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The response to UnitedHealthcare CEO’s murder surely disproves the claim that Americans love the private health insurance system. It’s a political force waiting to be harnessed — but few in DC seem interested.

A surprise medical bill could be waiting for you when you wake up in the recovery room.

GenCast, from the company’s DeepMind division, outperformed the world’s best predictions of deadly storms as well as everyday weather.

Trump's margin of victory, 1.6 points, was the fifth-smallest in the last 100 years. As much as the MAGA world wants to portray this as a landslide, it wasn’t. And as the last few election cycles tell us, political power in America can be fleeting.

Judge Dredd, Tony Soprano, The Supes. They're all meant to be villains in cautionary tales against the danger of violent, fascistic, cultist leaders. But some Trump followers, including Elon Musk, think they're meant to be heroes to be emulated.

The president-elect is tapping mega-rich backers for positions that will give them power to cut spending on public services. The gulf between Trump’s taste for the wealthy and his populist everyman rhetoric has not gone unnoticed.

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The board of the non-profit Code for Science & Society blocked a statement against genocide. The fallout tore the high-profile organization apart. The events at CS&S are an example, of the label “progressive except for Palestine”.

From abortion rights to minimum wage hikes to legal marijuana, voters’ support for ballot issues didn’t correlate with their support for candidates.