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9+ min ago (224+ words) A former Republican lawmaker cringed during a segment on CNN after she was shown a clip of President Donald Trump grading his economy on Tuesday. Trump told Politico's podcast, "The Conversation," earlier on Tuesday that his economy gets an "A+++++" for its performance. That's despite public polling showing that about half of Americans see the rising cost of living as their top concern heading into the 2026 midterm. Jamie Herrera Beutler, a former Republican lawmaker from Washington, discussed Trump's comments during a panel on CNN's "The Arena" with host Manu Raju. Raju showed Beutler a clip of Trump saying that voters perceive his economy as doing well. "It's so painful!" she cringed. Trump made his comments ahead of a speech he is giving in a swing district in Pennsylvania on Tuesday night. The president is expected to focus on affordability and…...

14+ min ago (395+ words) Production and Mode of Production Industrialization in England and Consumption of Sugar Conclusion: Sugar as the Lens of Empire and Capitalism Ultimately, sugar's significance lies not only in its economic contribution but also in the way it shaped modernity itself. It forged new forms of labour, reconfigured global trade, supported industrial growth, and altered human diets and desires. Understanding sugar is therefore essential to understanding the world that the British Empire built'and the world we continue to inhabit. Sidney W. Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (1985), Penguin Books. Sidney M. Greenfield, "Plantations, Sugar Cane and Slavery," Historical Reflections / R'flexions Historiques, Vol. 6, No. 1, Roots and Branches: Current Directions in Slave Studies (Summer/t' 1979), pp. 85119. John Clegg, "Capitalism and Slavery," Critical Historical Studies (Fall 2015). Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (University of North Carolina Press, 1964; orig. pub. 1944). David Richardson, "The…...

19+ min ago (192+ words) U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) speaks to reporters as Republican lawmakers struggle to pass U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping spending and tax bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 28, 2025. REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon It's official: Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) is offended by something President Donald Trump said. The longtime Trump superfan and MAGA acolyte almost never disagrees with the president on any issue. However, after Trump's comments at last week's FIFA World Cup draw ceremony, Tuberville took issue with the president's beliefs about what to call American football. Sen. Tuberville told reporters on Tuesday that he disagrees, The Huffington Post's Igor Bobic reported. "We kick the ball too," the former football coach said, objecting to the idea of changing the name. "We're not changing football in our country." "Soccer" came before American football, which evolved through the 1870s and 1880s, reported the Cincinnati Enquirer. Rugby…...

22+ min ago (483+ words) 'Owning Manhattan' star Chloe Tucker Caine gets candid over brunch about Season 2, her Broadway dreams, and the truth behind her former feud with Jade Shenker....

25+ min ago (205+ words) Overall, the outlet found at least 30 people have been removed from the U.S. for traffic violations. "Traffic infractions were not the only minor offenses that landed detainees on the 'worst of the worst' list," the report reads in part. "A Jamaican man was arrested in Tampa, Florida, for marijuana possession, and a Cuban national was picked up in Houston, Texas, for the same conviction, which is not a criminal offense in many states." "The only listed conviction for dozens of others seen by the Beast was 'Illegal Re-Entry,' meaning they had previously been removed from the United States'not what most people think of when they hear 'worst of the worst,'" it added. Noem has accrued several traffic violations herself, none of which resulted in her life being upended in the same manner that she is inflicting upon the deportees, the report…...

26+ min ago (274+ words) CNN political commentator David Axelrod said President Donald Trump is engaged in "an exercise in denial" when it comes to the economy, and added that it will hurt congressional Republicans in the midterms. On Tuesday, Politico released an interview with the president, who gave the economy a grade of "A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus." "I wonder what grade you would give your economy," Politico's Dasha Burns said to Trump. "Yeah, A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus," Trump replied, revising the grade upward. He then insisted that he "inherited a total mess" and claimed that "prices are coming down substantially." Anderson Cooper aired the clip on Tuesday's AC360 on CNN, as well as a snippet of a three-time Trump voter who says the president is not doing enough to bring down costs. The host also showed a clip of the president calling the idea of affordability a "hoax." As AC360 aired, Trump…...

27+ min ago (372+ words) Nia DaCosta directs the follow-up to Danny Boyle's 2025 return to his intense zombie franchise Early reactions to Nia DaCosta's "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple" are in, and some are praising the film "one of the best horror movies of the last decade." That response comes from @EammonJacobs on X, though they were hardly the only social media user to share this sentiment while exiting early screenings. First reactions began pouring in mid-day in the U.S. on Tuesday after viewers at an early London screening started filing out. Many praised DaCosta's direction and Alex Garland's writing for "The Bone Temple," a direct continuation of 2025's "28 Years Later," which was also written by Garland but directed by "28 Days Later" helmer Danny Boyle. "#28YearsLater: The Bone Temple " Yet more evidence that when you let Nia DaCosta cook, great things tend to happen," said @AmonWarmann. "So…...

28+ min ago (987+ words) The upheavals in the global trading system flowing from US president Trump's tariff war against China and much of the rest of world are reflected in the trade surplus figures announced by Beijing on Monday. In the first 11 months of this year China's trade surplus reached $1.08 trillion beating the previous record of $993 billion for 2024 with still a month to go. The Wall Street Journal characterised it as a "remarkable figure, never before seen in recorded economic history." If the Trump administration believed that its tariff measures would constrict China's trade, then it badly miscalculated. So far this year Chinese exports to Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America have risen by 26 percent, 14 percent and 7.1 percent, respectively. Exports to the European Union are up by 15 percent. Southeast Asia is a crucial destination for Chinese exports, some of which are aimed at skirting…...

30+ min ago (579+ words) A quiet ongoing demographic change sweeping the greater part of the world in recent decades has increased the need for policy improvements to cope with its implications, particularly as these trends are likely to intensify further in the near future in several countries, including India. The world-level expectancy at birth increased from 46 in 1950 to over 70 years in 2023. This is reflected in a growing share of the population occupied by persons who are more than 60 years old. It is estimated by 2050 that the people aged 60 years and above will increase to 2.1 billion and will comprise 21 per cent of the global population. What is more, if we look at the even older people over 75 years of age, then their proportion in the total population is set to increase at an even higher rate'by 340% between 2011 and 2050. Hence it has become of increasing importance…...

30+ min ago (214+ words) Secretary of State Marco Rubio has issued an order for diplomats to stop using a word processing typeface he considers too woke, and go back to using Times New Roman, Reuters reported on Tuesday. Rubio's order reverses a 2023 directive from Antony Blinken, then-President Joe Biden's Secretary of State, which "had switched to Calibri, a modern sans-serif font, saying this was a more accessible font for people with disabilities because it did not have the decorative angular features and was the default in Microsoft products." A Dec. 9 cable proclaims, "To restore decorum and professionalism to the Department's written work products and abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program, the Department is returning to Times New Roman as its standard typeface," arguing that serif fonts are a better fit for official work. It's yet another front in Trump's efforts to dismantle so-called diversity,…...