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White House TikTok post goes silent after scathing Zara Larsson critique
NBC Newsby David K. Li·18 Sept 2026
A White House TikTok video, celebrating ICE-led deportations went silent on Friday after singer Zara Larsson tore into the administration for using her song “Midnight Sun” in the post.
AI PACs Have Dumped Nearly $1 Million Into an Obscure Senate Race
Wiredby Hugo Lowell·18 Sept 2026
Major super PACs associated with AI labs and investors have poured close to one million dollars into incumbent Republican Mike Rounds’s South Dakota senate race, seeking to shape the outcome of a...
In the Hilarious 'Youth,' Sharon Horgan Nails the Precarity of Middle Age
Timeby Judy Berman·18 Sept 2026
There are plenty of shows that could have been titled Youth. Most have casts in their teens and 20s.
Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria joins Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby TechCrunch Events·18 Sept 2026
The app you use to trade stocks increasingly wants to be the app you use to manage your financial life.
This 'anti-vampiric' grave used two strategies to stop the undead
Science Newsby Maria Temming·18 Sept 2026
Someone in 17th century Poland really did not want one particular girl rising from the dead. In 2022, archaeologists unearthed an unsettling grave in a cemetery in Pień, north-central Poland.
Ridley Scott Movies, Definitively Ranked
GQby Jesse Hassenger·18 Sept 2026
Inside Ridley Scott, there are two directorial wolves: The stylistically distinct auteur with towering influence over contemporary cinema, and the semi-anonymous studio journeyman who's put out a...
If the AI Industry Followed Its Own Research, It Might Have Paused Already
Wiredby Steven Levy·18 Sept 2026
In early 2025 I was interviewing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei when he explained why, despite the company’s repeated acknowledgments that AI could yield catastrophic results, people seemed largely...
Singer-songwriter and Broadway composer Duncan Sheik dies at 56
NBC Newsby Rebecca Cohen·18 Sept 2026
Singer-songwriter and Broadway composer Duncan Sheik has died, according to a post on his Instagram account. He was 56.
Your Shoe Size Can Change as You Age. Here's Why
Timeby Erica Sweeney·18 Sept 2026
If you’ve always worn the same size shoe but your sneakers and boots feel tighter now that you’re in, say, your 40s or beyond, you’re not alone.
Donors to Sean Duffy’s Son-in-Law See Huge Industry Boosts
The New Republicby Edith Olmsted·18 Sept 2026
Republican donors with no ties to Wisconsin are pouring their money into a random House candidate there—who happens to be Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s son-in-law.
“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”: Court records show what Microsoft and OpenAI actually thought about AI training
Nieman Labby Sarah Scire·18 Sept 2026
Would you call large language models training on an internet’s worth of content “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”?
Terran Orbital Promotes Margherita Cardi to Vice President of European Operations & Head of Strategic Programs
SpaceNewsby Terran Orbital·18 Sept 2026
IRVINE, Calif. and TORINO, Italy – Sept. 17, 2026 – Terran Orbital, a Lockheed Martin company and a global leader in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense...
Young swing-state voters cozy up to Democratic Socialists, say party establishment must ‘learn’ from DSA wins
FOX Newsby Elaine Mallon·18 Sept 2026
Gen Z and young Millennial voters in Michigan who are leaning blue for the midterm election say they welcome the ideas of the Democratic Socialists of America, with a couple of voters agreeing that...
A View From the Easel
Hyperallergicby Lakshmi Rivera Amin·18 Sept 2026
Welcome to the 355th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace.
Toys ‘R’ Us is opening 120 new stores as grownup collectors fuel toy sales
NBC Newsby Rob Wile·18 Sept 2026
Some people never seem to grow up. A resurgent Toys “R” Us is hoping to take that fact to the bank.
Democracy May Survive Trump, but It Looks Like Capitalism Might Not
The New Republicby Michael Tomasky·18 Sept 2026
It was a surreal week, bursting with surreal news generated by the surreal idiot who sits in the White House, but maybe the most surreal headline of all was the one I saw Thursday morning telling...
The New Arctic
Lawfareby Tiziana Melchiorre·18 Sept 2026
The Arctic has become a hot topic in geopolitics, and thus a more frequent subject for commentators on international relations.
DHS Email Sparks Alarm About What Feds Will Do on Election Day
The New Republicby Hafiz Rashid·18 Sept 2026
Staff in the Department of Homeland Security circulated an internal email last year listing states and counties that offer election materials in languages other than English, raising questions...
The Real-Life Wardrobe of Haruomi Hosono, Who Once Started a Nationwide Hair Trend
GQby Christopher Fenimore·18 Sept 2026
Haruomi Hosono has nothing left to prove. At 79, he is one of the most accomplished and influential musicians on the planet, most notably through his work with the pioneering 1970s electropop band...
Woman found guilty of negligent homicide in Super Bowl reporter's death in Louisiana
CBS News·18 Sept 2026
A Louisiana jury convicted a woman of negligent homicide on Thursday in the death of a Telemundo television reporter who had been visiting New Orleans to cover the Super Bowl, according to the...
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