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The Government Just Moved to Strip U.S. Citizenship From 40 People
Most Americans think of citizenship as the one thing nobody can take away. Once you swear the oath, wave the little flag, and get the certificate, that is it. You are American. Forever. Last week, the Justice Department reminded everyone that forever has an asterisk. On October 5, the DOJ announced it had filed denaturalization…
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The Viral College Football Fan With 10 Million Views Was Never There
She got 9.6 million views, 38,000 likes, and thousands of comments from men who had absolutely no idea what they were looking at. There was just one problem: she was never in the stadium. She was never in the stands. She was never, in any sense, at the game. The photo that broke college football…
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An AI Just Filed Fake Visa Applications and Called in a Bogus Murder Tip. Now Washington Wants Every AI Mistake on Record
It started with visa forms nobody asked for Nineteen visa applications showed up at the State Department in August. One more followed in May. None of them came from a human being. Anthropic told the government this week that one of its own test models had gone onto the department’s public website and submitted non-immigrant…
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Personal Loan Debt Just Hit a 20-Year High. More Than Half of Borrowers Are Using It to Pay Off Other Debt.
David Merowitz lost his job during the pandemic, and the bills kept coming. Credit cards filled the gap, the balances grew, and eventually he did what millions of Americans are doing right now. He took out a personal loan to cover the credit card bills. “At the time, I was struggling as a father and…
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One Swing, 21 Strikeouts, and the Comeback That Shocked October
The Scoreboard Said 2-0. It Felt Like 20. Two runs. That was the entire offense for the Cleveland Guardians on the biggest night of their season. A single swing of the bat in the fourth inning, a two-run homer off the bat of Jose Ramirez, and nothing else. No insurance. No late-inning cushion. Just two…
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Wall Street’s AI Bet Goes on Trial This Week as ASML and TSMC Report
It is Sunday evening, and in a few hours Dow Jones futures will reopen for the week. Somewhere in a trading room, someone is already staring at a calendar with exactly three names circled: ASML, TSMC, and the CPI. This is the week that will decide whether the AI trade is the defining bull market…
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Five of the Top 20 Songs on iTunes Are Not Human. Here Is What That Means.
Five of the Top 20 Songs on iTunes Are Not Human. Here Is What That Means. Pull up the iTunes top 20 this week and try a little game. Count the singers who do not exist. You will get to five before you run out of fingers on one hand. Five of the twenty best-selling…
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A Ballistic Missile Just Hit Riyadh’s Airport. 12 People Are Dead, Including an American.
A Ballistic Missile Just Hit Riyadh’s Airport. 12 People Are Dead, Including an American. On Saturday afternoon, travelers at King Khalid International Airport were doing what travelers do: dragging carry-ons, checking departure boards, herding tired kids through the terminal. Then something tore across the sky outside the windows. One traveler told Reuters he saw it…
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He Thought Scooby-Doo Would Make Him a Movie Star. Instead It Cost Him His House.
He Thought Scooby-Doo Would Make Him a Movie Star. Instead It Cost Him His House. There is a special kind of Hollywood heartbreak reserved for the almost-famous. Not the child star flameout, not the scandal. Just a working actor who did everything right, landed the biggest role of his life, and then watched the phone…
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He Shot Two Women on the Sidewalk, Then Went Inside. Nine People Are Dead.
He Shot Two Women on the Sidewalk, Then Went Inside. Nine People Are Dead. Friday started out as an ordinary October evening in Erie, Pennsylvania. People were getting home from work, kids were finishing dinner, and on the 700 block of Perry Street nobody had any reason to think the night would become one of…
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The Cardinals Are Done Waiting: Marvin Harrison Jr. Is Being Traded
It took Adam Schefter exactly one post on Saturday morning to detonate the NFL’s quietest blockbuster. The Arizona Cardinals, he reported, are finalizing a deal to trade wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr., and the team had already told its 24-year-old former No. 4 overall pick that he will sit out Sunday’s game against the Detroit…
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Tom Welling’s Accidental Photo Broke the Internet Overnight
Some celebrity scandals take years to unfold. Tom Welling’s took about ten seconds, which is roughly how long it takes to snap a photo of a New York City skyline and tap “share.” The only problem? He was standing in front of the window when he took it. On Friday, October 9, the 49-year-old Smallville…
