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What Trump’s Venezuela Attack Means for the World

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Last week, US forces entered Venezuela, capturing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in a nighttime raid. On Monday, they were arraigned in US federal court, pleading not guilty to narcoterrorism charges. The military action followed a monthslong pressure campaign that included a number of deadly strikes on boats off the Venezuelan coast […]

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Trump Wants Venezuela’s Oil. Getting It Won’t Be So Simple.

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This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. President Donald Trump has made it clear: His vision for Venezuela’s future involves the US profiting from its oil. “We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies—the biggest anywhere in the world—go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly […]

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My Health Care Costs Are Going Up. So I Made a Video Series Figuring Out Why and Who’s to Blame.

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I just turned 26, which means I was unceremoniously booted off my parent’s health insurance and had to fend for myself in the wild west of American healthcare. For a freelancer like me, this meant I had to buy healthcare on the marketplace.  First, I had to figure out what that even is. Let’s go […]

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What Seven Americans Think of Rising Health Care Costs

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I have been on a multimonth mission to figure out why health care costs are going up. You can read all about it here. As part of that process, I spoke to people across the United States to hear about their experiences with health insurance. And let me tell you, it’s dire. Take a listen. […]

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As Data Centers Proliferate, Will an AI Bubble Lead to a New Recession?

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Some AI companies are using techniques and financial products seen in the run-up to the great financial crisis of 2008.

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White House Touts “Relief” as Data Shows Prices Rising Ahead of Thanksgiving

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Sixty percent of voters believe that Trump is making the state of the economy sound better than it is, polling shows.

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How the Federal Shutdown Broke America’s Food Chain

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In a dramatic twist of political defections and contentious concessions, the longest ever federal shutdown came to a close last week as Congress finally managed to agree on a deal to reopen the government. Federal agencies are now beginning to […]

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Trump Tells McDonald’s Owners US Is in a “Golden Age” — the Stats Say Otherwise

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Trump insisted his economy was doing wonders, despite the cost of a Big Mac and other items going up.

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New Report Indicates a Growing Public Resistance to Data Centers

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This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On Election Day, Peter Hubbard was one of two Democratic candidates who took a decisive—and surprising—victory in Georgia. Hubbard was elected to the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC), the body that regulates the state’s electric utility. It’s the first time Democrats have […]

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