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The Week - Top Stories

in the spotlight - The Trump family is poised to own a crypto bank - Treasury Department regulators have granted World Liberty Financial, the Trump family-linked cryptocurrency enterprise, conditional approval to begin operating as a federally chartered trust bank. The status change provides new powers and federal credibility to an enterprise in which the Trump fam...

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Morning Report -- Canada strikes back

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Evening Review -- Democrats reckon with 'Woke 1.0'

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Morning Report -- Supreme Court hands Trump mail voting win

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How has a year of National Guard deployment affected Washington, DC?

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The 8 best movies of the 1990s

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4 TIPS TO MAKE BUDGETING WITH AN IRREGULAR INCOME EASIER -- The Explainer -- Gig workers and freelancers with less predictable incomes can still make plans to save

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CIA director's secret flight to Moscow -- The Explainer -- High-level in-person meetings between Russian and US officials incredibly rare

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What's a debt management plan and how could one help you? -- The Explainer -- A credit counseling agency may offer the best strategy to pay down debt

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Pentagon wants colleges to examine their ties to foreign institutions -- The Explainer -- The Defense Department has ordered 30 universities to audit themselves

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Democrats and progressives wrestle with the 'Woke 1.0' era -- talking points -- Some feel that use of the term is derogatory, while others think it's a good branding exercise

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Have we reached the AI singularity? -- Talking Point -- Tech bigwigs like Sam Altman and Elon Musk say yes. Not everyone agrees.

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The Mecca accord: an Islamic Nato for the Middle East? -- Talking Point -- Landmark tripartite accord between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey marks a regional shift away from the US security umbrella

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The 9 best scripted sports dramas of all time

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The best chef memoirs

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'Object with no comparison': first black hole star discovered -- Under the radar -- The brightness of a star, with the energy of a black hole

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No. 10 Full Confidence: could you last longer than the PM? -- Under the Radar -- The viral new scenario-based game tests users' metal as the head of government

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Antarctica's melting ice is leaking mercury -- Under the radar -- Climate change is putting the pedal to the metal

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Darline Graham wins South Carolina GOP runoff -- Speed Read -- Graham defeated hard-right challenger Rep. Ralph Norman

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Dolly Parton, music and cultural icon, dies at 80 -- Speed Read -- Parton died in Nashville, Tennessee, after a battle with cancer

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Canada details retaliatory US tariffs with political bite -- Speed Read -- The country released a list of over 700 products from the U.S. that it plans to tariff

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49ers owner arrested in Ohio prostitution sting -- Speed Read -- Jed York pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor charges

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Music reviews: Carly Simon, The Womack Sisters, and L'Rain -- Feature -- 'Comes in Waves,' 'The Womack Sisters,' and 'Fata Morgana' -- The Week US -- Published

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Cal Flyn's 6 favorite books -- Feature -- The writer recommends works by Rebecca Solnit, Alice Oswald, and Rebecca Giggs -- The Week US -- Published

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Book reviews: 'On the Mark: From Periods to Interrobangs, How Punctuation Remade the World' and 'They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live With Its Legacy' -- Feature -- A rip-roaring history of punctuation and a sobering look back at the Wilmington Massacre -- The Week US -- Published

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'Goodbye, Dolly' -- Today's Newspapers -- A roundup of the headlines from the US front pages -- The Week Staff -- Last updated

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Meta: Zuckerberg's plea to liberate AI -- Feature -- The Facebook founder wants superintelligence for all -- The Week US -- Published

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Democrats: Backing away from 'Woke 1' -- Feature -- Entering a new era of progressive politics -- The Week US -- Published

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