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Biden to announce $8B in funding for high-speed passenger rail projects

President Biden on Friday will announce $8.2 billion in funding for 10 passenger rail projects, including a high-speed rail system connecting Nevada and California. Biden will travel to Las Vegas, Nev., on Friday to make the announcement. He is then set to go to Los Angeles, Calif., Friday night and stay through Sunday. The funding...

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...

2024 Showdown: The real winner of four GOP presidential primary debates could be the guy who didn’t show up

The four Republican presidential primary debates of 2023 are in the books. Was the real winner the candidate who didn't take the stage, former President Donald Trump?

Top GOP lawmaker moves to reinstate Trump-era rule shredding government red tape

Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., is introducing a bill that would force federal agencies to identify two regulations to be cut for every new one established.

UN climate summit serving gourmet burgers, BBQ as it calls for Americans to stop eating meat

The ongoing climate change summit hosted by the United Nations is offering various high-quality meat options for attendees, even as it calls for lower beef consumption.

Migrant crisis smashing new records amid fresh surge at southern border

New records are being set at the southern border, including a new mark for daily encounters this week. The migrant crisis at the border continues.

Woke books, broke publishers

Since the early aughts, book publishers’ profits have tanked. In raw numbers, they have remained almost exactly the same: U.S. book industry revenues were $25.3 billion in 2000, and they were $25.7 billion in 2020. But accounting for inflation, revenues have fallen by 32% between 2000 and last year.

Your next new car will be old when you buy it

Despite lower-than-anticipated electric vehicle sales, expect automakers to play along with the government's fantasies until they're found impossible.

Pointless poses as poignant in Saltburn

I was writer-director Emerald Fennell's target audience for Saltburn: a British Gen Zer that takes great pleasure in sneering at upper-class Oxford types and loves anything vacuous. I expected that it would be like a posh Skins, with bratty toffs spraying Dom Perignon into each other's mouths instead of a six-pack of the cheapest beer. I was told by even my most stylish of friends that it was like TikTok-ified Brideshead Revisited, or The Talented Mr. Ripley with a bit of softcore pornography. They are friends no longer, dropped for having such bad opinions, now that I’ve had a few days to mull over the single worst film I have ever watched.

A youth in Nazi Germany

For years, Walter Kempowski (1929-2007), one of Germany’s most popular and most celebrated writers from the second half of the 20th century, was an unknown quantity in the English-speaking world. Only recently has he begun to register on Anglophone readers’ radars, thanks to the publication of a couple of his works in translation. Those books delve into the past and examine the impact of World War II on Germans — how the brutality and futility of the conflict inflicted personal pain and engendered collective guilt.

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