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The beloved country-music legend, who has died at 80, saw the light in everyone and sought to bring people together above all else.

The national debt surpasses a record $40 trillion on Wednesday, Trump shows off work on his helipad and ballroom, Democrats narrow list of 2028 presidential convention sites.

Wage growth below inflation, affecting purchasing power, is adding to Americans’ relatively low sentiment.

As extreme heat overwhelms the Continent’s great cities, they are racing to adapt to a climate that they were never built to withstand.

It was supposed to be an exhibition of freedom without restraint: a bombastic birthday boy (the President), fourteen uncontrollable athletes (courtesy of the UFC), and a South Lawn build-out that was piss-your-pants patriotic (dive-bombing bald eagles). But what united onlookers, in the end, was the sudden realization that American machismo had hit a hard limit.