Snake" by D.H. Lawrence – A modernist poem describing an encounter with an earth-golden and earth-brown snake that comes to drink at a water-trough in Sicily. The narrator struggles between societal conditioning to kill the snake and a deep, instinctive sense of awe and honor. Read the full text on The Poetry Foundation.
The darker the colors the worst the states rate for alarming levels of state unemployment rates.
How Unemployment Rates Compare Across America in 2026
US Postal Service locations to close for multiple days in November
Millennials and Generation Z candidates filed for Congress in record numbers this election cycle, but about 7 in 10 were out of the race by early September, according to a new report from Future Caucus, a nonpartisan nonprofit that works with younger elected officials.
The group counted 3,918 candidates who filed for Congress, 31% more than in 2024. Among those with known or estimated ages, 36.4% were millennials or Gen Z, up from 23.4% in 2024. The report counts everyone who filed and does not track how many were first-time candidates.
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According to one of the world's oldest news organizations most Americans blame President Donald Trump’s policies for persistently high prices as concerns about the cost of living grow, according to a new AP-NORC poll.
The survey finds that 17% of U.S. adults approve of Trump’s handling of the cost of living, while 26% approve of his handling of the economy overall. About two-thirds say his policies are more responsible for high prices than factors outside his control.
Are Republicans tuning on each other or just giving up on party as battle lines shift in races and retreat from front-line districts?
Who continues insisting that he’s on the ballot, and keeps saying he likes guys that are his type?
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The AP reports that a bipartisan group of US Senators is now calling for POTUS to abandon his Russian diesel plan.
Four Republican senators and two Democratic senators now called for President Donald Trump's administration to “immediately reverse course” on a plan to purchase diesel from Russia as part of an effort to lower high fuel prices.