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GM Beat Earnings and Announced a $20 Billion Buyback. Its Stock Still Tanked 5%.
GM Beat Earnings and Announced a $20 Billion Buyback. Its Stock Still Tanked 5%. Tuesday morning was supposed to be a good day for General Motors. The automaker beat Wall Street’s profit forecast, raised the bottom end of its full-year outlook, and unveiled a $20 billion stock buyback. The stock responded by falling more than…
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Lady Gaga Said Two Words on TikTok, and Little Monsters Are Reading Everything Into It
It took two words. Two words, one fan, and a TikTok about makeup brushes. That is all it took to send the Lady Gaga fandom into a full-blown spiral this week, and honestly, can you blame them? On Monday, October 19, Gaga posted a TikTok promoting the Complexion Brush Set from her beauty brand, Haus…
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North Korea Just Released “Proof of Life” Photos of Kim Jong Un. Here’s What Really Happened.
It Started With a Single X Account More than 200,000 Americans Googled some version of “is Kim Jong Un still alive” over the weekend. It did not take long for the answer to arrive, North Korean style. On Monday morning, state television and the Korean Central News Agency published a fresh set of photos: Kim…
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Social Security Has a 2032 Expiration Date. Your Check Would Get Cut by $500 a Month.
Social Security Has a 2032 Expiration Date. Your Check Would Get Cut by $500 a Month. There is a date on Social Security that nobody in Washington wants to talk about two weeks before an election. It is the fourth quarter of 2032. That is when the government’s own trustees say the retirement trust fund…
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1.5 Million Pounds of Hot Dogs and Bacon Just Got Recalled, and They Might Be in Your Fridge
Go look in your refrigerator. Right now. If you have hot dogs, bacon, ham, turkey slices, kielbasa, or bologna sitting in there, you need about ninety seconds of your time. Because the USDA just announced one of the biggest meat recalls of the year, and the stuff that got recalled has been sitting on store…
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Tank Dell Is Finally Back. After 22 Months, One Knee, and Zero Guarantees.
Tank Dell waited 22 months for this moment. On Sunday, he finally gets it. There are NFL comebacks, and then there is what Tank Dell went through. On Monday afternoon, Texans head coach DeMeco Ryans made the announcement Houston fans have been waiting on for the better part of two years: Tank Dell is being…
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Richard Riehle Died at 78. You Know His Face. You Just Never Knew His Name.
Richard Riehle died last week, and there is a very good chance you spent five full seconds staring at his name thinking, “Who?” Then you saw the photo, and your stomach dropped a little. That guy. The worried dad from half your favorite movies. The guy from the office movie. The Santa in three different…
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Wendy’s Just Closed 13 More Restaurants. Your Local Drive-Thru Could Be Next.
Wendy’s Just Closed 13 More Restaurants. Your Local Drive-Thru Could Be Next. If your regular Wendy’s went dark this weekend, you are not imagining it. Thirteen more Wendy’s restaurants shut their doors for good on October 18, the fourth weekend in a row that stores have died. And this is not some distant corporate restructuring.…
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Anthropic Pledged $48 Billion for the Public Good. Elon Musk’s Answer: A SpaceX Share for Every Kid.
Sunday night, the world’s most safety-obsessed AI company promised to hand 5 percent of itself to the public. Monday morning, Elon Musk replied by promising every kid in America a piece of his rocket company. Neither announcement came with the fine print. That is exactly why both are worth reading twice. This is the biggest…
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It All Ends Tonight: Why Yandy Diaz Just Called His Shot in the Biggest Game of the Year
It All Ends Tonight: Why Yandy Diaz Just Called His Shot in the Biggest Game of the Year You do not hear this very often in October. Players are trained to say the right things, to talk about taking it one game at a time, to never give the other dugout a reason to pin…
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Wall Street Just Bought the Dip: Tech Stocks Roared Back Monday After a Brutal Week
Friday Was Ugly. Monday Morning, Wall Street Decided It Was a Sale. Close your eyes and remember Friday’s close. The Nasdaq down 2.1% in a single session. Four weeks of winning wiped out in five days. The AI trade, the thing that carried this market on its back all year, was being treated like last…
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Miley Cyrus Cried Through “Jolene” for Dolly Parton, and the Backstory Makes It Hurt More
The tears started before the first note. Miley Cyrus stood on the Hollywood Bowl stage on Friday night, in front of roughly 18,000 people at her first major concert in nearly four years, and told the crowd she could feel her godmother all around her. Then she sang “Jolene.” By the end of it, she…
