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Miss Manners: My brother’s wife always listens in on our phone calls
This letter writer is annoyed that their phone conversations with their brother are always interrupted by his wife.
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Yang Bing-yi, who built a soup-dumpling empire, dies at 96
He partnered with his wife to start the Taiwanese restaurant chain Din Tai Fung, which helped popularize Shanghai-style soup dumplings around the world.
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Post Politics Now: House to pass doomed energy bill, head into two-week recess
After voting Thursday, the House plans to adjourn for a recess as a standoff with President Biden continues over raising the debt limit.
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Congressmen get in shouting match over gun control after Nashville shooting
Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) faced off outside the House chamber days after six people were killed in a Nashville school shooting.
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How a tiny company with few rules is making fake images mainstream
Midjourney, the year-old firm behind recent fake visuals of Trump and the pope, illustrates the lack of oversight accompanying spectacular strides in AI.
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New poll shows skepticism of Manhattan DA’s case against Trump
By a nearly 2-to-1 margin, Americans view the case as being more about politics than the law. And when it comes to Trump, that’s unusual.
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Americans want spending cuts. Just not those ones. Or those ones.
As Republicans push for spending cuts in the debt-ceiling debate, a poll shows 60 percent say the government spends too much. But people also don’t want cuts in virtually any major, specific area.
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Shooting Prompts a Shrug in Washington, as G.O.P. Rejects Pleas to Act
President Biden said he had reached the limit of his powers to act alone on gun violence, and needed Congress to respond. Republicans said they had already done all they were willing to do.
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Biden’s Confrontation With Netanyahu Had Been Brewing for Years
The president’s decision to publicly criticize Israel is highly unusual for a leader who has pledged not to interfere in the country’s domestic politics.
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DeSantis Burnishes Tough-on-Crime Image to Run in ’24 and Take On Trump
The Florida governor, preparing for an all-but-declared campaign, is said to see an opening to take on the former president from the right.