Flipboard News Desk

About

We share stories, explainers and analysis to offer context for the top news of the day. All posts are created and curated by Flipboard’s editorial team especially for Mastodon. Not a bot. Boosts do not imply endorsement, but are used to highlight posts we think the community might find interesting. For much more news, follow Flipboard's federated News Desk (@thenewsdesk) and Politics Desk (@ElectionCentral). Get the Flipboard app to explore all your interests in one place: https://about.flipboard.com/download-flipboard/ Header photo: A newsstand. Photo by AP.

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