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Panic at CBS as Bari Weiss eyes ‘blockbuster sit-down’
Reports that embattled CBS News head Bari Weiss is searching for a sympathetic ear among journalists for an interview to clear her name have some in the executive suites in a bit of a panic. According to media watchdog Status, Weiss is eager to launch a media counter-offensive. She’s been in talks with the New…
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Here Come Trump’s ‘Freedom Trucks’
Photographs by Brad Trone Right now, six AI-Generated George Washingtons are roaming around the country in semitrucks, stopping at sites as varied as the New Mexico desert and the National Mall and attracting lines in some places that would rival those at Disney World. On an afternoon last month at an American Legion parking lot…
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Judge rejects L.A. County prosecutor’s request to freeze $4-billion sex abuse payout
An attempt by L.A. County’s district attorney to freeze a $4-billion sex abuse settlement amid a widening fraud probe was denied Thursday as a judge questioned whether the county’s top prosecutor could usurp the decisions of the county politicians who green-lit the agreement, the largest of its kind in U.S. history. The ruling boots Dist.…
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Giddy conservative’s claim debunked to his face on CNN: ‘They conflate everything’
A conservative commentator yelped with delight over the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the federal government’s policy of turning back asylum seekers before they can reach the border, and a fellow CNN panelist calmly dismantled his argument. The justices ruled 6-3 that a policy adopted in response to a surge of Haitian immigrants did not…
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Hoarder parents accused of murder, ‘terrible neglect’ of obese son, 7, who died weighing 255 pounds
The hoarder parents of an obese 7-year-old boy who weighed 255 pounds when he died of heart failure have been charged with his murder for their “extraordinary, terrible neglect,” according to prosecutors Damien O’Brien, 40, and his wife Jessica O’Brien, 41, are additionally facing child abuse and torture charges in the death of their 7-year-old…
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How Meghan Markle’s presence at Prince Harry, King Charles reunion ‘changes the stakes’
Meghan Markle’s potential presence at Prince Harry’s upcoming UK reunion with King Charles III could up the ante for a royal reconciliation. “Meghan’s presence would certainly add symbolic weight to any reunion,” royal commentator Amanda Matta exclusively told Page Six. “If Meghan accompanies Harry to the UK or to a meeting with his family, it…
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Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s Island Resort Could Bring Down Albania’s Prime Minister
Several weeks after Ivanka Trump unveiled a real estate venture with husband Jared Kushner for a proposed multibillion-dollar resort on Albania’s coastline, the project has become the focal point of a mass uprising in the country. Furious demonstrators have filled the capital’s streets under signs declaring: “Albania is not a Gucci bag on sale.” What…
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Did Padres curse themselves by messing with that anti-Dodgers FTD burger?
SAN DIEGO — Hodad’s is a third-generation small business, a San Diego treasure that makes a damn good burger. I dropped by one of their two restaurants last winter, but I didn’t see what I wanted on the menu. The burger I get at Petco Park, I explained to the server. She knew exactly what I meant.…
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Trump’s plan to run a bank
In the almost year and a half since returning to the presidency, Donald Trump has found plenty of ways to enrich himself and his family and friends. But one scheme in particular, a cryptocurrency venture called World Liberty Financial, is the gift that just keeps on giving. Trump, along with his real-estate-buddy-turned-diplomat Steve Witkoff and…
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GOP rep terrified after ‘closed-door demo’ of new tech ‘showed how to kidnap a lawmaker’
A prominent Republican House member was left “scared” after getting a first look at a new technology during a recent “closed-door demonstration,” Punchbowl News reported Friday — technology that the lawmaker warned most of their colleagues failed to comprehend the ramifications of. That technology was Claude Mythos, the latest large language model developed by Anthropic…