The Washington Post

In the first presidential debate of 2024, it seemed as though the entire country lost. With multiple gaffes, awkward silences and proclaimed falsehoods that went largely undisputed by moderators — many voters, especially younger ones, are expressing even more discontent and aggravation following the debate with Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. Are you one of them? Share your responses here: https://wapo.st/3zyuOSM

Sending anything to the landfill or incinerator has a negative impact on the environment. But plastic is particularly problematic, experts say. Over the last five years of #PlasticFreeJuly, participants have avoided more than 1.5 million tons of plastic waste, according to the campaign. That’s enough to fill about 80,000 garbage trucks.

The AI gold rush has benefited Silicon Valley chipmaker NVIDIA like no other company, briefly making it worth more than Apple and Microsoft, with a market capitalization of $3.3 trillion. Though its reign on the top of the charts was brief, it crowned a rapid climb for the company, which was little-known outside tech circles just two years ago. For most of its three decades of existence, #Nvidia was mostly a niche player, making computer chips for video games, but the company’s central position in the #artificialintelligence boom has led to a spectacular rise.

David Hruska woke up to the roar of the dam near his Minnesota house — a sound he had fallen asleep and woken up to thousands of times in his 44 years living there. But that day, the sound was pierced by his sister and brother-in-law knocking on his door, urging him to come see the destruction happening outside. He ran outside to see that the roughly 600 feet of land between his home in Mankato and the Rapidan Dam was being torn away, taking an electrical substation and trees with it.

The polarized immigration debate in the United States generally revolves around illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border, but those numbers don’t indicate what happens to these and other migrants who stay in the country. A Post analysis of more than 4.1 million U.S. immigration court records reveals a population that was once overwhelmingly Mexican and Central American but has in recent years spanned the globe. Far fewer migrants have gotten into the country than have been apprehended at the border, the data shows. And those who cleared that first hurdle — and are still facing possible deportation in the courts — have fanned out into every U.S. state.

On Washington Post Live’s “First Look,” Washington Post Live anchor Leigh Ann Caldwell speaks with The Post’s Dan Balz, Jennifer Rubin and Max Boot about Biden’s faltering debate performance amid Trump’s untruths, where the presidential race goes from here and rising gloom among many Israeli citizens.

There is a nonzero chance something you do is driving your co-workers nuts. Maybe it’s a meeting invite with no context, or the way you hold back on important office chitchat. Perhaps it’s how you pound on your keyboard like you’re tenderizing a flank steak. Knowing and following modern workplace technology etiquette can help you build stronger professional relationships — or at least lead to fewer enemies.

One year after the Supreme Court struck down race-based admissions at Harvard and other schools, court rulings have forced the removal of racial preferences from two major covid relief programs, a federal contracting program that doles out $20 billion a year. Even the U.S. Minority Business Development Agency, a 55-year-old agency that was ordered in March to open its doors to all races. Meanwhile, private companies are acting preemptively, seeking to avoid litigation by terminating fellowships and executive bonus programs aimed at employing minorities. #DEI #affirmativeaction #diversity

In 1941, Virginia Hislop put plans to write her master’s degree thesis on hold after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and launched the United States into World War II. “I always thought I could pick things up again sometime along the way,” she said. Eighty-three years later at age 105, she finally got that chance. Read more: https://wapo.st/4caPajD

A new generation of fuels could power planes and ships without warming the planet. This plant produces fuel from a different source, one that doesn’t belch greenhouse pollution: hydrogen. Specifically, hydrogen made from water using renewable electricity, also known as green hydrogen. Turning hydrogen into liquid fuel could help slash planet-warming pollution from heavy vehicles, cutting a key source of emissions that contribute to climate change.