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A Cop Is on Trial for Murdering the Girl He Groomed. Testimony Starts Today.
Five years ago, Sandra Birchmore was found dead in her apartment in Canton, Massachusetts. She was 23 years old and about eight weeks pregnant. The state medical examiner called it a suicide. Case closed. But this morning, in a federal courtroom in Boston, the prosecution is expected to start calling its first witnesses in the…
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Federal Agents Raided Ilhan Omar’s Home at Dawn, and Washington Is Already Fighting Over What It Means
It was still dark on Monday morning when the federal agents showed up. On a quiet residential street in Washington, men in jackets marked Homeland Security Investigations executed a search warrant at the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, one of President Donald Trump’s most outspoken opponents in Congress, and spent the morning carrying boxes of…
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Congress Might Finally Put UFO Witnesses on Camera, and the Story They Would Tell Is Wild
The Night a Helicopter Met Something It Could Not Explain Picture this. You are in a helicopter over the American West late at night, flying a routine mission near a sensitive military base. Then the sky starts doing things aircraft are not supposed to do. Glowing orange orbs pace your helicopter. Countless smaller objects swarm…
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RJ Mitte, Breaking Bad’s Walt Jr., Has Died at 34
Some actors play a role. RJ Mitte lived his, and millions of people felt the difference. The actor who played Walter “Flynn” White Jr. on Breaking Bad has died at 34, his representatives confirmed Monday. No cause of death was given in the official statement. It is the kind of news that stops you mid-scroll.…
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Selma Blair Was Arrested After a Midair Meltdown, and the Dispatch Audio Is Chilling
Selma Blair Was Arrested After a Midair Meltdown, and the Dispatch Audio Is Chilling Selma Blair boarded Delta Flight 938 in Los Angeles on Sunday night looking happy. She posted smiling selfies from her seat, an aerial photo out the window, a picture of her dog Scout. Her caption said she and Scout had been…
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If You Used Cleo for a Cash Advance, the FTC Might Be Sending You Money
If You Used Cleo for a Cash Advance, the FTC Might Be Sending You Money You know that little financial assistant app that promised to float you a few hundred bucks before payday? If you ever paid for an “instant” cash advance from Cleo AI, there is a decent chance your PayPal account is about…
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Microsoft Just Showed Off the Chip It Built to Stop Paying Nvidia
Microsoft just did something it almost never does: it showed the world a piece of silicon and basically dared the most valuable company on the planet to get nervous about it. On Monday, at the OCP Global Summit in San Jose, the software giant unveiled Maia 300, the third generation of its in-house AI chip.…
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The Brewers Just Stole Game 1 From the Dodgers, and October Has a New Villain
If you went to bed Saturday night thinking the Dodgers were about to sleepwalk to a three-peat, Milwaukee had other plans. The Brewers walked into the National League Championship Series on Sunday, punched the two-time defending champions in the mouth, and walked out with a 2-1 Game 1 win that nobody outside Wisconsin saw coming.…
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Wall Street Gets a Quiet Monday. Then Comes the Week That Decides Everything.
The quietest Monday on Wall Street is hiding the loudest week of October Monday morning on Wall Street felt almost lazy. The Dow was up a fraction, the S&P 500 barely moved, and the Nasdaq slipped a tenth of a percent. Not exactly the stuff of market drama. But here is the thing about today:…
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Your Social Security Check Is About to Get Its Biggest Raise in Years. Here Is What Happens on October 14
The Announcement Coming This Wednesday Wednesday morning, October 14, a single number drops at 8:30 a.m. Eastern. No press conference, no fanfare. Just a data release and a calculator. But for roughly 70 million Americans, that number decides whether their 2027 budget breathes a little easier or keeps tightening. It is the Social Security cost-of-living…
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Trump Just Quietly Reversed Course on AI Safety. Britain Noticed First.
For months, the message from Washington to America’s AI labs was blunt: do not let the British get their hands on your newest models before the public does. This weekend, that message changed. And almost nobody in America noticed. Britain’s newspapers did. According to a report in the Telegraph, picked up by Reuters on Sunday,…
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Jahmyr Gibbs Just Broke an NFL Record, and the Lions Finally Look Like Contenders Again
There is a moment in every blowout where the story stops being about the score and starts being about something bigger. For the Detroit Lions on Sunday, that moment came with five minutes left in the fourth quarter, when Jahmyr Gibbs took a handoff at the three-yard line, bounced off a tackle, reversed the entire…
