Politics & World
Supreme Court Rejects Trump Mail-Ballot Restrictions
The Supreme Court voted 7-2 to deny the Trump administration’s request to enforce a U.S. Postal Service rule restricting mail-in ballots before the November midterm elections.
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Supreme Court Blocks Trump Ballot Order, US Weapons in Orbit, and a Bigfin Squid
The Supreme Court sides against Trump’s mail-ballot order, the Fed readies its first rate hike in years, and a brain implant reads words and gestures.
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Business
Fed Set for First Rate Hike in Three Years
The 10-year Treasury yield topped 5% for the first time since 2007 as the Federal Reserve prepared…
Sources: AP News, Reuters, MarketWatch
Politics & World
US Air Force Confirms Weapons Deployed in Orbit
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said Monday the US has placed weapons in orbit, the military’s first…
Sources: BBC World, Defense News, Ars Technica
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The minimum number of individuals archaeologists found inside an undisturbed mausoleum at Chan Chan, Peru’s pre-Inca capital — a tomb that sat sealed for roughly 600 years. Alongside the burials was a trove of rich funerary objects, and experts have already declared it the ‘discovery of the decade.’
Source: Smithsonian
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Worth a longer read
Iran and America: A tale of two lands and the pistachio between them
How the humble pistachio came to embody the long, tangled histories of Iran and the United States.
DW
“Offensively cheap”: Solar power is looking up
Why solar power has become ‘offensively cheap’ — and what that means for the future of global energy.
Ars Technica · Rachel Millard, Humza Jilani, Monica Mark, and Krishn Kaushik
Underground hydrogen could spur a green-energy revolution — if companies can find it
Why underground deposits of natural hydrogen could spur a green-energy revolution — if companies can actually find them.
Nature · James Mitchell Crow
- Today
The Kennedy Center could shut its doors as early as today, officials warn, unless a financial rescue materializes.
- Sunday, Sept. 20
The NFL’s Week 2 Sunday slate kicks off across the league.
Etcetera
- Watch the elusive, ethereal bigfin squid drift above the seafloor off California
- How much a house cost the year you were born
- Rock stars’ surprisingly ordinary first jobs, from gravedigger Rod Stewart to schoolteacher Sting
- A road-trip guide to America’s Bigfoot museums and monster festivals
- Taylor Swift skipped the Emmys for Arrowhead — with Tom Cruise in her suite
- How wartime radar research accidentally invented the microwave oven
- CatCon returns to Los Angeles for felines and the humans who adore them
Today’s clickbait, so you don’t have toCrocodiles Are Famous for Finding Their Way Home. These Ones Ghosted Instead
On this day · September 15
The Historybook- 1821Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica declare independence from Spain
- 1916Tanks are used in battle for the first time, at the Battle of the Somme
- 1935Nazi Germany enacts the Nuremberg Laws, stripping Jews of citizenship
- 1963A KKK bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church kills four Black girls
- 2008Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy, accelerating the global financial crisis
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Quote of the day
“A woman who wears my clothes is not afraid to be noticed.”
— Bob Mackie, costume designer, who died Monday at 87
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