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Trump jumps at offer to ‘share’ Nobel Peace Prize with Venezuelan opposition leader
President Donald Trump told Fox News he would accept Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado’s offer to share her Nobel Peace Prize. Machado told Fox News host Sean Hannity earlier this week she would share the award that Trump publicly covets, and the president told the same broadcaster on Thursday night that he would accept
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Mamdani blames Trump’s ‘year of cruelty’ for Renee Nicole Good’s death, repeats incendiary ‘murder’ claim
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani claimed that the death of 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent was the result of a “year of cruelty” from the Trump administration — as he doubled down on his incendiary declaration that it was a “murder.” Mamdani pushed back on Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi
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How Trump’s Venezuela Gamble Will Transform Latin America
When U.S. President Donald Trump announced the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro after American military strikes in Caracas last Saturday, he quickly hinted that Venezuela was not an isolated case. Trump also threatened Mexico, Colombia, and Cuba. Senior U.S. officials echoed this rhetoric. The message was unmistakable: toppling Latin American leaders by force was back
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From Wolfgang Tillmans to Chanel, here’s what’s new in the world of art, fashion and beauty this month
Sarah Sze at Gagosian Known for working across video, sculpture, installation and painting, Sarah Sze returns to Gagosian for her first major show on the West Coast. “Feel Free” features two new immersive works, installed with Sze’s meticulous eye, to create a distinct visual experience that challenges modern understandings of sculpture. Open Jan. 29 through
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Ted Cruz slammed over GOP ‘effort to demonize’ federal judges in time of rising threats
Government watchdogs and legal experts warned that Republicans’ call for the impeachment of two federal judges at a Senate judiciary committee hearing this week upends historical norms and sets a dangerous tone of intimidation. Led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Wednesday’s hearing, Impeachment: Holding Rogue Judges Accountable, was a nearly three-hour partisan battle on the
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Everything We Know So Far About Heated Rivalry Season 2
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Heated Rivalry Season 1. Like a puck zipping into a net at warp speed as the home crowd roars, Heated Rivalry has quickly and fiercely become one of the biggest surprise hits in recent memory. The steamy hockey romance, produced by Canadian streaming network Crave and distributed in the
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‘Physical AI’ Is Coming for Your Car
Physical AI sounds like a contradiction in terms. A computer, but a body? But for the marketing architects, it’s the latest term of art, a buzzword meant to point us citizens toward a bright and promising technological future. Back here on earth, the term is maybe most useful as a way to understand how automotive
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A ‘breather’: Drenched California has no dry areas for first time in a quarter-century
After experiencing one of the wettest holiday seasons on record, still soggy California hit a major milestone this week — having zero areas of abnormal dryness for the first time in 25 years. This data, collected by the U.S. Drought Monitor, is a welcome nugget of news for Golden State residents, who in the last
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The new food pyramid is lying to you
If you take anything at all from the latest edition of the federal dietary guidelines,out this week, it should be… not much. Although US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. described them as “the most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in history,” the new guidelines don’t reveal anything new about nutrition science, and most
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Therapy Should Be Hard. That’s Why AI Can’t Replace It
When sixteen-year-old Adam Raine told his AI companion that he wanted to die, the chatbot didn’t call for help—it validated his desire: “You don’t want to die because you’re weak. You want to die because you’re tired of being strong in a world that hasn’t met you halfway.” That same night, he died by suicide.