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Europe Needs to Stop Appeasing Trump
Can Mark Rutte please just stop talking? The NATO secretary general, who infantilized an entire continent last year by referring to Donald Trump as “Daddy,” continued his campaign of flattery at the most recent meeting of the G7: “The U.S. action to prevent the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran and degrade its ballistic missile capability…
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Friction between Trump and Republican senators is growing before the pivotal midterm elections
WASHINGTON — The relationship between President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans neared a breaking point this week as he upended their efforts to speedily confirm one of his own nominees and said he would not sign the renewal of a key surveillance law unless they agree to new terms. Trump’s overnight social media post Wednesday that he…
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The Americans who want to see Australia do well
SEATTLE — Some American fans walking toward Lumen Field on Friday morning were playfully jeering their Australian peers whenever they spotted a telltale yellow jersey. But a major driver of the local economy offered a kinder greeting to the visiting team. Cranes in view of the stadium gates have been outfitted with the Australian flag…
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World Cup 2026 mints big prediction winners and million-dollar losers
The World Cup is turning prediction markets into a public ledger of million-dollar bets, exposing big wins and dramatic losses as the tournament attracts more money to the fast-growing industry. More than $5 billion has been traded on the World Cup across Polymarket’s international exchange and U.S.-regulated Kalshi Inc. in 2026, according to a Bloomberg…
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‘Neutering of Trump’ to start as disastrous deal launches presidency’s autopsy: column
President Donald Trump seems to be shrinking himself down, according to a conservative columnist, and his seeming capitulation could diminish him even further. The president signed an agreement to get out of his war in Iran just days after turning 80, and fellow octogenarian George Will published a column for the Washington Post outlining how…
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Trump forgot to bring Iran deal to signing — leaving Rubio scrambling for printer: report
Secretary of State Marco Rubio scrambled for a printer inside the Palace of Versailles after President Donald Trump went to the sign his Iran deal — without bringing a copy with him. A new report sheds light on the chaotic behind-the-scenes details of how the historic agreement came together. According to Agence France-Presse, Trump decided…
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Jewish Story Partners Issues $560K in New Grants Amid 5th Anniversary | Exclusive
Jewish Story Partners is celebrating its 5th anniversary by awarding $560,000 to 22 new projects, TheWrap can exclusively reveal. This brings the independent film funder’s total to $4.5 million in grants across 136 projects since the JSP launched in 2021 with support from Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Foundation. The latest batch of…
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Ghislaine Maxwell’s five-story UES townhome, once used for lavish parties, sells for $16.5M
The Manhattan townhouse where Ghislaine Maxwell once hosted champagne-soaked dinner parties and charity galas for New York’s elite has quietly sold for $16.5 million. The five-story Beaux-Arts limestone and brick residence on 116 E 65th Street, where the former socialite lived for roughly 16 years before her 2020 arrest, traded hands Tuesday, according to property…
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Shocked Geena Davis addresses Netflix’s cancellation of ‘The Boroughs’: ‘Terribly disappointed’
It was a strange thing. Geena Davis made a comeback for the Netflix show “The Boroughs,” produced by “Stranger Things” creators The Duffer Brothers – and after the streamer canceled the show this week, the actress was left “terribly disappointed.” The “Thelma & Louise” star told The Hollywood Reporterthat they weren’t given a reason why…
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How to Think About AI Before It’s Too Late
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Cory Doctorow has a refrain: “The most important thing about a gadget isn’t what it does; it’s who it does it for and what it does it to.” In this episode of Galaxy Brain, he sits down with Charlie Warzel to talk about the AI boom, making…