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I like to fill my cart with minimally processed foods when I shop at Aldi.
  • I shop at Aldi every other week and avoid ultra-processed foods.
  • I like to use cabbage and Specially Selected kalamata olives to make easy dishes.
  • Friendly Farms plain whole-milk Greek yogurt also makes a great breakfast.

I've been shopping at Aldi for over six years, and the store is my go-to for stocking up on



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  • Horror movies like "The Platform 2" and "Hold Your Breath" are now streaming.
  • If you're not into scary stuff, there are romances like "Heartstopper" and "Nobody Wants This."
  • There's also a new batch of "Unsolved Mysteries" episodes.

It's officially spooky season, and that means there are plenty of scary movies to stream. In fact, each of the major streaming



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This week, DirecTV announced it intends to buy Dish, Sling TV, and the rest of EchoStar’s television business for a dollar (while also taking on all of Dish’s debt), combining almost 20 million satellite TV subscribers from two companies that have been circling one another for decades.

But it’s not just DirecTV and Dish. AT&T, Comcast



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Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga in "Joker: Folie à Deux."
  • "Joker: Folie à Deux" opens in theaters Friday.
  • Joaquin Phoenix returns to play Joker, and Lady Gaga stars as his love interest, Harley Quinn.
  • The movie is being bashed by critics and has a 36% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Five years after "Joker" became a sensation, grossing over $1 billion and earning Joaquin Phoenix an Oscar for his



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Once again, the European Union has issued a ruling preventing Meta from going too crazy with user information. The top court in the EU ruled that limits must be put in place for how long Meta and other social media networks can use people’s information for ad targeting strategies.

TechCrunch reported that the EU’s highest court sided with an earlier opinion published in April by a court adviser



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First-person view, or FPV, drones like the one above have dominated the battlefield in Ukraine.
  • Drones, from combat to intelligence-gathering systems, have dominated the battlefield in Ukraine.
  • Ukraine and Russia have boosted domestic drone production efforts to meet front-line needs.
  • Kyiv now appears to be winning this race.

The stunning rise of drone warfare has



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The Internal Revenue Service's free tax filing program, Direct File, will be open to residents of 12 new states for the 2025 tax return season.

Those states are Alaska, Connecticut, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to an IRS announcement. They join 12 states — Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada



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I've made many of Ina Garten's dessert recipes, including her incredible mocha icebox cake.
  • I've been making my way through Ina Garten's dessert recipes. 
  • Her blueberry-ricotta breakfast cake is bright and light, and her brownies are outrageously good. 
  • But my favorite is her mocha icebox cake, which Garten said was so good it'd make "grown men weep." 

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