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My $7,300 United Business Class Seat Was Broken, and I Got a Pittance

A woman splurged for a lie-flat seat, but it got jammed in the horizontal position for most of the 14-hour flight. How much should United compensate her?

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May 28 • 5:02 AM EDT • Business • nytimes.com
John Thune goes 'all in' for Ken Paxton after bitter primary ripped GOP apart

John Thune backs Ken Paxton for Senate after Texas runoff victory, urging Republicans to go all in to prevent Democrats from flipping the key seat.

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May 27 • 4:34 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Lawmakers stripped the Board of Equalization of power. Now they're fighting to join it

The Board of Equalization has very little power, but it's a launching pad to statewide political office in California.

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May 25 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • calmatters.org
NFL Fans Loved Michael Wilbon's Public Criticism Of ESPN

Michael Wilbon ripped ESPN's incessant coverage of the "irrelevant" Aaron Rodgers on Tuesday.

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May 19 • 3:18 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
LSU LCMC Health Cancer Center reshapes healthcare with clinical trials that are at the forefront of medical innovation

For Denise Phipps, a frightening trip to the emergency room for chest pain turned into a diagnosis that could have easily stripped away hope.

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May 17 • 1:00 AM EDT • Health • nola.com
Live Results: Louisiana midterm state and congressional primaries

Louisiana voters will participate in a revamped and stripped-down state primary Saturday and decide the political fate of an embattled Republican U.S. senator targeted for defeat by President Donald Trump.

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May 15 • 6:45 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Was that a foul? Pistons lose in OT after no-call costs them free throws at end of regulation

It sure looked like Jarrett Allen tripped Ausar Thompson.

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May 13 • 11:31 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Cognitive scientists found using AI for just 10 minutes impairs brain performance

In new research from CMU, Oxford, MIT, and UCLA, having a GPT-powered assistant ripped away left people fumbling to solve math problems on their own.

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May 11 • 1:30 PM EDT • Science • fastcompany.com
After Virginia Redistricting Map Is Tossed, Democrats Search Desperately for a Response

A conversation involving House members from Virginia and the top House Democrat reflected the fury and desperation that has gripped the party after Friday’s ruling in the state.

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May 10 • 10:10 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
One Big Headache for Politicians These Days: a Messy Digital Footprint

As a new generation of chronically online oversharers runs for office, many find themselves tripped up by past statements. Their response? Delete, distance, disavow.

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May 10 • 5:01 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Tracy Arm’s Post-Tsunami Landscape

A landslide-triggered tsunami stripped vegetation from the shore of the glacial fjord in summer 2025.

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May 8 • 12:00 AM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov
Intel eases reliance on TSMC with 'Merica-made Core Series 3 processors

: Stripped-down Ultra for laptops and low-power edge boxes

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Apr 17 • 5:46 PM EDT • Technology • theregister.com
LaMelo Ball should have been ejected for tripping Bam Adebayo, Heat coach says

Adebayo left the game with a lower back injury after appearing to be tripped during the second quarter.

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Apr 15 • 8:44 AM EDT • Sports • nbcnews.com
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Home rule has protected Colorado cities for more than 125 years

Colorado is currently gripped by a political struggle. It’s one between the governor and state legislature in Denver on one side and populous “home rule” city governments, mainly on the Front Range — such as Colorado Springs. The state legislature in the past few years has been passing bills that applied to city government policies, […]

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Apr 12 • 2:45 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com
“AI polls” are fake polls

A few weeks after Donald Trump’s second presidential win, I took the train up from London (where I was living at the time) to Oxford to attend a conference on polls and forecasts of the 2024 election. Most of the attendees were pollsters or academics, but I also watched presentations from Aaru and Electric Twin, two companies that do what is interchangeably called synthetic sampling, silicon sampling, or synthetic audiences. Stripped of startup jargon, that means they use large language models (LLMs) to simulate responses to public opinion polls by having AI agents take on the role of survey respondents. I had already heard of Aaru thanks to some articles with eye-catching headlines like “No people, no problem: AI chatbots predict elections better than humans” in the months leading up to Election Day. The founders were making some big, some might even say far-fetched claims, such as: “within two years, we will simulate the entire globe — from the way crops are grown in Ukraine to how that impacts production of oil in Iraq, trade through the strait of Malacca, and elections for the mayor of Baltimore.” When Semafor asked Aaru’s cofounders — Cameron Fink and Ned Koh — about my boss, they said “we respect all those who came before us.” Nate (as he so often does) shared his thoughts on Twitter: Fink and Koh were relatively good-natured about this back-and-forth when we spoke at Oxford. They even offered to mail me one of the t-shirts featuring Nate’s quote they apparently had made. I never took them up on the offer, which I now somewhat regret. These synthetic sampling companies fell off my radar for a while, but they do still exist. In fact, Aaru recently received a $1 billion valuation. Is what they’re doing anywhere close to the most important frontier in AI development? Not by a longshot, especially when Anthropic just developed a model so adept at exploiting software vulnerabilities that it’s only being released to 40 companies. Still, silicon sampling is increasingly finding its way into public polling. Axios reported in March that “a majority of people trust their own doctors and nurses” based on findings from Aaru — without mentioning that the “people” in that sentence were actually LLMs. Around the same time, the Public Sentiment Institute “boosted” their online sample of 373 real survey respondents with 114 AI agents.1 (Spoiler alert: even the co-founder of Electric Twin doesn’t think that’s a particularly defensible approach.) Polling companies like Qualtrics and Ipsos are also developing synthetic data panels. So, what should we make of these … “polls”? Let’s get one thing out of the way: whatever they are, they’re not polls in the way that term is usually defined. Subscribe You can’t replace polls with AI On one hand, using LLMs to essentially make up fake survey respondents sort of sounds like the dumbest idea ever, one that will at best imperfectly replicate real polls while introducing all sorts of biases. On the other hand, with LLMs improving at a remarkable, perhaps even alarming rate, maybe that means I’m a dinosaur at the ripe old age of 24 because I still want to rely on polls that talk to actual people. I’m not going to argue that synthetic samples are completely useless. In fact, as I’ll return to later, there is evidence that some techniques can replicate topline survey results quickly and cheaply. But the marketing from certain companies can be slightly optimistic. “No traditional poll will exist by the time the next general election occurs,” said Fink in 2024. We’re just 206 days away from the midterms, and based on the fact that I still have to collect a bunch of polls every day, I’d say he should have run that prediction by a sample of AI agents before the interview.2 To see why synthetic samples can’t replace polls, here’s a quick primer on how they work. The simplest version of these models involves taking a LLM (like ChatGPT or Claude), giving it a demographic profile (e.g., a white, college-educated woman who lives in Utah and makes $70k a year), and then asking it to respond to a survey question. You repeat that process a few thousand times using different demographic profiles and end up with a sample of synthetic survey responses. The actual models used by private companies are more sophisticated than this, usually because they incorporate more hypothesized demographic characteristics for each agent and provide them with extra information. Aaru, for example, feeds agents a diet of news and information they’d be likely to consume, while Electric Twin incorporates their customers’ proprietary data about the audience they’re trying to replicate. The way Ben Warner, the co-founder of Electric Twin, explained it to me was “we have a large amount of data on […] for instance, 5,000 people. Can we make an accurate prediction of how they would respond to another question?” Still, it should be obvious why synthetic samples can’t replace polls. Polling is fundamentally a data collection process. We might use surveys to make predictions by feeding them into election forecasts, but the main purpose of a poll isn’t prediction, it’s gathering new data about what people think and how they feel. Silicon sampling, on the other hand, produces no new data. It’s simply a model: you input LLM training data, demographic prompts, and a bunch of other information, and it spits out a prediction for what a poll would say. We love models here, but models aren’t polls. That difference is an important philosophical sticking point for most pollsters I talk to. “I think politics should stay away from [synthetic sampling], because we’re trying to […] represent the voice of the people,” said Natalie Jackson, a vice president at GQR Insights. Democratic pollster John Hagner told me: “I think I’m just incredibly skeptical of this idea. I don’t think it’s research. At that point, you’re asking the machine to tell you what you already believe.” Hagner has seen some presentations of early synthetic sampling experiments, but so far, “if it’s being used in a campaign, people are keeping it incredibly quiet.”3 But Eli, I hear you saying, aren’t polls themselves increasingly governed by modeling decisions? Indeed they are: pollsters’ choices on which sampling method to use, how to define their likely voter models, and how to weight their samples can and do lead to dramatic differences in the results they publish. Aaru even referenced these limitations in the methodology statement included with that maternal mortality “poll” — although I’m using the term “methodology statement” loosely here, because it doesn’t really explain how the model works at all. We can ignore the (frankly preposterous) implication that synthetic sampling isn’t subject to a separate set of biases. The important point is that there’s still a meaningful difference between using weighting and other statistical techniques on actual polling data and using a model to predict what a poll would say. The latter is far closer to election forecasts or techniques like MRP — potentially useful models, but not a replacement for polls.4 To be fair, other synthetic sampling companies are perfectly happy with the distinction between polls and models. Warner compared polling and synthetic sampling to different tools in a toolbox. “The mistake I think we make is we think that these new tools should either work in exactly the same way or somehow replace these old tools,” he said. “Rather than thinking of it as, okay, so we’ve always had the hammer, we’ve always had the screwdriver, now we’ve got a saw. But don’t use a saw to try [to] do the job of a hammer.” A quick comment from Nate Eli didn’t ask me for a comment — rather rude of him, don’t you think? But since I’m editing this story, I figured I’d add a few quick thoughts rather than putting words in his mouth. Beyond the frequently misleading marketing, what bothers me about the AI “poll” hype is that as AI tools make statistical inference cheaper and/or better (note that these are not synonyms) that actually increases the comparative value of collecting original data. You might be able to train a model to make a reasonable estimate of what some hard-to-reach poll respondent would say — say, a young Black man who voted for Trump. (Such a person checks a number of boxes for a voter who is usually hard to reach in surveys.) Indeed, this is closely related to what models like the Silver Bulletin forecast already do. They essentially smooth out the kinks in noisy survey data by making inferences based on past voting patterns or national polls or surveys of other states. But you don’t actually know what these voters think unless you’re reaching them directly. If there’s a shift in opinion among this subgroup, you’re not going to detect it. So if I were running a campaign, I’d invest more in going the extra mile to find a representative sample of those voters. And then I’d hire some smart quants — or Claude? — to figure out the implications for campaign strategy based on proprietary data that my competitors didn’t have access to. -Nate Silver Are these models any good? If synthetic surveys are just a new type of model, the next obvious question is whether the models are at least accurate. The answer very much depends on who you ask. On one end of the spectrum, you have the maximalist argument that synthetic sampling is more accurate than actual polls. “It’s an incredibly challenging problem to go to someone and say ‘hey, we’re going to be more accurate at predicting human behavior than you, even when you talk to your customers directly’,” Koh recently told CNBC. In his view, synthetic sampling isn’t a saw to polling’s hammer, it’s “magic.” There’s certainly evidence that synthetic samples can replicate certain survey toplines. But if Aaru does have any examples of their approach outperforming the polls, they’re keeping those to themselves.5 Aaru’s 2024 election model, for example, had Kamala Harris leading in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin on November 4th. And although they’ve since taken down their forecast page, they gave Harris a 50.5 percent chance of winning the race on November 2nd.6 After the election, Fink told Semafor he was happy enough with those results because they were “within margin of error,” a term that is completely meaningless when applied to a “sample” of AI agents. And of course, Aaru says their models have improved since 2024, so supposedly now they’d be more accurate than the polls? Still, their stronger argument is on cost: “We are significantly faster and cheaper than traditional polling, and still more accurate,” said Fink. The first two claims are undeniably true, but the third brings us to the opposite end of the spectrum. Both Jackson and Hagner are skeptical that these models are reliable for anything beyond replicating common survey toplines. “I just […] don’t think the machines are what we want when we’re looking for nuanced views. My example on this is people in Arizona and Nevada in 2024 who voted for Trump and voted for expanding abortion in their states on ballot initiatives,” said Jackson. Hagner identified another issue. Maybe the synthetic respondents, like sycophantic LLMs, are inhuman in one important way: they’re too nice. “The reports that have come through at the meetings that I’ve been at are that the early experiments on this, they cannot get respondents to be as racist or sexist or, frankly, as negative as human respondents,” he said. Academic research mostly agrees on this point. While there are some papers that show promising results when using LLMs to replicate polling data, most show that LLMs suffer from various quirks like producing too few “don’t know” responses and can seriously overpredict the favorability of politicians like Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. They also seem to struggle with too little variation between demographic subgroups, so the difference in predicted opinion between Democrats and Republicans, for example, is too small. When I asked Warner about these studies, his response to these papers was that just because academics can’t get synthetic sampling to work doesn’t mean that the technique doesn’t work in general. “Actually, the argument is, okay, yours does not [work]. That does not mean […] for this complex set of machinery, which uses a lot of investment, a lot of time, a lot of money, you can’t get it to work.” Cards on the table, I’m somewhat sympathetic to this argument because academics aren’t exactly great at making election forecasts. Usually, the people with skin in the game are the most accurate. Warner’s argument is that the approach Electric Twin takes — which includes, for example, making multiple predictions for each synthetic respondent using different models and prompts and subsequently averaging those to get a final prediction in a sort of ensemble forecast — produces better results than the simpler academic models. Warner shared a comparison between his method and the method from a recent academic paper with me, and Electric Twin was indeed able to get more accurate replication. But even still, he acknowledged that synthetic sampling “is not a crystal ball.” “If you asked me, do I think using other data sources will be more accurate than asking somebody who they will vote for, I would probably say no. But if you asked me ‘would your system be useful for our turnout modeling today?’ I would say yes.” For better or worse, it looks like the method is already getting more popular in the market research world. Most of the clients Aaru touts these days are businesses like EY and McDonald’s. And AI will probably begin to pop up in other parts of the political polling process. Pollsters are already using it to code open-ended survey responses, and some firms, like YouGov, are testing using LLMs to ask survey respondents questions. More worryingly, one danger to actual polls is that AI agents can be used to infiltrate online surveys. Most online polls use various checks to prevent that from happening, but there’s conflicting evidence on how effective those filters are and how prevalent AI agents currently are in online panels. If those agents ever become impossible to detect, it might spell the end of online polling, but the solution isn’t to replace all of your respondents with ChatGPT. Silver Bulletin is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe 1 That particular poll obviously doesn’t meet Silver Bulletin standards for aggregation. But we exclude all Public Sentiment Institute polls from our averages because we classify them as an amateur polling firm. 2 You could argue that Fink meant the next presidential election, but (a) I’m also confident we’ll still have real polls in 2028 and (b) in that case he should have asked an LLM to define “general election.” 3 Quick caveat: that’s reporting from a Democratic pollster. It’s possible that Republicans are more willing to use AI in political campaigns. 4 Indeed, Silver Bulletin does not include “polls” produced by MRP in our forecasts or averages, and we think it’s extremely misleading when their practitioners describe them in a way that suggests original data had been collected among a large number of states or Congressional districts. 5 A recent report from Aaru and EY did show two examples of a synthetic estimate being closer than a survey to a real-world benchmark — but I’d take those findings with a grain of salt because the report reads more like an ad and didn’t involve any sort of prediction being made ahead of time. 6 For comparison, our odds for Harris on the same day were 48.2 percent.

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Apr 11 • 11:38 AM EDT • Technology • natesilver.net
Riz Ahmed powers stripped down modern-day ‘Hamlet’

Who wouldn’t want to see “to be or not to be” as delivered by an Oscar-winning actor behind the wheel of a speeding car?

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Apr 9 • 3:19 AM EDT • Entertainment • bostonherald.com
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Overnight fire destroys business district in Butler, New Jersey

Families and businesses are picking up the pieces in Butler on Thursday after flames ripped through the business district along Main Street.

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How 'Ripped Off' T-Shirts Launched Jimmy Buffett's Billion Dollar Business Empire

When Jimmy Buffett got mad--and then got a lot more than 'even.'

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Mar 31 • 5:42 AM EDT • Business • inc.com
Ruby Ridge Book Explores Roots of American Conspiracy Politics at Vroman’s Tonight

Author Chris Jennings will discuss his critically acclaimed book “End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America” at Vroman’s Bookstore on Monday, March 30, in a 7 p.m. conversation with journalist and author Jim Newton, a Pasadena resident. The book, published in February by Little, Brown and Company, examines the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff — in which federal agents surveilled a cabin in Boundary County, Idaho, as part of an operation to arrest white separatist Randy Weaver — and traces a line from that 11-day siege to the conspiratorial politics that now mark American public life. By the time Weaver surrendered, his wife, his son, and a U.S. Marshal were dead. Jennings, a former editorial staffer at The New Yorker and the author of “Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism,” argues that the strain of apocalyptic Christianity that gripped the Weaver family can be traced to biblical prophecy readings dating to the 1870s and through the rise of 20th-century fundamentalism, according to the publisher’s description. The events at Ruby Ridge, Jennings contends, acted as an accelerant for this worldview. The New York Times Book Review called the book a thoroughly researched chronicle written with precision, according to a review published in February. Kirkus Reviews described it as a vivid reconstruction of a pivotal moment in the history of right-wing extremism. Newton, who will lead the conversation, spent 25 years at the Los Angeles Times as a reporter, editor, bureau chief, and columnist, including a stint as editor of the editorial pages from 2007 through 2010. He is the author of four books, including biographies of Chief Justice Earl Warren and Gov. Jerry Brown. Newton teaches at UCLA, where he founded Blueprint magazine, and is a columnist for CalMatters. He received the American Political Science Association’s

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Mar 30 • 7:45 AM EDT • Politics • pasadenanow.com
Mongolian PM Quits to End ‘Political Deadlock’ in Parliament

Mongolia’s prime minister resigned on Friday to try to find a way out of the political deadlock that has gripped parliament.

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Mar 27 • 8:00 PM EDT • Politics • bloomberg.com
The Galaxy S26 is a lazy product, but it is still the best at this one thing

Stripped of upgrades, the Galaxy S26 is still unmatched in one very specific area.

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Mar 27 • 9:49 AM EDT • Technology • phonearena.com
NWS: Straight-line winds ripped roof off Gaffney business

The National Weather Service has determined what caused a roof to be ripped off of a business in Gaffney Monday morning.

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Mar 18 • 4:59 PM EDT • Business • wyff4.com
Storm rips roof off of Upstate business

The report initially came in as the roof being ripped off of a home.

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Mar 16 • 10:13 AM EDT • Business • wyff4.com
Opetaia's IBF title in doubt after winning Zuffa belt

Jai Opetaia could be stripped of his IBF cruiserweight belt after he defeats Brandon Glanton to win the inaugural Zuffa World cruiserweight title.

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Mar 9 • 4:28 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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IREN’s $6 Billion Stock Offering: Is This AMC Entertainment 2.0 for the AI Era?

Bitcoin miner-turned-AI cloud operator IREN (NASDAQ:IREN) shocked investors this week with a stunning announcement: it expanded its at-the-market (ATM) equity offering program to a whopping $6 billion — roughly half its current market capitalization. The news sent shares tumbling 8.5% in a single session as dilution fears gripped the market. While the dilution won’t hit ... IREN’s $6 Billion Stock Offering: Is This AMC Entertainment 2.0 for the AI Era?

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Mar 7 • 8:49 AM EST • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
New York businesswoman sentenced to nine years for $30m political finance scheme

Sherry Xue Li ripped off millions from foreign investors and funnelled some stolen money into US political campaigns

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Feb 27 • 6:17 PM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
Trump’s war on fraud is political genius

President Trump is serious about fraud. As he should be — taxpayers are being ripped off.

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Feb 27 • 8:00 AM EST • Politics • thehill.com
A hidden force beneath the Atlantic ripped open a 500 kilometer canyon

Far beneath the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,000 kilometers off Portugal’s coast, lies a colossal underwater canyon system that dwarfs even the Grand Canyon. Known as the King’s Trough Complex, this 500-kilometer stretch of trenches and deep basins formed not from rushing water, but from dramatic tectonic forces that once tore the seafloor apart.

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Feb 23 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • sciencedaily.com
'Baywatch' casting call brings back '90s with in-person auditions, red suits and ripped bods

About 2,000 people flocked to Marina del Rey on Wednesday in hopes of landing a role in the upcoming 'Baywatch' reboot, which the production hopes will be a boon for Hollywood.

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Feb 20 • 6:00 AM EST • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Brandi Glanville 'Petrified' as Doc Removes Gooey, 'Ripped' Implant That Caused Her Health Woes: ‘Worse Than I Expected’

Brandi Glanville suffered a "complete rupture” of her breast implant. The ‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ alum, 53, admitted that she was “petrified" after the doctor removed the "ripped" and gooey implant.

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Feb 18 • 4:30 PM EST • Health • people.com
Apple’s New MacBook Can Checkmate Chromebooks In A Single Move

Apple’s $599 MacBook is expected this Spring. With the A18 Pro chipset and 24-hour battery, it’s a competitive budget laptop. But has Apple stripped it back too far?

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Feb 15 • 1:50 PM EST • Technology • forbes.com
U.S. figure skating will not appeal Chock and Bates ice dance results

The Olympics ice dance scoring controversy has gripped figure skating since Team USA's Madison Chock and Evan bates lost gold to France duo.

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Feb 15 • 11:52 AM EST • Sports • usatoday.com
Black Country Businesses devastation one month after fire

It's been a month of uncertainty for businesses on Sunbeam Street after a huge fire ripped through industrial units in January.

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Feb 14 • 3:23 AM EST • Business • bbc.com
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Crews battle massive fire that ripped through business in Palisades Park

The four-alarm fire broke out around 2:20 a.m. Sunday on Broad Avenue in Palisades Park.

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Chang’e-6 lunar samples reveal a giant impact reshaped the Moon’s interior

A colossal ancient impact may have reshaped the Moon far more deeply than scientists once realized. By analyzing rare lunar rocks brought back by China’s Chang’e-6 mission from the Moon’s largest crater, researchers found unusual chemical fingerprints pointing to extreme heat and material loss caused by a giant impact. The collision likely stripped away volatile elements, reshaped volcanic activity, and left a lasting chemical signature deep below the surface.

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Feb 8 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • sciencedaily.com
Gas explosion in New Hampshire sparks a fire at a mental health facility

A natural gas explosion ripped through a building for mental health services in Nashua, New Hampshire, and sparked a fire

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Feb 2 • 5:06 PM EST • Health • abcnews.go.com
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Can Peter Mandelson be stripped of his peerage over Epstein links?

Keir Starmer wants the Labour peer removed from the House of Lords but such a move is exceptionally complex

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Feb 2 • 10:59 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
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How the left can win back the internet – and rise again

In the final part of this series, we look at how infighting has ripped the left apart online while the right has flourished – and how some progressives are turning the tide, says digital media academic Robert Topinka

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Feb 1 • 3:00 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
Dispute over the Olympic medal stripped from US gymnast Jordan Chiles goes back to Swiss court

A gymnastics medal disputed by the United States and Romania at the 2024 Paris Olympics is heading for a fresh legal review in a Swiss court.

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Jan 29 • 2:23 PM EST • Sports • cnn.com
Bovino’s future in doubt as White House walks back initial claims about Alex Pretti

Trump strikes conciliatory tone with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz after pair speak last night as Bovino is reportedly stripped of ‘commander at large’ title

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Jan 27 • 5:51 AM EST • Politics • theguardian.com
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Real Madrid top football rich list as Liverpool surge

Real Madrid stayed top of football's rich list as Liverpool outstripped their English rivals for the first time, according to Deloitte's Money League study on Thursday.The rest of the top 10 is dominated by Premier League clubs, with Liverpool leading the English contingent for the first time.

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Jan 21 • 8:19 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trump-appointed judge tears into Lindsey Halligan’s ‘vitriol’ and calls her leadership a ‘charade’

A federal judge on Tuesday ripped into Lindsey Halligan, President Donald Trump’s personal choice as the top federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, after she used unusually sharp language to push back on the judge’s questioning of her authority, saying the “unnecessary rhetoric” had “a level of vitriol more appropriate for a cable news talk show.”

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Jan 20 • 3:23 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Kevin O'Leary Says 'Marriage Is A Business' and 'Your First Kid Is Money'—Even After The Real Kids Arrive, 'Money Never Leaves The Table'

Some people fall in love over candlelight. ‘Share Tank' investor Kevin O'Leary says you should fall in love over a calculator. In a post on X, O'Leary stripped marriage down to its bottom line: "The first child you have together is called MONEY." He said money shows up early—on the second date, the third date, and every day after. Even when the real kids arrive, he says, "money never leaves the table." And if you pretend it's not there? "Seven years later you're divorced." It's not just a clever

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Jan 20 • 12:01 PM EST • Business • yahoo.com
Costs soar to more than $100K for Portland business plagued by repeated HVAC thefts

Montavilla Sewing Center in Southeast Portland is speaking out after the business’s HVAC units have been stripped of parts five times in the last four months.

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Jan 17 • 12:36 AM EST • Business • katu.com
Dem senators ripped for reversing Venezuela stance after Trump captured Maduro: 'Politics at its worst'

Senate Democrats who once demanded stronger action against Nicolás Maduro are now warning about consequences of U.S. military action in Venezuela after President Trump took action.

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Jan 13 • 8:41 PM EST • Politics • foxnews.com
Trump calls for cap on credit card interest rates in latest appeal to affordability concerns

President Donald Trump on Friday called for a one-year cap on credit card interest rates of 10%, saying the American public is being “ripped off” in a Truth Social post.

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Jan 9 • 8:56 PM EST • Business • cnn.com
Mamdani Takes Health Fund Audit 'Seriously' as Insolvency Reverberates

The audit from Comptroller Brad Lander, concluding the joint union-City Hall insurance fund owes billions of dollars to the city, is applauded by fiscal watchdogs and advocates who have long decried deals they say ripped off retirees and taxpayers.

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Dec 30, 2025 • 6:39 PM EST • Health • thecity.nyc
U.K. politicians demand human rights activist be stripped of citizenship for past tweets

The leaders of the Conservative and Reform parties also demanded the deportation of Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a dual national who returned to Britain after years in Egyptian prisons.

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Dec 29, 2025 • 7:19 AM EST • Politics • nbcnews.com
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Billionaire Trump Goon Ripped for Wild Claim About Small Businesses

Kelly Loeffler says small business owners have never been so excited to pay their taxes as under the second MAGA administration.

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Dec 28, 2025 • 12:56 PM EST • Business • thedailybeast.com
Main Street businesses burned in fire on the cusp of reopening as rebuild continues

Five businesses remain closed since a fire ripped through a Main Street complex in downtown Salt Lake City in August, but two of them are on track to open in early 2026.

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Dec 27, 2025 • 2:02 PM EST • Business • ksl.comhttps
The Indie Game Awards snatches back two trophies from Clair Obscur over its use of generative AI

The Indie Game Awards has stripped Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 of two awards over its use of generative AI. The awards ceremony doesn't allow the use of generative AI in any capacity.

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Dec 22, 2025 • 11:47 AM EST • Technology • engadget.com
‘Hateful’ Republican ripped for saying Americans ‘don’t have to apologize for being white’

"The only time I’ve ever felt compelled to apologize for being white is after listening to JD Vance talk."

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Dec 22, 2025 • 11:04 AM EST • Politics • al.com
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'Clair Obscur: Expedition 33' stripped of Indie Game Awards due to generative AI use

It had previously been announced Game of the Year.

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Dec 22, 2025 • 2:18 AM EST • Technology • mashable.com
Indie Game Awards disqualify Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 after generative AI controversy

According to a statement issued by the Indie Game Awards, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been stripped of both awards it won. This decision came after producer François Meurisse confirmed the use of generative AI in the game’s development.

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Dec 20, 2025 • 7:45 PM EST • Technology • notebookcheck.net
Clair Obscur Is Having Its Indie Game Game Of The Year Award Stripped Away Due To AI Use

The Indie Game Awards presented the award last night, only to strip it hours later.

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Dec 20, 2025 • 3:48 PM EST • Technology • thegamer.com
Apparent serial scammer cons Toledo business owner out of a donation to a fake charity event

“Miss Alex” has ripped off multiple businesses this year and is wanted by law enforcement

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Dec 16, 2025 • 11:42 PM EST • Business • 13abc.com
Zach Orr's Ravens' defense stripped the stripes off the Bengals

Baltimore Ravens defensive coordinator Zach Orr kept the Bengals out of the end zone in week 14.

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Dec 15, 2025 • 2:17 PM EST • Sports • ravenswire.usatoday.com
Beneath the icy face of Alaska, a long theorized ‘connector fault’ may be revealed in the wake of major earthquake

After a magnitude 7 earthquake ripped under Hubbard Glacier earlier this month, scientists believe a “connector fault” may exist between established cuts in the thick planetary crust.

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Dec 13, 2025 • 3:08 PM EST • Science • adn.com
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Browns-Bears Preview

CHICAGO (AP) The Chicago Bears were rolling along and on top of the NFC before they got tripped up at Green Bay last week.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 4:44 PM EST • Sports • cbssports.com
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Mysterious X-ray signal from deep space may be the scream of a star ripped apart by two black holes

A strange X-ray signal spotted decades ago may be the result of a star that got attacked by two black holes, one after the other.

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Dec 10, 2025 • 4:09 PM EST • Science • livescience.com
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Despite federal funding cuts, UNR working to continue local food business center

Federal funding for local food production was hit hard earlier this year when the Trump administration cut several agricultural programs that supported home-grown food and farm businesses, but the local food systems built with Biden administration support before that funding was stripped away are ripe for growth.

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Dec 9, 2025 • 8:00 AM EST • Business • nevadacurrent.com
Josh Hutcherson responds to Quentin Tarantino saying “Hunger Games” 'ripped off' “Battle Royale”

"Everyone borrows from everyone," the actor behind Peeta Mellark said.

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Dec 4, 2025 • 3:54 PM EST • Entertainment • yahoo.com