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L.A. ceramist Linda Hsiao's hand-built vessels — owls, birds and mythological creatures — exhibit a playful style that is thoroughly her own.

Tired of posting the same content to multiple socials? Two apps make it easy.

Week 12 of the NFL season kicks off tonight with an AFC North clash between longtime rivals Pittsburgh and Cleveland.

CLAMPED inside the mouth of a 1.5 ton hippopotamus, Roland Cherry could only watch as the light from the water’s surface disappeared from sight.

1. Gaetz Ethics Report Blocked, and the Trial That’s Horrified France  The New York Times
2. Federal Inquiry Traced Matt Gaetz’s Venmo Payments to Women  The New York Times
3. Video House Ethics Committee votes against releasing Matt Gaetz investigation  ABC News
4. GOP warns Gaetz hearings will be ‘Kavanaugh on steroids’  The Hill
5. Republicans on ethics panel vote to block Gaetz report  CNN

The market’s downturn was multifaceted, driven by escalating geopolitical tensions and the sudden legal challenges facing the Adani Group

Most of the area burned by the Mountain fire was in sparsely populated areas, but when high winds helped the blaze leap across Highway 118, it began threatening a suburban neighborhood in the Camarillo Hills.

Malcolm Washington helms a winning adaptation of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson that blends the supernatural and the all-too human.

Things to watch this week in the Southeastern Conference. Game of the week No. 7 Alabama (No. 7 CFP) at…

Harassment of a trans lawmaker shows the GOP is now imitating the most vile MAGA trolls like Libs of TikTok

Adding and resizing your widgets isn't as complicated as it used to be.

These are today's mortgage and refinance rates. Mortgage rates have been holding steady this month as investors wait for more economic data.

In his first term as president, Trump managed to impose his will on the Middle East. That will be harder this time.

Thanks to local, state, and national efforts, we've been building back, removing millions of tons of debris, relocating displaced families, rebuilding businesses, repairing roads and bridges, and more. But both Hawaii and Vermont have a long way to go, and these are complex challenges that states cannot face on their own.

1. From champagne to speeches, would-be Trump Supreme Court justices draw conservative buzz  CNN
2. Judge James Ho Kicks Off The Auditions For Trump’s Next Supreme Court Pick  HuffPost

When Satya Nadella took over as CEO, the company was lumbering and uncool. He cleaned up a toxic culture, crafted the deal of the decade, and put Microsoft back on top.

You probably missed it, because it created barely a ripple in the media, but last Friday, a federal judge appointed by Donald Trump struck down one of President Biden’s most pro-worker policies: his effort to ensure that far more Americans benefit from overtime pay. Around four million salaried workers with lower incomes are the losers in this decision, yet it generated startlingly few news stories and no outraged missives from leading columnists.

Why does it matter how we talk about artificial intelligence? Some, mainly tech firms and their useful idiots, maintain we are about to immanentize the eschaton (which translates roughly as: dissolve all of society’s problems). Others insist we are summoning a false god in the form of an artificial general intelligence that will destroy civilization. Those feelings of awe and terror aren’t particularly assuaged by the numbers: Tens of billions of dollars are raised each year by startups in this sector—incumbents hope to raise trillions more.

Last week, Elon Musk’s America PAC tweeted a semi-comprehensive list of what the social media mogul held to be wasteful federal spending in 2023. Sadly, it illuminated only one thing, which is that Musk fundamentally misunderstands the federal government. Nearly all of the approximately $900 billion total was caught up in two line items. A significant chunk was $659 billion in interest payments on the national debt, the nonpayment of which would generate an epic international financial crisis.

On November 5, Sarah McBride made history as the first openly transgender person elected to Congress. Just days later, I shared a nagging concern, writing: “There’s like a 99% chance that Marjorie Taylor Greene or some other right-wing weirdo is going to try to turn what bathroom Sarah is allowed to use at the Capitol into a whole thing. Calling it now.”

It has been more than two weeks since Donald Trump won his second term in office, promising to bring with him a flurry of policies aimed at reducing the size of the federal government. In the aftermath of the loss, Democrats have been soul-searching—resulting in all sorts of postmortems on what went wrong—and casting about for some new way of doing politics. In an op-ed for The New York Times, Adam Jentleson, former chief of staff for John Fetterman, said (among other things) that Democrats should... Читать дальше...

Republican control of the White House and Congress sets the stage for potentially seismic changes including curtailing Medicaid, weakening patient protections, and increasing premium costs for millions.