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ASML Just Doubled Its Profits. Wall Street Sold Off Anyway. Blame the CPI Report.
Inflation was supposed to be cooling. Instead, it just walked into the middle of Wall Street’s week and kicked over the table. Wednesday morning’s September CPI report came in hotter than expected, and the reaction was immediate: bond yields jumped, rate-hike bets on the Federal Reserve doubled, and a stock market that had been treading…
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DWTS Just Sent Home Its Lowest Scorer After Super Bowl Night, and the Judges Nearly Stole the Show
DWTS Just Sent Home Its Lowest Scorer After Super Bowl Night, and the Judges Nearly Stole the Show Tuesday night’s Dancing with the Stars was supposed to be about football. The show rolled out its first-ever Super Bowl Night, dressing the ballroom up for halftime: famous halftime songs for every couple, NFL commentator Joe Buck…
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The American Pope Has Lung Cancer. Here Is What Doctors Found, and What Happens Next.
On Sunday morning, Pope Leo XIV stood in front of the crowd at St. Peter’s Square and said something no one saw coming. Doctors had found a nodule on his lung, he told them, and he would be having surgery within days. Less than 72 hours later, the Vatican confirmed the rest: the growth was…
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Two Teammates Collided in the Ninth, and Cleveland Stole Game 1 From the Rays Anyway
Two Teammates Collided in the Ninth, and Cleveland Stole Game 1 From the Rays Anyway You could hear the crowd gasp before either player hit the ground. Top of the ninth inning at Tropicana Field, the Guardians holding a four-run lead, Brayan Rocchio’s foul pop drifting toward the third-base side near the visiting bullpen. Junior…
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The Rams Fired the ‘Thiccer Kicker’ in Less Than 24 Hours
The Rams Fired the ‘Thiccer Kicker’ in Less Than 24 Hours There is a special kind of cruel in the NFL, and on Monday night it wore a kicker’s jersey. Harrison Mevis lined up a 48-yard field goal in overtime, a kick that would have ended the game, beaten the Buffalo Bills, and saved the…
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Keffe D Just Got 40 Years to Life for Killing Tupac, and It Took 30 Years to Get Here
Keffe D Just Got 40 Years to Life for Killing Tupac, and It Took 30 Years to Get Here Thirty years. That is how long the most notorious unsolved murder in hip-hop history stayed open. On Tuesday, October 13, 2026, a Las Vegas courtroom finally closed it. Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the 63-year-old former South…
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Trump’s New Press Secretary Pulled the Plug After 14 Minutes, and Her Debut Did Not Go as Planned
Trump’s New Press Secretary Pulled the Plug After 14 Minutes, and Her Debut Did Not Go as Planned Katie Zacharia had been preparing for this moment for a long time. She studied President Donald Trump’s daily schedule, learned his Truth Social habits, and timed her television appearances for the exact hours he was most likely…
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Some Banks Now Pay 5% on Savings. Yours Probably Pays 0.38%.
The average American savings account pays 0.38% interest. Right now, today, some banks are paying 5.00%. That is not a typo. It is a thirteen-fold difference on the same money, sitting in the same kind of account, doing absolutely nothing. Let me put that in dollars, because percentages are how banks hope you keep thinking.…
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Google Put $2.7 Billion on This AI Startup’s Table. Two Years Later, Disney Is Scooping Up the Leftovers for $20 Million
Google Put $2.7 Billion on This AI Startup’s Table. Two Years Later, Disney Is Scooping Up the Leftovers for $20 Million You have probably talked to it. Maybe you argued philosophy with Napoleon at 2 a.m. Maybe you made a chatbot version of your best friend, or your favorite anime character, or yourself. For a…
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The Dodgers Are One Loss From the Brink, and Shohei Ohtani Might Not Start Game 3
Something had to give. You could see it on Dave Roberts’ face as he walked back to the dugout on Monday night in Milwaukee, the Dodgers having just dropped Game 2 of the NLCS 7-4 to the Brewers, falling into a 0-2 hole that no two-time defending champion ever expects to be in. Three days…
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JPMorgan Just Missed, Goldman Just Crushed It, and Jamie Dimon’s Warning Is the One That Matters
JPMorgan Just Missed, Goldman Just Crushed It, and Jamie Dimon’s Warning Is the One That Matters The biggest bank in America just did something it almost never does. It missed. And on the very same morning, Goldman Sachs put up one of the best quarters in its history. Wall Street’s earnings season opened Tuesday with…
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Amanda Seyfried Just Turned Down a TV Show for the Most Honest Reason in Hollywood
There is a particular kind of Hollywood honesty that arrives when an actor stops caring about what the room wants to hear. Amanda Seyfried found hers on a stage in East Hampton, in front of Alec Baldwin, in front of an audience that came to celebrate her work and left talking about the job she…
