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The 2026 Senate hopeful says major corporations cost taxpayers far more than social safety net programs.

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Clinton Crawford, an automotive technician, said college was pushed on his kids. “That’s good, if that’s for you, but I don’t think it’s for everyone.”

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Josie Lauducci, a Bay Area nurse, has spent a decade living aboard a sailboat with her family, flying in for her shifts as part of a growing supercommuting workforce.

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A woman in 1996 believed photos and negatives she had taken of her 12-year-old and 16-year-old sisters for a personal art project had been stolen by Epstein.

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The Justice Department’s extensive redactions to the Jeffrey Epstein files on Friday don’t comply with the law that Congress passed last month mandating their disclosure, according to Rep. Ro Khanna. The California Democrat and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., led the effort on the legislation, which required that the DOJ put out its entire trove of […]

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“Simply releasing a mountain of blacked out pages violates the spirit of transparency and the letter of the law,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

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