Oppo Find N5 review: the final evolution of foldables

Oppo’s Find N5 feels like the end game for foldable phones. Not because it’s make or break for a segment of the phone market that never quite took off like manufacturers hoped it would, but because I simply don’t know where we go from here. There’s scarcely room to make the phone thinner without ditching…

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Trump floating returning 20% of DOGE savings to American people

President Donald Trump floated the idea of delivering 20% of savings from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) directly to the American people on Wednesday. Trump said 20% of the savings could be delivered to U.S. citizens in personal checks to taxpaying households, while another 20% would be used to pay down the national debt. …

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Liz Cheney lambastes Trump over Russia/Ukraine, branding him ‘the antithesis’ of all ‘Reagan stood for’

Former Rep. Liz Cheney lambasted President Donald Trump in a tweet on Wednesday, asserting that he is the “antithesis” of all that Ronald Reagan, America’s 40th president, “stood for.” She claimed that Trump “is aligning” the U.S. with the opponents of liberty. “Trump – with his devotion to Putin, abandonment of Ukraine, and lies about…

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Shelters, Jesus, and Miss Pac-Man: US judge grills DOJ over trans policy in dizzying line of questioning

A federal judge in D.C. peppered Justice Department lawyers with hypothetical questions and video game references as she presided over the second day of oral arguments about the Trump administration’s attempt to restrict or ban transgender U.S. service members in the military.  U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes searched in vain for answers to key questions…

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Morning Glory: The last temptation of a grant maker

Full disclosure off the top: I was a grant maker for more than 20 years, first as a member of the California Arts Council, and then for 17 years as a member of the Children and Families Commission of Orange County, California.   The California Arts Council dealt in relatively small amounts of funds appropriated by…

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