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AI-assisted staging draws boos at famed Wagner festival in Germany
BERLIN — An experiment with artificial intelligence at the famed annual Richard Wagner festival in the southeastern German town of Bayreuth drew boos from the audience after producing a staging that appeared to leave some spectators confused. Curator Marcus Lobbes and his team were greeted with boos and whistles as they took to the stage at the…
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Trump backs off latest Iran strike threats, claiming a new deal may emerge
WASHINGTON — President Trump says he will order American forces to hold off on new strikes against Iran, claiming Mideast allies have reached the parameters of a deal to end the five-month-old war. The emerging deal “would include the Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT, and an end to Iran’s nuclear threat,” Trump wrote…
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‘He is a danger to my daughter’: MAGA senator breaks silence on accused GOP lawmaker
Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) broke his silence Sunday regarding allegations that his daughter had been physically abused by her ex-husband, Rep. Max Miller (R-OH), calling his own Republican colleague a “danger to my daughter.” Shared on social media, Moreno’s statement comes just over an hour after Miller denied the allegations leveled against him in a…
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RFK Jr. slams CNN’s Dana Bash in fiery shouting match over over vaccines, measles and Covid: ‘You were part of the problem’
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got into a fiery clash with CNN host Dana Bash over the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines, and autism. Tensions began to flare after Bash noted how the Kennedy scion has pinned a lot of the blame for the COVID-19 pandemic fallout on Dr. Anthony Fauci, who repeatedly…
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‘It was horseplay’: MAGA lawmaker denies abuse allegations as he vows to keep campaigning
Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) refused to abandon his reelection campaign Sunday and denied allegations he physically abused his ex-wife by holding a gun to her head, throwing boiling water at her, and breaking his 2-year-old daughter’s collarbone. “Every one of these allegations traces back to a single source: my former wife,” Miller said in a…
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Mamdani admin to turn felons into gourmet-food producers for ‘farm-to-table’ dining at NYC jails
The Mamdani administration is launching a new program to turn felons into gourmet-food producers and offer “farm-to-table’’ dining for inmates. The New York City Correction Department has awarded a nearly $230,000 annual contractto a Colorado-based firm, FarmBox Foods, to teach inmates — or “persons in custody” — at Rikers Island and other municipal jails how…
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I Can’t Be the Only One Who Loves Dulles
A couple of years ago, squinting into the morning sun on a Dulles International Airport people mover after a red-eye from London, I found myself chatting with a flight attendant. Looking at the tired travelers packed in around her, she said in her British accent that she always dreaded flying through Washington. “I just can’t…
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‘Man who eats road kill’ slammed for calling CNN anchor ‘flustered’
An epic CNN shouting match earned scathing rebuke for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sunday after he “barked” unsubstantiated facts then accused his interviewer of being “flustered.” “I am not flustered,” host Dana Bash replied. “I am frustrated.” Bash’s frustration was shared by CNN viewers who professed themselves shocked by Kennedy’s response to…
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Wildfires rage across Europe as firefighters battle blazes strengthened by gale-force winds
Europe’s wildfire crisis fractured along starkly different fronts Sunday: gale-force winds drove flames deeper into the Athens region and forced fresh evacuations, France guarded a still-burning scar four times the size of Paris against renewed spread, and Spain’s major fires finally stopped advancing. The center of immediate danger was Greece. Flames spread through western Attica, the capital’s…
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See the inappropriate messages Modest Mouse guitarist Simon O’Connor sent to underage fan
Modest Mouse guitarist Simon O’Connor was kicked off the band’s upcoming tour after he allegedly sent inappropriate messages to an underage fan. In a shocking Reddit post, an anonymous person shared Instagram DMs O’Connor allegedly sent her after she “liked” a few of his posts days before her 17th birthday. In the first message, the…