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Why Some Cold States Are Making It Cheaper to Run a Heat Pump
New discounts can make heat pumps go from a bad investment to a good idea.
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A Rug Maker Withstood One Year of Trump’s Tariffs. New Challenges Loom.
Loloi stockpiled rugs from India, Turkey and other countries in advance, but inventory is running low.
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Amy Klobuchar Announces Run for Minnesota Governor
The Democratic senator, who signaled her bid after Gov. Tim Walz said he wouldn’t run again, talked about moving past political divides in a video announcement.
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Justice Dept. Playbook in Minnesota: Investigate Foes, Protect Allies
The Trump Justice Department has often cast aside normal procedures intended to seek accountability in favor of pushing prosecutors and the F.B.I. to focus on critics of the immigration crackdown.
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What We Learned After Tracking Every Lawsuit Challenging Trump’s Policies
President Trump’s agenda faced more than 600 lawsuits over the past year. In many cases, district court judges found his policies to be unlawful.
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A State Senate Race in Texas Offers Republicans a Warning
A State Senate runoff on Saturday in the Fort Worth suburbs will preview whether a backlash against conservative social policies will give Democrats a chance to gain.
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Another Top Kennedy Center Official Resigns
Kevin Couch, who was announced as senior vice president of artistic programming less than two weeks ago, is the latest to leave since President Trump took control of the center last year.
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Shooting Aftermath Leaves Homeland Security Department in Turmoil
As officials point fingers in the wake of Alex Pretti’s death at the hands of federal agents, concerns grow about the agency’s future.
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Why Modern Love is Redefining Traditional Relationship Norms
Once upon a time, in a not-so-distant past, relationships followed a pretty predictable script. Boy meets girl. They date, fall in love, get married, buy a house with a white picket fence, and have 2.5 kids. Fast forward to today, and that script has been tossed out the window like last season’s fashion. Modern love…
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2025 Year in Review and Predictions for 2026 in the Cyber, AI, and Privacy Frontier
2025 brought seismic shifts in the cyber, artificial intelligence (“AI”), and privacy landscape, marked by an explosion of AI-powered cybercrime and intensifying regulatory enforcement, targeting compliance with data security, privacy, and consumer protection laws and regulations. A wave of lawsuits took aim at AI systems in novel ways from seeking damages for product liability to…