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• Photos show how breaches of decorum have become more common in an increasingly polarized Congress.
• Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert heckled Joe Biden during the State of the Union.
• In 2023, Kevin McCarthy lost 14 votes for House speaker before winning. He was

• On Tuesday, the Senate passed a bill that could ban TikTok from US app stores.
• Biden's already said he'd sign it into law.
• Banning the app in the US could be disastrous to Biden's reelection chances.

The Senate passed a multifaceted foreign aid bill in a

In 2012 journalist Joshuah Bearman, whose 2007 Wired article fuelled Ben Affleck's Argo, wrote another article about a fake movie used in an escape plan to smuggle someone out of a country. For Playboy, he wrote about Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton and his escape from the U.S. to Cuba with the help of Hollywood producer Bert Schneider.

And now, it's been made into an Apple TV+ series, with the

• US solar companies accused Chinese firms in Southeast Asia of dumping cheap solar panels on the market.
• A glut of solar panels has cut prices in half in the past year to as low as 10 cents per watt.
• US solar companies want the Biden administration to impose steeper tariffs on imports.

The world

• MrBeast is set to surpass T-Series as YouTube's top channel.
• This shift marks a return to creator-led content over corporate channels.
• Despite facing some scrutiny, MrBeast's success signifies the power of individual creators.

MrBeast was buying up billboards back in 2019 in support

Dutch car-sharing platform SnappCar, which claims to be the largest of its kind in the Netherlands, has been fully acquired by AutoBinck Group — a shareholder in the scaleup since its founding in 2011. The ownership change also sees the return of SnappCar’s founder, Victor van Tol, in the role of the CEO. Van Told told local newspaper mt/sprout that the acquisition will enable faster decisions and

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It’s just about halfway to Halloween and Home Depot is ready to start rolling out spooky season decor to celebrate. The store’s most viral release—Skelly, the 12-foot skeleton—is consistently hard to find as the holiday gets closer, so with that in mind the popular must-have will be released early as part of this drop.

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While the combat is challenging and rewarding, it takes far too long to get to the good stuff.

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Stellar Blade surprised me twice. When I played the demo back in March, I didn’t realize how much of an influence the Soulslike sub-genre had on the game. With all of the comparisons to other action games like Bayonetta and Nier: Automata because of its female lead, I expected Stellar Blade to be similar.

But after playing through a few hours of the full game, I didn’t expect it to also have an

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy talked about what it will take to maintain Ukrainian independence, his soldiers’ morale, and the country’s next presidential election in an exclusive video interview with German media house Axel Springer.

Tired of the so-called AI PCs already? Buckle up because we, or perhaps the artificial intelligence, haven’t even begun to peak. More power-efficient ARM-based CPUs don’t get nearly as much limelight as the x86 type. Still, chipmaker Qualcomm is trying to turn your eyes toward its latest Snapdragon chips by promising…

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