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Carter Funeral Service to Be Held at Washington National Cathedral on Jan. 9 (Peter Baker/New York Times)

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Mesa's Terrific Year With Better Vulkan Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Same-Day Vulkan 1.4

The open-source Mesa 3D graphics driver had a rather great year with a number of performance optimizations landing, on-time support for Intel Lunar Lake and Battlemage Xe2 graphics, early AMD RDNA4 support, multiple drivers having same-day Vulkan 1.4 support, the continued progress of the open-source NVIDIA NVK Vulkan driver, and much more thanks to the con…
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Guardian Angels start patrolling NYC subway trains again after shocking murder of woman who was burned alive: 'I've never seen it this bad' (New York Post)

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Georgia AG wants Trump administration to restrain rising migrant farm worker pay

Attorney General and announced gubernatorial candidate Chris Carr is hoping a new administration in Washington will mean relief for Georgia farmers who are set to pay more to migrant agricultural wo...

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It's New Year's Eve 2040 in the land of idiocracy

Columnist Sabrina Haake imagines the future in this satire piece.

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Nearly 200 WI ballots mysteriously went uncounted on Election Day — officials still don’t know why

On Election Day in Madison, nearly 200 absentee ballots slipped through the cracks. They weren’t processed or counted. Most of them weren’t even discovered until almost a month later.

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'Bills are all made up': 3 people, 1 accident – and 3 wildly different ambulance charges

In retrospect, Peggy Dula said, she shouldn’t have taken the ambulance. She was the least injured of the three siblings who were in a car when it was struck by a pickup truck last September. Her daugh...

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What if every pet was vegan? Here’s how much it would help the planet

At least a quarter of all human-generated greenhouse gas emissions to date can be traced to the livestock industry. Vast tracts are used to grow feed crops and to graze the world’s 92 billion cows, pi...

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'Bad options': New battle ahead in Congress presents 'nightmare' challenge for Trump

The recent spending battle in Congress found President-elect Donald Trump at odds with some of the Tea Party firebrands and budget hawks in his party. Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) voted "no" on one of the ...

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'Red meat for the Trump base': Yale historian destroys MAGA dream as 'a fantasy'

Donald Trump has set his sights on the Americas, threatening to retake the Panama Canal if Panama doesn’t lower fees for U.S. ships. The United States controlled the waterway until 1977, when Presiden...

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Insurers continue to rely on doctors whose judgments have been criticized by courts

These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.

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Republicans in 'chaotic disarray' as US faces 'difficult for years for democracy': analysis

During the 2024 presidential race, MSNBC legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Joyce White Vance repeatedly warned that if Republican Donald Trump won, it would be very bad for the rule of law.

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'Attempted murder': White teen called Black victim 'George Floyd' during 'heinous' drowning attempt

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd's dying words were, "I can't breathe" — which became a slogan during the protests that followed all around the world.

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