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Poll Shows Harris Edging Out Trump as Biden Backs Her Candidacy

US Vice President Kamala Harris currently leads Republican Donald Trump by 2 percentage points, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. Conducted on July 22 and 23, the survey followed President Joe Biden's July 21 announcement that he would withdraw from the presidential race and endorse Harris' candidacy.

Dimitra and Persephone

Walter Heller, an economist who served in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, used to quip that "an economist is a man who, when he finds something works in practice, wonders if it works in theory." Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's former finance minister and now leader of the MeRA25 political party must be a great economist considering that he wants to replace the euro, a currency which actuall

Day 226 of the Invasion of Ukraine: There is a Threat of Nuclear Armageddon, according to Biden

Here are the highlights of events related to the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours:

Biden: For the first time since the Cold War, there is a threat of nuclear Armageddon

US President Joe Biden said the world risks facing nuclear Armageddon for the first time since the beginning of the Cold War.

Bob Dylan museum opening in Tulsa

Elvis Costello, Patti Smith and Mavis Staples will be among the dignitaries expected in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this weekend for the opening of the Bob Dylan Center, the museum and archive celebrating the Nobel laureate's work.

Dylan himself won't be among them, unless he surprises everyone.

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