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‘Wild card’ aide who prints Trump’s articles emerges in press secretary race: report
Speculation over who could replace White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is intriguing gamblers, who are betting on wild-card picks. According to reporting by The Daily Beast, the prediction market Kalshi is taking bets on who will replace Leavitt. President Donald Trump’s devoted aide, Natalie Harp, has recently emerged as a “wild card” pick, but…
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Luigi Mangione expected to plead guilty in federal case in healthcare CEO killing, AP source says
NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty as early as Friday in the federal case accusing him of stalking and killing UnitedHealthcare Chief Executive Brian Thompson, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person, who was not authorized to talk publicly about the case and spoke to the Associated Press on the…
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‘He told my mom’: CNN anchor stuns with family story about Trump’s ‘big dream’
CNN anchor Pamela Brown stunned the panel on CNN’s “The Arena” on Thursday with a family story about President Donald Trump’s latest obsession. Reports indicated that Trump aides had found a loophole to place the president’s name on the Kennedy Center after a judge earlier this year ordered the administration to take it down. Matt…
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Drama breaks out at DNC over plan to ban ranked choice voting in Dem elections
WASHINGTON – Nancy Pelosi’s daughter and Rep. Jamie Raskin are going scorched earth on the Democratic Party for trying to do away with a bizarre style of voting designed to help the underdog candidate and used in New York City. The Democratic National Committee gathered in Austin Thursday to spend the weekend setting up rules…
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Will Smith’s co-star defends his shocking Oscars slap, calls Chris Rock an ‘a–hole’
Will Smith’s “King Richard” co-star, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, understands why the actor publicly slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars several years ago. “I know that he wanted to protect his wife,” the actress said of the infamous moment, which saw Smith lash outover the comedian’s joke about Jada Pinkett-Smith’s closely cropped hairat the 2022 event. “I…
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Dark warning as Karoline Leavitt leaves ‘death cloud poison’ legacy behind: ex-GOP analyst
Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt had a sharp message for outgoing White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday. Schmidt, a co-founder of the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project, argued that Leavitt would leave behind a legacy that would someday haunt her children — and that she would have to face her role in President…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Manifesto Is 6,500-Words—and Barely Says Anything
Today on Uncanny Valley, Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger break down Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s 6,500-word AI manifesto and why it ultimately rings hollow. Plus, why are job seekers scheduling bot-run interviews at 1 am? WIRED’s Andy Greenberg also joins to unpack the best findings from Black Hat and Defcon, from a hacked…
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Todd Blanche attempts to rescue Trump’s embattled IRS settlement
Attorney General Todd Blanche deployed the Justice Department to defend President Donald Trump’s embattled IRS settlement just one day after being sworn in. The May settlement shielded Trump, his family, and businesses from IRS audits in exchange for dropping a $10 billion lawsuit against the agency. Wednesday night, Politico’s Josh Gertstein drew attention to a…
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The Lesson Watergate Was Supposed to Teach
This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. Historians are generally better off interpreting the past than predicting the future. By training, we’re meant to read sources, not tea leaves. In the fall of 1973, during the middle acts of Watergate’s Shakespearean drama,…
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Sqirl redefined brunch. Can it change the way we think about dinner?
It should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Sqirl’s outsized influence on Los Angeles dining in its early years that owner Jessica Koslow’s interpretation of chicken liver — a dish now synonymous with any respectable small plates restaurant — is whimsical, overtly delicious and resembles a Stephen Ormandy painting. If we momentarily time…