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Kristin Cabot breaks her silence on the Coldplay kiss-cam scandal and the backlash that followed
A once-private moment on a stadium jumbotron went viral overnight, costing Kristin Cabot and Astronomer CEO Andy Byron their jobs and leaving her to navigate a wave of online abuse, reputational damage and a very public reckoning.
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Sam Altman’s “shirtless firefighter” image shows how fast AI selfies are going mainstream
A playful post from the OpenAI chief became a small culture war about taste, tools, and what “real” even means in the age of instant image generation.
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A Vanity Fair close-up of Trump’s press secretary goes viral and sparks filler speculation
A Vanity Fair portfolio of Trump administration portraits went viral after a close-up of press secretary Karoline Leavitt prompted cosmetic speculation, and the photographer said the reaction reflects how rarely audiences now see unretouched images.
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Trump floats tariff rebates and bigger tax refunds to calm voter anxiety on prices
The White House is hinting at one-off cheques and an unusually large 2026 refund season, but details are thin and economists warn cash payouts do little to fix the drivers of high costs.
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Warner vs Paramount vs Netflix: What the new filing reveals about Hollywood’s biggest takeover fight
A new regulatory filing lays bare the incentives, pressure tactics and last-minute manoeuvres behind one of Hollywood’s most bruising takeover fights.
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What we know about the Reiner killings, and what a family associate says happened next
A person close to Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner recounts the hours surrounding the discovery of their deaths, responds to reports about family tensions, and outlines what authorities have disclosed so far about the case against their son.
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Why the Australia shooting shows Islamic State still has the power to inspire violence
Islamic State is no longer a state-building force, but its messaging still reaches lonely, volatile individuals and nudges them towards simple, high-casualty attacks that are hard for security agencies to predict.
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China’s 87-year-old celebrity painter welcomes baby with 37-year-old wife, cuts ties with older children
A late-life baby announcement by Chinese painter Fan Zeng has triggered a storm online, after reports said he has cut ties with his older children, sharpening an already sensitive debate on inheritance, age-gap marriages and family control.
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Damaged Baikonur launch pad in Kazakhstan to be repaired by February 2026, Russia says
A damaged section of the Soyuz launch complex at Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome is now slated for repairs through late February 2026, a timeline that could shape Russia’s near-term launch schedule from its most important foreign-based spaceport.
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The boomerang effect at work: Why well-intended policies backfire
A simple idea with big consequences: some rules, nudges and culture pushes do not change behaviour, they reverse it. Here is what triggers the boomerang effect at work, how it shows up, and how managers can reduce the backlash.
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Bryan Johnson says he did not biologically age for a year. Here is what that really means
He says his tests show his body did not get older over the past year, as he pursues an “immortality by 2039” target. Researchers caution that today’s biological-age tools can be useful for trends, but noisy for definitive individual claims.
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An 8-year-old froze to death. Now his mother is fighting a proposed $9 million settlement
After her 8-year-old son died from exposure, his mother says a proposed $9 million NYPD settlement is not accountability. As the city moves to close the case, she is demanding answers, responsibility, and reforms so the same tragedy is not repeated.
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24 hours that exposed the limits of Donald Trump’s grip on power
From Indiana’s defiant Republicans to stalled prosecutions and Senate pushback, a single day offered a rare glimpse of institutions and allies refusing to bend to the former president’s pressure.
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Tucker Carlson deepens rifts on the American right with fresh attacks on allies, institutions and Trumpworld
A podcast appearance sharpens ideological and personal divides inside the Republican coalition as conspiracy claims, foreign ties and loyalty tests collide.
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Ex-Michigan coach Sherrone Moore fired and charged: What led to his dismissal and arrest
A university investigation, an alleged break-in and criminal charges have upended one of the most successful recent tenures in Michigan football history.
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María Corina Machado’s escape from Venezuela to Oslo: How the opposition leader slipped past checkpoints and crossed the Caribbean
A private US rescue firm says it ran a covert land–sea–air extraction as Maduro’s government tightened pressure on the opposition.
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Should you take a Rs 1.3 crore job in Antarctica? Inside the viral six-month offer, risks, and trade-offs
A Reddit user says he has been offered roughly $145,000 (about Rs 1.3 crore) for a six-month contract at McMurdo Station. The package sounds life-changing, but medical screening, isolation, limited connectivity, and relationship strain are the variables that decide whether the money is worth it.
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Indian billionaire MA Yusuff Ali spotted boarding a public bus in Dubai goes viral: What’s the story?
A brief clip of Lulu Group Chairman MA Yusuff Ali, whose wealth is estimated at about $5.9 billion, boarding a public bus in Dubai and shaking hands with the driver has gone viral, prompting fresh debate about humility, optics, and leadership in public life.
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Trump-backed WLFI expands USD1 reach with Aster Trade listing and wider stablecoin push
Trump-backed World Liberty Financial has added Aster Trade as a new venue for USD1 trading pairs, a move aimed at widening the stablecoin’s liquidity and day-to-day utility in DeFi markets while keeping attention on transparency, reserves, and regulatory risk.
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Newly released Epstein photos include novelty Trump-branded condoms, part of 95,000-image trove under scrutiny
A newly released batch of photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate includes an image of novelty condom wrappers with a cartoon depiction of President Donald Trump, prompting political pushback and renewed scrutiny of what the wider trove of Epstein material does, and does not, show.
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Indiana Republicans break with Trump and why the pressure campaign failed
Personal lines were crossed, threats backfired and a deeply conservative state drew limits on loyalty politics.
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Can OpenAI pull ahead again now that Google has caught up on AI?
A new GPT-5.2 release shows the race has tightened, and OpenAI’s bigger challenge may be financial, not technical.
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Hollywood braces for a defining reckoning as Warner Bros sale hangs in the balance
Two rival bids promise very different futures, but both leave the film industry anxious about jobs, politics and the survival of the studio system.
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Venezuela’s oil lifeline is under pressure; why one seized tanker matters
A single intercepted cargo exposes how dependent Caracas still is on crude exports, and how vulnerable that lifeline is to pressure from Washington.
