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The Supreme Court just blew up Trump’s foreign policy

Editor’s note, February 21, 4 pm ET: President Trump said Saturday that he would impose a global tariff of 15 percent to replace the tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court. This story was originally published on February 20. President Donald Trump’s approach to foreign policy so far has been to speak loudly and carry […]

Potomac River Flooded With 240 Million Gallons Of Sewage

The Potomac River, a waterway that winds through the nation’s capital, is in the midst of an ecological crisis after one of the largest sewage spills in U.S. history, with over 240 million gallons of raw human waste threatening the health of the river and the safety of those who depend on it. What do […]

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Building Zavala 4.0

Maurice Parker: Adding data syncing to any application is hard. iCloud helps with that somewhat, but it is still really hard to get right. Shoehorning a hierarchical data structure like an outline into a flat data structure like iCloud is super hard and I did not get it right the first time. While I did […]

Arizona Age Verification Bill

Ken Macon (Hacker News): Arizona legislators have introduced what may be the most aggressive app store age verification bill in the country. House Bill 2920 would require age verification not just for app downloads, but for preinstalled software, the browser, the text messaging app, the search bar, the calculator, and the weather widget. Every piece […]

France’s Social Media Ban

RTÉ (Hacker News): French politicians have passed a bill that will ban social media use by under-15s, a move championed by President Emmanuel Macron as a way to protect children from excessive screen time. […] It will now go to the Senate, France's upper house, ahead of becoming law. […] The legislation, which also provides […]