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BYD’s Vice President on the Price of Global Success
Stella Li on the opening day of the Paris Motor Show in Paris, France, on Oct. 12, 2026. —Cyril Marcilhacy–Bloomberg via Getty Images Last summer, while on an assignment in Ethiopia, I found myself daydreaming while trapped in Addis Ababa’s rush hour traffic. Staring out from my gridlocked taxi, I was struck by something remarkable:…
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The Blue Tsunami Swept Doctors and Scientists Into Office
What do Michigan senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed, South Carolina senator-elect Annie Andrews, Ohio governor-elect Amy Acton, and North Carolina representative-elect Jamie Ager have in common, beyond their victories in this week’s midterm elections? Each is either a doctor or a scientist. And each had the backing of the political action committee 314 Action Fund, which focuses…
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How Mayor-elect Raman will remake L.A. City Hall
Bike lanes. Housing vouchers. A new police chief and many more new apartments, even in single-family neighborhoods. And above all, data to find out if City Hall programs are working. Mayor-elect Nithya Raman won’t represent a radical ideological break from her opponent, the one-term incumbent Mayor Bass. Like Bass, she’s a Democrat who believes in…
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Top House Republican has her own record thrown in her face during live CNN interview
CNN’s Brianna Keilar confronted a top House Republican with her own words and voting record Thursday before challenging her attempt to downplay the Iran war’s impact on her party’s disastrous midterm election losses. The moment came as Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), a House assistant whip, was pressed over her September vote against a resolution to…
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‘The Gilded Age’ Season 4 Boasts Show’s Most-Watched Premiere to Date With Nearly 4 Million Viewers
“The Gilded Age” is keeping its ratings momentum going with Season 4. The HBO period drama from Julian Fellowes and Sonja Warfield gathered nearly 4 million viewers with its latest episode, making the series’ most-watched season premiere to date and a 25% increase from its previous premiere that gathered 3.2 million viewers. The ratings win…
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FDNY commissioner 1,600 miles away at Puerto Rico political junket — as NYC blaze kills 6
The FDNY boss offered “fire safety” advice from the annual Somos political conference in Puerto Rico Thursday — just hours after a fire killed six people in Brooklyn. Fire Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore was spotted rubbing elbows with union heads at a posh beachside resort 1,600-miles away from the city — but played down her jaunt…
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‘Mormon Wives’ star Jen Affleck’s estranged husband blindsided by divorce filing — which he learned about on the news
“The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” star Zac Affleck learned his wife, Jen Affleck, filed for divorce on the news. Sources close to the situation told TMZ that Zac found out Jen pulled the plug on their marriage after seeing reports that she went to a Utah courthouse and filed the petition. The insider noted Zac…
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Truth Social’s Stock Price Can’t Seem to Stop Falling After Trump’s Brutal Defeat in the Midterms
After his party suffered a historic defeat in this week’s midterm elections, president Donald Trump’s Truth Social is following suit. Shares of the social media platform’s parent company, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), hit an all-time low after Trump’s candidate picks were roundly rejected by American voters. As it turned out, investors weren’t finished.…
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She’s got political savvy, good timing, or both. And she’s about to become Mayor Raman
Robert Martinez, a retired IT guy, stepped out of the Eagle Rock Rec Center polling place Tuesday afternoon and said he had just filled in a ballot bubble not for L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, but for challenger Nithya Raman. “You know, I’m not really thrilled about her, either,” Martinez said, but he told me what…
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‘Most loyal’ Bari Weiss soldier humiliated as AI-altered El-Sayed smear goes viral
A reporter at CBS News, chief Bari Weiss’s Free Press, drew ridicule over a viral, AI-altered photo of designer heels from Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed’s (D-MI) election night. Olivia Reingold, a Free Press staff writer, acknowledged Thursday on X that she had run the image through ChatGPT. Her post came after Vanity Fair and a proposed…