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Bessent says Americans won’t need retirement savings: ‘Elon’s so far ahead of the curve’
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday night that he agrees with Elon Musk’s prediction that artificial intelligence will produce so much abundance that Americans won’t need to save for retirement. The exchange, flagged online by journalist Aaron Rupar, came when Hannity asked Bessent whether he believed Musk’s claim that…
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‘Exercise in futility’: GOP senators ignore Trump threats on voting priority
President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign to force Senate Republicans back from August recess and push through the SAVE America Act is running into a wall of practical resistance — and so far, the threats aren’t translating into results. Trump wants Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to either kill the filibuster or bring the House-passed budget…
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Jacob Freytes’ murder should move Mamdani & Co. to get real on fighting NYC gangs — but won’t
Saturday night’s horrific fatal shooting of an innocent boy in The Bronx is a grim reminder that the city’s gains against crime aren’t remotely enough. The NYPD is doing its best, even racking up gains, but Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s movement despises the police, indeed imagines that policing is the true cause of violence in our…
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Silicon Valley’s Next IPO Billionaires Are Coming. Nonprofits Are Ready for Them
A decade ago, Ryan Carrier was a failed hedge fund manager watching as AI systems began to spin out of control. Facebook’s algorithms shook US elections, a Microsoft chatbot said the Holocaust was “made up,” and Tesla’s Autopilot killed its first driver. “There was no governance, oversight, or accountability,” Carrier says. To him, the AI-filled…
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The right says “suicidal empathy” is destroying the West. Here’s the truth.
America’s right-wing elites have a theatrical new indictment of liberals that they warn will lead to catastrophe: They care too much. “Suicidal empathy,” the phrase coined by Canadian marketing professor and conservative influencer Gad Saad, is suddenly on the lips of everyone right-of-center — including billionaire Elon Musk, who has promoted Saad’s book by the…
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Iran hangs 2 men convicted of killing 4 police officers in January protests
Iran on Tuesday hanged two men convicted in a case of killing four police officers during January protests, state media reported. A report by Mizanonline. ir, affiliated to the country’s judiciary, identified the two as Abolfazl Sepahi Badjani and Amir Hossein Safari Hosseinabadi, saying they also set a police station on fire and damaged public…
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7-OH Users Are Stockpiling and Doing Reddit Detoxes to Prep for Ban
A couple months after completing detox for alcohol in June 2023, Cam got into a brutal motorcycle accident. The 36-year-old upstate New York resident woke up hospitalized in late September after a month in a coma. “I broke every rib, every vertebrae. My pelvis was completely shattered,” says Cam, who asked to be identified by…
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This deranged con job proves what sneering Republicans think of Americans
I am so done with this whole Mitch McConnell thing. We’re now past six weeks of this ridiculous crap, and the silence surrounding the Kentucky senator’s condition long ago eclipsed the point of disturbing to become completely absurd and intolerable. But that just seems to be the Republican way. All we get are vague justifications…
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An Extreme Solar Storm May Be Even More Devastating Than Previously Imagined
It’s well known that a solar storm, depending on its level of intensity, can affect the functioning of electrical grids, navigation systems, or satellite communications. The problem is that it’s unclear what would happen today if the intensity of a storm reached levels like those of the so-called Carrington Event in 1859, one of those…
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Johnson & Johnson says it will pay out $5.5B in sweeping talc deal that could end decade-long legal battle
Johnson & Johnson said on Monday it would pay an estimated $5.5 billion to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging its baby powder and other talc products cause ovarian cancer, in a landmark deal that could end a contentious legal battle that has dogged the company for a decade. J&J said the settlement covers…