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What Does Netflix Count as a View?
On Thursday afternoon, Netflix will drop its bi-annual data dump for the first half of 2026, listing out viewership for every title that racked up over 50,000 hours viewed. But before that happens, let’s take a step back to answer a crucial question: What actually counts as a view according to Netflix? Netflix counts its…
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Shohei Ohtani wins two ESPYs … and Mike Tyson learns the Dodgers superstar is a guy
Shohei Ohtani is a global superstar. The 2026 ESPY Awards provided the latest evidence of that, with the Dodgers two-way player winning two trophies, as determined by fan votes, at Wednesday night’s ceremony in New York. But as surprising at it may be — especially to those of us in the Los Angeles area who…
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Trump official’s hearing tactics swiftly blow up in his face: ‘Mind trick does not work’
White House official Russell Vought’s attempts to outmaneuver Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) over “evil” cuts to the federal workforce backfired on Thursday when she called his tactics out on the spot. Vought appeared before the Senate Banking Committee as its sole witness for an oversight hearing on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — the federal…
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Slippery suspect escapes into ocean while fleeing police during wild LA chase
A wanted man who swam out into the ocean while fleeing police during wild chase Thursday morning was collared after more than an hour in the water. The action began around 7:20 a.m., when officers attempted to arrest the suspect wanted on a felony warrant near the intersection of the Pacific Coast Highway and Marina…
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‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ actor Josh Grisetti’s cause of death revealed
Josh Grisetti’s official cause of death has been revealed following the actor’s tragic passing on July 10. Grisetti died of a gunshot wound, California’s Orange County Sheriff’s Department coroner told Page Six on Thursday. The report listed associated injuries as multiple bilateral temporal calvarial fractures and a brain injury. The “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” star’s friend…
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France Has Approved a Landmark Bill to Allow Assisted Dying. What Other Countries Have Legalized It?
The hemicycle with MP standing up during the questions to the government at the National Assembly in Paris on July 15, 2026. —Magali Cohen/Hans Lucas—AFP/Getty Images French lawmakers have approved a bill that would legalize assisted dying, allowing doctors to facilitate the deaths of terminally ill patients in certain circumstances. France’s National Assembly passed the…
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Goldenvoice’s Ocean Way fest gets Olivia Dean, the Killers to Santa Monica. Take the E, there’s no parking
Olivia Dean and the Killers will headline a new Santa Monica music festival in September. Ocean Way, from Coachella promoter Goldenvoice, will debut Sept. 26-27 on the beach in Santa Monica. Named after the local street that inspired Allen Sides’ famed recording studio, Ocean Way is a return to the city where Goldenvoice cut its…
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GOP senator sends Todd Blanche scrambling with urgent demand: ‘Do it!’
Outgoing Sen Thom Tillis (R-NC) just hurled a wrench in the works as President Donald Trump tries to rush through the appointment of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, according to a new report. Tillis told Blanche to meet with Jeffrey Epstein survivors, something the DOJ official has balked at, before the North Carolina Republican will…
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Scientists Discover a Planet With the Most Earth-like Conditions Yet
An artist’s conception of planet LHS 1140b with its red parent star in the background. —Melissa Weiss—CfA The search for exoplanets—or worlds orbiting other stars—is astronomy’s great Easter egg hunt. It was in 1992 that professional stargazers discovered the first known exoplanet, a distant body orbiting a pulsar 2,300 light years from Earth. Since then,…
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SoftBank CEO Says You’re Too Stupid to Understand What’s Going on If You Believe the AI Bubble Is Real
With hundreds of billions of dollars still flowing into the tech industry, it’s becoming harder and harder to deny the reality that the US economy is enmeshed in a financial bubble of incredible proportions. As recent polls have shown, the majority of Americans don’t only agree that there is an AI bubble, they’re increasingly concerned…