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24 Items That’ll Help Your Closet And Drawers Get Super Organized

Monica Geller herself will salivate at the sight of your closet.

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Tess Owen

Online Talk About ‘Civil War’ Could Inspire Real-World Violence, DHS Warns Cops

The agency also cautioned that it’s unable to get a grasp on the full scale of the threat, due to extremists increasingly using encrypted chat tools.

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Christopher Null

Loop Switch 2 Review: Volume-Adjustable Earplugs

These earplugs let you fine-tune your noise reduction—within reason.

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D/ST rankings for your 2024 fantasy football drafts

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Kate Magdziuk shares her Week 8 defense rankings and highlights several streaming options that could be available in your leagues.

Heading into Week 8, there are no NFL teams on bye, which means a full onslaught of matchups on deck and plenty of options at D/ST. Given the number of games available to choose from, there are plenty of depth plays for those streaming their fantasy defenses in Week 8 that could get you one step closer to a win this...

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Week 8 PPR RB fantasy football rankings including injury news, sleepers, more

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Which running backs will shine in Week 8 for your fantasy football teams? We’ll take a look at all of them in our PPR rankings.

Welcome to Week 8 of the NFL season. With so many wide receiver injuries and defenses built to stop the passing game, running backs have had a strong first half of the season. This week we saw two of the best, Saquon Barkley and Derrick Henry, go off, but catching passes in PPR does help, as well as scoring multiple...

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Week 8 PPR WR fantasy football rankings including injury news, sleepers, more

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Which wide receivers will shine in Week 8 for your fantasy football teams? We’ll take a look at all of them in our PPR rankings.

Welcome to Week 8’s look at fantasy wide receivers. At this point in the season they have all been injured, so we’re going to shelve this post for the time being. Wait, I’m getting news that there is an obscure “next man up” policy that the NFL has implemented. So, I guess they are going to continue to...

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Week 8 PPR TE fantasy football rankings including injury news, sleepers, more

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Which tight end will shine in Week 8 for your fantasy football teams? We’ll take a look at all of them in our PPR rankings.

Welcome to Week 8 of the NFL season. You know the drill. We have some light banter, where I complain about something and give you a quick rundown of the “state of the tight end position,” and then I look at the injuries and give you a couple tight ends I’d be up for streaming this week.

As for the banter, how about...

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Week 8 QB fantasy football rankings including injury news, sleepers, more

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Which quarterback will shine in Week 8 for your fantasy football teams? We’ll take a look at all of them in our rankings.

Welcome to Week 8 of the fantasy football season. The quarterback position isn’t putting up the fantasy numbers we often expect, but one quarterback continues to shine and his name is Lamar Jackson. Despite having already won two league MVP awards, the Ravens quarterback is playing the best he has in his career.

Jackson’s...

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Anemona Hartocollis

Professors in Trouble Over Protests Wonder if Academic Freedom Is Dying

Universities have cracked down on professors for pro-Palestinian activism, saying they are protecting students and tamping down on hate speech. Faculty members say punishments have put a “chill in the air.”

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Hannah Beech, Ryn Jirenuwat and Ulet Ifansasti

Stuffed Into Trucks, 78 Thai Protesters Died. Their Killers Are Still Free.

Twenty years ago, a massacre in southern Thailand fueled an insurgency that has never stopped. If no one is prosecuted for it by Friday, no one ever will be.

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Choe Sang-Hun

What Is North Korea Doing in Ukraine?

North Korea’s supply of munitions has already been critical to the Russian war effort. Now, there are growing fears that it is sending troops as well.

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Kevin Roose

Character.ai Faces Lawsuit After Teen’s Suicide

The mother of a 14-year-old Florida boy says he became obsessed with a chatbot on Character.AI before his death.

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Richard Sandomir

Muere Fernando Valenzuela, beisbolista histórico de los Dodgers, a los 63 años

En 1981, fue galardonado con los premios Novato del Año y Cy Young, y generó el fenómeno llamado “Fernandomanía”, que lo convirtió en uno de los nombres más conocidos del deporte.

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Walt Bogdanich and Carson Kessler

What Drugmakers Did Not Tell Volunteers in Alzheimer’s Trials

Genetic tests showed that certain patients were predisposed to brain injuries if they took the drugs. That information remained secret.

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Ephrat Livni

Who Is Hashem Safieddine, a Hezbollah Official Israel Says It Killed?

A cousin of Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader assassinated earlier by Israel, Safieddine had been seen as a possible successor.

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Hiba Yazbek

Displaced Gazans Brace for Another Harsh Winter

After a year of war, at least one million people are facing months in the cold. Some said tents, blankets and warm clothes now qualified as luxuries.

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Tracy Mumford, Michael Crowley, Rory Smith, Ian Stewart and Jessica Metzger

Blinken Renews Push for Middle East Truce, and U.S. Abortions Increase

Plus, a radical approach to flooding in England.

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Lisa Lerer and Katie Glueck

Why Gender May Be the Defining Issue of the Election

The issue is rarely directly addressed by either Vice President Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. But the 2024 contest is, in ways overt and subtle, a referendum on the role of women in American life.

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Jess Weatherbed

Apple is ‘concerned’ about AI turning real photos into ‘fantasy’

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The upcoming release of Apple Intelligence has spurred the iPhone maker’s own “what is a photo?” moment. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple software chief Craig Federighi said the company is aiming to provide AI-powered image editing tools that preserve photo authenticity.

“Our products, our phones, are used a lot,” said Federighi. “It’s important to us that we help purvey accurate information, not fantasy.”

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Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica

AT&T and T-Mobile Claim Locked Phones Are Good, Actually

Mobile carriers argue that locking devices helps them lower costs. Consumer protection groups see it a little differently.

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