The News The owner of a Manhattan bar bet $5,000 on Kalshi on Wednesday’s Game 1 of the NBA Finals to hedge is promise of free drinks with the Knicks win. Prediction markets are getting useful. Andrew Freedman, owner of The Jeffrey, bet $5,000 on Kalshi on the game, he ...
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Roger Stone helped Trump choose an unorthodox new intel adviserRoger Stone helped Trump choose an unorthodox new intel adviser
The Scoop President Donald Trump on Tuesday installed his top housing regulator as acting director of national intelligence — a decision swayed by longtime Republican operative Roger Stone and other MAGA forces inside the administration, according to multiple sources. While Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte is far from ...
Short-seller Andrew Left will appeal fraud convictionShort-seller Andrew Left will appeal fraud conviction
Activist short-seller Andrew Left was convicted in Los Angeles yesterday on 12 counts of securities fraud, in a case initiated under President Biden and eagerly picked up by Trump’s Justice Department. Caustic, media-friendly, and beloved by retail traders, Left was convicted for airing his criticisms of publicly traded companies and ...
Senegal forms new government after PM sackedSenegal forms new government after PM sacked
The News Senegal’s recently ousted prime minister said his party will not participate in the newly formed government, plunging the country into further political turmoil as it grapples with a major debt crisis. Ousmane Sonko, a populist with a loyal following among Senegal’s youth, said “points of disagreement” had emerged ...
Gig economy spurs revival in Chinese worker’s literatureGig economy spurs revival in Chinese worker’s literature
Chinese workers’ literature is undergoing a revival in the gig-economy era, with a raft of work coming out about, and by, working-class labor. Spanning poetry, fiction, and nonfiction — both online and in print — the writing has included translations such as and . But unlike works of generations past, ...
The Guardian view on Trump and Lebanon: civilians need lasting peace, not short-term patches | EditorialThe Guardian view on Trump and Lebanon: civilians need lasting peace, not short-term patches | Editorial
The US president seeks to curb Israel’s intensified offensive as he looks for an exit from war with Iran, but turmoil in the Middle East will not easily be ended “Let’s see how long that lasts,” Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday night, addressing his attempts to de-escalate ...
Democrats are at a huge crossroads in California governor’s race | Normon SolomonDemocrats are at a huge crossroads in California governor’s race | Normon Solomon
If Tom Steyer wins, that could send positive shock waves through the Democratic party The next governor of deep-blue California will almost certainly be a Democrat. But what kind of Democrat? The establishment favorite for overseeing the world’s fourth-largest economy, Xavier Becerra, has trod a traditional path. As governor, based ...
‘All the girls were in there for shit that is pretty normal’: the show reinventing Girl, Interrupted for a new generation‘All the girls were in there for shit that is pretty normal’: the show reinventing Girl, Interrupted for a new generation
Susanna Kaysen’s cult memoir sparked a wave of novels about young women in crisis. After 10 years in the making, Juliana Canfield and King Princess bring it to the stage Girl, Interrupted may seem like unlikely material for a musical. Based on a 1993 bestselling memoir by Susanna Kaysen, the ...
The return of the bridal suit: will Dua Lipa’s look change the face of weddings?The return of the bridal suit: will Dua Lipa’s look change the face of weddings?
In 1971, Bianca Jagger entranced the fashion world with the skirt suit she wore to marry Mick Jagger. Now, in a nod to that style, Lipa is ushering in a new era of nonconformity Fifty five years after Bianca Jagger shocked onlookers when she wore a Yves Saint Laurent skirt-suit ...
Nvidia and Microsoft Researchers Say AI Agents Don’t Care About Safety or ReliabilityNvidia and Microsoft Researchers Say AI Agents Don’t Care About Safety or Reliability
A new paper from researchers at Microsoft, Nvidia, and University of California Riverside found that AI agents with access to a computer, or computer-use agents (CUAs), will often take weird and dangerous actions in an attempt to complete a task for a human user. The paper, titled Just Do It!? ...