A Midwest Summer's Descent: What It Feels Like In August

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Netflix is debuting four new holiday rom-coms, adding to an ever-growing collection of original Christmas movies. This year’s slate is truly a gift for anyone who is still obsessed with the pop culture of the early aughts. These festive films feature a couple of Mean Girls in Lindsay Lohan and Lacey Chabert, as well as One Tree Hill favorite Chad Michael Murray doing his best Magic Mike impression.

MIDDLEBORO, Mass. — Weeks before Thanksgiving, some of the cranberries on dinner plates Thursday are floating on the Rocky Meadow bog in southeastern Massachusetts. The cranberries have turned this pond pinkish crimson. Several workers, up to their waist in water, gently corral the berries toward a pump that vacuums them up onto a waiting truck.

As Thanksgiving approaches on this election year, many of us can’t help but think of politics. We may feel grateful for the election outcome. Or it may seem that there is nothing this year to feel thankful for. We may wonder how we are going to stand that uncle (or that niece) who parrots the other party’s talking points.

MELBOURNE, Australia — Australia’s House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that would ban children younger than 16 years old from social media, leaving it to the Senate to finalize the world-first law. The major parties backed the bill that would make platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram liable for fines of up to 50 million Australian dollars ($33 million) for systemic failures to prevent young children from holding accounts. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The legislation passed 102 to 13.

Why is flying so expensive these days? A Democratic congressional panel blames “junk” fees. In a 55-page report, the majority staff of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released on Tuesday its findings after a year-long inquiry into five U. S. airlines’ ancillary fees, which the report said have led to higher costs and worse experiences for consumers and, in some cases, tax avoidance by the airlines. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “Our investigation has exposed new details about airlines exploiting passengers with sky high junk fees,” said the subcommittee’s chair, Sen.