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What Trump is doing to cut costs amid the Iran war

President Donald Trump is coming under increasing pressure to cut household costs as he seeks to broker a more permanent peace deal with Iran. Six months before November’s midterm elections, nearly two-thirds of polling respondents disapprove of the job Trump is doing regarding the economy, as the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz has

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The Colbert Collapse: How television’s sharpest satirist lost his edge

On May 21, Stephen Colbert will host his final episode of The Late Show on CBS, bringing down the curtain not only on his own 11-year run but on the entire Late Show franchise, a CBS institution since David Letterman launched it in 1993. The finale will feature an all-star parade: Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon

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Trump announces proposed site for the National Garden of American Heroes

President Donald Trump announced the proposed site for the future “National Garden of American Heroes” in Washington, D.C. The president chose West Potomac Park as the site for the upcoming sculpture park honoring great Americans. Trump revealed the location in a Truth Social post aboard Air Force One as he was traveling back to the

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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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