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The Fed Says You Are Richer Than in 2022. Your Wallet Disagrees.
The Fed Says You Are Richer Than in 2022. Your Wallet Disagrees. Every three years, the Federal Reserve sits down with a few thousand American families and asks them, in painstaking detail, how their money is actually doing. It is the single most thorough checkup of household finances in the country. The latest one landed…
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Nearly Half the People Who Video Called This AI Thought It Was Human. The Rest Caught On in 20 Seconds.
The 54-Person Test Nobody Knew They Were Taking Picture this. You join a quick one-minute video call with a stranger. You chat about what you are looking forward to this year. The person across the screen nods, reacts, interrupts you when you pause too long, and gets interrupted right back without losing their train of…
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Winner Takes All: White Sox and Guardians Are Headed to a Game 5 Nobody Saw Coming
Forget everything you thought you knew about home-field advantage. The Chicago White Sox and the Cleveland Guardians have spent four games proving it does not exist, and now the American League Division Series comes down to one night, one pitching rematch, and a trip to the ALCS. Game 5 is Saturday night at Progressive Field,…
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While Wall Street Celebrated, Gold, Silver, and Bitcoin All Crashed on the Same Night
Here is a riddle for your Saturday morning. Stocks just closed out a winning week, sitting a whisper away from record highs. The economy is, on paper, humming. And yet last night, three of the most loved assets on the planet all fell off a cliff at the same time. Gold broke below $4,100 an…
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Jessica Chastain’s Other Mommy Is Eating Aaron Sorkin’s Lunch at the Box Office
Hollywood loves a box office grudge match, but this weekend’s is a strange one. On one side, an Oscar winner playing a mother who may or may not be a demon. On the other, Aaron Sorkin, one of the most decorated screenwriters alive, directing a sequel to his own Oscar-winning Facebook movie. Spooky season has…
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Trump Just Bought Millions of Tons of Diesel From Putin, and Zelensky Calls It a Gift
It has been less than a month since Donald Trump signed a law threatening 100 percent tariffs on countries that buy Russian energy. On Friday, he picked up the phone, called Vladimir Putin, and arranged to buy Russian diesel. If that sounds like a contradiction, it is. And that is exactly why this story is…
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Mega Millions Hits $364 Million Tonight: What You Would Actually Pocket After Taxes
Three hundred and sixty-four million dollars. Say it out loud and it still sounds made up. But that is the real number on the line tonight, and if you have not bought a ticket yet, you have a few hours left to talk yourself into it or out of it. Either way, you should know…
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Trump Just Lost the Nobel Peace Prize to an 85-Year-Old Judge, and His Reaction Is Pure Trump
Donald Trump has spent two years saying he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. On Friday morning, he found out that he was not getting it. Not this year, not this committee, not over the 85-year-old South African judge who walked into Oslo’s spotlight and took the prize he had been circling like a trophy. The…
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Erik Prince’s Private Army Just Suffered Its Bloodiest Day in Congo
What Happened in the Congo on September 17 The battle lasted minutes. The fallout is still unfolding. On September 17, forces tied to Erik Prince’s company Vectus Global walked into an ambush in South Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Enemy fighters struck the position hard, and when the shooting stopped, about 20…
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Mike Ditka Dies at 86: America Says Goodbye to Da Coach
He Revolutionized a Position, Then Coached the Best Team Ever The news broke Friday morning in a post that felt impossible to read. Mike Ditka, the mustache, the sweater vest, the growl on the sideline of the greatest defense ever assembled, is gone at 86. And within minutes, America was doing what it always does…
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America’s Money Mood Just Crashed to Its Second-Lowest Ever. Your Wallet Already Knew.
Here is a number that should make every American sit up a little straighter: 46.3. That is where consumer sentiment landed this week, according to the University of Michigan’s closely watched survey, and if the preliminary reading holds, it would be the second-lowest score in the survey’s 74-year history. Lower than the Vietnam War. Lower…
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Google Just Shrunk Your Free Gemini, and You Probably Did Not See It Coming
If you use Google Gemini without paying for it, today’s the day things change. Starting Friday, October 9, anyone on the free tier loses access to two of the chatbot’s three models, Gemini Flash and Gemini Pro. What you’re left with is the cheapest, least capable one Google makes: Flash-Lite. And Google didn’t exactly hold…
