This Home Maintenance Expert Says These 7 Crucial Tasks Are Often The Most Forgotten. Are You Guilty Of Skipping Them?

At best, forgetting this task can negatively impact your electricity bill. At worst, it can send your appliance to an early grave...

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Here's How Different The Japanese Elementary School System Is Compared To The US, As Told From Someone Who's Experienced Both

I still dream of the school lunch.

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38 Products You Need If You’re Going To Spend Any Time On A Beach This Summer

With this fancy pants chair you can finally lay on your stomach comfortably *and* read while doing it. ????????

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Logitech Casa Pop-Up Desk Review: A Cute Portable Workstation

This adorable laptop stand, keyboard, and trackpad folds into a little book for you to carry it around.

How Companies Dodge Tariffs

Protectionist trade policies are popular on both the left and right. But some economists say they’re likely to backfire.

The Atlantic Cup deserves better than relegation to Wednesdays

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When MLS considers its top rivalries, it needs to do better by one of the original and best rivalries in the league.

When Major League Soccer began its first season back in 1996, there were a few rivalries that the league attempted to handcraft for TV and for casual fans to latch onto. However, one of the original rivalries in the league didn’t need any manufacturing to organically become the best. When teams from the New York area take on teams from...

The EV industry can’t shake its human rights abuse problem

Workers walk in Glencore’s Mutanda Mine, which Tesla sources cobalt from, in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on June 19th, 2023.  | Photo by Emmet Livingstone / AFP via Getty Images

Mining for minerals used to make EVs and batteries is plagued with allegations of abuse, the latest report from the nonprofit Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) shows. And automakers continue to source materials from some of the worst offenders, The Verge finds.

BHRRC has...

From "Bottled P*ss" To "A Jar Of Fingernails," I Can't Unsee These 18 "Disturbing" Things People Found While Helping Their Friends Move

"He had a pot belly pig for a few months like a year before. There was pig sh*t all behind his couch."

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Apple Makes It Easier to Stare at Your Phone in the Car

Plus: Sony Music tries to keep its catalog out of the clutches of AI, there’s a towering new Lord of the Rings Lego set, and Google’s new AI features march onto the web.

How to Remove Annoying News Widgets From Windows 11

Good news! Microsoft has finally made it possible to use the Widget Board on Windows 11 without being subjected to an onslaught of clickbait news articles.

Here Are Some Hot Takes On Disneyland/Disney World Etiquette — Let's See Where You Stand

Let's see if you know how to have a magical day or not.

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US Official Warns a Cell Network Flaw Is Being Exploited for Spying

Plus: Three arrested in North Korean IT workers fraud ring, Tesla staffers shared videos from owners’ cars, and more.

Riverside County Jail Death Lawsuit Is Settled for $7.5 Million Amid Inquiry

A violent encounter captured on video was part of a surge in jail deaths that spurred an inquiry into the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.

Reese Witherspoon’s Literary Empire

When her career hit a wall, the Oscar-winning actor built a ladder made of books — for herself, and for others.

Under Israeli Bombs, a Wartime Economy Emerges in Gaza

Amid the destruction, a marketplace of survival has arisen focused on the basics: food, shelter and money.

Slovakian Charged in Shooting ‘Was Against Everything’

People who know the suspect described a “weird and angry” loner who wrote erotic poetry, and whose resentments ranged across the political spectrum.

A Would-be Assassin Stirs Europe’s Violent Ghosts

Political violence and polarization stalk Europe today, with ominous echoes of the past.

Can Biden Recapture Lightning in a Bottle in Georgia?

His narrow win there in 2020 was seen as a sign of Georgia’s emergence as a battleground state. But in 2024, President Biden faces a much different climate there.

In His Beloved Philadelphia, Biden Faces Wariness From Black Voters

Even in the president’s favorite political stomping ground, his standing has slipped with Democrats who will be vital to a repeat victory, interviews with nearly two dozen Black voters showed.

The MSI Claw is an embarrassment

Steer clear.

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