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AV Companies Might be in Trouble Now As Cops Start Ticketing Driverless Cars
Autonomous vehicles have an accountability problem. Because there’s no driver, there’s nobody to hold liable when the car misbehaves. This means that when a Waymo blocks an ambulance on its way to an emergency, or a Tesla robotaxi speeds past a stopped school bus, traffic authorities have no recourse to impose a penalty. For years,…
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Another Oscar win for ‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’: Filmmaker’s missing statuette located after TSA dispute
“Mr. Nobody Against Putin” filmmaker Pavel “Pasha” Talankin will soon be reunited with his Oscar statuette after it went missing amid his recent travels. A spokesperson for European airline Lufthansa confirmed Friday in a statement shared with outlets that the coveted golden statuette has been located and is “safely in our care.” Lufthansa spoke on…
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ICE moves to deport 12-year-old and his mother over missing DNA test
The Trump administration is pushing to deport a 12-year-old boy living in Anchorage, Alaska, for lack of a DNA test proving his American Citizenship. According to reporting by Newsweek, both the child and his mother were placed in removal proceedings. The child’s father, following legal advice, is refusing to comply with the U.S. Citizenship and…
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Versant Sells SportsEngine to PlayMetrics
Versant has sold SportsEngine to youth sports management platform PlayMetrics for an undisclosed amount after launching a strategic review of the asset back in November. The company says the decision to offload SportsEngine reflects its broader strategy of “disciplined capital allocation” and sharpening its focus on its four core growth verticals: business news and personal…
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Tara Lipinski’s surrogate suffers ‘devastating loss’
Tara Lipinski revealed that her surrogate experienced a pregnancy loss while carrying her and husband Todd Kapostasy’s second child. “A few months ago, we lost our baby in the second trimester,” the Olympian began in a Friday Instagram post. “We’ve been on our second surrogacy journey for two years now,” Lipinski continued. The former gymnast added…
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Atlantic Reads: How to Be a Dissident With Gal Beckerman
On Wednesday, May 13, the Atlantic staff writer Gal Beckerman will sit down with podcast host Adam Harris to discuss Beckerman’s new book, How to Be a Dissident. Beckerman’s book is part philosophy, part history, and part manual for living with integrity in an age of conformity and authoritarian drift. In How to Be a…
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Why Americans need to avoid easy-money traps and invest in financial literacy
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent winces at the allure of easy money — whether it’s lottery tickets, buy now, pay later loans or the promise of a crypto windfall — warning that the get-rich-quick mindset often leads Americans further from financial stability, not closer to it. “There are a lot of young people, mostly young men,…
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Trump may be forced to cancel bloody birthday bash event coming at ‘worst possible moment’
President Donald Trump’s unprecedented Ultimate Fighting Championship, or UFC, event is scheduled to kick off on June 14, but political writer Myra Adams warned Friday that the event may very well end up occurring “at the worst possible moment.” “For numerous reasons, this UFC event is visually inappropriate and ill-timed. First, historically, the White House…
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Toilet Maker Spikes in Value as It Flushes Money Into AI
Last month, failing tech bro shoe company Allbirds made the baffling announcement that it was pivoting to AI — three magic words that turned the waning business into Silicon Valley’s latest obsession overnight. Now Japanese toilet maker Toto, which has been at the epicenter of the country’s — and the rest of the world’s —…
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U.S. citizen students choose between college financial aid and protecting parents from ICE
Thousands of California students who are U.S. citizens have made an agonizing choice this spring: They did not apply for federal financial aid to attend college because their parents are undocumented and they feared submitting the application would reveal information that could lead to a loved one’s deportation. “I don’t want to sacrifice my family…