Good week, Bad week
Honest campaigns; Miracles; Pest control
Good week for:
Honest campaigns, after a cat named Morris entered the mayoral race in Xalapa, a crime- and corruption-ridden Mexican city. “He sleeps almost all day and does nothing,” said Morris’s owner, Sergio Chamorro, “and that fits the profile of a politician.”
Dog people, after a new Public Policy Polling survey found that 52 percent of Americans prefer dogs, while 21 percent prefer cats.
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Miracles, after a drunken British man on vacation in New Zealand astonished doctors by surviving a fall from the balcony of a 15th-floor apartment. “Everyone tells me I’m a very lucky man,” said Tom Stilwell, 20, who suffered multiple fractures.
Bad week for:
Letting go of material things, after two Buddhist monks from Thailand were videoed wearing stylish aviator sunglasses and expensive wireless headphones while riding on a private jet. Officials reprimanded the monks for “not adhering to Buddha’s teachings of simplicity and self-restraint.”
Consumer complaints, after a British man called the police emergency line to complain that the prostitute he’d ordered wasn’t attractive enough. “She misdescribed herself and misrepresented herself,” said the dissatisfied john. “Basically she was ugly.”
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Pest control, after a New Jersey man tried to clear his home of bedbugs with a space heater, a hair dryer, and a heat gun and set the house on fire. Bedbugs can be killed with high, sustained heat, but a local fire chief suggested that anyone with an infestation “call the professionals.”
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June 3 editorial cartoons
Cartoons Tuesday's political cartoons include RFK Jr. and the CDC, Elon Musk's DOGE exit, and Donald Trump versus academic freedom
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Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: the group behind Gaza's controversial new aid programme
The Explainer Deadly shootings and chaotic scenes have been reported at aid sites after US group replaced UN humanitarian organisations
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Is UK's new defence plan transformational or too little, too late?
Today's Big Question Labour's 10-year strategy 'an exercise in tightly bounded ambition' already 'overshadowed by a row over money'
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Good week, Bad week
feature Making amends, Justice, Saying ‘cheese’
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Good week, Bad week
feature Reptile experience; Painless budget cuts; Driving with kids
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Good week, Bad week
feature Closing the sale; Calling 911; Going to the circus
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Good week, Bad week
feature Asking Google anything; Misanthropes; Persistence
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Good week, Bad week
feature Torture, Irritating the cat, Being cheap
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Good week, Bad week
feature Strolling in Naples; Infallibility; Mississippi
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Good week, Bad week
feature Tesla; Entrepreneurship; Fortune-tellers
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Good week, Bad week
feature The miracles of science; Wild times in Wisconsin; Holding hands