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Elon Musk Says a Tesla-SpaceX Merger Would Be a “Good Idea.” The $3.5 Trillion Math Behind It Is Staggering.
It took Elon Musk four words to move billions of dollars on Tuesday night. A merger between Tesla and SpaceX, he told analysts, would be “a good idea.” SpaceX shares jumped 8 percent in after-hours trading within minutes, and Wall Street woke up on Wednesday to the strangest math it has seen in years: one…
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The 2026 World Series Is Set, and Neither Team Has Ever Won One
The 2026 World Series Is Set, and Neither Team Has Ever Won One Friday night in Milwaukee, a World Series will start that almost nobody predicted in March. The Tampa Bay Rays will walk into American Family Field to face the Milwaukee Brewers, and for the first time since 1980, both teams in the Fall…
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Wall Street Stopped Forgiving. Tonight Meta and Tesla Have to Clear Its Highest Bar
Here is the most important thing happening in the stock market tonight: nothing that happened today will matter as much as what happens after the closing bell. Netflix beat earnings last night. The numbers were better than analysts expected, 87 cents a share on $12.87 billion in revenue. And this morning the stock got punished…
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Lioness Just Pulled Off the Biggest Season in Paramount+ History, and Nobody Has Announced a Season 4
Lioness Just Pulled Off the Biggest Season in Paramount+ History, and Nobody Has Announced a Season 4 The numbers are in, and they are not close. The season 3 finale of Lioness drew 9.7 million viewers in its first seven days on Paramount+, making it the most-watched episode the show has ever produced and the…
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After Four Years in a Russian Prison, a 74-Year-Old American Teacher Is Finally Coming Home
After Four Years in a Russian Prison, a 74-Year-Old American Teacher Is Finally Coming Home It took one phone call last week, nine rounds of diplomacy, and more than four years of waiting. On Wednesday morning, Russia released Stephen Hubbard, a 74-year-old retired American teacher who has been locked up in a Russian prison since…
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LeBron James Crashed the Knicks’ Banner Night. The 76ers Walked Out With the Win.
Fifty-three years of waiting, and the banner finally went up. Confetti fell at Madison Square Garden, the championship flag climbed into the rafters, and Jalen Brunson told the crowd the city deserved to feel that joy again. Then LeBron James ruined the after-party. The Philadelphia 76ers spoiled the New York Knicks’ banner night on Tuesday,…
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6,800 Private AI Chats Were Sitting in Public. Meta Just Killed the Share Button
There is a special kind of embarrassment that comes from telling the world your product is “built from the ground up for privacy and security,” and then having a security firm find 6,800 private conversations from your users sitting in the open internet like a library catalog. Meta is living that week right now. The…
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Netflix Beat Earnings and the Stock Still Tanked 5% in Minutes. Here’s Why Wall Street Panicked.
There is a special kind of heartbreak in watching a company beat earnings and still get punished for it. Netflix did everything Wall Street asked for in the third quarter. Profit came in higher than expected. Revenue matched. Margins were fat. And within minutes of the announcement, the stock fell 5 percent, like investors had…
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Christina Applegate Got the News Every Patient Dreams Of. Her Reaction Will Break Your Heart.
Imagine the Strangest Medical News of the Year Imagine fighting a disease for five years. Imagine it taking your mobility, your career, your daily life. Now imagine your doctor walking in and saying, “Congratulations, you don’t have it.” You would expect tears of joy. Relief. Maybe a laugh you have been holding in since 2021.…
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All 100 Economists Agree: The Fed Is About to Make Your December More Expensive
One hundred economists. Zero disagreement. That is not a headline you see often in economics. These are people who make a living disagreeing with each other, yet in a Reuters poll released today, all 100 of them agreed on one thing: the Federal Reserve is going to raise interest rates again in December. Not some…
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America Just Ordered Every Federal Office to Delete DeepSeek. Beijing Fired Back Within Hours.
It started Monday with a dry government notice in the Federal Register. By Tuesday morning, Beijing was accusing Washington of politicizing technology, and every federal civilian agency in America had a new item on its to-do list: find every trace of DeepSeek in its computers and rip it out. This is not a ban on…
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The McCaffrey Bowl Ended With a Hug, But the 49ers Almost Blew Everything First
The McCaffrey Bowl Ended With a Hug, But the 49ers Almost Blew Everything First Monday night started as a family story and ended as a survival story. The San Francisco 49ers led the Washington Commanders 20-3 at halftime at Levi’s Stadium, and the game looked finished. Then the second half happened, and the last unbeaten…
