Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel, Shadow Ticket, set in 1932 Milwaukee, takes place in a landscape of industrial ghosts, strike-breakers, fascist sympathizers and absurdist cabals.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Dec. 2025
With a story of secret cabals and a child born to rule, Dumont projects the nasty prejudices and bureaucratic rigors of local politics, the tangles of family allegiances, and the tender grunge of young lust into divine and diabolical clashes run from celestial and subterranean castles.
In the South, coalitions are securing legally-binding Community Benefits Agreements to ensure that the green energy transition includes union contracts and local hiring.
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Sarita Gupta,
Time,
2 June 2026
Paloma Valencia, a candidate for the conservative Centro Democrático party who was a protégé of right-wing former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe and pitched herself as a centrist who could build coalitions, was forecast as a candidate who could advance to the second round.
The Eastern Pacific and Caribbean remain major corridors for narcotics trafficking, with cartels frequently using small, fast-moving vessels to transport drugs toward the United States and Central America.
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Michael Sinkewicz,
FOXNews.com,
4 June 2026
The wisdom of encouraging private Americans to get into armed battles with cartels is certainly debatable, and the Senate has not advanced the bill.
Levies on agricultural equipment, like combines and harvesters will be dropped to 15% from 25%, and the scope of equipment qualifying for the 15% tariff will also be expanded.
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Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
2 June 2026
At lower elevations, forecasters are increasingly focused on fire danger as dry vegetation combines with gusty winds and low humidity.
Its members include Union Pacific’s archrival BNSF, CPKC, employee unions for both Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, the Teamsters, and industry lobbying groups for the petrochemical and agriculture sectors.
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Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
29 May 2026
Hundreds of miles south in the Inland Empire, Becerra pledged to be on the side of unions if elected governor and urged voters to turn in their ballots in what has so far been a remarkably low-turnout election.
Several trading blocs that had previously entered into trade negotiations with the United States, including Canada, Mexico, the European Union, Ecuador, Indonesia and Pakistan, would be subject to the new 10% tariff.
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David Goldman,
CNN Money,
3 June 2026
North Texans are eager to cast their ballots, and among the region's largest and most influential voting blocs are Latino voters.
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