Consumer advocate Lindsay Owen’s new book, Gouged, traces how corporations use software—from ever-changing prices to opaque algorithms—to squeeze every penny from you.

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As the Pentagon prepares to downgrade or eliminate senior billets by January 1, 2027, Trump officials are discussing Russian energy and economic cooperation while Moscow's war on Ukraine continues.

Utility disconnections were up 28% in 10 states in July 2026 – the hottest month ever recorded in the US – compared with July 2024, data shows

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"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

A visit to the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam showed me how changes in the law were used by the Nazis to push their agenda. It’s a warning from history we must heed before it’s too late.

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‘The push against datacenters speaks to the frustration of people who don’t feel they are making the choices in their lives’

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mamdani.

Trump explains to the Chinese president how he’s destroying democracy

Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.

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Trump’s war on the free press is continuing.

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The US’s oil deal with Venezuela faces multiple legal and logistical problems, including questions about whether it can be implemented

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