#Musk plans to strip headlines from news articles on X

#Musk plans to strip headlines from news articles on X

Billionaire Elon Musk, the owner of X, a social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has shared plans to strip headlines and other text from posts that display a news article’s lead image. The change, first reported Monday by Fortune, would mean that users — from individuals to publishers — would have to manually add…

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#Why are Congress’s budget experts failing to address the rise of climate-related health care spending?

#Why are Congress’s budget experts failing to address the rise of climate-related health care spending?

Beyond its role of scoring the budgetary and economic effects of proposed legislation, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) independently publishes reports and working papers addressing more than two dozen topics intended, in part, to enhance the office’s transparency and encourage external review and comment. Under the topic of “climate and the environment,” the CBO has…

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#Trouble looms for Senate GOP despite recruiting wins

#Trouble looms for Senate GOP despite recruiting wins

Senate Republicans’ string of major recruiting wins could soon be coming to an end as the party prepares for less-than-welcome entries in two races that could help decide the fate of the Senate majority next year.  Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) and former gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake are widely expected to launch bids for the upper…

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