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Trump official proclaims America is in ‘economic golden age’ — and gets slammed
Kevin Hassett, Director of the National Economic Council, told Fox News on Friday that the economy under President Donald Trump was booming — and hilarity ensued. Hassett claimed “the Trump boom” wouldn’t be reported by “the fake news,” and that the One Big Beautiful Bill has massively helped to improve the economy — dismissing affordability…
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How Travis Knight Finally Conquered ‘Masters of the Universe’
Travis Knight can’t remember the “exact time” he watched “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe,” an animated series that aired in first-run syndication from 1983 to 1984, or held a He-Man action figure in his hands. Not that it didn’t make an impression. “It was seismic in so many different ways,” Knight said. He…
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What I Learned From My Dog
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Humans used to spend a lot of time thinking about what separated us from animals. René Descartes, who wrote, “I think, therefore I am,” practiced vivisection on rabbits and dogs because he thought…
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It’s Possible That SpaceX Could Collapse Spectacularly
Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO is a mere week away, with the space company aiming to raise a whopping $75 billion at an astronomical valuation of $1.78 trillion. The company’s top priority has historically been to get humanity settled on Mars, making it an interplanetary species. But now Musk has unexpectedly merged itwith his AI startup…
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Corporations splurge on top execs while skimping on rank and file
Companies are spending more on executive perks such as luxury relocations and private jets, underscoring a widening divide between the rewards offered to corporate leaders and the more modest pay gains available to much of the workforce. Data from relocation services firm CapRelo shows the average cost of relocating a C-suite executive more than doubled…
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Whistleblower shares sinister plan to erase 2.7M living people from Social Security
A former senior Social Security official has disclosed that the Trump administration drew up plans to classify 2.7 million living people — including United States citizens, legal permanent residents and teenagers — as dead, using one of the government’s most powerful identity databases to effectively erase them from the financial system. Jeremiah Schofield, who spent…
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First Knicks MSG NBA Finals game of the century is Monday night. Get tickets
The drought at the Garden is finally over. After 27 long, long years — from the lows of the Isaiah Thomas era to the giddy highs of Linsanity to the infamous Andrea Bargnani trade — the New York Knicks are playing in the NBA Finals at MSG. To say New York is excited might be the understatement…
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You Might Soon Own a Piece of SpaceX
Elon Musk is about to set in motion a chain of events that will reshape the global financial order. For starters, when SpaceX formally goes public next week, he is all but guaranteed to become the world’s first trillionaire. His rocket company is targeting a valuation of $1.77 trillion, which would make it one of…
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Graham Platner to hold Maine rally with Rep. Ro Khanna as scandals shake up campaign
PORTLAND, Maine — Graham Platner, the insurgent Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, will hold his first major campaign rally Friday night as reports continue emerging about his history with women. Last weekend, his campaign wrestled with stories about sexually explicit messages that Platner sent to several women while he was married. Then on Thursday, The…
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Trump insiders reveal party members seething as his ‘unforced errors’ destroy work
Republican members of Congress are reaching a “boiling point”with President Trump, with GOP insiders expressing deep-seated frustration over what they characterize as the president’s relentless demands and self-sabotage timing that undermines their legislative efforts. According to interviews with NOTUS, Republican congressional insiders describe a workplace environment poisoned by “resentment” as Trump repeatedly upends their strategy…