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‘We are going to start looking a lot more like Europe’: Millennials are living at home into their 30s, signaling a major shift

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Jeff Bezos is giving $25 million to protect the Pacific—but his climate fund still has about $7 billion left to spend in four years
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Iran says it got a U.S. response to its peace proposal as its currency hits a new record low seven months into the war
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Trump’s tariffs were supposed to boost American manufacturing, but the new levies are actually pushing some companies back to China
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Billionaires have been flooding the midterms with cash, but one of the GOP’s most reliable megadonors just went silent
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