Any significance? What do "rope clouds" do?

Or, Apple could license the invention; or Apple could design around it.

Stay out of the attic.

I guess that's one way to get rid of Melania's pre-nup.

Proving the weakness of many polling questions. Many questions lack context and allow the respondent to fill in ambigious/overly broad questions with the respondent's assumptions/hopes/beliefs. "None of the above" would, for example, win many presidential elections. A major flaw in polling.

The Times missed an opportunity to educate its readers by locating the multiple Israeli communities attacked on the same map.

I don't think you are correct. The new congress will be sworn in on January 3, 2025. That new congress will elect a speaker.