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		<title><![CDATA[Coma victim wakes up after 2026 midterms]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[“It’s a miracle!” said the doctor. “You’ve awakened from a
coma after 10 years. You must have some questions.” “For sure,”
said the patient. “I remember most of President Barack Obama’s time
in office, a time of unity, hope and...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tompurcell/s-4341485</link>
 
    <pubDate>Nov/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Texas Latinos Turned Out in Large Numbers to Vote -- For Those Who Didn't Make It]]></title>
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SAN DIEGO -- Meet one of the patron saints of the Texas tornado that
helped turn a red state into a purple one.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a 52-year-old construction worker in Houston
with a wife and three children. He had come from Mexico ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/rubennavarrettjr/s-4338494</link>
 
    <pubDate>Nov/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The need for engaged dads]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Note to editors dnly (do not publish this line): A version of this
column was distributed in 2024. As I explain in my humor book,
“Misadventures of a 1970s Childhood,” Thursday night was grocery
shopping night and the best night of the week. ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tompurcell/s-4338355</link>
 
    <pubDate>Nov/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Breathless for 'Gone with the Wind' memories?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tyrades! by Danny Tyree November 7, 1976 was a special day for me, and
I’m not just whistling “Dixie.” That was when NBC broadcast the
first part of the network television premiere of the Hollywood epic
“Gone with the Wind.” I was ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dannytyree/s-4337711</link>
 
    <pubDate>Nov/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trump Should Not Get Credit for the Recent Drop in Violent Crime: Experts Do Not Think the President's Policies Played a Major Role in That Historic Decline]]></title>
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Survey data published last week show a sharp decrease in violent crime
from 2024 to 2025, which is consistent with FBI numbers released last
summer. Although the Trump administration has tried to take credit for
that welcome development, there ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jacobsullum/s-4337281</link>
 
    <pubDate>Nov/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The 2026 Midterms Were About Many Things -- Both Good and Bad]]></title>
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SAN DIEGO -- Writing a column won't win you any popularity contests. At
least, not if you do it correctly.

Yet, for the nearly 40 years that I've been expressing my opinion in
print, I've held firm to one unpopular opinion in particular. It ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/rubennavarrettjr/s-4336791</link>
 
    <pubDate>Nov/03/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Veteran suicide: The numbers are still high, but expanded care is helping]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Veteran suicide remains a serious national problem, but recently
released data show that expanded access to care is helping save lives.
Moral injury According to the September 2026 National Veteran Suicide
Prevention Annual Report, 6,488 veterans ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tompurcell/s-4336417</link>
 
    <pubDate>Nov/02/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[In Midterms, Latino Voters Are Eager for a Reckoning]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[SAN DIEGO -- The Sleeping Giant is wide awake. He's fed up. He's
furious. And, unfortunately for MAGA, he's wearing a sticker that reads:
"I Voted."

The Nov. 3 election is still a few days away. But already, more than 40
million Americans have ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/rubennavarrettjr/s-4333229</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/29/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Remember late-night socializing? ]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tyrades! by Danny Tyree “After midnight, we’re going to let it all
hang down.” – Eric Clapton (1970) According to a study cited by the
New York Post, in 2026 all that hangs down is the tubing on your CPAP
machine. Yes, the social ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dannytyree/s-4332239</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/28/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A SCOTUS Case Underlines the Absurdity of the Federal Ban on Home Distilling: Criminalizing the Hobby Is Morally Indefensible and Inconsistent With the Treatment of Wine and Beer]]></title>
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Years ago, I bought a contraption designed to separate and concentrate
the most volatile components of a liquid mixture. I would tell you what
I did with it, but I don't want to implicate myself in a federal felony.

Since 1868, it has been ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jacobsullum/s-4331976</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/28/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[California Billionaires Will Do Anything to Avoid Paying Tax Man]]></title>
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SAN DIEGO -- In the 1980s, there was a famous ad campaign for Doritos
starring a young stand-up comic named Jay Leno. The idea was that
customers loved the crunchy tortilla chips so much that the supply could
run out. The comedian assured us ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/rubennavarrettjr/s-4331558</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The real Halloween scare: Contemporary myths]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Halloween night in 1974, 8-year-old Timothy O’Bryan became the
first child in American history to die from intentionally poisoned
Halloween candy. After trick-or-treating in his Pasadena, Texas,
neighborhood, he began to consume a Giant Pixy ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tompurcell/s-4331142</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/26/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The BCS Wasn't Perfect, but Did It Get Something Right?]]></title>
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Although I always complained about the BCS era of college football, when
the Coaches' Poll and the AP Poll rankings were used with computer
algorithms that factored in strength of schedule and win-loss records to
crown a national champion, I'm ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jessicajohnson/s-4331132</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/26/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Are you a Halloween etiquette expert? ]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tyrades! by Danny Tyree I had never really thought much about Halloween
etiquette (other than “Don’t put somebody else’s elbows on the
table, Igor”), but then I saw a clip of “Pittsburgh Today Live”
featuring etiquette expert Liz ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dannytyree/s-4327416</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Two Recent Cases Illustrate the Limits of a Doctrine That Often Blocks Civil Rights Claims: Federal Appeals Courts Rejected Qualified Immunity for Cops and a Judge Who Flouted Longstanding Constitutional Principles]]></title>
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Since 1871, a federal statute has authorized Americans to sue state and
local officials for violating their constitutional rights. But since
1982, thanks to the court-invented doctrine of qualified immunity, such
claims have been allowed only ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jacobsullum/s-4327147</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How social media and AI changed bullying]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Technology has enabled a new breed of bullying, and it’s nastier than
ever. Bullying transformation In 1972, when I was 10, Franky Leper
busted my handmade go-cart into pieces, then shoved me into the mud.
Leper was in his teens, then — a big,...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/tompurcell/s-4326341</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/19/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Learning Financial Wisdom in an Uncertain Economy]]></title>
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There was a bit of good news at the end of September, when the Census
Bureau released its 2025 poverty report. Last year, 34.5 million
Americans lived in poverty, a rate of 10.2%. Although this was a
historic low, the Census Bureau's ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/jessicajohnson/s-4326330</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/19/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trump's Final Humiliation of Lindsey Graham]]></title>
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Dear Lindsey,

Your body had not long been in the grave when your pal Donald Trump made
the anti-Russia legislation that carried your name a nullity. Wondering
how you'd feel about this if you were around to see it. The whole point
of your last ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/monacharen/s-4323097</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ICE Has Become an Election Issue, and It's Another Loser for Trump]]></title>
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SAN DIEGO -- In the 2026 midterm elections, ICE is on the ballot. So it
makes sense that -- in states where Republicans expect to take a beating
-- the Trump administration has ramped up ICE enforcement to scare
voters away from the ballot box.
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/rubennavarrettjr/s-4323243</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Could you write a 'tell all' memoir? ]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tyrades! by Danny Tyree “I’m a b-a-a-a-a-d boy!” – Lou Costello
You’ve probably seen the recent tidal wave of “tell all” memoirs
by celebrities such as Sylvester Stallone, Alice Cooper, Christopher
Lloyd and Michael Douglas (with ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dannytyree/s-4322484</link>
 
    <pubDate>Oct/14/2026</pubDate>
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