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Trump-Xi summit in Beijing: What's at stake
BEIJING — President Trump’s first visit to China in nine years is a high-stakes trip reflecting the rivalry and mutual dependence of two…
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Business
EBay rejects GameStop's $56-billion takeover offer
California online marketplace EBay said Tuesday its board rejected GameStop’s unsolicited $56-billion takeover offer. The proposal was…
News
Why Does AOC Think Billionaires Can’t Exist?
The idea that any of the most famous U.S. entrepreneurs got where they are through, say, wage theft is laughable. Source link
Business
Oversight chair seeks information from OpenAI's Sam Altman about potential financial conflicts
WASHINGTON — The chair of the House Oversight Committee has sent a letter to OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman requesting information…
News
The Left Suddenly Cares Very Little About Misinformation
Particularly when it’s being spread by their own side. Source link
News
Canada’s Sovereign Malinvestment Fund
Prime Minister Carney is attempting failed industrial policy again under a different name. Source link
Culture
The Twenty-Six-Year-Old Behind “Obsession,” a Terrifying Tale of a Crush Gone Awry
“It starts from a very innocent place with Bear. I wanted it to be relatable. We’ve all had a crush on someone who didn’t like us…
News
Fears of an AI breakthrough force the U.S. and China to talk
CHONGQING, China — Three years ago, in the idyllic town of Woodside south of San Francisco, the United States and China held their first…
News
End the National Flood Insurance Program
Wealthy homeowners should be insured by the market. Source link
Culture
A Ten-Course Tasting Where Dessert Is the Whole Point
The Journey, which Lee débuted earlier this year, on Thursday evenings only, is something of a return to form for the chef. Before opening…
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Culture
How Reading with My Dying Mother Revealed Her Life
I was eight, and through my bedroom wall I could hear my mother, Heidi, talking to herself as she prepared to go to sleep. Every night, in…
Celebrity
Justin Bieber played ultra A-list Montecito party, with AI defense execs in the crowd
Just weeks after Justin Bieber’s well-received Coachella headline gig, the singer played a small private event for tech, entertainment and…
News
The Comey Indictment Fails to Charge a ‘True Threat’
Prosecutors simply don’t have a case. Source link
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Raphael Does New York in Splendid Met Exhibition
The forever savant, new courtier style, Madonnas, killer portraits, altarpieces, and more. Source link
Culture
What “The Sheep Detectives” Doesn’t Understand About Sheep
The formidable historian Carlo Ginzburg once published a paper called “Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method,” in which he argued that…
Culture
The Grandmothers Who Become Mothers Again
In “Mawmaw,” the photographer Anthony Wilson pays tribute to West Virginia women who, after one tragedy or another, care for their…
Business
Spirit Airlines and the Death of Leisure for the Non-Leisure Class
After Spirit Airlines ceased operations, in the middle of the night on May 2nd, a series of canary-yellow airplanes sat on the tarmac at…
News
Virginia Democrats Get Their Comeuppance
The state’s supreme court rightly found the process that Democrats used to impose an egregious gerrymander illegal. Source link
Culture
The Lone-Star Laments of Kacey Musgraves
Everyone knows there’s something kind of funny about country music. The genre’s cultural identity is linked to a stylized and…
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Culture
A Ginkgo Tree Threads the Narrative of “Silent Friend”
He is not the first person at Marburg to have taken on the role of plant whisperer. In all three stories in “Silent Friend,” curious,…
Business
General Motors to pay $12.5 million to settle claims it illegally sold California driver data
General Motors has agreed to pay $12.5 million dollars to settle claims that the automaker illegally sold location and driving data of…
Culture
Do We Think Too Much About the Future?
How’s that going? Two facts stand out. First, since no one actually knows the future, guessing, speculating, or simply making things up…
Business
California tech company Cloudflare to lay off more than 1,000 workers, cites AI
Cloudflare is laying off 20% of its staff, the latest technology company to announce big cuts as it uses more artificial…