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The 1885 book that graphed the human face into 81 expressions
Genevieve Stebbins built her 1885 acting manual on François Delsarte's method, charting nine brow positions against nine lid positions.
 • Popkin
Police charged the trans couple who said a mob beat them outside a park bathroom
The parish responded to an alleged mob attack and hate crimes with a bathroom ordinance.
 • Jason Weisberger
Susan Collins would like Maine to notice this principled vote
She'll oppose Blanche for attorney general, though Murkowski and Cassidy could still confirm him with McConnell absent.
 • Jason Weisberger
"Exact punishment" in April, "not my business" in August: MAGA Mike Johnson's ethics policy
With Ohio's Max Miller facing gun and abuse allegations that threaten the GOP majority, Johnson now says he'll let the Ethics Committee decide.
 • Jason Weisberger
Trump says coal is "a great business." One in three veteran Appalachian miners has black lung
The disease is back to 1978 levels while Trump delays a silica-dust rule and spends nearly $700 million propping up coal.
 • Jason Weisberger
California makes AI companies leave fingerprints on their slop
Services with over 1 million monthly users must embed provenance data now, though platforms need not display it until 2027.
 • Jason Weisberger
Trump cites a Supreme Court dissent that lost 6–3 to gut endangered-species protections
Effective September 14, a new rule removes habitat destruction from the 50-year-old definition of harm, easing drilling, logging, and mining.
 • Jason Weisberger
The oldest known two-part music was written around the year 900
A short piece praising Saint Boniface, found in 2014 by Giovanni Varelli in a Cambridge manuscript.
 • Popkin
A dietitian's verdict: multivitamins are useless
The memory boost in one large trial came to about a quarter of a word in a 20-word recall test, but psyllium and creatine make her buy list.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Cop dressed as shrub catches 74 texting drivers in 6 hours
The Dunellen Police Department set up on North Washington Avenue, where repeat offenders now face fines approaching $800.
 • Rob Beschizza
NBC News: Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Democratic primary
The progressive beat centrist Haley Stevens despite being outspent 11 to 1, and will face Republican Mike Rogers in November.
 • Rob Beschizza
Fly over ancient Rome as it looked in the second century
Manuel Bravo's drone-style tour flies from the Capitoline Hill past the Roman Forum to the Tullianum prison.
 • Popkin
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