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The Yankees Are Facing the Rays Without Aaron Judge, and the ALDS Just Got Wild
Saturday morning, just hours before Game 1 of the AL Division Series, the Yankees dropped a roster bombshell that nobody in the Bronx was ready for: Aaron Judge, their captain, their three-time MVP, the face of the franchise, is officially OFF the 26-man ALDS roster. Not day-to-day. Not a game-time decision. Off. The Yankees will…
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Microsoft’s X Account Got Hacked, Then Spent 30 Minutes Shilling a Clippy Crypto Coin
Picture this. You open X on an ordinary Thursday and the official Microsoft account, 13 million followers strong, is suddenly begging for likes to bring back Clippy. The profile picture is the paperclip. The posts are hyping a crypto token. For a few surreal minutes, one of the biggest brands on earth looked like a…
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Only 29,000 Jobs Were Added in September, and the Housing Market Is Still Frozen
Friday morning at 8:30 Eastern, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the September jobs report, and the number was hard to ignore: the US economy added just 29,000 jobs last month. Economists had expected 84,000. It was one of the weakest hiring months of the entire rate cycle, and it landed in a market already…
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Trump Just Renamed AI to “Super Intelligence” and Asked Big Tech to Grade Its Own Homework
On Tuesday, the United States government stopped saying “artificial intelligence.” From now on, every federal agency website, report, and policy memo is supposed to say “Super Intelligence” instead. That is what President Donald Trump ordered this week when he signed an executive order with the grand title “Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence.” His reasoning…
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Wall Street’s Weird Friday: Terrible Jobs Report Sends Nasdaq Soaring
America added just 29,000 jobs in September. Economists had expected 84,000. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2 percent. And Wall Street responded by throwing a party. The Nasdaq Composite jumped 1.2 percent on Friday to close near 27,190, its second-highest finish on record. The S&P 500 rose 0.7 percent to 7,719. Even the Dow,…
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Meryl Streep Is Voicing Aslan, and Narnia Fans Are Losing It
Netflix finally gave the world its first real glimpse of what Greta Gerwig is doing with Narnia, and the internet did not say thank you. The Barbie director has cast Meryl Streep, yes, that Meryl Streep, as the voice of Aslan, the great lion at the beating heart of C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia.…
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Three Carriers and 10,000 More Troops: Why America Is Going All In Against Iran
The last time America parked three aircraft carriers near Iran, it was April, and the war was supposed to be almost over. It is October now. The war is in its eighth month. And the Pentagon is sending a third carrier strike group back to the region, along with up to 10,000 more troops, just…
