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Did Trump Get Early Access to Eli Lilly's New Weight-Loss Drug?
2+ hour, 51+ min ago (1085+ words) The Trump health drama du jour is particularly juicy. STAT reported on Tuesday that a lone 79-year-old man received "extraordinary" early access to retatrutide, a hotly anticipated obesity drug that may deliver weight loss on par with bariatric surgery: But…...
Elon Musk's Fight With Silicon Valley Representative Is Getting Messy
3+ hour, 38+ min ago (140+ words) Shared a post encouraging him to "take Ro "the Robber" for every penny that he has: The Holocaust was up to 6 million people dead. Ro Khanna is claiming that up to 4. 5 million children were killed by Elon. What Ro is…...
The Problem With Gavin Newsom's Victim Narrative
14+ hour, 38+ min ago (75+ words) The Democratic front-runner says he's being politically prosecuted by Trump. Actually, the case is pretty normal, writes legal columnist Elie Honig. Moreover, the investigation reportedly is focused not on Newsom but his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, who proudly calls herself…...
What's at Stake on a Blockbuster NYC Election Day
20+ hour, 6+ min ago (1036+ words) Tuesday is make or break for everyone from Jack Schlossberg to Brad Lander and will serve as a major test of Zohran Mamdani's clout. After months of seemingly endless mailers, television ads, and door knocks from intrepid canvassers, New Yorkers…...
Trump and Mike Lee Want Long, Hot Summer of Election Denial
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (274+ words) So you have a Senate majority operating on the basis of facts, logic, law, and arithmetic and a president just childishly demanding what he wants. Is there a way out for Republicans? [I]nside the Senate, the Utahn's scorched-earth, hyper-online…...
Amazon Swears It Didn't Kill Open AI Movie Because It Made Altman, Musk Look Bad
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (549+ words) Could it have something to do with the film making tech billionaires look bad? And a web of high-value relationships between the companies? Bess Levin looks at the clues. More studios have reportedly passed on distributing Artificial, the much-anticipated Sam…...
Trump's So Afraid of Losing That He's Started Endorsing Everybody
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (247+ words) After being rebuked by Republican voters in Iowa and Georgia, where Trump's endorsed gubernatorial candidates lost, Trump is not taking any chances in South Carolina. He's now endorsed both runoff candidates, and that's bad news for his first pick. So…...
The Trumps Had a Strange and Snub-Filled Father's Day
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (537+ words) Donald Trump has a knack for making holidays weird. In just the past year, he's awkwardly called out his wife's spooky Christmas aesthetic and ranted about the Iran war in front of the Easter Bunny. Over the weekend, he found…...
Polymarket's Marketing Team Made Some Very Bad Bets
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (460+ words) Polymarket, the prediction market touted as a "truth machine" by its CEO, Shayne Coplan, has been advertising made-up trades on social media, per a Wall Street Journal report. Americans understand by now that what you see in an ad is…...
Cristiano Ronaldo Is Soccer's Dying Supernova
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (1040+ words) His once-vast powers diminished, Cristiano Ronaldo is in the midst of a humiliating midlife crisis, bringing his team down with him. It's easy to forget that soccer is a difficult game. No sport is simple, of course, but soccer is…...