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Inside the AI Boom’s Arctic Outpost
Standing atop a skeleton of reinforced steel, Torkjell Lund surveys his domain. To the east and west, snow-covered peaks loom over this vast Norwegian valley. To the south, a fjord deposits icy water into the Atlantic Ocean. Above, the northern lights have been known to grace the Arctic sky. But Lund is pointing to the…
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An LAPD gang? Internal report says police unit had ‘rampant culture of misconduct’
The LAPD internal investigation leveled a troubling allegation: Officers in a specialized unit tasked with combating street gangs had themselves behaved like a gang. In 2023, officers in the San Fernando Valley were accused of making dozens of improper traffic stops and attempting to hide their actions from their supervisors by switching off their body…
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Even the kingmakers who put Trump in power are jumping ship — and that’s horrifying
America seems to be failing, both at home and around the world. But why? David French published a thoughtful op-ed in Monday’s New York Times titled The Fire of Stupidity Can’t Be Contained, identifying many of the symptoms of our national decline and wondering out loud why this is happening now. His best guess is…
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Is the GOP Starting to Defy Trump?
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts A couple of weeks ago, several Republican senators not only criticized President Trump’s proposed $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” in a private meeting but “screamed” at Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, according to Senator Ted Cruz on his podcast. “There were multiple senators…
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’60 Minutes’ in turmoil as talent revolts under Bari Weiss and new executive producer
In recent months, the iconic ticking stopwatch of the CBS News magazine “60 Minutes” began to sound like a time bomb. The explosive detonated Tuesday as the prestigious program’s most high-profile correspondent, Scott Pelley, was fired after openly challenging the moves and motives of the news division’s leadership and questioning the credentials of new “60…
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Trump flies into rage as ‘bad Republicans’ hand him a harsh public rebuke
President Donald Trump raged at the four “bad Republicans” who voted with the Democratic minority to end his war against Iran. The 79-year-old president lashed out Wednesday morning after the Iran war powers resolution passed 215-208 in the GOP-led House after Republicans Tom Barrett of Michigan, Warren Davidson of Ohio, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and…
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Massive inferno tears through historic New York psychiatric center
A massive fire tore through multiple buildings of an historic psychiatric facility in the Hudson Valley, wild footage shows. The blaze erupted Wednesday at the abandoned Hudson River Psychiatric Center in Poughkeepsie, which was established in 1867 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 after closing years earlier, according to Pix…
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Sharon Stone shares the shocking final straw that ended her marriage
Sharon Stone decided to end her second marriage due to the way her then-husband reacted to her terrifying health scare. During Monday’s episode of David Begnaud’s “The Person Who Believed In Me” podcast, the “Basic Instinct” actress said she learned she had tumors in her breasts in the early 2000s. “One of them was bigger…
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The Surprising, Liberating History of Marriage
A few months ago, one of my best friends told me that she and her boyfriend had gotten engaged. Engaged? I thought. What for? She has two young kids and has never been married; he’s older; they each have their own apartment; she seemed happy with the way things were. “Congratulations!” I said, because he’s…
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Emergency room visits during heat waves available to the public in ‘near-real time’ in L.A. County
For the first time, Los Angeles County residents can see how many people are ending up in emergency rooms, their bodies pushed past the limit, during heat waves. The county Department of Public Health says its new Heat-Related Illness and Mortality Dashboard will provide heat illness counts in “near real time,” which means weekly. That…