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So this is new From CNN’s 5 Things newsletter this morning (not online at this hour): Extreme weather More than 120 million people in the Eastern US are at risk of severe thunderstorms today, while heat waves in the South continue their record streaks. The worst of the storms are expected to impact a zone stretching from northern Alabama to southern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, including Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charlotte, Washington, DC, Atlanta and Raleigh. The area is under enhanced risk, level 3 out of 5, for severe storms, forecasters said. Meanwhile, excessive heat warnings remain in effect “for the foreseeable future” across the southern part of the country, from southeast California into Florida, the National Weather Service said. And in Phoenix, Arizona, officials are trying a unique approach to reduce the temperature of pavement using a form of sunscreen, but for roads. Don’t forget to unplug your electronics. A guy who lived up near the ridge where Blue Ridge Parkway runs once related that that was standard practice when lightning was in the area.

'The "go home" vans were a scandal because people saw them in the street,' one expert told this newspaper. 'With these ads, if you are not the target demographic, then you will just never see them'

Stalking is often misidentified as a lower level offence. Byline Times speaks to victims who have yet to receive a proper police response

If there’s any risk future climate change may be worse than we’re anticipating, we must double-down on decarbonisation even more urgently, writes Charlie Gardner

A quarter of staff have been slashed in a year at National World, which owns a raft of city 'World' titles and renowned local papers.

OK, I’m on the record from the start saying Ukraine would lose the war militarily. The counteroffensive has failed. NATO equipped and trained an entire army for Ukraine and it didn’t even get to the main defensive lines.

The Americans told the Ukrainians to charge entrenched, mined positions without air superiority and in the face of an enemy with more artillery than them.

That went about as you’d expect.

The Ukrainians are not taking back the territory they have lost, let alone Crimea, which was always a ludicrous fantasy.

Warping reality or just warped? Donald Trump faces a series of civil and criminal trials in the coming years that will tax both his Roy Cohn-ish practice of denying, deflecting and distracting and his Norman Vincent Peale-inspired approach to bending reality to his will. Not that he won’t send out his bargain-basement attorneys to sell us a dead parrot (New York Times): Appearing on five television networks Sunday morning, a lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump argued that his actions in the effort to overturn the 2020 election fell short of crimes and were merely “aspirational.” The remarks from his lawyer, John F. Lauro, came as Mr. Trump was blanketing his social media platform, Truth Social, with posts suggesting that his legal team was going to seek the recusal of Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, the federal judge overseeing the case, and try to move his trial out of Washington. Trump’s efforts to pressure his vice president and state elections officials into overturning the 2020 election results were merely aspirational. And the “Norwegian Blue” is just resting.

One of my recurring fantasies is to reanimate Maggie Thatcher and Ronald Reagan on UK and Dutch trains, to tell them the year, and then ask them where they think they are—with only the ownership information and the performance and quality of the carriages to go on. The UK has privatised its rail system, the … Continue reading "Railroaded: Bring Back Thatcher and Reagan"

It is time to reverse the prevailing notion that religious commitment is intrinsically deserving of respect, and that it should be handled with kid gloves and protected by custom and in some cases law against criticism and ridicule. It is time to refuse to tip-toe around people who claim respect, consideration, special treatment, or any […]

The TARDIS is what truly defines Doctor Who - the most faithful companion, the MVP, the Doctor's true love, and the REAL face of the show.

In order of relative clout. I’ve been meaning to do some version of this for years …

Dear Townspeople of Stars Hollow,

You know me, Lindsay. While not the town’s prodigal daughter, I am also a young woman who was born and raised in this town (there are actually a lot of us, though we don’t get our own table at Luke’s or automatically become the town’s Ice Cream Queen just for existing), and I’d like to set the record straight about something that happened twenty years ago.

If Dean and I hadn’t broken up ten months after our wedding, this fall would’ve been our twentieth anniversary. Sure, it’s easy to point fingers at who’s to blame (Rory Gilmore, Rory Gilmore, Rory Gilmore), but few people have heard my side of things.

Causal effects are comparisons of what did happen with what would have happened if people had received different treatments. Randomized treatment assignment has reduced this problem to the minor technical problem of drawing an inference about a finite population of people on the basis of a probability sample from that population. Expressed differently, if we […]

The Lever team and paid subscribers discuss the troubling legacy of SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts.

Behind the hype of the Google engineer who claimed an AI was ‘sentient’ is a history nearly as old as computers themselves

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Amid the chaos of the First World War, a new pan-Arab empire was proclaimed. It faltered, but its historical lessons remain

- by Adam Mestyan

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Under-recognised as a protective force against suicide, religious faith has multiple features that help to save lives

- by David H Rosmarin

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Firms appear to have moved away from a just-in-time inventory model to one that prioritizes resilience, as reflected in high levels of inventory holdings of intermediate inputs.