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Ranking the Republican 2028 contenders

President Trump dominates the political landscape, holding off lame-duck status for now. But some signs are emerging that…
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‘It will still take years’: Ted Cruz acknowledges that Trump’s Venezuela oil deal won’t lead to immediate gas savings

Ted Cruz has a message for Americans hoping for cheaper gas following President Donald Trump’s deal with Venezuela:…
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‘The Secret of Secrets’ by Dan Brown – The Washington Post

Democracy Dies in Darkness

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Dan Brown clearly had fun writing his new book. It’s contagious.

Robert Langdon is back in “The Secret of Secrets.” Prepare for 600 hilariously hectic pages of murder, mayhem and New Age murmuring.

September 9, 2025, 6 min, Review by Ron Charles

In 2003, if you made the mistake of confessing — say, at a barbecue — that you reviewed books for a living, the other men on the patio would look at you piteously until one of them thought to ask, “What did you think of ‘The Da Vinci Code’?”

More than two decades on, the magnitude of Dan Brown’s success is still hard to quantify without using exponential math or to justify without succumbing to despair. He has enough copies in print for every adult in the United States to own one, which you can confirm by checking the coffee table in any Airbnb.

Like so many things that are insanely popular — Crocs, Nutella, MrBeast — Brown’s thrillers look easy to imitate but aren’t. He shatters dramatic moments into shiny, irresistible shards.He lures us in with a layer of intellectuality as deep as the honey glaze on an Easter ham. And in book after book, we’re rushed through perilous crises involving esoteric knowledge that somehow threatens the entire world. With Brown, everything everywhere all at once is at stake — the church, social order, Western civilization — which makes your clogged gutters feel momentarily less urgent.

The last time we saw Brown’s fit, nerdy hero — Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon — was eight years ago in a mind-bogglingly silly book called “Origin.” In that story, Langdon dashes around Spain trying to track down a dead billionaire’s PowerPoint presentation that “boldly contradicted almost every established religious doctrine.”

Brown’s latest thriller, “The Secret of Secrets,” tweaks that reliable formula only slightly, but through some occult alchemy, his New Coke is better than the old brew.
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Reader, I drank it.

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This time around, we’re in Prague. Brown surveys its Gothic beauty, medieval history and Kafkaesque mystique like Rick Steves on a 24-hour layover. Langdon has come to the City of a Hundred Spires to cheer on his older but stunningly beautiful new girlfriend, Dr. Katherine Solomon, last seen in “The Lost Symbol” (2009).The night before the novel opens, Katherine delivered a mesmerizing lecture about her work in noetics, the science of human consciousness.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

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Tracking Trump: – The Washington Post

Tracking Trump: D.C. mayor’s National Guard order; a judge rules against Trump’s L.A. deployment; Trump attacks Chicago; and more

The 7 follows President Donald Trump’s second term, Today at 5:32 p.m. EDT

1

D.C. mayor orders indefinite cooperation with federal law enforcement.

• Today: Washington Mayor Muriel E. Bowser issued an executive order requiring local police coordination with federal law-enforcement officials. There is no expiration date.
• Context: President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to D.C. has a 30-day limit, but he has indicated he will seek to extend the deployment.

2

A judge ruled that Trump’s L.A. troop deployment was illegal.

• The latest: District Judge Charles R. Breyer ruled that Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles this summer violated a law banning them from engaging in domestic law enforcement activities.

• Why: Breyer wrote that federal officials “knew that they were ordering troops to execute domestic law beyond their usual authority.”

3

Trump amped up anti-Chicago rhetoric.

• What he said: “Chicago is the worst and most dangerous city in the World, by far,” Trump wrote in a social media post. “I will solve the crime problem fast, just like I did in DC.”

• Why it matters: After he sent troops to D.C., Trump said Chicago would see a National Guard deployment “probably next.”

4

Trump’s nominee to lead BLS discussed gender IQ with interns.

• New: While at the Heritage Foundation last year, E.J. Antoni told interns about a controversial IQ theory that says there are more women of “average” intelligence than men.

• Context: Trump nominated Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics after firing its previous head for releasing a negative jobs report.

5

Trump announced the Space Command HQ will move from Colorado to Alabama.

• What to know: Space Command, which oversees space military operations, has been in Colorado Springs since 2019, but will now move to Huntsville, Alabama.

Background: Trump reestablished the Space Command in 2019. An initial plan to move it from its interim HQ in Colorado to Alabama was scrapped by President Joe Biden in 2023.

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