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What the Democratic landslide means for GOP booster Elon Musk and his businesses
The historic landslide victory for Democrats in the midterm elections deeply bruised the Republican Party and President Trump, but there’s one man who may have been hurt equally as bad: Elon Musk, the world’s richest person and the party’s biggest donor. The near trillionaire reportedly spent close to $450 million backing GOP candidates across the…
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MAHA devotees ‘without a home’ as RFK Jr.’s movement and Trump’s base eye ‘divorce’
The nascent Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement finds itself “without a home,” according to Politico’s Playbook, with its alliance with President Donald Trump going through what Politico called its roughest patch yet. After Tuesday’s Democratic sweep, Politico reported, there is “plenty of reason for divorce” between Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy…
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‘Married at First Sight UK’ axed after female contestants alleged on-screen husbands raped them
Reality TV dating show âMarried at First Sight UKâ has been axed in outrage after former cast members were accused of raping the women they were matched with. Channel 4 confirmed Thursday that the dating series will not return after 10 seasons, following the investigation into allegations by three female contestants that they were attacked…
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Tatum O’Neal’s son spills on Oscar-winning actress’ ‘drug problem’: Time to ‘let it rip’
Tatum O’Neal’s son Kevin McEnroe is shedding the “enormous amount of secrecy” surrounding his mom’s addiction struggles. The 40-year-old pulled back the curtain on the actress’ “drug problem” in a People interview Wednesday, saying it was time to “let it rip.” McEnroe, who has been sober for seven years after his own drug abuse battle,…
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New Culver City development will add hundreds of apartments, two parks and restaurants
Construction has begun on a $200-million apartment complex in Culver City at a time when housing development in much of Los Angeles County has slowed in spite of strong demand. The earth is being graded at the busy intersection of Jefferson and Sepulveda boulevards to make way for the development of 344 units over street-level…
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GOP’s desperate post-wipeout plans crumble as big-name conservatives refuse to play along
Republicans hoping to use their final weeks in power to blunt this week’s Democratic wave are running into resistance from their own side, according to new reporting. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), 93, won’t resign early to let outgoing Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds appoint his successor before Democratic Gov.-elect Rob Sand takes office, a spokesperson told…
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AI’s Next Trick? Speaking Dolphin
Large language models are already communicating with humans in dozens of languages everyday. Turns out it may not be a stretch to use them to talk with dolphins, too. That’s the premise of research by Denise Herzing, the founder and director of the Wild Dolphin Project. Herzing first began thinking about how the marine mammals…
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L.A. businesswoman fabricated workers, salaries in COVID fraud, netted millions, prosecutors say
An L.A. businesswoman received millions by claiming monthly payroll that was fictional, inflating her employee roster, and referring to a cannabis shop as a lawn-care company, federal prosecutors allege. Now a federal grand jury has indicted Marisela Nuño, who is accused of attempting to defraud COVID-19 relief programs of about $18 million. Nuño, 53, has…
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‘It’s so over’: Once-feared lobby declared dead in new column after midterm shellacking
Political analyst Matthew Yglesias argued in his “Slow Boring” Substack that the political clout of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was collapsing, declaring: “It’s so over for AIPAC.” His thesis was that AIPAC’s power rested less on money than on voters broadly agreeing with it on Israel, which made it easy to find challengers…
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He Trolls AI Labs for a Living. Now They All Want to Work With Him
OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI have all asked creator Matt Husk to collaborate following the viral success of his videos trolling AI models. During the WIRED World Fair on Wednesday, Husk told the crowd “all the big AI companies” have inquired about working with him, including Elon Musk’s xAI, which Husk claimed offered a Tesla for…