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Pete Hegseth tosses ‘absurd’ flu vaccine requirement for troops
More U.S. troops could soon be suffering from influenza after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the flu vaccine was no longer mandatory for the armed forces. “Under the disastrous Biden administration, this Pentagon waged an unrelenting war on our warriors on many fronts, including when it came to denying them simple medical autonomy and
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YouTube Expands AI Likeness Detection Access to Celebs, Talent Agencies
YouTube is opening up its AI likeness detection tool to Hollywood talent agencies and management companies, and the celebrities they represent. The tool works similar to Content ID, looking for a participant’s likeness in AI-generated content. If a match is found, such as a deepfake of their face, the individual can review the content and
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King Charles honors what would have been Queen Elizabeth’s 100th birthday with touching tribute
King Charles III honored what would have been his mother Queen Elizabeth II’s 100th birthday with a touching video tribute. “Today, as we mark what would have been my beloved mother’s 100th birthday, my family and I pause to reflect on the life and loss of a sovereign who meant so much to us all
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Baby Reindeer Creator’s Half Man Tests Our Tolerance for Pain. But to What End?
Richard Gadd, left, and Jamie Bell in Half Man —Anne Binckebanck—HBO Richard Gadd wants to tell the truth. By that, I don’t mean he preaches. Quite the opposite. So fierce is his commitment to emotional honesty that the Scottish writer and performer ensnares audiences in murky scenarios that we have to analyze our way out of
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In Big Sky Country, Big Political Intrigue
Jason Boeshore, a grain-elevator manager on the eastern plains of Montana, fired off a rocket this month to the private Signal chat he shares with the 23 other members of the state Democratic Party executive board. He demanded that leaders make clear in newspapers across the state that the Democratic Party would support only Democratic
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Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces a Justice Department criminal probe over paid informants
WASHINGTON — The Southern Poverty Law Center says it’s the subject of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department and faces possible charges over its past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups. The civil rights group made the announcement on Tuesday, saying President Trump’s administration appears to be preparing legal action against it or some
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CBS invites Hegseth and Stephen Miller to be guests at ‘hard to stomach’ press dinner
Donald Trump will be returning the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, after years of boycotting the event and attacking journalists for their reporting on him. According to reporting from Status’s Oliver Darcy and analysis from The Atlantic’s Paul Farhi, some of the president’s most controversial appointees will also be there to cheer him on, courtesy of
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2026 Webbys Winners List: Google, iHeartMedia and PBS Win Companies of the Year
The Internet’s biggest night is having a pretty big morning, as the winners for the 30th Annual Webby Awards were announced early Tuesday. Ahead of next month’s ceremony in New York hosted by “The Daily Show” correspondent Josh Johnson, the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences has revealed the winners for the 2026 Webbys
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Girl dies after hair gets caught in pool suction system, trapping her underwater for 5 minutes
A 12-year-old girl drowned after her hair got stuck in a pool suction pump, trapping her underwater for more than five minutes. Young Laura Pereira Camargo was swimming with her friends in a pool in Mirassol, Sao Paolo, Brazil Friday when her hair became tangled in the pump, keeping her from coming up for air,
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Define Jewish State
Earlier this month, a staff writer for The Free Press, Olivia Reingold, asked the Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed from Michigan a question: “Does Israel have a right to exist as a Jewish state?” El-Sayed replied with his own question: “What do you mean by a ‘Jewish state’?” When Reingold went silent, before beginning to