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House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries kicks off 100 days until midterms with affordability agenda 0
- Gear / Gear News and Events, General, News, Newsletters, Security / Security News, US
- July 26, 2026
The setting is on the Pennsylvania battlefield. What is at stake is control of the House. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries will unveil the party’s Fighting for an Affordable America agenda on Sunday, with the midterm elections 100 days away and working to focus voters’ attention ahead of November. In Pennsylvania’s 7th District, located in
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Family of man shot and killed by Madison police says it was ‘exceptional’0
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- July 26, 2026
MADISON, Wisconsin.- The Madison police officer who shot and killed Corey Ruiz on a busy street should face criminal charges, civil rights attorney Ben Crump said Friday, after angry protests erupted over videos showing the fight. “Not only did they take him down, not only did they Taser him, not only did they kick him,
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The “rocket and feathers” effect: inflation decreases but food bills do not 0
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- July 26, 2026
Economics has a term for what food prices have done in the United States in recent years: skyrocket. Rockets, because the cost of food consumed at home skyrocketed after the pandemic. Feathers, because once prices rise, they take time to fall. This has been frustrating for Americans hit by the largest increase in food prices
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Seattle police searching for two men who parachuted from the Space Needle 0
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- July 26, 2026
The Seattle Police Department is searching for two men who climbed over the glass wall of the city’s iconic Space Needle on Friday, jumped over the edge and parachuted from the 605-foot structure. The jumpers face charges of trespassing, according to a report provided by Public Affairs Officer Brian Pritchard. The BASE jumpers purchased tickets
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How the cheerful ‘teenage acquisitions’ trend on social media took a serious turn 0
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- July 25, 2026
When 18-year-old Damarion Spann saw a flyer on Instagram calling for a mass gathering on a beach near downtown Chicago, she immediately wanted to go. Thousands of people joined him that night in the arena, playing music and dancing. The cultural trend of so-called teen power grabs has emerged across the United States in recent
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Fourth firefighter dies from injuries in western Colorado fire 0
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- July 25, 2026
A fourth firefighter died from burns after he and several colleagues were overwhelmed by a fast-moving wildfire near the Colorado-Utah border last month, authorities said Saturday. Nathan Matthews, 43, died Friday, the federal Department of the Interior said in a statement. He was from Lincoln, Nebraska. “This is another heartbreaking loss for our wildfire family,”
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