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A Story of Love and Resistance Amidst Dispossession - Electric Literature
Electric Literatureby Bareerah Ghani·1 Sept 2026
A Story of Love and Resistance Amidst Dispossession In Nyla Matuk's LEILA AND KHALID, romantic love is underscored by a longing for Palestine Poet Nyla Matuk’s debut novel, Leila and Khaled...
Trump's Venezuela oil deal is even sleazier than you think
Salonby Heather Digby Parton·1 Sept 2026
During the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump talked a lot about Venezuela. He claimed that country had emptied all its asylums and prisons and sent the convicts and patients to America to kill us all in...
A massive plume deep beneath Africa is pulling the continent apart
ScienceDaily·1 Sept 2026
A massive plume deep beneath Africa is pulling the continent apart Deep beneath Africa, a gigantic upwelling of mantle rock appears to be helping reshape the continent from below.
Smell of death hangs over rescue efforts in Nepal as deaths pass 1,000
NBC Newsby Sunil Pandey·1 Sept 2026
BIDUR, Nepal — The overwhelming stench of death is crushing hopes that more survivors will be found in this Nepalese town devastated by last week’s catastrophic floods.
Top election schemes roiling key midterm races as both parties accuse rivals of trickery
FOX Newsby Robert Schmad·1 Sept 2026
Republicans and Democrats are deploying increasingly aggressive tactics to shape the 2026 midterms — including efforts to influence rival primaries, obscure political spending and exploit election...
AI agents hacked a company without human direction. Should we be worried? - Poynter
Poynterby Loreben Tuquero·1 Sept 2026
It sounds like something from a sci-fi movie: technology acting on its own, without human guidance, to attack computer systems.
Throughout Latin America, US backs autocrats in the name of liberty
Salonby Nicolas J.S. Davies·1 Sept 2026
Simón Bolivar, the great liberator of South America, famously observed, “The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.” For 200 years...
Lit Hub Daily: September 1, 2026
Literary Hubby Lit Hub Daily·1 Sept 2026
Lit Hub Daily: September 1, 2026 THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1875, Edgar Rice Burroughs is born.
What Does "We the People" Mean? A Chronicle of the Constitution's Expanding Circle of Inclusion - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Ken MacVey·1 Sept 2026
by Ken MacVey The preamble of the US Constitution famously begins with the phrase “We the People”. Who, and how many, constituted this self-identified group?
The Trump administration’s plan for protecting consumers? Politely ask companies to behave
Salonby Andy Kroll·1 Sept 2026
In mid-July testimony before Congress, Russell Vought boasted that, as the acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he’d refashioned the agency’s approach to pursuing banks and...
NJ boater faces homicide charge as deadly summer on the water claims another life in third fatal crash
FOX Newsby Greg Wehner·1 Sept 2026
A New Jersey man faces felony charges following a late-night crash in Barnegat Bay that killed a 26-year-old passenger and left two others critically injured along the Jersey Shore in late July.
John Galliano Withdraws From Met Show
Hyperallergicby Hyperallergic·1 Sept 2026
Staging a retrospective at the Met Museum for a fashion designer convicted of antisemitic and anti-Asian hate speech was not the Costume Institute's best idea.
Naked DoorDash driver delivers food to Texas home in shocking security camera video
FOX Newsby Teresa Mull·1 Sept 2026
A Houston DoorDash customer said he was shocked when he went to fetch his food from his doorstep and saw on his security camera that the delivery driver was naked.
Democrats’ generational battle erupts as 80-year-old senator faces younger challenger
FOX Newsby Paul Steinhauser·1 Sept 2026
Massachusetts is the latest battleground in the political fight between the left and the center for the future of the Democratic Party.
Trump says Iran is ‘DEAD’ — experts point to the real sign Tehran is nearing the brink
FOX Newsby Efrat Lachter·1 Sept 2026
President Donald Trump declared Iran a "Failed Nation" Monday, claiming the country is economically and militarily broken as renewed fighting with the U.S.
Whistleblower warns Postal Service's new mail ballot system has "potentially catastrophic problems"
CBS Newsby Melissa Quinn; Madeleine May·1 Sept 2026
Washington — A whistleblower is warning of "potentially catastrophic problems" with the U.S. Postal Service's new system for handling mail ballots.
Judge who axed 9/11 mastermind's confession blamed military’s ‘conservative tendencies’ for rising ‘extremism’
FOX Newsby Peter Pinedo·1 Sept 2026
The judge who recently threw out a confession by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, previously argued that the U.S.
Notes from the non-league.
CJRby Amos Barshad·1 Sept 2026
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In January of 2026, just seconds into an FA Cup match between Macclesfield FC and Crystal Palace, Paul Dawson, a Macclesfield midfielder, collided with an...
Going Up and Going In - Longreads
Longreadsby Brian Laidlaw·1 Sept 2026
When I was little I had a ritual with my parents where, as they tucked me into bed, they’d tell me a few reasons why they loved me (yes, I know how lucky I am to have been raised in an environment...
The Supreme Court Brought This on Themselves
The New Republicby Matt Ford·1 Sept 2026
South Carolina Representative Jim Clyburn endorsed calls to expand the Supreme Court over the weekend, reflecting a growing resolve among Democratic officials to do what they considered unthinkable...
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