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- French fries, but not mashed potatoes, linked to type 2 diabetes
French fries, but not mashed, baked or boiled potatoes, were linked to type 2 diabetes in a new study whose authors say food preparation makes a difference. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago - How Democrats Tied Their Own Hands on Redistricting
As New York Governor Kathy Hochul denounced the GOP’s aggressive attempt to gerrymander Democrats into political oblivion this week, she lamented her party’s built-in disadvantage. “I’m tired of fighting this fight with my hand tied behind my back,” she told reporters.As political metaphors go, it’s not a bad one. Hochul omitted a key detail, however: Democrats provided the rope themselves. For more than a decade, they’ve tried to be the party of good government on redistricting. But Democrats’ support for letting independent commissions draw legislative maps has cost them seats in key blue states, and their push to ban gerrymandering nationwide flopped in the courts and in Congress.Now that Republicans, at the behest of President Donald Trump, are moving quickly to redraw district lines in Texas and elsewhere in a bid to lock in their tenuous House majority, Democrats want to match them seat for seat in the states that… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago - The War Over America’s Birthday PartyPresident Donald Trump’s attempted takeover of America’s 250th-anniversary celebration began this past spring when his team drew up a $33 million fundraising plan for a series of events starring the president, including a military parade in Washington. America250 had been founded by Congress as a bipartisan effort, with a mission to engage “350 million Americans for the 250th.” But Trump kicked off the final year of preparations with a political rally at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, attacking Democrats before a crowd that waved America250 signs. “I hate them,” Trump proclaimed July 3. “I cannot stand them, because I really believe they hate our country.”Around the same time, Trump’s top political appointee at America250, a former Fox News producer named Ariel Abergel, moved to gain greater influence over the bipartisan commission. He called four Republican commissioners, who had been appointed years ago by then–Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and then–Senate… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago
- This Is What the End of the Liberal World Order Looks Like
Photographs by Lynsey AddarioIn the weeks before they surrendered control of Khartoum, the Rapid Support Forces sometimes took revenge on civilians. If their soldiers lost territory to the Sudanese Armed Forces during the day, the militia’s commanders would turn their artillery on residential neighborhoods at night. On several consecutive evenings in March, we heard these attacks from Omdurman, on the other side of the Nile from the Sudanese capital.From an apartment that would in better times have been home to a middle-class Sudanese family, we would hear one explosion. Then two more. Sometimes a response, shells or gunfire from the other side. Each loud noise meant that a child had been wounded, a grandmother killed, a house destroyed.Just a few steps away from us, grocery stores, busy in the evening because of Ramadan, were selling powdered milk, imported chocolate, bags of rice. Street vendors were frying falafel in large iron… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago - CDC issues warning as China fights chikungunya virus in Guangdong
The mosquito-borne chikungunya is rare in China, but the CDC urges caution and Chinese officials have taken steps compared to its COVID-19 response. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago - Disney’s ESPN To Acquire NFL Media Assets In Major Deal
The deal, which ESPN said would bolster the offerings on its upcoming ESPN streaming service, is subject to regulatory approval. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago
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