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‘He cares about people.’ How Dodgers’ Dave Roberts got to the cusp of 1,000 career wins
SAN DIEGO — Dave Roberts didn’t have his heart set on becoming a manager. Not when he cold-called Jed Hoyer, who’d just been hired as the San Diego Padres’ general manager, to offer his help and eventually accepted a special assistant role in the front office. Not when Bud Black, the Padres’ manager at the time, asked…
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‘Not the picture to show’: MAGA movie star mocked over revealing pic making Trump look bad
Former “Superman” actor and prominent Trump supporter Dean Cain set out to showcase the administration’s Great American State Fair this weekend — but critics say the photo he chose did the opposite, capturing a sea of mostly empty grass on the National Mall. Cain posted an aerial shot taken from the fair’s Ferris wheel, framing…
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You’re up, Rob Pelinka. To avoid Ned Colletti’s fate, the Lakers’ GM has to deliver this offseason
If only. If Rob Pelinka could use the Dodgers’ blueprint to renovate, Lakers fans wouldn’t even be sweating this summer. But, you know. Baseballs and basketballs, apples and oranges. The windup and sales pitch are the same, though: Deliver a sustainable, high-rising, championship build. On time and … about that budget. One team has none.…
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GOP lawmakers ‘accidently’ expose Trump’s ‘political vanity project’ as major flop: report
A handful of GOP lawmakers made their way to Washington, D.C. recently to attend and promote the Great American State Fair, organized by the President Donald Trump-linked group Freedom 250, but in doing so, “accidentally” exposed the event for its numerous shortcomings, The Daily Beast reported. Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-WA), for instance, took to social…
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What the New AC Culture War Is Really About
This summer, the transatlantic culture war has fixated on an unlikely flash point: air-conditioning. Last weekend, I arrived in Paris at the beginning of the heat wave, or canicule, that has stifled the country and much of Europe. Temperatures in France have soared to record-breaking highs, reaching nearly 112 degrees Fahrenheit in certain parts of…
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Cops Caught Using AI to Edit Picture of Pathetic Drug Bust
After giddy business executives, cops are emerging as some of the AI industry’s most devoted disciples. Police officers are increasingly using AI-integrated tools on the job, though not without courting significant controversy. The error-prone nature of large language models has left law enforcement operations in a scramble, resulting in hallucinated police reports, evidence fabricated with…
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MAGA panics as Trump reignites war: ‘He might have opened Pandora’s Box’
President Donald Trump’s announcement of a fresh round of strikes on Iran touched off a wave of backlash this week — not just from his usual critics, but from voices on the right, including prominent America First and MAGA-aligned figures. The reactions followed Trump’s post on Truth Social declaring that U.S. aircraft had struck Iranian…
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Smiling sisters Cookie and Kitty charged with butchering mom of 5 in vicious broad daylight attack
Two sisters and a pal hacked a 32-year-old mom of five was stabbed to death in broad daylight, according to cops in Texas. The arrests of Kitty Mia Diaz, 21; Amaya Cookie Diaz, 19; and Kyandra Renee Faz, 21, were announced by the Del Rio Police Department in a social media post Friday. The victim, mother-of-five Caroline…
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The Comfort Democracies Confront the Control States
There is such a thing as too much history. Although this may be a strange reflection for a historian who has just finished a world history in a time of European and Middle Eastern war, the fetishistic obsession with curated versions of nations and empires in the past can blind one to the present and…
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This disgusting mannequin of a man is stomach-churning — even by Trump standards
I will never forget reading New York Times book critic Dwight Garner’s 2002 review of Jared Kushner’s loathsome memoir, Breaking History, because if you cull it down and paraphrase it, it becomes a perfect description of Kushner the person. So I’ll attempt to use the magic of Garner’s wonderful wordsmithing. Kushner is a soulless, mannequin-like…