Why Congressional Republicans are imploding before our eyes

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Mitch McConnell gestures to Mike Johnson
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell gestures to House Speaker Mike Johnson.

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  • This week has shown the extent of congressional Republicans' struggles.
  • Now, even the Senate GOP seems to be going through it.
  • Trump has clearly worsened the situation, but the rot was there long before him.

House Republicans' rudderless direction has begun to spread across the Capitol.

No, chaos

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I'm a student at Cornell. From the teaching farm to the student-run hotel, here's what a day is like on campus.

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The author is a student at Cornell.

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  • I'm a student at Cornell University studying government, but one afternoon on campus was unique.
  • I started my day at the on-campus farm, meeting the sheep, pigs, and cows. 
  • After that, I had lunch at the student-run, on-campus luxury hotel.

As a government major at Cornell, I hadn't expected agricultural enrichment to be part of my college

New service from Mozilla wants to protect you from data brokers

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Have you ever googled yourself and found a slew of results from "people finder" websites with your personal data? These data brokers often profit from selling your information, which can include everything from your social media profiles to your real-world home address.

Mozilla, the organization behind the popular Firefox web browser, has just launched a new service called Mozilla Monitor that

Sen. Lankford says a 'popular commentator' threatened to 'do whatever I can to destroy you' if he negotiated a border deal during a presidential election year

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Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma lamented his own party's rejection of the border security deal he helped negotiate.
Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma lamented his own party's expected rejection of the border security deal he helped negotiate.

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  • Sen. James Lankford was the top GOP negotiator on the failed border security deal.
  • He claims a "popular commentator" warned him not to solve the crisis during an election year.
  • "I will do whatever I can to destroy you," Lankford said.

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Apple made an AI image tool that lets you make edits by describing them

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Apple researchers released a new model that lets users describe in plain language what they want to change in a photo without ever touching photo editing software.

The MGIE model, which Apple worked on with the University of California, Santa Barbara, can crop, resize, flip, and add filters to images all through text prompts.

MGIE, which stands for