Maine Democrats are moving to replace Senate nominee Graham Plattner, with a new nominating convention planned and fewer than three weeks to file with the Secretary of State. Without Plattner's grassroots supporters, the path to flipping the seat from Republican Susan Collins gets much steeper.
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Few Americans feel geopolitical crises quite as immediately as when they pull up to a gas pump. Joe Hernandez's report translates the US-Iran military standoff into dollar-and-cent terms: AAA data shows the average gallon of regular unleaded sat at $3.85 on Thursday — a number that sounds almost moderate until you remember it was $2.79 just six months ago in January, and topped $4.50 in May [1] — Joe Hernandez "American gas prices have swung wildly — $2.79 in January, over $4.50 in May, and $3.85 now. Drivers are adapting by visiting stations more …" 01:45 . Personal finance experts warn the price seesaw adds real budgetary stress for households trying to plan ahead. And the behavioral data backs that up: the cashback app Upside tracked a March surge in gas prices and found drivers responding by making more frequent but smaller purchases — a classic anxiety-driven rationing behavior [2] — Joe Hernandez "The average cost of a gallon of regular unleaded was $3.85 on Thursday according to AAA, but that number surpassed $4.50 in May and was as …" 01:45 . The advice from experts? Budget for higher prices and use apps to scout the best deals before pulling into any station.
US gas prices swung from $2.79 per gallon in January to over $4.50 in May, settling at $3.85 on Thursday amid US-Iran tensions.
American gas prices have swung wildly — $2.79 in January, over $4.50 in May, and $3.85 now. Drivers are adapting by visiting stations more often and buying less each time, while experts urge budgeting for higher costs.
President Trump removed all remaining members of the Bipartisan Election Assistance Commission, the federal agency that provides election security guidance to states.
President Trump removed all remaining members of the Bipartisan Election Assistance Commission, the federal body that provides election security guidance to states. The move was enabled by a recent Supreme Court ruling expanding presidential power to fire members of independent agencies.
When gas prices rose in early March, drivers visited gas stations more often but bought less fuel per trip, according to cashback app Upside.
Fei-Fei Li went back to Stanford from Google in 2018 specifically to build a multi-stakeholder governance framework for AI. Her argument: market forces are not societal norms. Just as biology uses IRBs and cars have safety laws, AI needs layered oversight from educators, governments, and the public — not just a few industry titans.
Andrew Santino's personal MCU of political villains is collapsing. He and Bobby speculated that a circulating photo of Mitch McConnell with a Chinese official was AI-generated compositing two separate images.
Mass surveillance is here to stay. The real battle isn't stopping cameras — it's ensuring judges and laws keep that data out of family court and civil disputes, admitting it only for violent crimes and national security. The surveillance economy currently yields more upside than downside, but only if we build the legal guardrails now.
When people cite Scandinavia as proof socialism works, Galloway says they've got it backwards. Northern Europe runs highly competitive free-market economies with more competition in many sectors than the US — they just make sure taxes are actually paid and redistributed. Billionaires and universal healthcare can coexist.
Two percent adjustments to income tax and stamp duty tweaks are deck-chair rearrangements. The UK's competitiveness hinges on four structural levers: currency valuation, energy costs, regulatory burden, and tax rates. Devalue the pound, build 56 nuclear plants, slash red tape, introduce a flat tax — and the country transforms.
Lisbon had one of Europe's worst heroin crises. Then Portugal legalised drugs and redirected all enforcement money into rehabilitation and housing. Crime collapsed. Addiction fell. Then politics moved the money elsewhere, and the problem started creeping back. Chesterton's Fence: you forget why you were spending that money.
Congress passed the Boland Amendment 411 to 0, explicitly banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras. Reagan signed it — then immediately moved the operation deeper underground, essentially responding to a bipartisan prohibition by going more illegal.
The CIA planted mines in Nicaraguan commercial harbors, wrote the Contras' press releases taking credit, and promptly blew up ships from four allied nations. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, Congress erupted, and the Boland Amendments multiplied.
Oliver North was a decorated Marine and devout Catholic with zero covert operations experience. He ran the entire shadow war against Congress — planes, airstrips, arms shipments, shell companies — learning on the job. And by every operational measure, he crushed it.
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