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November to Remember: Sheila Jackson Lee leads roundup of intriguing mayoral races October 27, 2023 07:00 AM The 2023 elections may not have the fireworks of 2024, but there is still plenty up for grabs. In this “off-year,” most of which takes place on Nov. 7, Virginia will be keenly watched, particularly by followers of Gov.

For an object that barely ever leaves our palms, the smartphone can sometimes feel like an arcane piece of wizardry. And nowhere is this more pronounced than when it comes to the fickle battery, which will drop 20 percent charge quicker than you can toggle Bluetooth off, and give up the ghost entirely after a

You’re now able to check in with a friend or family member when you arrive at a destination. If you dillydally for some reason on the way to this destination, the system will try to check in with you, and if you don’t respond, it will share location data, battery level, and cell service status

if you’ve updated your iPhone to iOS 17, you now have access to Contact Posters—a feature that allows you to personalize how you appear on other people’s devices when contacting them. It works within the Contacts app, Phone app, FaceTime, Messages, and AirDrop, as well as third-party calling apps. You can customize the poster to

Democrats’ hollowed-out center October 27, 2023 06:06 AM For the whole three-week duration of the speakerless House, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) sought to seduce his Republican colleagues with the siren song of bipartisanship. “This is about what is good for the American people, not as Democrats or Republicans but as Americans,” Jeffries told PBS

The day after Elon Musk closed his deal to buy Twitter, the company’s Seattle office held a Halloween party for employees and their children. Rebecca Scott Thein dressed in bright green to play an alien to her daughter’s Buzz Lightyear. Thein, whose job at Twitter (now X) was to help the platform plan for and

GOP presidential hopefuls call for mental hospitals following Maine shooting October 27, 2023 05:51 AM Mental health or guns? That issue has rushed to the fore yet again in the wake of a mass shooting, this time in Maine, where at least 18 people are dead from the gun of a suspect with a history

Michael Nigro/Sipa USA/Newscom Should we stay or should we go? This is the question on the lips of many parents of teenagers who are on the cusp of college. Should we stay in the broken institutions of elite higher education, paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for our children to be insulted, threatened, segregated, or

Christmas shopping is beginning ever earlier, even before Halloween. Here’s why October 27, 2023 05:10 AM Large retail stores across North America began holiday sales this year much earlier than in the past. Many consumers are noticing this trend. Those who spoke to the Washington Examiner about it had strong, mostly negative opinions of the

Far-left House Democrats chafe at Biden Israel support after Hamas terror attacks October 27, 2023 04:45 AM A long-simmering feud among Democrats about how deeply, if at all, to support Israel is widening into a wrenching rift amid the nation’s defensive war against Hamas terrorists in Gaza and foes elsewhere. Even before Hamas’s Oct. 7