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xAI Employees Say Elon Musk Promised Them $420 to Feed Their Taxes Into Grok, But Stiffed Them on the Payment
We’ve long known that internet memelord Elon Musk is a big fan of 420. Well, he also reportedly really loves ketamine, but we’re talking about the dumb meme number, and not necessarily his alleged drug habits. And while anyone who willingly works under the guy may well share his juvenile sense of humor, something tells…
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After 30 years, young crowds still line up for punishment at L.A.’s harshest nightclub, Das Bunker
A club night dedicated to a niche, harsh subgenre of music would be lucky to last three years in a churning city like Los Angeles. But 30? That run makes the industrial club Das Bunker roughly as old as the original D Line. It’s impossible to imagine Los Angeles’ electronic scene without Das Bunker, a…
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Jeff Bezos scrambles to downplay Trump connection: ‘I still call Obama for advice’
Jeff Bezos tried Wednesday to thread a needle that’s gotten increasingly hard to thread — insisting he’s no Trump lackey while simultaneously heaping praise on the president — and it showed. In a wide-ranging live interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box from the Blue Origin Rocket Factory in Merritt Island, Florida, the Amazon founder and world’s…
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‘Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed’ Review: Tatiana Maslany Is in Over Her Head in Gripping Suburban Tale of Cyber Murder
“Marriage is a lot like a marathon. Sometimes, you puke.” For the newly divorced Paula (Tatiana Maslany), single life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Living in the suburbs of New York, she’s making a life for herself in a new apartment, sharing custody of her third-grade daughter, Hazel (Nola Wallace), with ex-husband Karl…
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The week’s bestselling books, May 24
Hardcover fiction 1. Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf: $30) A “tradwife” influencer suddenly wakes up in the brutal world of 1855. 2. The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout (Random House: $29) A life-altering event forces a high school teacher to confront hidden truths. 3. The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (Crown: $28) A…
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Far-right rebels against Stephen Miller after his latest stunt
Trump aide Stephen Miller went on X this week to torch Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky for voting against President Donald Trump’s signature border bill, but the video drew a reaction Miller almost certainly didn’t see coming. Some of the loudest voices in the far-right corner of the MAGA movement turned the attack right…
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TheWrap’s Kayla Cobb and Adam Chitwood Win Mirror Award for Late Night Reporting
TheWrap senior reporter Kayla Cobb and executive editor Adam Chitwood won the 2026 Mirror Award for Best Coverage of the Future of Late Night Television at a ceremony in New York City on Tuesday night. The special topic from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications singled out the best reporting in the late…
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WHO says risk of Ebola outbreak spreading globally is low, but high at regional levels as cases expected to rise
GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday the risk of global spread of the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda is high at national and regional levels but low at the global level. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said so far 51 cases have been confirmed in Congo in…
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Lindsay Hubbard claims Danielle Olivera hooked up with her ex Carl Radke on ‘In the City’
Lindsay Hubbard accused former bestie Danielle Olivera of hooking up with her ex-fiancé, Carl Radke, during Tuesday’s “In the City” premiere. Hubbard claimed that Olivera — who briefly dated Radke before she joined “Summer House” in 2017 — made a move on the Soft Bar owner in 2019 amid his and Hubbard’s on-again, off-again romance.…
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From the Big Apple, sour grapes toward the voice of the Dodgers
SAN DIEGO — The good people of New York like to consider themselves tough. If you can make it there, as Frank Sinatra crooned, you’ll make it anywhere. Do not confuse hot takes with sounding tough. Two New York sports talk hosts this week took daft shots at Joe Davis and came off — in the last…