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How a fast-moving $50 cash relief program buoyed needy families when SNAP payments were paused
Finances already looked tight for Jade Grant and her three children as she entered the year’s final months. “Everyone’s birthday is back-to-back,” the 32-year-old certified nursing assistant said. “You have holidays coming up. You have Thanksgiving. Everything is right there. And then, boom. No (food) stamps.” Grant is among the nearly 42 million lower-income Americans who get help buying groceries…
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8 Entertaining Die Hard-Style B-Movies for Your Watch List
Casey Chong presents a selection of Die Hard riffs… The Die Hard on a [fill in the setting] subgenre first made its mark after director John McTiernan and then-television star Bruce Willis, of Moonlighting fame, ushered in a new era of action movies in 1988 to critical and financial success with the original Die Hard. It spawned four sequels and…
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AAP leaders booked over Santa Claus skit for ‘outraging religious feelings of Christians’
New Delhi: A police case was lodged on Thursday against AAP’s Delhi unit chief Saurabh Bhardwaj, and two other party leaders over a skit related to air pollution that had a man dressed as Santa Claus, an official said on Thursday. The complainant alleged that the skit outrages the religious feelings of the Christian community as Santa Claus was “revered…
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Man attempts suicide at Makkah’s Grand Mosque; security officer injured
Makkah: A man attempted to take his own life at the Grand Mosque in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, on Thursday, December 25, prompting an emergency response from security personnel stationed at the holy site. In a post on X, the Saudi General Directorate of Public Security shared a video related to the incident, stating that security forces acted promptly to control…
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How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very | Protest
Trump’s first and second terms have been marked by huge protests, from the 2017 Women’s March to the protests for racial justice after George Floyd’s murder, to this year’s No Kings demonstrations. But how effective is this type of collective action? According to historians and political scientists who study protest: very. From emancipation to women’s suffrage, from civil rights to…
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The Weekend Warrior’s Top 25 Movies of 2025
This has been an annual tradition for at least the last 20 years in which I’ve been writing about movies. Although I’m busy as hell with the music stuff on top of all the movie stuff, I’m going to share my year-end list with a few notes, but I’m going to try not to do too much overwriting, as I’m…
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Rural health providers could be collateral damage from $100K Trump visa fee
By Arielle Zionts and Phillip Reese, Kaiser Health news UNITED STATES — Bekki Holzkamm has been trying to hire a lab technician at a hospital in rural North Dakota since late summer. Not one U.S. citizen has applied. West River Health Services in Hettinger, a town of about 1,000 residents in the southwestern part of the state, has four options, and none is good.…
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AI Pivot, Profitability Pressure & Consolidation
The Bitcoin mining industry has faced a harsher operating environment since the 2024 halving, a core feature of Bitcoin’s monetary design that cuts block rewards roughly every four years to enforce long-term scarcity. While the halving strengthens Bitcoin’s economic hardness, it also places immediate pressure on miners by slashing revenue overnight. In 2025, this resulted in the “harshest margin environment…
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Haredi rabbis push English-speakers to dodge IDF draft, worried they might join up
On July 9, hundreds of members of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community gathered at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl military cemetery to accompany one of their own to his final resting place. Two days earlier, Moshe Shmuel Noll, a 21-year-old member of the IDF’s Netzach Yehuda battalion serving in Gaza, had been killed along with four other troops in a roadside bombing. Speaking at…
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Hindutva group disrupts Christian prayer meet in Bengaluru
Hyderabad: In yet another targeted attack towards the Christian community, Hindutva members disrupted a prayer programme in Bengaluru’s Koramangala area, alleging forced religious conversion. A video of one of their member, Satyanishta Arya, visibly hyped up, is seen confronting a Christian priest and members of the congregation. He repeatedly interrupts the prayer meeting and questions the priest about Christian religious…
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