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21+ min ago (71+ words) The daily hard sudoku puzzle from The Week A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day " and the best features from TheWeek.com Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives. The daily codeword puzzle from The Week The daily medium sudoku puzzle from The Week The daily crossword from The Week The daily hard sudoku puzzle from The Week...

21+ min ago (71+ words) The daily medium sudoku puzzle from The Week A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day " and the best features from TheWeek.com Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives. The daily hard sudoku puzzle from The Week The daily codeword puzzle from The Week The daily crossword from The Week The daily medium sudoku puzzle from The Week...

26+ min ago (499+ words) A mailman has an urgent message for women on his route: do not walk around your houses naked unless you want your local postal employee to see it. "So around this time last year, I came to y'all as a grown mailman and asked politely if you could close your windows," Michael Morgan II said in a video with 78,000 views. "You guys didn't listen. So to the lady in the kitchen dancing in your undies, I [saw] you. You can't dance, and I [saw it]." To his surprise, a majority of the women in his comments section simply didn't care if he saw them. They're gonna keep dancing like no one's watching. Morgan was clearly uncomfortable encountering near-naked women on his routes, although he had a good laugh about it. Commenters quickly let him know that his discomfort was noted…...

26+ min ago (1550+ words) A strange porn subculture reveals what life online is doing to us. Open the internet today, and you'll find entire worlds most of us never encounter. Spaces built around practices so strange, so hyper-specific, they read like satire at first glance. Few writers have explored this frontier more vividly than Daniel Kolitz. His Harper's essay, "The Goon Squad," is part ethnography, part cultural diagnosis, and part prophecy about where the internet may be taking all of us. I invited Kolitz onto The Gray Area to talk about what he discovered inside these communities and what "gooning" " he'll explain below " reveals about the rest of us. As always, there's much more in the full podcast, which drops every Monday, so listen and follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, or wherever you find podcasts. What's your simplest definition of gooning? Gooning…...

26+ min ago (302+ words) Our advice columnists have heard it all over the years'so today we're diving into the archives of Care and Feeding to share classic parenting letters with our readers. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. From: We've Never Asked Our Tween to Do Chores. Is It Too Late to Start? (July 7th, 2021.) 'Congratulations, It's a Boy and He's 13! This is both super hard and super normal. As you say, it is entirely age-appropriate for a 13-year-old to want to behave like this all the time. It's also entirely appropriate for a parent to intervene to stop it. Ideally, you will land somewhere in the middle. Maybe, if there's a lot of backlash, you can set it up as a monthlong policy that expires after four weeks but can be reinstated if there is trouble. Running a household is…...

26+ min ago (390+ words) My sister and I are identical twins, but we grew up terrorizing each other. I was the girly girl, while she was on her way to a PhD in preschool. I had a learning disorder, and my sister would constantly correct people and say she wasn't the "stupid" one'I was. My husband and I were debating whether to have a third child when my sister bulldozed in. She was ready to be a mom, had everything planned out, saved, and sorted, except her eggs weren't viable. So the completely obvious solution was to give her our embryos! No, no, no. Absolutely not. You can't and shouldn't do this. Your already fragile relationship would crumble under the pressure of IVF and the emotional complications of her carrying your embryo to term. "I'm not comfortable doing it," "We don't get along and…...

26+ min ago (1504+ words) A bad year for the United States, a better one for China. The year 2025 seems nearly certain to enter the books tied with 2023 as the second-hottest ever measured, trailing only 2024. Since both of those earlier years were influenced by a strong El Ni'o event, this one will have the dubious distinction of being the hottest without such an extraneous force. This is apparently what business as usual looks like for a planetary climate carrying our atmosphere's current load of carbon dioxide and methane. On the three-year moving average by which we measure such things, the Earth is now inching ever-closer to the 1.5-degree-Celsius increase in temperature set out as a goal to avoid just a decade ago at the Paris climate talks. And diplomatic events in 2025 did little to ease fears about what's coming. The thirtieth Conference of the Parties…...

29+ min ago (311+ words) Top court sentences Alejandro Gil in the highest profile case against an ex-official in Cuba in decades. Cuba's top court has sentenced former Economy Minister Alejandro Gil to life in prison for espionage following a closed-door trial, in one of the country's highest-profile cases in decades. In a statement on Monday, the Supreme Popular Tribunal said Gil also received a second concurrent prison sentence of 20 years on corruption charges. These include bribery, falsification of documents and tax evasion. Gil, who served as economy minister from 2018 to 2024, was once a close confidant of President Miguel Diaz-Canel. The 61-year-old politician was sacked in February 2024 and had not been seen or heard from until the trials. The court did not give details about what exactly the former minister did or who he was spying for. It said Gil had engaged in "corrupt and…...

39+ min ago (650+ words) Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi alleges Rwanda has violated newly-signed accord as M23 fighters reportedly advance towards Uvira. The president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Felix Tshisekedi, has accused Rwanda of violating a newly signed US-brokered peace deal, as the Kigali-backed M23 armed group pressed ahead with a rapid advance on a town near the border with Burundi. Tshisekedi told lawmakers on Monday that Rwandan forces had carried out attacks in several locations in South Kivu province in the days since he and his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, signed a peace accord in Washington, DC on December 4, aimed at ending years of conflict. "Despite our good faith and the recently ratified agreement, it is clear that Rwanda is already violating its commitments," Tshisekedi alleged, claiming that the Rwandan army had carried out and supported attacks with heavy weaponry "on the…...

41+ min ago (10+ words) Seems kind of obvious once you realize what it is....