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Explaining The Failure To Properly Assess Russia by Larry Johnson Nov. 25, 2023 7:00 am Kudos to Andrei Martyanov for highlighting an article I missed — Bad history makes for bad policy on Ukraine — by Robert English. Andrei correctly takes English to task for butchering the statistics regarding the Battle of Kursk. I want to take a deeper

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This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a 20-acre parcel outside the tiny Southern California town of New Cuyama, a 1.5-megawatt solar farm uses the sun’s rays to slowly charge nearly 600 batteries in nearby cabinets. At night, when energy demand rises, that electricity is sent to

Biden insiders brush off threat of a Joe Manchin presidential run November 25, 2023 07:00 AM Top Democrats and allies of President Joe Biden are not voicing alarm about a potential presidential run from Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), even as speculation about a possible challenge dominates the media landscape. A number of Democratic lawmakers have

Congress races to pass aid for Israel and Ukraine before Christmas November 25, 2023 07:00 AM Congressional leaders are aiming to pass urgently needed aid for Ukraine and Israel by the end of the year, legislation that would be paired with several border policy changes required to gain GOP support. The House and Senate moved

Nicolas Cage knows he’s a meme. He’s not happy about it. After making the mistake of googling himself a few years back, the charismatic actor discovered that his big on-screen performances had been translated into single-frame quips and supercuts, taken—like all memes, really—out of context, played for lolz, and in a manner that, frankly, makes

Black Friday used to be a one-day sales event the Friday after Thanksgiving. That was wild enough, with people sometimes literally fighting over the last TV in Walmart, hours after giving thanks for what they had. Then sales crept into Thanksgiving day itself, and Cyber Monday followed. For the last few years, “Black Friday” sales

Class-action settlement: Deadline to file for $3.6 million Spartan Mosquito repellent settlement in six days November 25, 2023 06:00 AM The deadline to file a claim form in a $3.6 million class-action settlement for Spartan Mosquito repellent is in less than a week. A Mississippi-based company called AC2T, the manufacturer of Spartan Mosquito Eradicator, agreed

Class-action settlement: Deadline to file claim in $9.75 million Freedom Financial Network settlement today November 25, 2023 06:00 AM Those affected by telemarketing calls from Freedom Financial Network and other groups have through Saturday to file a claim in a $9.75 million class-action settlement with the companies. A group of people who received the telemarketing

President Joe Biden said Friday that his own diplomacy may have pushed the terrorist organization Hamas to launch its brutal Oct. 7 attack on Israel which resulted in the raping, kidnapping and murdering of Israeli civilians. Hamas released its first wave from what is expected to be a total of about 50 hostages Friday, including 13