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When I first heard Lily Seabird’s music via her second album, 2025’s Trash Mountain, I slotted her into the 2020s alt-country scene that’s exploded in recent years. And there’s good reason for that — her song “Trash Mountain (1 pm)” is the epitome of the sort of twangy indie rock that’s become commonplace in the wake of breakthroughs by Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman. Though, it turns out, that song is not wholly representative of Seabird’s work — and it certainly doesn’t describe the totality of Lightspheres On Their Way, her latest album. While the influence of Neil Young echoes through…

Deleted: Experts have warned over the past decade of a resurgence in white supremacy in the United States, fuelled in part by the mainstream influence of political figures like President Donald Trump.Just this year, the Public Religion Research Institute released the results of a 2025 survey that asked more than 20,000 US adults to evaluate the statement, “Immigrants are invading our country and replacing our cultural and ethnic background.”Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThat belief is the cornerstone of the great replacement theory, a conspiracy that falsely claims that immigrants, Jews and nonwhite groups seek to supplant white…

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SEATTLE — In a game that looked lopsided for the better part of three quarters, the Chargers did enough Sunday to scare the defending Super Bowl champions.Small victory, but at least it was something for the winless Chargers, who scored a touchdown and field goal in the fourth quarter before falling to the Seattle Seahawks, 30-23.The visitors, who trailed by 19 in the third quarter, were behind by a touchdown when they took over at their 11 with 1:42 remaining. Three plays into that against-all-odds drive, the Seahawks stripped the ball from Justin Herbert, recovered the fumble and ran out the clock.The…

Reporting Highlights An Easy Process: In Arkansas, all it took to establish a school was filling out a form on a state website, $45 and the purchase of an American flag. No Qualifications Needed: Having no experience running a school — or even teaching — didn’t stand in the way of founding schools. Fewer Barriers: We discovered that opening microschools, which are proliferating nationwide, offer an even easier route. These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. We have no business running a private school. We’re reporters, not teachers. That doesn’t matter. Inexperience has…

Expecting families in California’s Pajaro Valley are facing a hard new question: where will they give birth next spring? Leaders at Watsonville Community Hospital have warned that the hospital may have to close its labor and delivery unit or risk shutting down entirely by April 2027, according to Santa Cruz Local.No decision has been made. But the warning lands on a hospital that already closed its neonatal intensive care unit in July and that delivers roughly 31% of all babies born in Santa Cruz County, Lookout Santa Cruz reported on Sept. 28.For a pregnant worker in Watsonville or Pajaro, the…

President Donald Trump announced the formation of an artificial intelligence task force Sunday, naming National Intelligence Director Jay Clayton to lead it.The other members of the group include Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson and Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael. The task force, Trump said, will report to him and to White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.“Following the Historic White House Accord on Super Intelligence, where the World’s most important Technology Companies came together, and confirmed their responsibilities to the American People, I am announcing the formation of the Super Intelligence Force,” Trump wrote on…

Brazilians are voting Sunday in a pivotal presidential election dominated by incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his ideological opposite, Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro. Preelection polls suggested both have a chance of winning outright, but if neither gets a majority of the vote, a runoff will be held on Oct. 25.Nearly 159 million Brazilians are eligible to vote in Latin America’s largest economy. Bolsonaro is an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump and the son of ex-leader Jair Bolsonaro, whom Lula defeated four years ago. Here’s the latest:The winner will lead a country that contains about 60% of the world’s…

Politics / October 2, 2026 In this week’s Elie v. U.S., our justice correspondent relives the senator’s glorious face-plant. Plus: why John Roberts also deserves our mockery. Ad Policy Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) during his disastrous questioning of former special counsel Jack Smith.(Maxine Wallace / The Washington Post via Getty Images) If it were up to me, Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt’s monumental face-plant would play in a constant loop on all television networks until he resigned in shame and disgrace. Schmitt fully debased himself during Senate hearings designed to torture former special counsel Jack Smith, and I simply don’t think…

WASHINGTON  — The Supreme Court will open its new term Monday by hearing arguments on whether the oil and gas industry may be forced to pay damages for the scorching heat waves, wildfires and droughts that are blamed on climate change. It’s a momentous question the justices have put off deciding for nearly a decade — and may do so again. California joined more than two dozen blue states and municipalities in 2023 when it sued the five largest oil companies, alleging “decades of deception” over the danger of a warming climate. They have “privately known the truth for decades but…