{"id":33561,"date":"2024-10-21T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/monday-headlines-fear-and-loathing#id33265"},"modified":"2024-10-21T16:44:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:44:00","slug":"monday-headlines-fear-and-loathing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/monday-headlines-fear-and-loathing\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday headlines: Fear and loathing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amid shortages of food, fuel, and medicine, Cuba's electrical grid has collapsed four times since Friday, leaving 10 million people without power.<\/a> \/ Reuters<\/span><\/p>\n

The presidential election is down to more than swing states; in fact, the outcome appears to rest on these 21 microcommunities.<\/a> \/ The New York Times [+]<\/span><\/p>\n

Elon Musk's $1 million daily sweepstakes for Pennsylvanians promising to vote Republican is “either an incentive for someone to vote or it's a reward. And either way, it violates federal law.”<\/a> \/ NPR<\/span><\/p>\n

See also: The misery of living in a swing state during election season.<\/a> \/ The New York Times [+]<\/span><\/p>\n

“This key is awarded if the candidate can persuade the public that they are conscious.” The real 13 keys for winning the White House.<\/a> \/ McSweeney's<\/span><\/p>\n

As if this year's US election wasn't already chaotic enough, the FBI has arrested a man planning an election day attack on behalf of the Islamic State.<\/a> \/ The Guardian<\/span><\/p>\n

Laugh about Trump's ridiculous dance party all you want, but the kitschy nostalgia is exactly in line with the world his supporters long for.<\/a> \/ Intelligencer<\/span><\/p>\n

In a dispatch from a prisoner, the horror of Texas's containment cages.<\/a> (Content warning.) \/ Slate<\/span><\/p>\n

This year's flu shot doesn't protect against a once-common influenza strain that now appears to have been eradicated through Covid distancing and masking.<\/a> \/ NPR<\/span><\/p>\n

In an interesting comparison of median home values and median incomes, these are the most and least exclusive communities for homebuyers in America.<\/a> \/ The Hustle<\/span><\/p>\n

An “unusually narrow” skyscraper—at only one apartment wide, or 22.5 meters—could be going up in downtown Dubai.<\/a> \/ Dezeen<\/span><\/p>\n

See also: “The Neom giga-project in Saudi Arabia is currently using one fifth of all the steel produced in the world.”<\/a> \/ AGBI<\/span><\/p>\n

Unrelated: “it is time to commit to building the largest physically possible space telescope.”<\/a> \/ Palladium<\/span><\/p>\n

Kurt Vonnegut once designed a board game, General Headquarters, that is finally available, some 70 years after it was originally conceived.<\/a> \/ Open Culture<\/span><\/p>\n

Amazon says it will be getting rid of those plastic inflatable air pillows by the end of the year, but the plastic blue-and-white mailers may be sticking around for a while.<\/a> \/ Grist<\/span><\/p>\n

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Amid shortages of food, fuel, and medicine, Cuba's electrical grid has collapsed four times since Friday, leaving 10 million people without power. \/ Reuters<\/p>\n

The presidential election is down to more than swing states; in fact, the ou…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33562,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33561\/revisions\/33562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}