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Pentagon official’s retort to NYT lawsuit draws immediate scorn from fired-up reporters
Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell fired back Monday after the New York Times filed its second lawsuit against the Defense Department in five months, claiming the paper simply wants to get its hands on classified information — and reporters who cover the building immediately returned fire. Parnell posted on X that the Times’ lawsuit, which challenges…
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Screaming heckler disrupts San Diego mayor’s shooting presser with vulgar tirade
San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria was met with a screaming heckler before he could start talking at Monday evening’s press conference on the deadly shooting at the Islamic Center, which is currently being investigated as a hate crime. “This is a [expletive] direct result of your leadership!” shouted the heckler. “Our Muslim brothers and sisters…
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Trump’s use of AI again leads to outrage online
President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image Sunday night depicting himself launching a nuclear strike, drawing alarm from social media users. The image shows Trump pressing a large red button as a massive explosion with a mushroom cloud strikes Earth. The post continues a pattern of controversial generative artificial intelligence, or GenAI, imagery that Trump…
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Can we all get a refund? Now UN climate experts admit climate change won’t destroy Earth tomorrow
Apocalyptic climate-change predictions were box-office gold for Hollywood but they did untold damage to the public psyche, economy and the average man’s pocketbook. Now the United Nations’ influential climate change committee has quietly discarded the dire temperature-rise scenarios used in two previous reports predicting horrific consequences of global warming if greenhouse emissions weren’t curbed. For…
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Bella Hadid does yoga in tiny string bikini on luxury yacht
Bella Hadid is living her best life on a yacht in the south of France. The model, 29, was snapped doing yoga in a metallic silver bikini on a luxury yacht Monday. Hadid showed off her trim physique in the tiny two-piece as she hit a few poses. Hadid lifted her legs and torso up…
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Trump crossed a bright red line as he took an ax to American values: expert
President Donald Trump’s “Rededicate 250” event on Sunday was the latest example of how the administration is willingly crossing a bright red line as it takes an ax to a central American value, according to one expert. Robert Jones, who has been studying and writing about political extremism for more than two decades, argued in…
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LA Mayor Candidate Adam Miller Calls for ‘Complete Overhaul’ of Film Production to Bring ‘Bread and Butter’ Jobs Back
Los Angeles mayoral candidate and businessman Adam Miller unveiled his plan to bring film and television production back to the city, which includes a Deputy Mayor of Entertainment, a singular film office and plans to eliminate permitting requirements. The founder and CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand, a global leader in workforce development, told TheWrap that his…
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Ensure that California’s journalism fund supports key players
California is beginning to address the crisis facing local journalism by distributing nearly $20 million this year to local news organizations. But the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development is about to fumble the opportunity by having the government pick winners and losers — with journalists being the losers. Local news has suffered from…
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New Epstein exhibit puts blown-up Trump photo right at the front door
President Donald Trump’s hometown of New York City is reminding the public of just how closely tied he is to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a new stunt. According to The Daily Beast, an art gallery in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan “was transformed into the ‘Donald J. Trump & Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading…
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The Altman-Musk Trial Was a Waste of Everyone’s Time
Sam Altman did not seem to be having a good time. During the many days that he spent inside an Oakland courtroom, the normally cheery CEO of OpenAI—a guy who tends to be chipper even when declaring AI’s existential risks to humanity—appeared anxious, even distraught. When he listened to the proceedings in Elon Musk’s lawsuit…