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After 40 years, the Afghan Whigs still sound like no one else — and they’re not done yet
For fans of the Afghan Whigs, the first half of 2026 has been a glorious time. The beloved Cincinnati-born band is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a tour spanning its entire career, including two new singles the band released earlier this year. The tour wraps up in Southern California this week with a string of…
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‘Creepy and weird’: Missing Republican’s curiously chipper newsletter draws fire
A consultant for Rep. Tom Kean Jr. — the New Jersey Republican who has been missing from Congress for 74 days — decided Monday that the real scandal isn’t his boss’s 2 1/2-month disappearance, it’s the journalist asking about it. Kean last cast a vote in the House on March 5 and has since missed…
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‘Hello Kitty’ Movie Sets David Derrick Jr., John Aoshima to Direct
Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema have signed “Moana 2” co-director David Derrick Jr. and “Ultraman: Rising” co-director John Aoshima to direct their upcoming film adaptation of Sanrio’s “Hello Kitty” franchise, which will be released July 21, 2028. Ramsay Naito, the former head of Paramount and Nickelodeon Animation, has also joined the project as a…
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Inside the AI compute crunch driving Google researchers to quit
In the race to build the infrastructure that powers artificial intelligence, Alphabet Inc.’s Google has an enviable position: The company has a healthy cloud computing business, makes its own chips, and has struck deals to share them with companies like Anthropic PBC and Meta Platforms Inc. Google’s success has made its computing resources so valuable,…
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Prominent Reverend draws criticism for his speech at Trump’s ‘Rededicate 250’ event
Rev. Franklin Graham delivered a pre-recorded video message at President Donald Trump’s Rededicate 250 prayer event Sunday at the National Mall in D.C., describing America as “morally rotten” and “completely sick with sin.” Graham cited “transgenderism” and “opening women’s locker rooms to men” as a couple of examples of America’s alleged moral decay. He then…
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Dropout CEO Sam Reich on ‘Game Changer’ and How His Labor Secretary Dad Taught Him to Empower Artists
There was a time when it seemed like the comedy website CollegeHumor would fade away into a distant memory of 2000s and 2010s internet history. But one of its longest tenured talents, Sam Reich, wouldn’t let it die, and now it has evolved into one of this decade’s fastest growing boutique streaming services: Dropout. Driven…
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AI CEOs Baffled by Hatred of Their Technology
A bulk of Americans really hate AI — and many AI CEOs can’t quite grasp why. There’s a serious mismatch between public sentiment and corporate excitement over AI. Companies continue to AI-wash layoffs and jam the tech into every corner of their products, yet research keeps finding that Americans are opposed to rampant AI expansion:…
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Jury sides with OpenAI, tossing out Elon’s claim that Sam Altman ‘stole a charity’
A federal jury has sided with OpenAI and its top executives Monday in a feud with Elon Musk, who accused them of betraying a shared vision for it to guide artificial intelligence’s development as a nonprofit. The nine-person jury unanimously found that Musk waited too long to file his lawsuit and missed the deadline for…
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MAGA candidate snaps after right-wing outlet suggests he inflated his Bronze Star count
Ed Gallrein, a retired Navy SEAL and GOP congressional candidate hand-picked by President Donald Trump to unseat Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), lashed out at The Daily Caller after the outlet reported that he may have inflated his military record during his campaign. “This lie-filled story is nothing but a desperate attempt by Thomas Massie and…
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Congo to open three Ebola treatment centers as virus outbreak kills 105
DAKAR, Senegal — Congo will open three treatment centers for the Ebola virus in the eastern Ituri province following an outbreak of a variant that has no approved therapeutics or vaccines, as the World Health Organization sent a team of experts and supplies to help combat the spread of the disease. “We know that the hospitals are already under…