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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…
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Bob Dylan is absolutely cooking on the road right now
SANTA BARBARA — Sixty-one years and a day after he laid down the epochal “Like a Rolling Stone” in a recording studio on Seventh Avenue in New York City, Bob Dylan shuffled onstage on the other side of the country dressed so fine in a dark jacket with the hood pulled over his head. The…
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Grocery Stores Deploying “AI Shopping Carts” Stuffed With Cameras to Track Your Exact Coordinates and Bombard You With Ads
Whether you’re dodging Flock cameras on the freeway, ever-listening smartphones in your pocket, or AI bots at the drive-thru, it’s nearly impossible to avoid some type of AI-integrated device these days. Now it turns out that not even your grocery store is safe, as Instacart increasingly deploys AI smart carts to grocery stores across the…
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Trump administration can replace Washington slavery exhibit in Philadelphia, appeals court says
PHILADELPHIA — The Trump administration can replace a slavery exhibit at George Washington’s home in Philadelphia, a federal appeals court panel said Thursday, striking down a lower court’s injunction that required the National Park Service to reinstall the interpretive panels. The unanimous ruling by the three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a…
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DOJ sitting on secret Epstein email account that could expose Trump ties: report
Despite the Justice Department’s claim that it released every document related to Jeffrey Epstein as required by law, three million remain unpublished – including those from a lesser-known Epstein email account that may contain “references to Epstein’s relationship” with President Donald Trump, CBS News reported Friday. A significant share of files released by the Justice…
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As Juneteenth is celebrated across the U.S., Obama’s presidential center opens in Chicago
DALLAS — As people gather across the U.S. to celebrate Juneteenth on Friday, former President Obama’s presidential center is opening its doors to the general public for the first time. Located on a sprawling campus on Chicago’s South Side, the center honoring the nation’s first Black president has been designed to inspire people to make the change…
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Trump’s own right-hand man ‘telegraphs’ MAGA’s imminent implosion: report
After sifting through Vice President JD Vance’s new book titled “Communion,” author Colin Dickey found a startling theme that appears to “telegraph” the impending implosion of the MAGA movement — an apparent precursor to a presidential run that Dickey warned may ultimately backfire. “It’s hard to say how he thinks this is going to work…