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Trump’s Male Midterms Crushes, Ranked

The president keeps admiring other men’s bodies at his rallies. So if you’re voting solely based on who has a MAGA-approved butt, you’re in luck. By Margaret Hartmann

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Will Voters Care About Max Miller’s Alleged Abuse?

By Chris Heath Ohio representative Max Miller has been accused of assaulting his child and his ex-wife — and of having a longer history of violence. podcast

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Vivek Ramaswamy’s Rock-Bottom Campaign

By Natalie Fertig The Trump-backed billionaire was “unbeatable” in Ohio. Now, he’s getting desperate. podcast

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Now That AI Might Kill Us, It’s Funny Again

By John Herrman

AI insiders are warning the world to take AI seriously. The world keeps using it to make jokes.

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Trump’s Male Midterms Crushes, Ranked

By Margaret Hartmann

The president keeps admiring other men’s bodies at his rallies. So if you’re voting solely based on who has a MAGA-approved butt, you’re in luck.

Vivek Ramaswamy’s Rock-Bottom Campaign

By Natalie Fertig

The Trump-backed billionaire was “unbeatable” in Ohio. Now, he’s getting desperate.

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early and often

Can an Invisible Congressman Win Reelection?

Tom Kean Jr. disappeared for months. As he fights for his political life, he’s barely emerging from the shadows.

Will Voters Care About Max Miller’s Alleged Abuse?

Ohio representative Max Miller has been accused of assaulting his child and his ex-wife — and of having a longer history of violence.

Chinatown Residents Sue to Stop Manhattan Jail’s Late-Night Construction

By Matthew Sedacca

Senior-center residents and other neighbors complain that a site that’s busy from 4 a.m. to midnight is ruining their sleep and sanity.

Fear and Loathing Are All the GOP Have Left

As the spate of nasty new attack ads show, Trump and his party’s only remaining midterms move is to drive up turnout of hard-core supporters.

Who Is Alina Habba, the Ex-Trump Lawyer in the Thick of Multiple Scandals?

The latest controversy involves a billionaire banker, a $50 million deal, and a Trump pardon.

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you can see everything

You Can’t See Anything About Billy Evans’s New Start-up

Elizabeth Holmes’s partner is in “stealth” mode building Haemanthus, a health-testing company using AI and lasers. It says it’s not “Theranos 2.0.”

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NYC Schools Chancellor Didn’t Impress Nikole Hannah-Jones

Kamar Samuels submitted to an interrogation at a town hall about school integration, but he didn’t have much to add about his and Mamdani’s plans.

Elizabeth Holmes Knows Exactly What She’s Doing

In You Can See Everything, the Theranos founder is almost unrecognizable. That’s no accident.

The 75-Year-Old Screenagers

By Jessica Lucas

Seniors are spending more time than ever on their slop-filled, scam-riddled feeds. It has become their adult children’s job to save them.

Trump Loyalists Wage ‘Blood Feud’ Over Missing Millions

Richard Grenell and Alina Habba Mildon are at the center of a swirling Trumpworld scandal.

Polls Show a Blue Wave Downballot, Too

Democrats could make major headway in Trump-state gubernatorial races while also flipping legislatures.

What Can CBS News Reporters Do Under Bari Weiss?

By Daniel Strauss

“Is Jan Crawford meant to adhere to standards while the editor-in-chief consistently ignores them?”

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Trump Helps Out by Dropping Antisemitic Slur at Kansas Rally

By Margaret Hartmann

The president’s comments defending Senator Roger Marshall were like an onion of things he shouldn’t be saying.

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Can Ossoff Help Elect a Black Woman Governor of Georgia?

The freshman senator is breezing to victory and can likely loan some support and some money to hard-pressed ticket mate Keisha Lance Bottoms.

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you can feel everything

Go Ahead, Pity Elizabeth Holmes

You shouldn’t feel bad for feeling bad for her.

The Director Caught in the AI-Slop Crosshairs

Romain Gavras’s “Storm” was the kind of music video AI couldn’t fake. Then came an editing tool seemingly custom-made to replicate it into infinity.

James Dolan Is Doing All He Can to Kill the Knicks’ Vibe

Thankfully, the luster of June’s title win is impossible to scrub away.

Angie Nixon Won’t Stop Fighting

By Zak Cheney-Rice

Angie Nixon is showing national Democrats how to compete in a state they gave up on.

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Was Zacharia Just a ‘Pawn’ in Susie Wiles–Natalie Harp Feud?

By Margaret Hartmann

Disagreement between the White House chief of staff and Trump’s “human printer” is a recurring theme in all the gossip about her disastrous tenure.

Polls Show a Blue Wave, But Beware All the Close Races

Democrats look set to flip the House, while the Senate still depends on turnout and possible polling errors.

Everything Kimberly Guilfoyle Did to Try to Save Her Job

Paging Pete Hegseth!

Chocolate Is Getting Worse

By Rachel Handler

Everyone in my life agreed: It tastes different now. I ventured into the molten belly of our crumbling world to find out why.