Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently “loved” a viral AI image on Facebook known as “Challah Horse” that was originally posted as a warning against generative AI. It’s unclear if Zuckerberg understood that the image he was reacting to was AI-generated, but Facebook has been flooded with AI-generated slop for some…
The Dallas Cowboys could be in the latter stages of hiring a new head coach to replace Mike McCarthy. Owner Jerry Jones and Co. have been conducting interviews since Dallas parted ways with McCarthy back on Jan.13. Former New York Jets head coach and San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert…
Thanks largely to the Dodgers, salary deferrals have become a hot topic in baseball. Where Los Angeles seems almost as if they are exploiting a loophole — such deferrals are allowed under the current collective bargaining agreement but haven’t been employed by teams to the extent the Dodgers have of…
Kansas City-Buffalo, the movable feast of NFL playoff rivalries, will take center stage again Sunday. The Chiefs and Bills will play in the postseason for the fourth time in five seasons in the AFC championship in Kansas City. No other teams have met as often this decade. None has been…
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Shares in Burberry strutted higher on Friday as the company announced better-than-forecast sales for the end of 2024. At £12.38 per share, the FTSE 250 fashion house was last dealing 15.7% higher in end-of-week trading. Sales continue to fall at embattled Burberry but at a lesser rate than analysts had…
Ohio State won the first College Football Playoff to cap the 2014 season and won the first expanded 12-team playoff to conclude the 2024 campaign. How the Buckeyes fare in defending their championship is something that will come into focus beginning with the Aug. 30 season opener against Texas. They…
Norah O’Donnell bid farewell to her anchor chair at “CBS Evening News” on Thursday night, calling the gig an “honor of a lifetime” — as the network prepares for an overhauled broadcast. “It has been an incredible five and a half years,” O’Donnell said. Oprah Winfrey surprised O’Donnell, 51, with…
German car maker BMW’s UK division got trolled by X users on Thursday after abruptly announcing that it was “no longer posting” on the platform Read More
Flight Risk—director Mel Gibson’s air thriller starring Mark Wahlberg—is new in theaters. How soon will it be before you can stream it at home? Rated R, Flight Risk opens in theaters nationwide on Friday. The official synopsis for the film reads, “In this high-stakes suspense thriller, Academy Award nominee Mark…
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MoreJack De Mave, who played Forest Ranger Bob Erickson in CBS’ Lassie, died in hospice care in Macon, Georgia on January 16 following a heart attack on Thanksgiving Day. He was 91. Born John Francois De Mave in Jersey City, New Jersey on December 8, 1933, Jack De Mave’s father…
Looking for Thursday’s Wordle hints, clues and answer? You can find them here: TGIF! The week is almost over, ladies and gentlemen, and the weekend is spread out before us, filled with opportunity. There’s also snow in the forecast here in the high desert mountains, so that—perhaps paradoxically—warms my heart.…
The road to the 2025 Academy Awards begins with the announcement of the Oscar nominations Thursday morning. The Oscar nominations come after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences postponed the annual live ceremony amid the devastation caused by Los Angeles-area wildfires. Originally, the nominations were set to be…
A seemingly innocuous remark angered Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou after his side’s 3-2 defeat by Everton. Goodison Park has hardly been a place where supporters expect a flurry of goals, from the home side at least; however, when the team from North London rocked up, they looked vulnerable to concede in almost every passage of attacking play. This wasn’t a one-off. Results over the past couple of months have been dire, and a side that fancied itself to challenge for the Champions League when the season began is increasingly looking like mid-table fodder. There is still the chance of…
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Tariff Day has left us with Canada and Mexico in the crosshairs. With North American trade in focus, this may actually give a respite to stocks with supply chains elsewhere and light a fire under them. Today we’ll talk about two dividend growers that have serious upside. One has a supply chain independent of Canada and Mexico, while the other has no manufacturing worries but some misguided RFK fears. The pair returned 138% and 199% during Trump 1.0, and, if history rhymes, the duo could return triple-digits again during Trump 2.0. ADI Returned 138% During Trump 1.0 Our first stock,…
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President Donald Trump repeated false claims about the US trade relationship with Canada and Europe in virtual Thursday remarks to the World Economic Forum in Davos. He also delivered a smattering of other misstatements and exaggerations about trade, tariffs and economic policy. Here is a fact check of some of…
A federal judge said Thursday that President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship was “blatantly unconstitutional” and issued a temporary restraining order to block it. Judge John Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee who sits in Seattle, granted the request by Washington Attorney General Nick Brown and three other Democratic-led…
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawyer Chase Strangio appeared to employ a new term for an adult human female Tuesday. The trans rights activist – who is also a transgender man –appeared on the left-wing digital news show “Democracy Now!” to slam President Donald Trump’s executive order on sex and gender. Strangio…
Kardashian raised eyebrows online by posting the photo of the president’s wife wearing a wide-brimmed hat at her husband’s inauguration. Read More
Jaws dropped throughout Washington’s National Cathedral when an egomaniacal female Episcopal bishop sabotaged the Inaugural Prayer Service with a left-wing rant from the pulpit about illegal migrants and LGBT issues, aimed directly at President Trump, who was sitting politely in the front pew. What the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde,…
The federal judges in Washington, DC, who handled hundreds of cases from January 6, 2021, are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s mass clemency for convicted rioters, rebuking the newly pardoned as “poor losers” and memorializing the “blood, feces, and terror” from the US Capitol attack. The orders from the…
President Donald Trump is targeting federal employees who focus on diversity, equity and inclusion and career policy staffers as he follows through on campaign promises to exert more control over the federal bureaucracy. The moves, just days into his new administration, go after programs he’s long attacked and civil servants…
The Trump administration is putting a halt to agreements that require reforms of police departments where the Justice Department found a pattern of misconduct, according to a memo issued Wednesday. “The new administration may wish to reconsider settlements and consent decrees negotiated and approved by the prior administration,” said the…
President Donald Trump has issued a “full and unconditional pardon” to Washington, DC, police lieutenant Andrew Zabavsky and officer Terence Sutton for their roles in the death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown, a case that drew protests on the heels of the murder of George Floyd. In October 2020, Sutton and…
In today’s column, I address the rising use of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) to surreptitiously pretend to be you – meaning that the AI will mimic someone’s likeness, personality, and everything about them, and then use that persona to sell them on one thing or another. It…
