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Donald Trump-endorsed Republican congressional candidate Rob Bresnahan Jr., running in one of the nation’s most hotly contested U.S. House races, has a decidedly anti-China message for Pennsylvania voters he’s hoping to win over.

“Here in northeastern Pennsylvania, there used to be hundreds of businesses like ours that made things until DC politicians turned off the lights on American manufacturing and sent those jobs to China,” Bresnahan said in his campaign launch video for Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District, noting his family business in electrical contracting.

“We have to prioritize America. We have to think about our own country and our own people right here,” Bresnahan said during a Newsmax interview in May. “And what’s extremely frustrating is when you see billions and billions of dollars being sent to places all across the world when we’re struggling here.”
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This story was originally published and produced by Grist and co-published with El País. A Spanish-language version can be read here.

On the morning of June 12, 2022, Ángela Astudillo, then a law student in her mid-20s, grabbed her water bottle and hopped into her red Nissan Juke. The co-founder of Dress Desert, or Desierto Vestido, a textile recycling advocacy nonprofit, and the daughter of tree farmers, Astudillo lives in a gated apartment complex in Alto Hospicio, a dusty city at the edge of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, with her husband, daughter, bunny, and three aquatic turtles.

Exiting the compound, Astudillo pinched the wheel, pulled over next to a car on the side of the road, and greeted Bárbara Pino, a fashion professor, and three of her students, who were waiting inside. ...

WASHINGTON — The federal government is on the brink of a shutdown. Closures begin Oct. 1 unless Congress acts. The entirely avoidable affair, if recent history is a guide, would be disruptive at best and catastrophic at worst.

But, seemingly, the hottest debate in the U.S. Senate this week wasn’t over military spending or continuing resolutions. It was over … fashion.

Indeed, at the behest of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the sergeant-at-arms nixed the chamber’s buttoned-up dress code, which today’s senators regularly flaunt anyway in deference to a proudly grungy minority....

As jackets go it looks far from fashionable, but its Japanese maker cannot meet sky-rocketing demand for "air conditioned" coats with built-in fans.

NEW YORK — A US Muslim woman sued Abercrombie & Fitch on Monday, accusing the clothing retailer of firing her for refusing to remove her religious head scarf, a Muslim advocacy group said.

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the body louse, offering insights into human biology and insect evolution that could help detach us from our inseparable, blood-sucking companions.