of a firework or see it colorfully explode into the sky and hang there briefly. Pyrotechnic amusements from sparklers ...
2 of Netflix's newest releases both have 100% critic scores
BGR· 4 days agoIt doesn’t always happen, but every now and then, Netflix releases a new title that earns...
Charlotte the 'Pregnant Virgin' Stingray Dies After Diagnosis of Reproductive Disease
Smithsonian Magazine· 5 days agoCharlotte the stingray, whose mysterious pregnancy grabbed headlines earlier this year and earned...