Scorching temperatures are making delivery a dangerous job — and it's only getting worse

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A delivery man stands in the sweltering heat, delivering packages in a hostile neighborhood.
Amazon, FedEx, UPS, and USPS make millions of deliveries every day. Heat waves make the jobs behind those deliveries more dangerous.

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The weird and disastrous rise of generational warfare

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A collage of different generations, from left to right, millennials, boomers, gen-z.
Gen Z hates boomers, everyone hates millennials, and no one thinks about Gen X. Why are we so obsessed with talking about generations?

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Every city in America looks exactly the same now

Tech Insider : Economy
A couple from the big city looks at a selection of small cities with notifications on them, vying for attention while all looking the same.
Remote work caused a flood of new arrivals to small and midsize cities. And now those cities all look the same.

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How every American city became exactly the same

Cheddar News was meant to be a digital-media darling that could rival Bloomberg and CNBC. Now it's reportedly considering a sale — here's how the network was pushed to the brink.

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Cheddar News logo on a pink background animated with bite marks taken out of it until only a crumb remains
Altice USA, which owns Cheddar News, has reportedly tapped the investment bank Goldman Sachs to assess a possible sale of the embattled seven-year-old network, according to The New York Times' DealBook newsletter.

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Inside the 'Justice Circle': Secret invite list reveals how VIP donors bought access to Elena Kagan and Brett Kavanaugh

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Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Brett Michael Kavanaugh depicted with Admit One tickets and surrounded by illustrations of currency.
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Why Threads will never be the new Twitter

Tech Insider : Politics
Twitter logo with the threads logo in its mouth like a worm
Threads doesn't have any of the magic that made Twitter popular in the first place.

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CrowdStreet Review 2023

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Barbie is the star of the summer's hottest blockbuster. The much-hyped movie is the pinnacle of a 60-year history filled with rejections, lawsuits, and controversies for the world's most iconic doll.

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A chronological order of all the Barbies throughout history, ending with Margot Robbie in the Barbie movie.

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Meet Hollywood's hottest new movie star: corporate brands

Tech Insider : Economy
Barbie, Mario, and a beanie baby with paparazzi flashes surrounding them
Brand-centric films like Barbie have a dark side: They are a symptom of the precarity of today's job market.

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The last, best hope for homebuyers

Tech Insider : Economy
Newly constructed houses shine brightly on a grassy field, which a line of eager homebuyers filing at the bottom of the hill, for a chance to snatch this housing from this new construction boom. The sky in the background is a greenish purple.

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