Kristen Crowley, the former chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department ousted from her position earlier this year, filed a legal claim against the city and Mayor Karen Bass, accusing the mayor of orchestrating “a campaign of misinformation, defamation, and retaliation” and using Crowley as a “scapegoat” to shift blame …
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When NBC’s reality show The Biggest Loser premiered in 2004, producers weren’t sure if they could sell America on the idea of weight loss being fun. But what started as a network experiment with less than 500 applicants for its first season became a global sensation. The show ran for …
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Cambridge Dictionary’s screen time is skyrocketing. This week, the world’s largest online dictionary is expanding its lexicon with 6,000 new additions including the extremely online picks “Skibidi,” “Tradwife,” and “Delulu.” The nonsensical meme term “Skibidi” is defined as “a word that can have different meanings such as ‘cool’ or ‘bad,’ …
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Stephen King couldn’t write anything as terrifying as Donald Trump‘s America. In a new interview, the author answered a series of fan questions for The Guardian, among them: “If you had to invent an ending forTrumpian America, what would it be?” “I think it would be impeachment — which, in …
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The Trump administration appears to have hit another dead end in its desperate efforts to provide some semblance of closure in the years-long saga of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York denied the Justice Department’s order …
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In the race to develop Silicon Valley‘s dominant large language model, Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk‘s xAI, remains the least predictable. A month after the company unveiled Grok 4 — you may remember that the previous version had to be reined in after it started spouting antisemitic rhetoric and …
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An unsealed police report revealed new details into the drowning death of influencer Emilie Kiser’s three-year-old son this past May. On May 18, Trigg Kiser died at an Arizona hospital following a drowning incident that occurred six days earlier. The drowning, which happened on May 12, took place at the …
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The man suspected of opening fire and killing a police officer Friday at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) building in Atlanta, Georgia had previously expressed anti-vaccine sentiments, according to multiple reports. Hours after the incident, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation identified the suspected shooter as 30-year-old Patrick …
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Over the past five years, the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) has gone from a struggling and underpaid league to a dominating force in U.S. sports. The journey wasn’t easy, with coaches and players facing discrimination, struggling ticket sales, and a battle for equal pay they’re still fighting. But the …
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Shane Tamura, the 27-year-old who died by suicide after shooting four people at a Manhattan office building last month, had a history of mental health issues, concussion-related symptoms, and run-ins with the police, according to a new batch of documents released by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. The documents …
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