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Americans Are Burning $50 Billion a Month on Interest Alone
Americans Are Burning $50 Billion a Month on Interest Alone Here is a number nobody is talking about at the dinner table, even though it is quietly eating dinner: $604 billion. That is what American households are now paying in interest every single year. Not rent. Not groceries. Not the mortgage principal itself. Just the…
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He Quit Anthropic Because He Feared AI Could Kill Us All. Today He Told New York Lawmakers the Industry Is “Extremely Reckless”
He Quit Anthropic Because He Feared AI Could Kill Us All. Today He Told New York Lawmakers the Industry Is “Extremely Reckless” There is a specific kind of testimony that makes a room go quiet, and New York City’s Council chamber heard it on Monday morning. Jacob Coxon spent his career helping build the kind…
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The Bills Called Him a Practice Squad Player. One Hand Was All He Needed.
With 1:50 left on the clock in Orchard Park on Sunday, the New England Patriots were staring at third-and-5 from Buffalo’s 23-yard line, down 26-21, in a stadium where the Bills had not yet lost. Drake Maye took the snap, looked right, and threw the ball to a receiver most of America had never heard…
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A British Brokerage Just Called a 35% S&P 500 Crash, and the Bond Market Is Already Agreeing
A British Brokerage Just Called a 35% S&P 500 Crash, and the Bond Market Is Already Agreeing Here is something you do not hear on Wall Street every day: a real brokerage, with real clients and a real reputation, just told the world that the S&P 500 is going to lose more than a third…
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Nebraska Coach Matt Rhule Just Crashed HBO’s Lanterns Finale, and Nobody Saw It Coming
The strangest, most delightful surprise of this fall’s TV season just dropped on a Sunday night in Nebraska. Well, in the HBO version of Nebraska. A real Big Ten head football coach showed up in the season finale of a superhero show, handed a fictional quarterback a real college football hat, and thousands of viewers…
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Trump’s $5,000 Checks: What Is Real, What Is a Scam, and Who Actually Gets Paid
If you have typed “trump $5,000 check” into Google this week, you are not alone. The search is trending hard across the United States, and for good reason. The president has spent the past month talking about money heading your way: a $5,000 dividend for every adult citizen, $90 Medicare payments for seniors, $500 ACA…
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She Gave Taylor Hawkins His First Big Break, and Most of America Never Knew Her Name
She Gave Taylor Hawkins His First Big Break, and Most of America Never Knew Her Name Rock music keeps a strange kind of scoreboard. The loudest names are not always the ones who did the most. Sass Jordan died on Friday, Oct. 2, surrounded by her family, at 63, and the announcement carried the kind…
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She Survived Her Own Execution. Now Tennessee Has No Idea What to Do With Her.
There is a sentence the state of Tennessee never expected to say out loud: the execution did not work. On Wednesday, Sept. 30, Christa Pike lay strapped to a gurney inside the death chamber at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution outside Nashville. She had spent nearly 30 years on death row and was about to become…
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Northwestern Ran for 413 Yards Against Penn State, and Turned a $875 Million Stadium Opener Into a Nightmare
There is supposed to be a script for nights like this. A university spends $875 million building a cathedral of glass and steel on the shore of Lake Michigan. It schedules a big-name Big Ten opponent for the grand opening. The cameras show up, the alums show up, everyone gets misty about tradition. Then the…
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A Hot Mic Caught Kings Reporters Rating Ben Simmons and Zach LaVine, and the Internet Destroyed the Wrong Woman
A Hot Mic Caught Kings Reporters Rating Ben Simmons and Zach LaVine, and the Internet Destroyed the Wrong Woman Media days are supposed to be the safest, most boring assignment in sports. Players give bland answers, reporters ask bland questions, everyone goes home. But the Sacramento Kings found out on September 28 that the camera…
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$500 ACA Refund Checks Are Landing in Mailboxes: Is One Coming to You?
Imagine finding a $500 check from the Treasury Department in your mailbox. Sounds like the kind of thing that only happens in a political ad. This month, though, it is happening to nearly a million Americans, and the letter inside is signed by President Donald Trump. The catch? Out of more than 19 million people…
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Trump Just Named America’s First AI Czar, and He Runs the Spy Agencies
Trump Just Named America’s First AI Czar, and He Runs the Spy Agencies The most important job in artificial intelligence just went to a man who runs spies for a living. On Sunday morning, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that Jay Clayton, the Director of National Intelligence, will lead a brand-new Super Intelligence…
