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Nicole Richie and Benji Madden celebrate daughter Kate’s high school graduation with rarely seen son Sparrow
Nicole Richie and Benji Madden are some proud parents. The celebrities were pictured on Wednesday night celebrating their daughter Kate’s high school graduation as a family with their rarely seen son, Sparrow, and Nicole’s mother, Brenda Richie. Nicole, 44, and Benji, 47, were captured on camera beaming with pride as they posed for a selfie…
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Trump says Reflecting Pool work is done and it’s set to be filled with water
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is done, and it’s set to be filled with water any day now, his administration says. Trump noted the work to paint the shallow basin a deep shade, which he calls “American flag blue,” was completed on Wednesday. The administration said in a court filing it’s…
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Kennedy Center staff ordered to ‘immediately’ rip Trump’s name from venue: report
The Kennedy Center is moving to comply with a federal court order to strip President Donald Trump’s name from the iconic Washington arts venue, according to a memo obtained by CBS News. The center’s general counsel sent the memo to staff Thursday, instructing them to “immediately change email signatures, letterhead, and other documents” to reflect…
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‘U.S. Against the World’ Creators Share How a Small Studio Tackled Massive World Cup Doc
For HBO’s “U.S. Against the World,” producers Rand Getlin and Janina Pelayo went behind-the-scenes with the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team’s journey to the World Cup for four years — a massive undertaking for even the most experienced, well-backed documentarians. Getlin and Pelayo, the husband-and-wife team behind small-scale production company Park Stories, were first introduced…
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Arizona Supreme Court denies prosecutor appeal against sending fake elector case back to grand jury
PHOENIX — The Arizona Supreme Court has denied a prosecutor’s appeal of an order that the state’s fake elector case against President Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and others over the 2020 presidential election be sent back to a grand jury. The decision marks another setback for Democratic…
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett might have hinted at how she’ll swing on Trump’s legal battles
Georgetown University law professor Steve Vladeck analyzed a little-noticed Supreme Court occurrence in Margolin v. National Association of Immigration Judges that may reveal how Justice Amy Coney Barrett will rule on consequential Trump-era legal battles. Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Barrett, advocated going further than the narrow procedural ruling to restrict federal employees’ ability to…
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Alan Cumming Says He Can’t Believe How Irrational ‘The Traitors’ Contestants Are
Alan Cumming is having quite the year. When we caught up with him in April, he was taking a break from a tour of a musical he’d written called “The High Life,” which was based on a sitcom he wrote in the 1990s about “a crappy Scottish airline.” He was planning to do another month…
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Israel and Hezbollah Trade Fresh Strikes as Militant Group Rejects Cease-Fire Plan
Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon on June 4, 2026. —Abbas Fakih—Getty Images The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah on Thursday rejected the cease-fire proposal agreed upon by Israel and Lebanon after U.S.-led negotiations. “We are concerned only with a comprehensive cessation of aggression, a cease-fire, and the withdrawal of…
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The AI IPO Race Heats Up, DOGE Whistleblower Sues Elon Musk, and Instagram Gets Hacked
This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss why the race among the top AI companies to go public has just gotten started but is already creating bizarre repercussions—including numerous San Francisco real estate listings preferring Anthropic’s stock instead of cash. They also get into why Donald Trump’s new executive order on AI safety is underwhelming,…
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Basketball Fans Disgusted as ESPN Airs AI Slop Version of NBA Champion Tony Parker During the Finals
The first game of the 2026 NBA finals was everything fans could want out of playoff basketball. The New York Knicks overcame an early 14-point deficit to bring themselves within spitting distance of the San Antonio Spurs by the third period, the orange and blue squad only pulling ahead in the final minutes. Courtside fans,…