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Red state loophoole lets data centers power up with no state or local oversight
Gov. Bill Lee last week joined 22 Republican governors in signing onto President Donald Trump’s “Ratepayer Protection Pledge,” a voluntary agreement to hold companies responsible for the costs of building, maintaining and powering data centers. The Trump administration has publicly touted the pledge as sparing taxpayers from tax and electricity rate hikes tied to data…
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Demi Moore, Sarah Paulson and more A-list celebs attend Emma Roberts and Cody John’s Idaho nuptials
Emma Robert’s wedding to Cody Johnson was a star-studded event. The couple tied the knot at a private residence in Sun Valley, Idaho on Saturday. Several of their A-list friends and family were in attendance for the pair’s special day, per photos obtained by Page Six, including the bride’s aunt, Julia Roberts and her husband Danny…
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The AI Industry Has Acted So Badly That It’s Now Dealing With a Huge Wave of Hatred
The tech overlords pushing the AI boom are quickly wearing out what little welcome they had. You may have noticed big-name AI labs pushing new commercials lately. Meta’s new 60-second ad spot insists that the “future is for everyone,” even as CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal net worth eclipses the GDP of Hungary. Anthropic’s new commercial…
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CNN anchor ‘tongue-tied’ by surprising new polls on Trump’s war
CNN’s John Berman was left momentarily speechless by new polling data on President Donald Trump’s war in Iran. New polling data presented by the network’s Harry Enten suggests Democrats have failed to capitalize on public unease over the 80-year-old president’s handling of the Iran conflict, and Berman expressed surprise by the findings. “The president’s approval…
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‘We Can Stop It’: Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict Wong Urge UK Leaders to Block Paramount-WBD Merger
Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict Wong have written an op-ed opposing the $110 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger, urging their leaders to block the deal. Their Guardian guest column out early Monday — entitled “A TV and cinema calamity could be disastrous for what you watch and what you know. Act now to stop…
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An Odyssey for Our Own Time
“A war. A man. A trick. A trick to break the walls of Troy. And burn it—screaming—to the ground.” Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey opens in the great hall of Ithaca, with a bard singing a hymn about the cunning of Odysseus, the hero of the tale, to the men who have overrun his house—courting his…
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Stampede of GOP blunders has achieved the unimaginable — given Dems a grasp on Alabama
There’s a hypothesis I can’t shake after years of observations. Alabama Republicans are getting bad at politics. So far, that hasn’t threatened their hegemony. The party controls all state offices; holds seven of the state’s nine congressional seats and enjoys supermajorities in the Alabama Legislature. For that, the GOP can thank an opposition that for…
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Ancient Egyptian settlement discovered from era that fueled Exodus debate
Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered an ancient settlement dating back to the Second Intermediate Period, an era that has long figured in scholarly debates over the historical setting of the biblical Exodus. The settlement was found at the Tell el-Koua site in the Wadi Tumilat region, an ancient corridor linking the eastern Nile Delta with Egypt’s eastern frontier.…
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Panicking Trump issues dark warning to GOP: ‘Stupidity brings losing and death!’
President Donald Trump issued a panicked plea Monday to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) as the clock ticks on his controversial voter ID bill known as the SAVE Act, warning the South Dakota Republican that “stupidity always brings LOSING & DEATH.” “John Thune should not allow the United States Senate to ‘leave town’ until…
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Oliver Tree’s mom shares haunting final conversation with late singer at emotional memorial
Oliver Tree’s mom, Christine Begin Nickell, said her son was “so happy and excited about life” one day before his tragic death. During the late musician’s celebration of life on Saturday, Nickell detailed the last conversation they had before his fatal helicopter crash. “I texted Oliver the day before he passed and asked how quitting…