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We still don’t have a Legend of Zelda or Metroid set, but Lego is slowly working its way through Nintendo’s most popular IP — today, it’s announcing that Animal Crossing is officially making its way to bricks.



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Republican Reps. Michelle Steel, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Derrick Van Orden.
  • Marjorie Taylor Greene sent $2,000 checks to 18 of her colleagues' campaigns in March.
  • But two of them — among the most vulnerable Republicans in 2024 — never cashed the check.
  • Rep. Derrick Van Orden's

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  • I have loved saving since I was a kid, but it became an unhealthy



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Bill Gates talked about how the Gates Foundation is approaching math education to better suit the needs of students' today in a blog post.
  • Bill Gates wrote a blog post suggesting three ways to improve math education.



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Get ready for a live-action adaptation of CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 universe. The game developer is teaming up with Anonymous Content, a media company that has worked on series like True Detective and Shantaram, on a new “live-action project” based on the popular video game.

It might be a while until we see anything from the adaptation; “the new



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  • The UAW strike's ripple effects is decreasing the demand for steel, the Journal reported.
  • The strike has cut production of 6,030 vehicles a day that used 5,982 tons of steel, S&P estimates.
  • Prices of coiled sheet steel, commonly used to make automotive parts, have fallen 40% since April.

The UAW strike is hitting more than just car production and distribution. It's hurting the



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Nanase Nishino as Madoka Akagi. | Image: TV Tokyo / The Pokémon Company

The Detective Pikachu movie proved that The Pokémon Company is more than capable of producing solid live-action projects for the big screen. And from the looks of TV Tokyo’s new upcoming Pokémon-inspired show PokéTsume, that’s true of episodic series, too.

Set in our own mundane reality, PokéTsume cente



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Tom Barkin
  • Tom Barkin, president of the Richmond Fed, recently commented on housing on the "Odd Lots" podcast.
  • Home prices have stayed high as the pandemic sparked a "secular change" in the way people think about housing.
  • That could mean sectors other than housing will need to see slowdowns, he suggested.

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Rescuers work at a site of a Russian military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the village of Groza, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine in this handout image released on October 5, 2023.
Rescuers work at a site of a Russian military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the village of Groza, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine in this handout image released on October 5, 2023.
  • A Russian missile hit a small village in northeast Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least 51 people.
  • Ukrainian officials said there were "no military