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New York Attorney General Letitia James now oversees the Cornell fraternity rape case in which a district attorney filed no charges in 2024. The review now turns on what police passed to prosecutors, a question Gov. Kathy Hochul has asked in public.
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Surgeons earned about 44 percent more for male-specific procedures than female analogues in a 1997 study, a gap that has barely narrowed in 20 years. A doctor-run committee sets those values, so hospitals receive the gap as a price signal that pulls resources away from gynecology.
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Clinics bill free ACA checkups a second time as sick visits when patients raise a health problem, in one case $170 for a mention of back stiffness. The ACA never defined the visit, so each insurer draws that line and patients find it on the bill.
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US forces completed their formal withdrawal from Iraq 23 years after the invasion, closing a phased drawdown the Biden administration agreed. Baghdad has postponed the militia disarmament it pinned to the same day, so the harder half of that timetable is still open.
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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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Economists Leonardo D'Amico, Evan Soltas and Audrey Wang find approving a standard US apartment building took 1.5 years in 2023, up from 0.6 in 2000. For developers and city halls, that puts a number on the part of housing delay set by local review rules.
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Trump's tariff cut on up to 661 million pounds of imported lean beef trimmings will shave a couple of cents off ground beef at best, by Vox's reckoning. The political cost runs the other way, as farm-state Republicans attack a plan that helps their cattle ranchers' foreign competitors.
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Exxon Mobil and Suncor argue that the Constitution's structure bars Boulder's climate-cost suit from state court, in a case the Supreme Court hears October 5. Vox reports they cite no clause of the text, so the case tests the justices' textualism as much as Boulder's claim.
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The US Supreme Court's refusal to force Missouri's 2025 map into the midterms held only as long as it took a district judge in the same state to rule the other way, on identical legal arguments.
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Six Republicans have now broken with the president in public over immigration, the Iran war and a plan to cut beef tariffs. Two of the six put the break on the record with a vote. Vox reports his approval is reaching new lows.
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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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Judge Timothy Kelly, whom Trump appointed, sounded unconvinced by the national-security case for keeping CNN, MS NOW and Politico off the grounds, and said he would rule as soon as possible. The exclusion is about a week old.
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Abortion runs in fewer than 5 percent of Democratic Senate ads nationally and about 15 percent of the $40.8 million spent in Maine, where Planned Parenthood Votes has placed its largest buy of 2026 against Susan Collins.
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Vox, citing The Intercept, says the agreement OpenAI signed with the Pentagon asks for national security models with minimal refusal rates, a standard Anthropic declined at the cost of a major government deal.
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Approval among Latinos who voted for Trump in 2024 has gone from 93 percent to 66 percent, and the researcher reporting it says the reason is that Latinos carry more of the wage workforce than any other group.
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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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Recent fires have burned through suburban neighborhoods in Washington, Colorado and California, and Vox reports that smoke from burning houses and vehicles carries plastic and metal oxides whose long-term health effects are still being studied.
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Robin Johnson's ten-year project asked 28 Democrats who carried heavily working-class battleground districts how they did it. They agreed on the cultural obstacle and split on whether to run as populists or as business allies.
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Vox revisits the Idaho National Laboratory's Aurora Generator Test, where 30 lines of code destroyed a diesel generator, and argues that human-directed AI hacking of industrial equipment is the risk a board can actually inventory.
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The Supreme Court will not hear Genalo v. Black. Both men at its center are out of detention, one by leaving the country and one by pardon, and the question of indefinite detention stays unanswered.
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