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Mia Taylor looked down at her Los Angeles County election ballot a few weeks ago and felt a familiar mix of duty and dread. How could she possibly know the best choices in the dozens of local contests she was asked to vote in? Partly on a lark, she turned to a newly ubiquitous tool: Claude.

On Sundays, protesters assemble on the corner near the ACME Hot and Fresh T-shirt store in Lawrence, Kansas, incensed by an expanding array of causes: the Iran war, the war in the Gaza Strip, the White House, immigration enforcement. The protests draw honking horns of approval and the occasional jeers from the other sides of the debates. But these days, there is just one dominant team to cheer in Lawrence, which is a boon for Hot and Fresh.

It really did happen: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got married. A formal announcement arrived around 7:30 p.m. Friday when a representative for Swift sent out a statement confirming that the pop star and professional football player had tied the knot. “JUST&T MARRIED!” the email’s subject line said. A digital billboard outside Madison Square Garden displayed the same. The couple did not have bridesmaids or groomsmen, according to the news release provided by the representative, Tree Paine.

It’s a tiny restaurant in the Little Morocco neighborhood of New York City’s Queens borough. But throughout this World Cup, it has swelled with pride, song and beating drums as the Moroccan national team pushed its way deep into soccer’s biggest international tournament.

Thousands protested against Germany’s far-right AfD and blocked roads to its annual conference in the eastern city of Erfurt on Saturday, where the party re-elected the two leaders who have overseen its rise as a national force. Protesters from unions, civil society groups and left-wing parties gathered as large numbers of police, including reinforcements from across Germany, were deployed ahead of the AfD’s two-day conference. AfD stands for Alternative for Germany.

The photo depicts a blindfolded Gaza man stripped to his underwear and restrained face down on a cot while in Israeli custody. Israel says the image is genuine and has acknowledged that the treatment it depicts “does not align” with its military’s values. But it has yet to say who the man is or where he is being held.

An up-to-date tally of Trump followers turned crypto investors is in. And for them, the overall results are remarkably bad. Nearly 1 million people who bought President Donald Trump’s meme coin have lost money through the end of June, according to a report by cryptocurrency analytics firm Nansen. Their losses total $3.81 billion.

Birthdays are an opportunity to celebrate, but also to reflect and raise a glass to what makes the honoree unique — and also give a bit of a roast. And so it goes with America and our approach to how we deal with money. We are awash in choices, which is fantastic until it isn’t. There are so many credit cards, for instance — and influencers promoting them, and credit-counseling agencies to bail you out of debt, and bankruptcy lawyers standing by in case you’re about to go under.

Four months before tough midterm elections, President Donald Trump used the backdrop of Mount Rushmore one night before the nation’s 250th birthday to characterize his political opponents as “godless,” “evil” communists. “We can only lose the midterms if we allow ourselves to lose the midterms, if we are foolish, stupid and unwise,” he said Friday, demanding that Congress pass his so-called SAVE America Act, which would impose stricter voter ID rules that would make it harder to vote.

NEW YORK — Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are married, according to a statement provided by a Swift representative. Swift’s brother, Austin, acted as her “man of honor,” while Kelce’s brother, Jason, served as his best man, according to the emailed statement from the representative, Tree Paine. “The ceremony joined both families together and was officiated by friend Adam Sandler,” the statement said. Swift and Kelce wore looks from Christian Dior, designed by Jonathan Anderson.