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Why a Federal Gas Tax Holiday Is a Terrible Idea

As gas prices stay stubbornly high across the country, President Donald Trump mused this week about suspending the fuel tax US consumers pay. The idea is also picking up steam in Congress, with Democratic and Republican lawmakers pushing for a gas tax holiday. But experts tell WIRED that it’s unlikely that any rollback—even temporary—of the

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Review of Netflix’s Lord of the Flies: A savage, surreal survival tale

“Boys will be boys,” the truism has it. For better or worse, British showrunner Jack Thorne has emerged as our foremost expositor of that idea.  Thorne’s previous project was an example of “worse.” Adolescence (2025) was the platonic ideal of the wrong story for the moment. Set in present-day Doncaster, the series said nothing at

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Counting sheep is better than watching The Sheep Detectives

Once every 20 years, Hugh Jackman lends his considerable screen power to the summer’s friendliest murder mystery. In the summer of 2006, Jackson channeled the ruthlessness that surely hides behind every matinee idol as the Tarot Card Killer in Woody Allen’s London-based trifle Scoop, which, despite its grisly premise, was a charmer of a comedy. Now

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CNN founder Ted Turner, a pioneer of cable TV news, dies at 87.

There are men who build companies, and then there are men who build entire categories of human experience. Ted Turner, who died on May 6 at the age of 87, was decidedly the latter. The founder of CNN and the architect of modern cable television, Turner took a grief-stricken young man’s billboard inheritance and turned

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A Woman Was in the US Legally. She Was Deported Anyway

María de Jesús Estrada Juárez came to the US from Mexico in 1998 at 15 years old. Later, she was a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the policy meant to protect undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as minors from deportation. When Estrada Juárez applied for a family-based green card in

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A Woman Was in the US Legally. She Was Deported Anyways

María de Jesús Estrada Juárez came to the US from Mexico in 1998 at 15 years old. Later, she was a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the policy meant to protect undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as minors from deportation. When Estrada Juárez applied for a family-based green card in

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Xi says Trump’s ‘historic and landmark’ visit strengthened ‘trust in each other’

The summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping concluded on Friday, with both leaders speaking fondly of one another. Both agreed that the meeting strengthened ties between the two countries before Trump departed Beijing Capital International Airport for the United States. Xi lauded Trump’s visit to the country, saying the two agreed

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The US Is Using AI to Hunt Down Insider Trading on Polymarket

For most of the past year, it looked like prediction markets had kicked off a new golden age of fraud. On Polymarket, traders raked in fortunes from suspiciously timed bets on geopolitical events like the raid on Venezuela and the Iran War. It wasn’t clear whether the US government would bother pursuing some of the

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