Politics
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Arizona and Tennessee Led the Nation in Do Not Call Complaint Rates—But the Data Measure Reporting, Not Ringing
Arizona residents filed 1,028 National Do Not Call Registry complaints for every 100,000 people in fiscal 2025, the highest rate among the 50 states. Tennessee followed at 1,017. At the other end of the table, Hawaii recorded 393 complaints per 100,000—meaning Arizona’s reported rate was about 2.6 times Hawaii’s. Those figures provide a useful answer…
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Claude Fable 5 Users Report Rapid Token Consumption and Rising Bills, Data Shows
Since Claude Fable 5’s June 9 launch, users have documented usage-limit windows exhausted in minutes and metered bills reaching thousands of dollars a month — a look at the numbers, Anthropic’s explanation, and the pricing changes that followed.
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Opinion: Mamdani’s ‘Click-to-Cancel’ Rule Is the Rare City Hall Win You Can Actually Feel
USA Times editorial: Mayor Mamdani’s new click-to-cancel rule, taking effect October 1, deserves more credit than it’s gotten — for the policy and for how fast City Hall moved on it.
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NYC’s New ‘Click-to-Cancel’ Rule Takes Effect October 1, Requiring Subscription Cancellations to Match Sign-Up Ease
New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection has adopted a rule requiring businesses to let customers cancel subscriptions as easily as they signed up. Mayor Mamdani announced the final rule July 10; it takes effect October 1 citywide.
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Mamdani Reverses Course, Says New York City Lacks Authority to Arrest Netanyahu
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani says his administration concluded the city cannot enforce the ICC’s arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu, reversing a year-long campaign pledge. A look at the legal and historical record, from Clinton’s 2000 signature to this week’s reversal.
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NPR: A Case Study in Presidential Coverage
Final census: 21,904 NPR URL/headline records explicitly name the sitting U.S. president by surname across Obama’s second term, Trump’s first term, Biden’s term and Trump’s second term through July 17, 2026. The wording is measurably more negative for both Trump periods, but lexical sentiment alone does not establish partisan bias or answer whether public funding…