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Aug 19, 2026
Florida Lawmaker Who Voted for Death Penalty for Child Sex Crimes Arrested for Child Sex Crimes
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Aug 19, 2026
One Building, 65 Companies, $35 Million: Law Enforcement Suspended One
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Aug 19, 2026
Researchers Find 427 Primate-Animal Interactions and Call It Proto-Pet-Keeping. Thirteen Animals Died.
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Aug 17, 2026
Gen Z Solves Loneliness by Paying to Sit Silently With Strangers
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Aug 17, 2026
Wisconsin Schools Get 100% Public Funding, Zero Public Oversight — and Call It 'Private'
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Aug 17, 2026
Mining Executives Made Their Biggest Stock Purchases Ever Days Before Trump Shrank the Monument Around Their Mill
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Aug 17, 2026
Trump Blames Vandals for Dead Grass in Exact Shape of His July 4th Stage
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Aug 17, 2026
Man Sanctioned for Injecting AI Prompts in Court Filing After Suspecting Judge Was Using AI
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Aug 15, 2026
The Swatter — August 10–14, 2026
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Aug 15, 2026
Top Takes of the Week — August 10–14, 2026
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Aug 14, 2026
Publisher Fired for Fake AI Writers Rebrands as AI Content Company
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Aug 14, 2026
Trump Orders Pentagon to Replace Half-Installed Catapult System After Nine Years of Complaints
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Aug 14, 2026
Disney Charges Adults $2,599 to Preview Content While Families Price Out of Parks
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Aug 14, 2026
OpenAI Clears Executives Who Knew How to Benefit Humanity Before IPO That Benefits Investors
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Aug 14, 2026
Instagram's Head Calls New 'Instagzam' Logo 'Craft' on a Platform Built for Seeing Things
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Aug 13, 2026
$900 Million in White House Projects Routed Through 'Modest Maintenance' Accounts While Courts Debate Approval
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Aug 13, 2026
AAU Promised 'Historic' Child Safety Reforms in 2012, Then Gave Leadership Award to Coach Banned for Sex With Teens
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Aug 13, 2026
OpenAI's Head of Ethics Left in July — Company Announced It Months Later
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Aug 13, 2026
Woman Finances 50-Episode Drama, Writes Herself 60+ Kiss Scenes, Gets Rejected by Platform
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Aug 13, 2026
Climate funders gave $5M to tribe whose foundational document archivists say 'probably never existed'
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