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Is She the New Britney Spears—Or the New Lou Reed?
Earlier this year, I wrote an article with the headline “Slow Down, Charli XCX.” The pop singer had followed a hit album, 2024’s Brat, with a steady pulse of output—a remix album, a soundtrack album, a host of movie roles, plus many, many marketing stunts—that had me exhausted by someone whom I consider to be…
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Disney digs in for a major FCC fight over ABC station licenses
The Walt Disney Co. has intensified its battle with the Federal Communications Commission to keep its ABC television stations on the air. In documents filed with the FCC and released Thursday, Disney accused the agency of waging a thinly veiled “intimidation” and “retribution” campaign in service to President Trump. “The retaliation against ABC is a…
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Watch: Mitch McConnell aide flees demands for proof-of-life footage
Demands for proof-of-life footage of the long-absent Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have finally been met — with video of his spokesman fleeing. The video shows Nicholas Ballasy, an independent journalist who works on Capitol Hill, asking Senior Communications Adviser Robert Steurer about Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s demands for proof McConnell is fit to serve. “Are…
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ABC Calls on FCC to Dismiss Early Renewal License Review: ‘Untimely and Unwarranted’
ABC filed a letter directly opposing petitions calling for early license renewal for its local stations, citing over 150,000 comments submitted by the public largely in the network’s favor. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr demanded that ABC submit an early license renewal for its eight owned affiliate stations as part of an investigation into Disney’s diversity,…
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The Surprising Perimenopause Condition That Can Freeze Your Shoulder
—Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source Image: PhotoAlto/Frederic Cirou/Getty Images) When Liz Gumbinner first noticed a twinge in her right shoulder, she assumed she’d pulled a muscle. It was during the pandemic, when many exercise studios were closed, and Gumbinner, a writer who teaches advertising at Boston University, had been doing a lot of yoga and dance…
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Gemini Robotics 2 Brings Google’s AI Into the Physical World
Google DeepMind just released a new version of its artificial intelligence model Gemini, and it can control a range of different robots—including humanoids capable of dextrous tasks like screwing in lightbulbs and tying trash bags. Gemini Robotics 2 combines several different AI models into a single system. Taken together, they allow a robot to make…
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Jonathan Taylor Thomas Poses for Rare Photo With ‘Home Improvement’ Co-Stars
There was a time in the ’90s where Jonathan Taylor Thomas was everywhere, as the young heartthrob of the era. In the years since, the actor has rarely been photographed publicly, but this week, surprised and delighted fans. “Home Improvement” star Patricia Richardson posted a photo that sent people into a tizzy on Wednesday, as…
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As rhinoceros populations recover, game geeks stampede to Africa
The rhino stepped towards us, close enough to touch. “That’s Kitui,” my guide whispered. In the wilderness of central Kenya, the waist-high railing of my viewing platform felt laughably inadequate against an animal weighing well over a ton. Segera in Kenya is home to the peaceful pachyderm Kitui. David Crookes and Nicola Jackson Kitui didn’t…
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Cambridge Analytica’s Website Is Now an AI Slop Farm
It may already feel like a distant memory, but Cambridge Analytica was once implicated in one of the biggest social media scandals in history. Back in March 2018, journalists at The Observer and The New York Times revealed that the little-known data analytics firm had improperly harvested the Facebook data of tens of millions of…
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Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Andy Garcia’s ‘Diamond’
Sony Pictures Classics have acquired worldwide rights to award-winning Cuban-American actor and filmmaker Andy Garcia’s crime drama “Diamond,” the company announced Thursday. Premiering at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the film received a nine-minute standing ovation. Written, directed and produced by Garcia, “Diamond” is a contemporary noir with period sensibilities set in Los Angeles. The…