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Beer sales are tanking. So Molson is investing $60 million in its Toronto plant to try something different In 2020, the latest year for which Statistics Canada data is available, that number stood at 69.6 litres. As beer has fallen, wine has been on the rise. In the past few years, demand for “ready to drink” beverages, from hard lemonade to alcoholic kombucha and hard seltzers, has been soaring. Continued here

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'Gifs are cringe': how Giphy's multimillion-dollar business fell out of fashion Its valuation is down by $200m from its peak in 2016 and, more importantly, its core offering shows signs of going out of fashion. "There are indications of an overall decline in gif use," the company said in its filing, "due to a general waning of user and content partner interest in gifs. Continued here

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To fix America's inflation problem, the Federal Reserve must go big Over the summer a wild hope took hold among investors. Inflation seemed to be falling gently even as America’s economy stayed in rude health. Perhaps the worst bout of inflation since the 1980s would be easily quelled, without interest rates rising much further or much economic pain. Now the dream has been dashed. Figures published on September 13th show that the pace of underlying inflation in August was fast and furious. Stockmarkets fell by the most since the early months of the pandemic; the price of junk bonds dropped; and short-term Treasury yields spiked. America still has an inflation problem. To fix it, the Federal Reserve must go big. Continued here

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Wind Turbine Blades Can't Be Recycled, So They're Piling Up in Landfills A wind turbine's blades can be longer than a Boeing 747 wing, so at the end of their lifespan they can't just be hauled away. First, you need to saw through the lissome fiberglass using a diamond-encrusted industrial saw to create three pieces small enough to be strapped to a tractor-trailer. Continued here

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Are DSLR Cameras Going Extinct? Last December, Canon announced that they would be shuttering development and production of the DSLR sometime in the next few years. “The market needs are acceleratingly shifting to mirrorless cameras,” Canon’s CEO and Chairman Fujio Mitarai explained in an interview. As the largest producer of digital cameras, Canon’s announcement sent a shockwave through the industry—and this July, rumors began to swirl that Nikon would soon be following Canon’s lead, and similarly discontinuing their DSLRs.  Continued here

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31-year-old who quit her job and makes $15,000 a month recording voiceovers: I only work '3 to 5 hours per day' There's a reason Everdeen keeps short, strict hours: burnout. She says she's learned to set hard boundaries to avoid exhaustion and complacency. Those symptoms rear their heads in strange ways: Years ago, as a news producer at MSNBC, she found herself regularly staying at the office hours past her shift, even after her work was done. Continued here

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Autofocus: The Productivity System That Treats Your To-Do List Like a River The problem, Burkeman observes, is that the to-do list is a bucket that never entirely empties. As we clear some tasks out, others are added in. It’s like the Magic Beer Floating Faucet Fountain that they used to sell at Spencer’s back in 1990, along with black lights and bags of reindeer poop.  Continued here

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Is the World Ready for Extremely Effective Weight-Loss Drugs? Earlier this summer, Forrest Smith got some promising news. The Denver-based petroleum engineer, who works for the National Park Service, had read reports on a new diabetes medication called tirzepatide. Clinical trials had confirmed a potent side effect: Tirzepatide users could shed up to 20 percent of their body weight. Smith told me he spent his childhood cast as “the fat kid in school,” and his adulthood locked in a cycle of losing pounds and regaining them. Though he is not diabetic, he was aware that some doctors were prescribing the drug for weight loss and, feeling like he had nothing to lose, sought one out for treatment. He took his first weekly injection in July, and says it was like “a switch was flipped overnight.” Food cravings disappeared. When watching skinny friends eat, he used to wonder, “How do you not eat that entire plate of cookies in front of you?” That all changed. “One cookie? Totally doable.” Continued here

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How immunity-boosting food became a part of monsoon festivals in India No matter where you go in the country, you will invariably find seasonal foods and dietary practices codified into rituals and festivals. Continued here

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How to Exercise to Cut Your Age-Related Fitness Decline in Half There are tons of reasons why you might love being on your bike: to get from point A to point B, to chase that PR, or simply just to stay in shape. Regardless of your motivation, the physical benefits of cycling—among other forms of exercise—can stay with you for longer than you might expect, according to research from the journal Frontiers in Physiology. Continued here

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Uh, My Toddler's Solution to the "Trolley Problem" Is Totally Freaking Me Out Parenting advice on social outcasts, estranged kids, and philosophical frights. Continued here

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9 habits linked to a longer, happier life "There's a lot of evidence about the things we can do proactively that can improve our longevity as well as the quality," said Wen, an emergency physician and visiting professor of health policy and management at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. Continued here

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This Brilliant Trick Can Un-Shrink Your Sweaters Maybe your spouse did laundry and put something in the dryer that wasn’t supposed to go, or you simply got distracted and didn’t hear the timer go off. Accidents happen. If your favorite cashmere ends up looking like it belongs on your 6-year-old niece, remain calm. There is a solution, and it’s fairly simple. Continued here

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Escape the perfectionist trap with the Japanese philosophy of "wabi sabi" The thing is, I know I shouldn’t be this way. The pursuit of the perfect is not synonymous with the pursuit of excellence or even the worthwhile, and whether that drive is self-motivated or foisted on us by a boss, parent, or partner, its cost far outweighs the goal. Research has shown the potential fallout of perfectionism: anxiety, depression, social aversion, lower life satisfaction, reduced self-worth, and difficulties emotionally self-regulating. Continued here

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11 Ancient Solutions for Modern Malaise “All men, brother Gallio, wish to live happily,” wrote the Roman philosopher and statesman Lucius Annaeus Seneca to his brother around A.D. 58, “but are dull at perceiving exactly what it is that makes life happy.” Seneca may very well have based that assessment on himself. He was a happiness expert, writing throughout his life about the ancient concept of eudaemonia, which roughly means “living in agreement with nature,” or perhaps, in today’s language, “inner peace.” Yet his life was anything but peaceful. Continued here

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Does 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' Pay for Everyone's Mortgages? It doesn't get better than hearing the shouts of "Move that bus!" as a deserving family tearfully lays eyes on their remodeled house for the first time. But this eternal good deed does beget some practical questions: Does Extreme Makeover: Home Edition pay for the mortgages? And what about the increased taxes and utility costs that have sometimes contributed to foreclosures in the past? Continued here

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Why Everything Feels So Expensive Right Now Today you can expect to shell out a lot more on absolutely everything than you did a year ago as prices rise faster than they have for 40 years. Food costs are soaring, with prices in shops rising by 5.1 percent in August, or for fresh food specifically, 10.5 percent – the highest rate seen since 2008. Continued here

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You Can Stop Turning Your Lights Off to Save Money Jason Fitzpatrick is the Senior Smart Home Editor at How-To Geek. He has over a decade of experience in publishing and has authored thousands of articles at How-To Geek, Review Geek, LifeSavvy, and Lifehacker. Jason served as Lifehacker's Weekend Editor before he joined How-To Geek. Read more... Continued here

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How India runs on WhatsApp WhatsApp’s simple design helped make it a hit internationally, especially in countries where most people don’t have iPhones to use iMessage or affordable cell phone plans to send SMS messages. When Meta bought WhatsApp eight years ago in a record $19 billion cash and stock deal, it was considered a risky bet. Today, even though it doesn’t contribute much to Meta’s bottom line, WhatsApp is arguably the company’s most essential international product. Continued here

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The Best New Widgets for Your iPhone Lock Screen With iOS 14, Apple brought widgets to your iPhone’s Home Screen—with iOS 16, Apple wants to do the same with your Lock Screen. With this update, you can create multiple Lock Screens that you can cycle through at any time, and each Lock Screen can hold up to five different widgets: There’s a grid of four squares below the time, and a text-based widget at the top. To check out your options, press and hold the Lock Screen, tap the “Customize” button, then tap a widget area for a list of all available widgets. Continued here

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Sniffing Out the Science of Smelling Last winter, Andreas Keller decided the time was right to branch out from his day job as a neuroscientist and launch a new art gallery. Not just any gallery, but the country’s first and only commercial space devoted entirely to smell-based art. He rented a defunct barbershop in New York City’s Chinatown and teamed up with an artist named M Dougherty for his inaugural show in February of 2021, drilling a hole in the exterior wall to pipe a piney perfume called “Forest Bath” to the street outside. The fresh evergreen mingled with steamed dumplings and ripe dumpsters and the smoldering papers that Keller’s Chinese neighbors sometimes burned as an offering to their ancestors. Continued here

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The controversial embryo tests that promise a better baby Some companies offer tests that rank embryos based on their risk of developing complex diseases such as schizophrenia or heart disease. Are they accurate — or ethical? Continued here

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What Do Dogs Know About Us? Oh wait, no; we don’t have a deal. She just does that. It is vexing and charming at once. Just at the moment of nose-attack I can smell the sleep collected on her breath and fur. It mingles with the odor of the other dogs in the room and is beginning to smell, to me, like home. It has been six months since she left her natal litter of 10 siblings and joined our family of three humans, two dogs, and one cat. And it has been a few months since she went from being a very young puppy to an adolescent, her brain trailing her body in development. Recently, she has become more interested in contact of any sort with us. She minds where we are, beating a hasty path after us if we rise from a chair to leave the room, sometimes licking our ankles as we go. She lies next to me on the couch, her body contorted to maximize body-to-body contact. Continued here

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What can we expect from the new Carolean age? If the second Elizabethan era drew to a close on the 8 September, the second Carol or Carolean age began on Saturday 10 September with the accession of Charles III. Prior to that we – or more accurately our ancestors – have lived through Georgian, Edwardian and Victorian times to name but a few of the various ‘ages’ in England, branded by the sovereign at the time. Continued here

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Remembering the 'Ice Widows' of a Doomed Antarctic Expedition In October 1907, sculptor Kathleen Bruce was enjoying teatime at a friend’s home. Many fabulous bohemian types were in attendance—actors, artists, writers. But one person stood out to Bruce, Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott. “He was not very young, perhaps forty, nor very good-looking, but he looked very healthy and alert, and I glowed rather foolishly and suddenly when I clearly saw him ask his neighbour who I was,” she later wrote in her diary. Within the year they were married. Four months after that, Bruce was pregnant. And three years later, her husband was dead. After reaching the South Pole on his second Antarctic expedition, only to discover a Norwegian team had beaten them there, Scott, Edward Wilson, Edgar Evans, Lawrence Oates, and Henry Bowers all perished in their attempt to return to base camp. Continued here

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Stone Skipping Is a Lost Art. Kurt Steiner Wants the World to Find It. Meet an amazing man who has dedicated his entire adult life to stone skipping, sacrificing everything to produce world-record throws that defy the laws of physics. To hear him tell it, he has no choice. Continued here

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Life on Screen: A Reality Television Reading Reality TV: Guilty pleasure or public service? Continued here

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10 Great Movies About 10 of History's Worst People These 10 people are among the worst humans in history—merciless despots, ruthless killers, stock brokers—but their horrific deeds provide the raw material for fascinating, unforgettable films that examine what makes evil tick. Maybe watching one of these movies could help you recognize and avoid real-life evil. Probably not, but they’re great movies anyway. Continued here

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The lavish history of saffron: A spice worth more than gold Once a sign of extravagant wealth, saffron used to be one of England's most prized exports. Now the "red gold" spice is returning to British fields Continued here

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German Apple Pancakes Recipe While dousing these apple pancakes in rum and setting them on fire is optional, it makes for a truly dramatic presentation. The recipe comes from food writer and former Gourmet editor-in-chief Ruth Reichl, who grew up eating a version of the dish at Lüchow’s, a legendary German restaurant in New York. Continued here

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Squid Game and the 'Untranslatable': The Debate Around Subtitles Explained As the global popularity of the Korean thriller continues to grow, there have been debates over the quality of the English subtitle translation, particularly on social media. Many people who claim to be English-Korean bilinguals argue the translation does not do justice to the brilliantly written stories, clever dialogue and script. Some even argue that if you have watched the show in English, you haven't really watched it at all. Continued here

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I Had an Affair, and My Children Won't Forgive Me Parenting advice on extramarital affairs, stepchildren, and meat-eating. Continued here

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What's the right age to get a smartphone? As a parent, you'd be forgiven for thinking of a smartphone as a sort of Pandora's box with the ability to unleash all the world's evils on your child's wholesome life. The bewildering array of headlines relating to the possible impact of children's phone and social media use are enough to make anyone want to opt out. Apparently, even celebrities are not immune to this modern parenting problem: Madonna has said that she regretted giving her older children phones at age 13, and wouldn't do it again. Continued here

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Scholar who saw all this coming: Americans "do not really understand liberal democracy" But why has it taken the country's leaders, and Americans in general, so long to accept this clear and obvious fact? The rise of the global right and its assault on democracy in America, Europe and around the world should not have been a surprise. This crisis was decades in the making. The end of the Cold War was not in fact the "end of history," and did not signify the permanent triumph of Western-style democracy and late-stage capitalism. Indeed, that moment of triumphalism helped set the stage for the rise of right-wing populism and other dark forces that began to systematically undermine the foundations and tenets of the liberal democratic order. Continued here

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'These Kids Are Dying' -- Inside the Overdose Crisis Sweeping Fort Bragg A staggering total of 109 soldiers assigned to Fort Bragg died in 2020 and 2021. Dozens have lost their lives there to drug overdoses. Now, their families are demanding answers — and accountability… Continued here

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The Most Effective Way to Organize Your Suitcase Using Packing Cubes But as sweat started to bead on my forehead as I sat on top of my trusty Away suitcase in my room at the Signia San Jose, once again needing some elbow grease to zip it shut, I realized organizational value might outweigh an extra few ounces. As it turned out, Away has its own set of packing cubes perfectly sized for its suitcase—and they even provide compression so I could continue overstuffing, minus the mess and stress. Continued here

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How nine women are helping save India's mangroves – with foraging and eco-tours On a hot summer afternoon along the Mandavi River, Shweta Hule wraps her sari around her ankles and bends to her foraging, picking wild "weeds" from the creek and dropping them into a bowl. The plants will be made into fritters, to be served at the little restaurant attached to the B&B Hule manages in the Indian coastal town of Vengurla. Continued here

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The Future of Performance Reviews Hated by bosses and subordinates alike, traditional performance appraisals have been abandoned by more than a third of U.S. companies. The annual review’s biggest limitation, the authors argue, is its emphasis on holding employees accountable for what they did last year, at the expense of improving performance now and in the future. That’s why many organizations are moving to more-frequent, development-focused conversations between managers and employees. Continued here

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The biggest myths of the teenage brain Terri Apter, a psychologist, still remembers the time she explained to an 18-year-old how the teenage brain works: "So that's why I feel like my head's exploding!" the teen replied, with pleasure. Continued here

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These 3 Personality Traits Affect What You Earn — but Only After Age 40 We often hear about the power of personality in shaping our careers — how some traits are beneficial while others are more harmful. But it is less clear when personality traits matter most and who benefits most from them. A recent paper investigates this by looking at the connection between personality traits and lifetime earnings among men at different ages. It finds that men’s earnings are not affected by personality at all in the beginning of their careers, but that men who are more conscientious and extroverted, as well as less agreeable, reap large benefits between their 40s and 60s. The evidence also points to a subgroup of men who benefit from these traits more than twice as much as others: those with a graduate education. Continued here

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Richard Rusczyk Is a Math Evangelist Who Preaches Problem-Solving | Quanta Magazine When Richard Rusczyk became interested in math competitions as a middle schooler in the early 1980s, the contest problems looked nothing like the ones in his math classes. He couldn't find any book to guide him — there were only the problems themselves. Continued here

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Mark Cuban Says the Worst Career Advice is As Cal Newport writes in So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Search for Work You Love, "Telling someone to follow their passion can be disastrous. That advice has probably resulted in more failed businesses than all the recessions combined, because that's not how the vast majority of people end up owning successful businesses." Continued here

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Night owls at high risk of certain chronic diseases, study says | CNN Being predisposed to being a night owl may put you at a higher risk for developing type 2 diabetes and heart disease than being a morning person, a new study found. Continued here

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Our Solar System's Demise Our solar system is on its way out. Slowly. Over the next several billion years, a series of unfortunate events will take place, spanning from the not-so-great to the truly tragic. Afterward, our solar system will be gone: All of the planets will be lost and the sun will be a solitary white dwarf. Continued here

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Cats Give the Laws of Physics a Biiiiig Stretch In October of 1894, at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, the renowned physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey showed a series of photographs that sent his colleagues into collective uproar. In the flurry of accounts that followed, one conference attendee proclaimed that Marey had presented a scientific paradox that violated the fundamental laws of how objects moved. Continued here

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The Trouble With Boutique Colleges I took a lot of static on social media this week after I wrote on Tuesday about my concerns that Biden’s executive order forgiving certain student loans for certain groups of borrowers might not be good politics for the Democrats going into an election. The anger is understandable. I think and write about politics, and I’m worried that centrist Democrats in tight races are already backpedaling away from the Biden plan. But for most people, “Will this help Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell?” is not the first thing that comes to mind if you offer to erase $10,000 of their debts. Continued here

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Opinion | These 12 Teachers Don't See Themselves as Superheroes Across the United States, education has become one of the hottest and most keenly felt political issues. Ever since the Covid pandemic began, governors, mayors, union officials, legislators and school board members have been arguing — often quite fiercely — about fundamental questions: When should schools reopen? What should be taught there? What is the purpose of public education? Who should decide these questions? Continued here

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Roger Federer leaves behind a distinct, beautiful mark on tennis - Sports Illustrated The country of Switzerland is flush with fountains. But you are unlikely ever to see people throwing coins into one. A tradition virtually everywhere else in the world, this ritual never caught on in Switzerland for a simple reason. There’s no need to wish for good luck when you already have it. As one native son put it, “Only the poor have to hope.” Continued here

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English football has commercialism of US sports without their egalitarianism New Chelsea co-owner Todd Boehly raised the hackles of some of English football’s most annoying people last week when he suggested that the Premier League could learn from America and consider introducing an All-Star-style game to boost TV revenue. “US investment into English football is a clear and present danger to the pyramid and fabric of the game,” thundered Gary Neville on Twitter, in an emblematic reaction. “They just don’t get it and think differently.” Continued here

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I was a teenage Napster obsessive – and illegal downloading changed my music taste for good It's 6pm on a weeknight in 2002. I settle into a desk chair and thump the huge, round power button on the family computer with my big toe. It clunks like a manual typewriter returning. Several minutes of whirring and clunking ensue as Windows XP boots up, bathing my 13-year-old face in its harsh blue glow. Next, another few minutes of what sounds like Wall-E being fed through a meat grinder as I connect to the internet, preventing my mother from making or receiving phone calls for the next hour. I immediately open Napster and queue downloads for as many horribly compressed, incorrectly titled songs as possible and watch them race to 100%. Out of Reach by the Get Up Kids competes with Method Man's Bring the Pain. Jostling beneath them, probably: a selection of Slipknot singles, Fiona Apple's entire discography, an unspeakable amount of Ween. Also Tom Lehrer reciting the elements over a Gilbert and Sullivan tune, popular at the time for reasons I no longer remember. Continued here

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Curry omelette and kitchri: Rukmini Iyer's recipes for quick Indian meals Quick, Indian-inspired dishes make for great weeknight dinners . With just a handful of store-cupboard spices, you can transform simple ingredients - eggs, rice, lentils - into a feast. Growing up, my mum always told me that kitchri, the dish from which kedgeree originated, was made during the monsoon season, because, even if you couldn't get out to the shops, you'd always have potatoes, rice and lentils in the cupboard. Here's my version, along with masala frittata, my favourite way to use up eggs and potatoes. Continued here

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Of all the legal threats Trump is facing, is this the one that could take him down? The former president’s attorneys have raced to put out one fire after another in recent months as they defend Trump from investigations into the squirrelling away of secret documents at Mar-a-Lago, his part in the storming of the Capitol during his last days in office, and twin probes into his business dealings in New York. Continued here

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Roberts and Kavanaugh Issue a Surprise Warning Shot to Conservative Lawyers The justices will tolerate only so much funny business. Continued here

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Six perfect New England towns for a fall getaway - The Boston Globe From breathtaking views and foliage to charming seacoasts and Main Streets, these regional gems are great places to have a classic autumn experience. Continued here

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Traveling This Fall? Expect Cheaper Prices, 'Seasonal Drift' and, Yes, Chaos Flying has been maddeningly unpredictable. Airline and hotel prices remain high. And inflation has forced many people to cut back on appliances and new clothes. Delayed vacations, conventions and weddings have led to booked resorts and hotels, creating a sort of seasonal drift that has forced travelers to pay summer prices for fall trips. Continued here