
The New Yorker
D.C. POSTCARD: LAUGHING ON THE OUTSIDE
The Washington, D.C., air clung to the skin like a damp washcloth one Saturday not long ago. But inside the Mead Theatre it was almost cold enough to see your breath. A coltish woman tightened her shawl around her shoulders and watched as her fellow federal workers—some laid off, others still clinging to their jobs like passengers on a listing ship—improvised a scene.
3 min |
July 28, 2025

The New Yorker
THE SECRET KEEPERS
The C.I.A. is accustomed to threats—but now they're coming from above.
10+ min |
July 28, 2025

The New Yorker
THE WHISKER WARS
The social history of a peculiar American fascination.
9 min |
July 28, 2025

The New Yorker
MONEY TALKS
Howard Lutnick, Trump's tariff czar, wants the rest of the world to pay up.
10+ min |
July 28, 2025

The New Yorker
THAT'S THE WAY LOVE GOES
“Love Island USA” reaches its conclusion.
6 min |
July 28, 2025

The New Yorker
THE FLOOD WILL COME
How to think about the formidable power of rivers.
10+ min |
July 28, 2025

The New Yorker
MASKING FOR TROUBLE
“Eddington” is a slog, but a slog with ambitions—and its director and screenwriter, Ari Aster, is savvy enough to cultivate an air of mystery about what those ambitions are.
6 min |
July 28, 2025

The New Yorker
DEPT. OF MASKED MEN: FOUL BALL
Since President Trump took office, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement have swarmed areas with immigrant populations, questioning people and making arrests. They’ve patrolled near schools and raided a homeless shelter. They arrested a four-year-old, two students of New York City public schools, and an Army veteran who happened to be Latino. Recently, masked and armed ICE agents descended on a baseball field in Riverside Park. They questioned a dozen or so eleven-to fourteen-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, and left only after a confrontation with their coach, Youman Wilder, whom they threatened with arrest. He said, “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.
3 min |
July 28, 2025

The New Yorker
Sink or Swim
Fifty years ago, a glitchy yet terrifying animatronic shark persuaded movie audiences never to go in the water again. Luckily—for the photographer Tod Papageorge, at least—it didn't keep people off the beaches. That same year, 1975, Papageorge was making his way across the country, from New York City, where he'd become known for his 35-mm. street scenes, to Los Angeles, where he'd shoot throngs of sun-dazed, sweat-glazed beachgoers with a clunkier medium-format camera. He made four trips to L.A.'s beaches between 1975 and 1988, and a selection of the resulting black-and-white photographs—detail-rich, often dense, rapturous yet funny tableaux of stripped-down bodies engaged in sport or sprawled on the sand—will be on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Connecticut through October 26th.
1 min |
July 28, 2025

The New Yorker
Stephen Colbert on Kenneth Tynan's "Fifteen Years of the Salto Mortale"
When Mr. Remnick asked me to write a seven-hundred-and-twenty-five-word Take on Kenneth Tynan’s 1978 Profile of Johnny Carson, I said, “My honor, cher David.” (New Yorker editors love when you use foreign words. They’re weak for anything italicized. Anything.) “I write a late-night show. I eat seven hundred words for breakfast.” In actuality, I host a late-night show and have a low-glycemic smoothie for breakfast. My doctor says the words were clogging my carotid, and, after reading “Fifteen Years of the Salto Mortale,” I need a statin.
3 min |
July 28, 2025

The New Yorker
MAKE IT NEW: SHED LIFE
The golden age of the shed—New York City’s outdoor-dining boom, circa summer, 2020—produced some impressive structures. At Carbone, the fancy Italian place, people ate rigatoni in a cabin made of navy-blue wood siding with red velvet curtains.
3 min |
July 28, 2025

The New Yorker
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
COMMENT - THE EPSTEIN PROBLEM
4 min |
July 28, 2025

The New Yorker
GOINGS ON
What we're watching, listening to, and doing this week.
3 min |
July 28, 2025

The New Yorker
THE CASE FOR LUNCH
Notes on an underappreciated meal.
10+ min |
July 28, 2025

The New Yorker
JERSEY BOY
The sleazy, vaguely unsettling sounds of Mk.gee.
5 min |
July 28, 2025

Scoop USA Newspaper
Trump's magnet of malevolence
The conventional explanation for why Trump's second term is far more extreme than his first (which was extreme enough) is that the guardrails are now gone.
2 min |
ScoopDigital, Vol. 6, No. 24

Scoop USA Newspaper
Department of State introduces redesigned, user-friendly provisional ballot envelopes
Continuing the Shapiro Administration's commitment to strengthening our democracy and keeping our elections safe and secure, Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt announced that the Department of State has redesigned the provisional ballot envelopes that counties use in an effort to improve legibility and make the envelope more user-friendly.
2 min |
ScoopDigital, Vol. 6, No. 24

Scoop USA Newspaper
PA House approves Cephas bill to protect older homeowners
This week, the PA House of Representatives passed legislation sponsored by state Rep. Morgan Cephas, D-Phila., to protect homeowners from unknowingly losing their home and generational wealth. Senior citizens and other homeowners on a fixed income often refinance their homes utilizing a reverse mortgage based on the benefit of an immediate financial gain without fully understanding the long-term outcome of the agreement.
1 min |
ScoopDigital, Vol. 6, No. 24

Scoop USA Newspaper
Is the Jeffrey Epstein scandal finally behind us? Don't bet on it
When a reporter asked Attorney General Pam Bondi about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation on Tuesday, President Trump could not contain himself a moment longer.
4 min |
ScoopDigital, Vol. 6, No. 24

Scoop USA Newspaper
Praise and Worship
A father with two sons
1 min |
ScoopDigital, Vol. 6, No. 24

Techlife News
SAMSUNG ANNOUNCES THE GALAXY Z FOLD 7, A FOLDABLE PHONE THAT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE TWO STACKED PHONES 7
Samsung has officially unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold 7, the latest iteration of its flagship foldable smartphone-and the thinnest, lightest model in the Fold series to date.
4 min |
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GOOGLE INKS $3 BILLION US HYDROPOWER DEAL IN LARGEST CLEAN ENERGY AGREEMENT OF ITS KIND
Google has signed a historic $3 billion hydropower agreement in the United States, marking the largest clean energy deal of its kind and setting a new precedent for corporate sustainability initiatives in the technology sector.
4 min |
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OPENAI LISTS GOOGLE AS CLOUD PARTNER AMID GROWING DEMAND FOR COMPUTING CAPACITY
OpenAl has officially named Google Cloud as one of its cloud infrastructure partners, a move that underscores the increasing demand for high-performance computing resources to support the rapid growth of artificial intelligence applications.
2 min |
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RIVIAN STOCK TICKS UP AS COMPANY PARTNERS WITH GOOGLE ON NAVIGATION SYSTEM
Shares of Rivian Automotive saw an uptick this week following the announcement of a new partnership with Google to integrate an advanced, native navigation system into future Rivian vehicles.
2 min |
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MICROSOFT PUSHES WINDOWS 11 UPGRADE FOR OFFICE ISSUES ON WINDOWS 10
Microsoft has announced changes to its support for Microsoft 365 apps on Windows 10, halting new feature additions while extending security updates.
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GOOGLE TO INVEST $25 BILLION IN DATA CENTERS AND AI INFRASTRUCTURE ACROSS LARGEST U.S. ELECTRIC GRID
Google has committed to investing $25 billion in data centers and AI infrastructure across the PJM Interconnection, the nation's largest electric grid, over the next two years.
2 min |
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TRUMP ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT TO END HOUSE FLOOR REVOLT OVER CRYPTO BILLS
Former President Donald Trump has announced that a deal has been reached to end the House floor revolt triggered by disagreements over proposed cryptocurrency legislation.
4 min |
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APPLE BACKS US RARE-EARTH MAGNETS SUPPLY CHAIN WITH $500 MILLION DEAL
Rare-earth elements are critical for making powerful magnets used in iPhones, Macs, and other gadgets, enabling features like MagSafe charging and efficient cooling systems.
3 min |
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GOOGLE'S ANDROID HEAD CONFIRMS CHROME OS AND ANDROID ARE MERGING
Google's Android head has confirmed that the company is combining Chrome OS and Android into a single platform, a move that could unify its operating systems across devices.
4 min |
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PENTAGON AWARDS $800 MILLION IN AI CONTRACTS TO TECH GIANTS
The contracts are part of a broader initiative to integrate advanced AI into military applications, from logistics to intelligence analysis.
3 min |