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commentary A first-generation Greek-American reckons with fire, migration and the homeland he left behind Published August 5, 2026 6:30AM (EDT) Firefighters try to extinguish a fire in the town of Plomari on the Greek island of Lesbos. (Manolis Lagoutaris / AFP via Getty Images) The news came the way itContinue Reading

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When roughly 60,000 migrants surged into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in North Africa, much of the American right-wing reacted with predictable horror. President Traitor 47 has likened the scenes to an invasion. He suggested that the Spanish government “doesn’t know what to do” due to “bad management.” The Traitor was secondedContinue Reading

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DELHI, India — “We did it!” The chant rose over Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, an 18th century stone observatory that has served as India’s designated public square for protests since 1993. Thousands of students crowded beneath the monsoon sky, phones held above their heads with news of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignationContinue Reading

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What did Dr. Anthony Fauci know, when did he know it and what did he hide from the American people? These were the questions at the center of a three-hour hearing served up last Wednesday by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Chaired by Kentucky Republican RandContinue Reading

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The memory crisis is getting worse for Apple, which is struggling to get enough memory chips together for its upcoming iPhone 18 Pro series smartphones. That’s according to tech journalist Tim Culpan. As he details it, Apple and its assembly partners are still attempting to secure sufficient quantities of memory, and thoughContinue Reading

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This is a MedPage Today story. Public health officials are looking into reports of a small potential uptick in neurologic complications of influenza in children — particularly a rapidly progressing and dangerous condition called acute necrotizing encephalopathy (ANE). Adrienne Randolph, MD, MSc, of Boston Children’s Hospital, said she reported aboutContinue Reading