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A DC Guardsman Stepped Into a Street Fight. Then a Gun Came Out.
It was supposed to be a quiet Sunday night in one of DC’s most charming neighborhoods. Then a street fight drew a van full of National Guardsmen, and everything went sideways. Just after 11:10 p.m. on Sunday, October 18, a brawl broke out on a sidewalk in Capitol Hill’s Eastern Market neighborhood. Within seconds, seven…
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They Were Clinging to Debris in the Dark. Then the Sharks Came.
They were in the water for hours, in the black of night, about 140 miles off the Mexican coast. Some held onto each other. Some held onto whatever debris they could find. And while they waited for rescue, the sharks found them. On Friday, October 16, a boat carrying 27 people capsized off the coast…
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The Rays Are One Win From the World Series, and Game 5 Was a Pitching Masterpiece
The scoreboard said 3-1, but that number lies a little. For seven innings on Sunday night in Cleveland, the Tampa Bay Rays made the American League Championship Series feel like a formality. Drew Rasmussen carved up the Guardians lineup at Progressive Field, the Rays’ defense turned potential rallies into souvenirs, and by the time the…
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Cindy Crawford Broke Her Silence on Presley’s Death. The Last Line of Her Tribute Says Everything.
For 28 days, Cindy Crawford said nothing publicly about her son’s death. No interviews, no statements beyond a brief request for privacy, no posts. Just silence, the kind that tells you a family is somewhere far away from cameras, dealing with something no camera should ever see. Then on Sunday, October 18, the silence broke.…
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The Viral Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian “Reunion” Photo Is Probably Fake. Here Is Why Everyone Wants It to Be Real.
Nothing moves the internet like the possibility that two enemies just made peace. This weekend, a single photo did exactly that. It showed Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian, reportedly chatting casually at the Academy Museum Gala, and within hours it had hundreds of thousands of views. Fans lost their minds. Group chats lit up. The…
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California Wants 5% of Every Billionaire’s Fortune. One Young Millionaire Is Already Running Away.
Emil Barr had already signed the lease. A 23-year-old millionaire from Ohio, founder of a startup that helps laid-off workers find jobs faster, he was going to move to San Francisco first, settle into the city, and then bring his whole company to California. The boxes, at least metaphorically, were packed. Then he learned about…
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Microsoft Just Walked Away From a Massive UK Data Center Deal. The Reason Should Worry Every AI Investor.
The biggest AI partnership nobody can afford to lose just cracked It was supposed to be a cornerstone of Britain’s AI future. A hyperscale data center in Essex, backed by Nvidia money, contracted to one of the biggest names in tech. Then, on a quiet Sunday, Microsoft walked away. According to a report in Britain’s…
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The Rays Just Took October’s Punch and Threw It Right Back: ALCS Tied 2-2
The Rays Just Took October’s Punch and Threw It Right Back: ALCS Tied 2-2 October has a way of resetting itself when you least expect it. On Saturday night in Cleveland, with the season staring at a 3-1 deficit, the Tampa Bay Rays did something they had not managed in three full games: they hit.…
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Meta, Tesla Report Wednesday: Wall Street’s Make-or-Break Week
Meta, Tesla Report Wednesday: Wall Street’s Make-or-Break Week Thursday afternoon, traders in Seoul watched their screens go red and stay red. South Korea’s KOSPI plunged 7.57 percent, circuit breakers kicked in, and by the time New York woke up, the damage had crossed the Pacific. Bitcoin had slipped below $80,000. Nearly $1 billion in crypto…
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Quentin Tarantino Wrote His Last Movie. Then He Told Everyone to Cool It.
Quentin Tarantino Wrote His Last Movie. Then He Told Everyone to Cool It. For years, the question has hung over Hollywood like smoke after a gunfight: what will Quentin Tarantino’s tenth film actually be? On Saturday night, sitting on a red sofa in London, he finally answered the first half of that question. The script…
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Trump Told Ukraine to Stop Hitting Russia’s Oil. Overnight, Kyiv Launched Its Biggest Drone Wave of the Year.
Around midnight in St. Petersburg, the sky started humming. By dawn, one of Russia’s largest oil terminals was burning, a logistics hub was on fire, and the Kremlin was describing what happened as one of the biggest Ukrainian drone attacks of the entire war. This came days after Donald Trump did Moscow two big favors:…
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Anthropic Says AI Could Push US GDP to $44 Trillion by 2030. Then It Wrote a Bill to Hit the Brakes.
Picture this. It is Saturday morning in Bangkok. A lecture hall full of finance ministers and central bankers is sipping coffee at the annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank. The man on stage is Jack Clark, a co-founder of Anthropic and the company’s “head of public benefit,” and he has a number…
