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‘Fake Cartier heiress’ defends her lineage — and says ‘mean girls’ won’t stop her partying
An alleged fake Cartier heiress, Andrea Bartzen, 60, stood in the candlelit courtyard outside Palm Beach, Florida, restaurant Bice last Tuesday, sipping Champagne and eating hors d’oeuvres in a designer Alice and Olivia gown. The Upper East Sider held court with a high society crowd, including navy seal veteran William Branum, former pro-basketball player Gary
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The Online Civil War About ‘Michael’ Is a Battle Over Truth
Is truth determined by the size of the audience it reaches? If so, Michael—a new film about the pop singer Michael Jackson that is on track to have the biggest-ever opening for a music biopic, with projected earnings of $70 million at the US box office, despite critics saying it sanitizes the reality of who
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Gunmen stage simultaneous attacks in and outside Mali capital, army says
Militants staged attacks in Mali’s capital Bamako and in several locations in the interior of the country on Saturday morning, the Mali army said, in an apparently coordinated assault involving multiple groups. Two loud explosions and sustained gunfire were heard shortly before 6 a.m. near Mali’s main military base Kati outside the capital Bamako, and soldiers were deployed to
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Elon Musk Fans Increasingly Disgusted by His Toxic Outbursts
Elon Musk is expectorating racist diatribes even more than usual, and it’s alienating his fans and investors. On his website X, over six percent of Musk’s posts have been about race in the past seven months, which is almost triple the rate of the two previous years, a new investigation by The Washington Post found.
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Ace the Ping-Pong Robot Can Whup Your Ass
Ace is a robot that aims high: It wants to become the world champion of table tennis. It was developed by Sony AI researchers who, in a new study published in Nature, have shown how this robot, equipped with artificial intelligence, has faced some high-level athletes, holding its own in matches played according to the
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Sam Altman apologizes after OpenAI failed to alert police before Canada trans shooter’s deadly rampage
The head of OpenAI has written a letter apologizing that his company didn’t alert law enforcement about the online behavior of a person who shot and killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. In the letter posted Friday, Sam Altman expressed his deepest condolences to the entire community. “I am deeply sorry that we
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Your daily coffee habit may be quietly reshaping your gut and mood, study finds
Coffee may do more than keep you going: It could have a noticeable impact on your digestive health, even if you drink decaf. Researchers from APC Microbiome Ireland found that habitual coffee consumption alters the trillions of microbes living in the digestive tract, creating a chemical feedback loop that directly influences mood, stress levels and cognitive
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Georgia fraudster allegedly posed as missing brother to sell siblings’ home
A Georgia man allegedly posed as his missing brother to sell his sibling’s house, fooling real estate agents, homebuyers and neighbors in the process. Kenneth Lee Harris is accused of using Ted Harris’s identity to list the residence in Powder Springs, Ga., for sale at $199,000, WSB-TV reported, citing an arrest warrant. The suspected impersonator,
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Jenna Bush Hager reveals she was banned from her daughter’s volleyball games
Jenna Bush Hager is getting benched — by her own kids. The “Today With Jenna and Sheinelle” co-host admitted Friday that her 13-year-old daughter Mila has effectively banned her from volleyball games after one too many over-the-top moments on the sidelines. “I got kicked out by my child,” Hager said, before clarifying, “Well, I didn’t
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Dear Abby: My divorced mom says I betrayed her by hosting my stepfather and his new wife
DEAR ABBY: My mother and stepfather, “Pop,” divorced a few years ago. He was the only father figure in my life and was good to me, so I want to maintain a relationship with him. What happened between them is a “he said, she said” situation. I don’t know where the truth lies, and I