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Daily news podcast from Vox, hosted by Sean Rameswaram, covering current events, politics, and culture in explainer format.
Axios reporter Nathan Bomey says the Iran war's diesel surge, felt first by truckers and farmers, will show up in grocery prices within weeks, if not days. Operators paying for freight or farm inputs face a cost increase that lands inside the current quarter's budget.
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Seventy percent of American adults say they are more worried than excited about AI, and the one exception in the polling is scientific research and medicine. The fastest uptake inside medicine is administrative.
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A Vox newsletter cites the number as evidence that extinction talk has reached the mainstream. The question behind it asked Americans to rate an outcome, and that shapes what a leader can answer.
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Jared Bernstein, who chaired Biden's Council of Economic Advisers, calls the $40 trillion figure a distraction, and names the two inputs that changed his mind: the price of carrying the debt, and Congress.
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Meta agreed to teen product limits it can live with and to a payment schedule that rewards states for binding its rivals to the same terms. That is how a compliance floor gets set when Congress will not set one.
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Consolidating a tour into one building lowers the biggest cost of staging a show. It also raises the cost of attending one. The saving is banked by the act, and the new bill is paid by the audience.
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Federal data show nearly 3 million fewer people covered through the exchanges after premiums rose about 30 percent on average. The bill for that arrives at firms that never wrote the policy. Nobody has sized it yet.
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A professorship marketed on a life story, then a plagiarism allegation, a resignation, and a death nine days later. The verification nobody did was the cheapest duty of care available.
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The camera company has 120,000 license plate readers in 49 states and 7,000 agencies under contract. Dozens of cities and counties have now cut ties, and the hardware is being vandalised.
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