John Proffitt

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Still image from the TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in which Odo asks "You'd shoot a man in the back?" and Garak replies "It's the safest way, isn't it?"
2025 Presidential vote totals showing Trump winning with only 49.97% of the popular vote.
Radar imaging of the eye of hurricane Milton as it approaches the west coast of Florida, southwest of Tampa.
U.S. economic growth is far outpacing that of other Western nations, a divergence that is at least partly explained by rising immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border. Recent research shows that the millions of new entrants into the U.S. labor market have lifted payrolls and helped keep consumer prices stable while contributing around a fifth of post-pandemic economic growth, Semafor's Jordan Weissmann wrote. Meanwhile, growth across Western Europe has flatlined, and as the continent ages, it will have to find a way to increase immigration if it wants to maintain living standards. "The choice is not so much between more immigration and less immigration, but rather a lot of immigration now or a lot later," economist Tyler Cowen wrote in Bloomberg.