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This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. The almost 40 minutes of Donald Trump standing on a stage near Philadelphia, calling out a playlist and dancing like a bozo uncle at a wedding became easy fodder for meme-makers, late-night hosts, and the former President’s avowed haters.

WASHINGTON — Elon Musk, a tech mogul who is the world’s richest person, plunged more than $70 million into helping Donald Trump and other Republicans win in November’s election, making him one of the biggest donors to GOP causes this campaign season, according to campaign finance disclosures released this week. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Musk made the donated over the summer to America PAC, a super political action committee he launched in May to aid Trump in his bid to return to the White House.

In September, NASA declared the summer of 2024 the hottest in recorded history. Before that news could be fully digested, the U. S. was hit with Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, unprecedented in their own rights in terms of intensity and destruction. Despite the seemingly neverending accumulation of dire climate records and extreme weather events, Republicans remain thoroughly opposed to virtually any kind of climate change mitigation effort.

You may have noticed your supermarket offering more types of vinegar lately. Sure, balsamic and apple cider vinegars are veterans of the condiments aisle, but new shelf neighbors, like coconut, champagne, pomegranate, and raspberry are moving in. That’s probably at least in part due to recent research showing that small amounts of vinegar, consumed daily, could support your health in important ways.

NEW YORK — Connor Tomasko grew up wary of credit cards. As she taught herself more about managing money, she realized that many people also have bad habits when it comes to payment apps. Tomasko, 31, a freelance software consultant in Chicago, understands why people appreciate the ease of the apps, which typically only require you to know someone’s username in order to send money.

Few things will leave you feeling quite so grossed out as returning from a jaunt outside and finding a tick clinging to your skin. Not only is the unwelcome parasite sucking the blood from your body, but it may also be leaving something behind: bacteria, viruses, or parasites that can cause at least 15 different diseases, according to the U.