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Why the Iran war gas shock is giving public transit a tentative comeback
As the Iran war enters its fourth month, ridership on US public transit systems is rising as gasoline prices remain near historic highs. Weekday commutes on Los Angeles County’s Metro system, for instance, jumped nearly 8% between January and May. “With gas prices in April averaging roughly $5.70 per gallon, the ability to travel across…
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JD Vance targeted for testimony after he’s ‘implicated’ in Epstein ‘cover-up’
The ranking Democratic member of the House Oversight Committee is calling for Vice President JD Vance to testify under oath about his involvement in the White House’s Jeffrey Epstein cover-up. Appearing on MS NOW with host Ana Cabrera, a fuming Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) cited an explosive report in the New York Times on Wednesday…
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How to Watch the World Cup Opening Ceremony
The FIFA World Cup is upon us once more and time zones can be hard to navigate. So allow us to help you out. The World Cup is one of the biggest sporting events in the world, and it’s treated like the celebration that it is, with incredible performances and events — all of which…
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OpenAI Execs Are Panicking
An AI price war is brewing. Corporations are reeling after finding that the cost to access powerful AI tools is soaring — despite showing no clear payoff. In one particularly unfortunate incident, according to Axios, the CFO of a company accidentally racked up half a billion dollars in Claude usage fees in a single month.…
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Trump threatens to seize Iranian island vital to oil exports, as ceasefire teeters
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — President Trump threatened Thursday to launch major strikes on Iran and seize control of its oil industry as escalating attacks between the countries pushed the Middle East closer to the resumption of a full-scale war. Trump said in a social media post that the U.S. would hit Iran “VERY HARD TONIGHT” and…
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‘Unhinged’ Trump threat could’ve gotten a Pentagon official charged: ex-spokeswoman
President Donald Trump warned that U.S. forces were preparing to take control of Kharg Island in a major escalation of the war in Iran, and a national security expert denounced his statements as “unhinged” and unnecessarily risky. The 79-year-old president posted on Truth Social that U.S. forces would be “hitting Iran … very hard tonight”…
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When Robots Come for Dance
Earlier this year, I watched a video that caught me entirely by surprise: A clip from the CCTV Spring Festival in China, in which more than a dozen humanoid robots performed an intricate martial-arts routine. They backflipped. They high-kicked. They wielded swords and dropped into potentially pant-splitting lunges. A side-by-side comparison with their movements just…
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House vote to extend FISA spy tool fails and it could lapse as Friday deadline looms
WASHINGTON — A rare lapse in a law that allows the United States to gather intelligence abroad appears likely after the House failed on Thursday to temporarily extend the program, in a protest of President Trump ‘s refusal to name a permanent head of the nation’s intelligence agencies. Trump has doubled down on his temporary pick for…
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NYT finds wild Obamacare ‘fix’ buried in Trump admin’s dense new rules
The Trump administration has quietly floated an eyebrow-raising new “fix” for Americans struggling with skyrocketing Obamacare costs: take out a loan from health insurers, The New York Times reported Wednesday. Buried in the dense 1,121-page final rule the administration issued last month governing how the Affordable Care Act marketplace will operate next year, the proposal…
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California Coastal Commission plots new attack on vital offshore drilling platform
The California Coastal Commission has threatened to shut down Sable Offshore’s crude oil extraction operations in the Santa Barbara Channel, claiming the company restarted its pipeline without a required state permit. “These violations can be resolved amicably,” the commission’s Executive Director, Kate Huckelbridge, wrote to Steve Rusch, Sable’s vice president of Regulatory & Environmental Affairs.…