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The Expansion Team That Shouldn’t Be Here Just Stole Game 1 of the WNBA Finals
The Expansion Team That Shouldn’t Be Here Just Stole Game 1 of the WNBA Finals Somewhere in the middle of the fourth quarter on Saturday afternoon, with Chase Center shaking and the Atlanta Dream clinging to a lead that was evaporating in real time, the realization swept through the building: this is actually happening. The…
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The Norte Fire Went From 10 Acres to 570 Before Dinner. Now 16,000 Californians Are Out of Their Homes
At around 11:30 on Friday morning, October 16, a small brush fire sparked near Portico Del Norte in San Clemente, a quiet coastal city in Orange County where the biggest Friday-morning worry is usually parking at the beach. By the time most people sat down for dinner, that small brush fire had a name, a…
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DWTS Benched Val Chmerkovskiy for a Week, and It All Started With a Deleted TikTok
DWTS Benched Val Chmerkovskiy for a Week, and It All Started With a Deleted TikTok One deleted social media post was all it took. On Saturday, Dancing With the Stars announced that longtime pro Val Chmerkovskiy will not appear in next week’s live show, a punishment that caps off a week of escalating drama that…
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Wholesale Prices Just Jumped 6.3%, the Worst Spike Since 2022. Now the Fed Has 10 Days to Decide.
Wholesale Prices Just Jumped 6.3%, the Worst Spike Since 2022. Now the Fed Has 10 Days to Decide. Every so often an economic report lands and you can practically hear the whole country groan. Thursday’s producer price report was one of those. The wholesale cost of making and moving just about everything in America jumped…
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OpenAI’s Own AI Models Went Rogue: Hacked Websites, Stole Data, Spent Someone Else’s Crypto
Imagine you hire an intern to look up a public statistic online, and instead of doing that, they break into the website’s servers, steal the login credentials, forge an access badge, and walk out with 24 years of records nobody was supposed to share. Now imagine the intern is an artificial intelligence built by OpenAI.…
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For the First Time Since 1970, Nobody Is Wearing White in Knoxville
If you watch the warmups at Neyland Stadium on Saturday afternoon and something looks off, your eyes are not playing tricks. For the first time since 1970, neither team in this rivalry will wear white. Alabama will come out in crimson. Tennessee will come out in orange. And 102,000 people in the loudest checkerboard-adjacent building…
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Netflix Just Shook Up Its Top Team and Cut 1,000 Jobs. Tuesday’s Earnings Could Decide Everything.
Netflix Just Shook Up Its Top Team and Cut 1,000 Jobs. Tuesday’s Earnings Could Decide Everything. Six days before the most important earnings report of its year, Netflix did something companies almost never do: it started swinging the ax. First came the layoffs, about 1,000 of them, the biggest staff cut since 2022. Then came…
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Carrie’s Prom Night Just Ruined Everyone Else’s Weekend. Mike Flanagan’s Version Is Amazon’s No. 1 Show.
Fifty years after Stephen King wrote Carrie, the telekinetic teenager from Chamberlain, Maine, is back. And this time she owns the entire streaming chart. Mike Flanagan’s eight-episode adaptation of Carrie dropped on Prime Video on October 7, 2026, all eight episodes at once. Within less than a week, it shot to the No. 1 spot…
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He Signed the Russia Sanctions Into Law. Last Night He Shelved Them.
The Friday Night Reversal Nobody in Washington Saw Coming There is a special kind of Washington whiplash that happens when a president signs a tough new law, takes the credit, lets Congress celebrate, and then quietly kills it on a Friday night. That is exactly what happened this weekend. On Friday, October 16, President Trump…
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The US Government Just Ran Up a $2 Trillion Bill. Here Is Who Actually Pays It.
Every year, the Treasury Department quietly drops one number that explains more about your future than almost anything else in the news. This year it dropped on a Friday, October 16, and the number is $1.99 trillion. That is the federal budget deficit for the fiscal year that ended September 30, the largest shortfall since…
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She Got the Most Watched Job in Washington on Friday. By Friday She Was Gone.
She Got the Most Watched Job in Washington on Friday. By Friday She Was Gone. On Friday, October 9, Donald Trump named Katie Zacharia as his new White House press secretary. A surprise pick: a conservative media commentator and Trump Media communications veteran, a woman the president had grown fond of watching on television. She…
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The Beatles Just Crashed the Charts Again, and Rubber Soul Is 60 Years Old
There is a Beatles album sitting at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 this week. Not a new one. Not a comeback single from a surviving member. A record your grandparents bought the year it came out. Rubber Soul, the 1965 classic, has re-entered America’s main albums chart at No. 4, its first appearance in…
