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GOP senator’s Trump claim on Fox unravels as president’s disclosure hurled in her face
A Republican lawmaker’s claims about President Donald Trump‘s crypto investments backfired on Tuesday when the internet fact-checked her comments. Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) defended Trump on Fox News and argued that the president had conducted his digital currency business before returning to the White House for his second term, despite reports that Trump has raked…
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US snubbed in global ranking for friendliest customer service — but NYC eked out top 5 in stateside list
We’re not “king of the hill, top of the heap” when it comes to customer service. New York might not have the world’s friendliest servers, but it did crack the top five among towns in the US. At least that was the verdict rendered by the experts at business insurance firm Money Super Market, who…
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Norway soccer superstar Erling Haaland snubs Tom Holland’s offer to ‘hang out’
Tom Holland claims Norway soccer superstar Erling Haaland ignored his offer to “hang out.” During his guest appearance on the “Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” Monday night, the actor was exposed for DM’ing the athlete with the proposition — only to discover that Haaland had “no idea” who he was and thought he was “a…
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Startup Upset After Journalist Points Out How Creepy Its Humanoid Robots’s Hands Are
The VP of a humanoid robotics company was in for a surprise after finding that a Wired article pointed out something extremely unsettling about the company’s robot fingers. Last week, Wired published a piece on Norwegian-American startup 1X and its Neo humanoid robot with an otherwise uncontroversial thesis: Though the marketing around Neo is decidedly…
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Earthquake aid keeps flowing from Florida to Venezuela, as volunteers unite to help recovery
After her grandmother’s house in Caracas narrowly survived last month’s devastating back-to-back earthquakes, Alessandra Izaguirre was desperate to help Venezuela. “Seeing my grandma and all these people affected made me feel like I had to do something, even if it was from the U.S.,” said the 18-year-old, who has spent the last couple weeks preparing…
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‘Huge reversal’ as ICE suspends most traffic stops after two fatal shootings: report
ICE has suspended traffic stops after two recent fatal shootings in a “huge reversal” of its previous policy, CNN immigration correspondent Priscilla Alvarez reported Tuesday. The move comes after ICE fatally shot two men this week in Biddeford, Maine, and last week in Houston, Texas, both during vehicle stops. Immigration agents will continue to conduct…
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Finn Wolfhard is taking ‘control of the narrative’
Thinking back on the last two years of his life full of album releases, filming schedules and tour dates, Finn Wolfhard requires squint-inducing concentration to keep it all straight. “Jesus, a lot has happened,” he says, looking surprised. That’s an understatement. In that time, the 23-year-old not only finished filming the Netflix hit show “Stranger…
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Right-wing hardliners eye ‘macabre’ moment to finish off GOP’s hawkish wing: report
America First hardliners are viewing Sen. Lindsey Graham’s death as a dark opportunity to purge the Republican Party of its remaining interventionist wing and consolidate control over Donald Trump’s foreign policy agenda, Politico is reporting. Graham’s sudden passing left a gaping hole in the GOP’s hawkish establishment — a void that anti-interventionist Trump allies are…
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Rachel Maddow Explains Trump’s New York Times Subpoenas as an ‘Obvious Intimidation Effort’
Rachel Maddow spent part of Monday night breaking down the Trump administration’s recent subpoena of four New York Times journalists, calling the move an “obvious intimidation effort.” On Saturday, the Justice Department delivered subpoenas to the homes of New York Times journalists Julian E. Barnes, Eric Lipton, Tyler Pager and Eric Schmitt after they reported…
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Hachette, Scott Turow Sue Google for Using Books to Train AI
Major book publisher Hachette Book Group and bestselling author Scott Turow joined educational publisher Cengage Learning and scientific publisher Elsevier in filing a lawsuit against Google on Friday, accusing the tech giant of using millions of copyrighted books and journal articles without their permission to build its Gemini artificial intelligence models. The lawsuit, filed in…