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One SpaceX Share Per Child: The New AI PR Strategy

Elon Musk’s SpaceX and AI giant Anthropic have said they will give billions of dollars in shares to the public as general sentiment around the...

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Trump’s Voter Raids Have Begun

On Monday, federal authorities announced the arrest in California of at least 11 people, and charges against 28, alleging they registered to vote as...

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Trump Again Demands New Mexico Change Name to New America

In a Truth Social post Monday, President Trump made his most direct demand yet around an ongoing fixation: get “Mexico” out of New Mexico’s...

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Big Tech Will Not Broadcast Your Dissent

For all our billionaire social media leaders’ claims to be free speech warriors, they seem to have spent the last few days cracking down on it. As...

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Abdul El-Sayed Flipped the Script on a Bigoted Gotcha Attempt

In a clip that quickly went viral Saturday night, Democratic US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed countered a bigoted question about his Muslim faith at...

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Inside the Latest Pursuit of Ilhan Omar

The Trump administration has desperately searched for evidence that Rep. Ilhan Omar committed fraud, alleging she or her late father are liars for...

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Women Trust AI Less Than Men—But No One’s Asking Them

As our tech overlords continue pumping more resources into AI development and innovation—responsibly, of course—they’re facing a massive trust...

14.10.2026 6

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Trump Claims the Economy Is Alright. But the Numbers Tell a Different Story.

“Every time they want to try and get me, they say affordability,” President Donald Trump said in a voice mocking his critics during a midterms...

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ICE Is Being Sued For Refusing to Return Detainees’ Papers and Property

Seven people detained previously by ICE filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the agency, accusing it of illegally refusing to return their personal...

13.10.2026 10

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The Guilfoyle Scandals Finally Caught Up With Her

Kimberly Guilfoyle, the embattled US ambassador to Greece, resigned from her post on Tuesday amid multiple alleged instances of corruption. “These...

13.10.2026 10

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Pete Hegseth’s Firing Squad Livestream Is Finding Fans in the Defense Industry

“I have been outspoken on wanting public executions for over a decade.” So said Palmer Luckey, the co-founder of Anduril Industries, a military...

12.10.2026 10

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Homeland Security Raids Ilhan Omar’s Residence

Federal officers raided Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home early Monday morning, reportedly related to an investigation into the...

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Trump Blames Ukraine—Not His Iran War—For Our Skyrocketing Fuel Prices

President Donald Trump keeps pointing the finger at everyone for surging fuel prices but himself. Over the weekend, he once again blamed Ukraine,...

11.10.2026 10

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Trump Calls on AI to Speed Up Science—While Continuing to Defund It

“We tamed electricity, invented the light bulb, developed the airplane, harnessed the atom, unleashed the power of personal computers, created the...

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Abdul El-Sayed Criticized Obama. Is That a Scandal?

When Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign announced that Barack Obama would join him on the campaign trail later this month, media outlets and prominent online...

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Artificial Goes After Our Silicon Valley Overlords. Just Not Very Well.

The world premiere of Artificial, the new movie centered around the rise of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as he led an unstable company down a dangerous path,...

06.10.2026 10

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Trump Ran on Lowering Prices. Now Most Americans Blame Him for Them.

Only 17 percent of Americans approve of how President Donald Trump is handling the cost of living, according to a recent poll from the Associated...

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Is Hollywood Finally Turning Against Tech Oligarchs?

Big Tech is back on the big screen—but its bosses might not be thrilled. This fall, Hollywood will release four movies on tech executives: Luca...

05.10.2026 10

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They Called Her a Domestic Terrorist. Now Renée Good’s Family Is Suing.

Renée Good’s family filed two federal lawsuits on Thursday, nine months after she was fatally shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross amid the Trump...

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OpenAI Cancels Its Advanced Model Launch, Then Heads to Lunch With Trump

OpenAI called off plans to launch its latest GPT-6.1 Astra model on Tuesday, after the system failed to meet the company’s safety standards. The...

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Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Ads Are Receiving Bipartisan Criticism

President Donald Trump has become the subject of bipartisan pushback after another taxpayer-funded television ad aired during at least two Sunday NFL...

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Irish Soccer Fans Call for Boycotting Matches With Israel

On Sunday afternoon, Ireland is set to play a soccer match against Israel amid widespread public calls and protests in the country to boycott the game...

27.09.2026 10

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Rest Assured: AI Companies Say They’re Investigating Tens of Thousands of Rogue Bot Incidents

OpenAI and Anthropic are reportedly investigating tens of thousands of incidents where their advanced models bypassed monitors and guardrails,...

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The Video Game Industry Is Brutal. Now It’s Unionizing.

By 6 p.m. Sunday, the union had already run out of the colorful pins representing each bargaining unit—all 7,000 of them—as people kept coming up...

25.09.2026 10

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Trump to Ballroom Architect: “I Am the Code”

“I am the code.” So said President Trump to the first architect working on the new White House ballroom being built on the ruins of the...

23.09.2026 10

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Trump Threatens to “Annihilate” Iran and Its People in UN Address

President Trump’s rambling, combative speech Tuesday to the United Nations General Assembly saw him return to his most serious quagmire yet—the...

22.09.2026 20

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Trump’s Desperate for TV Cameras Until They Tell the Truth

President Donald Trump, who loves a media hit, may no longer get his moments of glory on television after major news networks ABC, CBS, Fox News, and...

21.09.2026 20

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ICE Shoots Man in Austin Doing Food Delivery, Spurring Protests

The shooting of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez came more than two months after an ICE officer fatally shot a man in Houston.

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Which Side Is Ed Sheeran On?

Ed Sheeran opened his Philadelphia show Saturday night by admitting to “making mistakes”—maybe not quite the apology some people were hoping...

20.09.2026 20

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Trump Wants to Make His Triumphal Arch a Killing Machine

President Donald Trump said that he plans to make his proposed 250-foot arch in Washington, DC, a “top grade military complex” that holds large...

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It’s the End of the World as Chat Pile Knows It

I grew up in a highly insular environment, never knowing—let alone interacting with—the outside world, in part due to my family’s history with...

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What Else Is the Pentagon Hiding From Us?

More US military personnel have reportedly died during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has shared publicly, the latest and most serious...

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Trump’s Friends Are Already Signing Deals to Take Venezuela’s Oil

“It’s a milestone deal in making the Western Hemisphere the center of the global energy system,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on...

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The Macklemore-Ed Sheeran Dispute Is a Corporate Threat to Free Speech

Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of, among a ton of other stuff, the New England Patriots and its stadium, allegedly pressured Ed Sheeran and his...

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Kash Patel Again Denies Firing Iran Experts Before Iran War

In an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, FBI Director Kash Patel did little to acknowledge the continuing fallout...

15.09.2026 20

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Ted Cruz Pushed His College Sports Bill on ESPN—and Was Booed Mercilessly

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was on the receiving end of a nearly 10-minute chorus of boos on Saturday morning ahead of the heavyweight college football...

12.09.2026 20

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America’s 9/11 President Never Forgets…His Paintings

On Friday, former President George W. Bush shared his new collection of self-congratulatory paintings to mark the 25th anniversary of the September 11...

11.09.2026 20

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What Does FBI Director Kash Patel Actually Do?

FBI Director Kash Patel seems to be very bad at his job. This was confirmed yet again on Thursday, when national security journalist Seth Hettena...

11.09.2026 20

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Don’t Be Fooled. Congress Isn’t Cracking Down on OpenAI.

A Republican-led Senate subcommittee on disaster management is now investigating the July incident where OpenAI’s autonomous models hacked Hugging...

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Get Ready For OpenAI’s ‘The Social Network’ Movie Moment

“Countries will fall. Industries are gonna collapse,” Andrew Garfield, the actor playing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, says in the teaser trailer for...

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Trump’s Venezuela Deal Helps His Rich Friends—And That’s It

The Trump administration announced an arrangement with Venezuela last week that would see the US take control of 65 billion barrels worth of oil...

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Everybody Wants to Rule the World (of AI)

On Thursday, Nvidia, the tech giant that develops chips that power AI tools like ChatGPT, announced its acquisition of Hugging Face for nearly $13...

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Mamdani Issues AI Moratorium In NYC Schools

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a one-year moratorium on AI use for elementary and middle school students on Wednesday. The decision,...

02.09.2026 30

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It Looks Like Hegseth Is Replacing Top Military Officers With Loyalists

US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is set to depart the Pentagon in the next few days, following a months-long feud with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth...

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Trump Is Growing Desperate on Iran

The Trump administration is back on the warpath. Over the weekend, the government resumed military attacks on Iran for the first time in a month,...

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Trump: Communities That Oppose Data Centers Will Be “Backwards and Poor”

On Monday, President Trump promoted continued data center construction and criticized opponents, despite growing bipartisan backlash ahead of the...

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Canada Is Spending Billions to Help Its Workers Survive Our Tariffs

On Tuesday, Canadian officials announced funding to back businesses, workers, and industries, as they implement dollar-for-dollar counter-tariffs on...

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Rallygoers Meet the Trans Athlete Culture Wars With Celebration

As women’s sports continue to be used as a battleground over trans rights, hundreds of people attended a rally before a New York Liberty game...

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There’s No Good Reason Why Hakeem Jeffries Should Work With Jared Kushner

Democrats and critics of the Trump administration have criticized House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries as reports came out Sunday that he met with...

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Trump Enraged South Korea to Please the North. It Didn’t Work.

North Korea launched several ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan on Thursday, according to South Korea’s military—just a day after the...

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