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‘The Wrong Girls’ Review: When Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat Invite You to Get Blazed, You Say ‘Yes’
Every great stoner movie is about what you’d be doing right now if you weren’t stoned. Or at least what you’d be doing if you were stoned and willing to leave the house. Classic films like “The Big Lebowski,” “Dude, Where’s My Car?” and various Cheech and/or Chong adventures depict the world as an absurdly…
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TIME Is Looking For America’s Most Innovative Companies of 2027
Close up of a computer processor chip on a dark background. Technology concepts. —Getty Images—Javier Zayas For the first time, TIME will publish a ranking of America’s Most Innovative Companies, in partnership with Statista, a leading international provider of market and consumer data and rankings. Innovation within a company can take many forms. For this…
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State lawmakers seek tougher rules for industrial facilities after Boyle Heights fire
SACRAMENTO — Two state lawmakers from Los Angeles want tougher penalties for disasters caused by industrial companies after a massive fire in Boyle Heights left neighbors struggling with smoky air and the smell of rotting meat. Assemblymember Mark González and state Sen. María Elena Durazo, both Democrats, are seeking a new law that would require any new…
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Snarky Karoline Leavitt has stumbled into a Trump trap — and will take the fall
One of the most worrisome signs coming into Trump’s second administration was that he right off named Susie Wiles as Chief of Staff. Wiles is a lot of things, including an unrepentant and cynical supporter of the most corrupt and incompetent president in history, but she is most certainly not incompetent. Indeed, her mastery of…
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Lawrence O’Donnell: Trump’s Tough Guy Persona Has ‘Collapsed’ After Secret Flight Out of Turkey
Lawrence O’Donnell skewered President Trump on Tuesday evening, remarking that the commander-in-chief’s “gun-toting tough guy” image has “collapsed” in the wake of the Iran War and his “secret flight” out of Turkey in July. The Washington Post reported this week that Trump secretly flew out of Turkey after a NATO summit last month on an…
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Hundreds of thousands of Uber and Lyft drivers set to unionize across California after subtle law change
Hundreds of thousands of Uber and Lyft drivers across California are on the verge of joining what organizers say will become the largest rideshare drivers union in the world. The California Public Employment Relations Board notified the California Gig Workers Union (CGWU) on Aug. 7 that it had secured support from at least 30% of…
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Cardi B clubs with Teyana Taylor, Chris Noth restaurant repeats and more sightings
Celebrities swept the city last week. Cardi B hosted a private party at Midtown nightclub, Aura 57 NYC, last Friday night. The rapper was joined by close pal Teyana Taylor as they danced and sipped on bottles of Don Julio 1942 Tequila. Cardi was seen twerking while wearing a pair of skin-tight blue pants with…
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Should You Let Your Dog Lick Your Face? 9 Animal Hygiene Questions, Answered
—Boston Globe—Getty Images You might be surprised to learn that Dr. Daniel Griffin, chief of infectious diseases at Island Infectious Disease Medical in Long Island, N.Y., lets his two dogs lick him. He’s not delusional. “We know how dogs greet each other,” he says. “We know where that tongue has been.” But he lets his…
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Protests Against Data Centers Are Now Threatening $130 Billion of Big Tech’s Crucial Investments
For protestors rising up against the data centers undergirding the AI boom, the math is simple: wherever they sprout, the facilities make frightfully poor neighbors — inflating utility prices, discharging hazardous waste, and blasting horrid noise at all hours of the night. For data center developers, there’s a different calculation to be made: namely, one…
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Wall Street braces for peak earnings as stock gains cool
The latest reason to worry about the stock market is quite the doozy: Earnings growth has been too strong. As the latest reporting season nears completion, all signs indicate the second quarter was one of the best three-month periods in recent memory, with profit growth running at more than 30%. The only problem? That torrid…