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‘Travesty’: Republicans appall with frothing fantasies of imprisoning an 85-year-old
Pursuing an 85-year-old Anthony Fauci toward a prison cell is a “travesty,” Guardian columnist Margaret Sullivan argued Monday, even as she acknowledged the retired scientist didn’t get everything right at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Her column followed a move by Sen. Rand Paul’s committee, which voted along party lines to hold Fauci in…
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Scientists create chewing gum that could protect high-risk people from mouth and throat cancer
Chew on this news. Scientists may have developed an easy way to stop one of the most aggressive and common forms of head and neck cancer that often starts in the mouth and throat. And all it would take is popping a piece of bioengineered bean gum. Reducing one of the most aggressive and common…
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Hilary Duff pays tribute to late ex-boyfriend Aaron Carter during Philadelphia concert
Hilary Duff remembered her late ex-boyfriend Aaron Carter with a sweet onstage tribute. The pop star wore a vintage T-shirt featuring the troubled former child star during her Lucky Me World Tour stop in Philadelphia on Sunday. The shirt featured a young Carter who was early in his career, standing in jean overalls and a white-and-red shirt. …
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‘Trump is terrified’: Expert decodes desperate push behind GOP’s midterm meddling
Republicans in Congress should be wary of the midterms as voters will have the opportunity to check their power, a political expert argued on Monday. Svante Myrick, president of the progressive advocacy group People For the American Way, wrote in an op-ed for The Hill about how the upcoming fall “elections will give voters a…
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‘Jail time’ calls surge as ‘insane’ right-wing AI attack ad airs in red state
A new political attack ad against Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico left onlookers floored Monday for its use of generative artificial intelligence to depict the Texas Democrat as a doctor preparing to perform surgery on a young child. “I think using an AI version of a candidate in a political advertisement should result in jail…
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‘Harry Potter’ TV Series Actress ‘Strongly’ Disagrees With J.K. Rowling’s Anti-Trans Views
Though J.K. Rowling is extremely involved in HBO’s upcoming “Harry Potter” TV adaptation, not all the actors involved with the project share her anti-trans views. In a new Telegraph interview released Monday morning, Bel Powley, who will be playing Petunia Dursley in the show, noted that she “strongly” disagrees. “I strongly disagree with J.K. Rowling’s…
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Your Dog Really Can Tell When You’re Happy
A very cooperative border collie undergoes an fMRI. —Photo by Laura Cuaya If you’ve ever suspected your dog can read your mind—sussing out through some canine intuition when you’re happy, sad, scared, or cross—you’re half right. Many dogs can do exactly that, but it’s not mind-reading that’s involved: it’s face-reading. That’s the word from a…
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USA Today Journalists Horrified by Newspaper’s Partnership With Palantir
Last week, Nieman Lab revealed that USA Today‘s parent company USA Today Co (formerly Gannett) was partnering with AI surveillance firm Palantir to monetize “actionable intelligence” on its audience. According to USA Today CEO Mike Reed, the goal is to “build a common intelligence layer” on reader data to “monetize those relationships faster and at…
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Trump’s Truth Social traffic in freefall after posting staggering loss: report
Executives at Trump Media, the publicly traded company co-founded with President Donald Trump, are going to have some explaining to do as site traffic plunges at an alarming rate. According to the New York Times, despite the ever-present media attention that his policy pronouncements and personal attacks on the site attract, traffic to the social…
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CNN’s Omar Jimenez Confronts Nancy Mace Over Anti-Muslim Tweets: ‘The First Amendment Disagrees’
CNN anchor Omar Jimenez got into a heated live debate Sunday with Republican South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) over the latter’s extremist tweets about Muslims needing to be banned from American public office, with Jimenez reminding Mace, “The First Amendment disagrees.” On Friday, Mace reacted to Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed‘s primary win in the…