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Angelina Jolie never forgave Brad Pitt after big blowout — but 10 years of chaos, custody battles & cruel allegations are coming to a boil
In just a few weeks, Vivienne and Knox Jolie-Pitt officially become adults. But forget the streamers and the cake: The twins’ 18th birthday, on July 12, truly marks the end of a 10-year battle between their parents, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt — and finally brings a full stop to the couple known as “Brangelina.”…
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Was This the Moment That AI Psychosis Began?
On April 10, 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to social media to announce that his company was preparing to launch an exciting new feature. “A few times a year I wake up early and can’t fall back asleep because we are launching a new feature I’ve been so excited about for so long,” Altman…
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Trump may have just doomed his own nominees for remainder of term: analysis
President Donald Trump’s “pursuit of retribution” has led to the ousting of several GOP lawmakers he’d perceived as inefficiently loyal, but in doing so, may very well have doomed his future nominees for the remainder of his term, health care reporter Joseph Choi argued Sunday in an analysis published in The Hill. Earlier this month,…
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The Scariest Monster on Broadway
The malefactors in Roald Dahl’s fiction are easy to spot. “If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face,” the author writes in The Twits. “And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look…
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A DNA test upended my family. Do I side with my grandmother — or her secret child?
Editor’s note, May 31, 8 am ET: We’re bringing you some of our best-loved Your Mileage May Vary columns while Sigal Samuel is on parental leave. The one below originally published on October 6, 2024. This unconventional advice column offers you a unique framework for thinking through moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism —…
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Los Angeles Voters Have No Good Option
It’s happening again. In a big American city, a young Indian American democratic socialist is trying to unseat an unpopular Black incumbent on a platform of housing affordability. This time, the arena is not New York City but Los Angeles. Nithya Raman, the insurgent, has fashioned herself as a Zohran Mamdani of the West. Karen…
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L.A. politics fractures amid dissatisfaction, frayed alliances, generational conflict
In 1973, Tom Bradley became L.A.’s. first Black mayor by assembling Black, Jewish, white and Latino liberals into a coalition that ended decades of conservative white rule at City Hall. Bradley’s election transformed Los Angeles politics and began what has been, for the most part, a 50-year reign of moderate Democrats. Year after year, the…
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‘Time is up’: Ex-prosecutor says Trump’s ‘past is catching up with him’ on classified docs
Donald Trump may be close to a legal reckoning on the classified documents case, according to a legal expert. Joyce Vance, the former United States attorney who has become one of the most widely read legal analysts of the Trump era, says a key appeals court is signaling it has lost patience with the judge…
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Have People Over!
The nation’s welcome mats have been doing a lot less welcoming lately. Although Americans have been spending much more time at home in recent years—an hour and 39 minutes more a day in 2022 than in 2003—they aren’t inviting other people in. The percentage of people who hosted or attended a social event on an…
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In UAE, one of the world’s most light-polluted places, a revelation in the desert: The Milky Way
AL QUAA DESERT, United Arab Emirates — The gleaming skyscrapers and brights lights of the United Arab Emirates draw the eyes of all who travel there, a sign of the Arabian Peninsula nation’s rapid, oil-fueled development over the last decades into a major hub for commerce and tourism. But something has been lost over that period: a…