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what makes America great Putin-puppet Musk calls Sen. Mark Kelly "traitor" for standing with allies — gets schooled in return Carla Sinclair

AI AI killing some companies, others doing fine Rob Beschizza

Entertainment How LA movie fans created a cult following around RRR screenings Lee Keeler

Funny Pretending to be an AI and pranking people with "generated" images Grant St. Clair

politics Republicans blame Los Angeles wildfires on their favorite issues Jason Weisberger

politics Costco claps back at "reprehensible radical right" organization's anti-DEI demand Jennifer Sandlin

politics California's leadership prepared to resist Jason Weisberger

bizarre competitions Wolfing down scalding hot biscuits and other weird contests from 1897 Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids Scientology doomed, Royal family doomed, and Island of the Damned in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

documentaries "Open Wide" tells the history of the "mewing" TikTok trend, through a deep dive into the controversial practice of orthotropics and its evangelists, John and Mike Mew Jennifer Sandlin

slavery Watch Nikki Haley desperately avoid saying the Civil War was about slavery Rob Beschizza

Entertainment Disney's rules for theme park influencers are hilariously ridiculous Ruben Bolling

the dysfunctional House Democratic Congressman says enough with the BS — he's resigning Carla Sinclair

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climate change Phoenix area librarian's shoes melted to the sidewalk during crosswalk duty Jennifer Sandlin

Republicans Conservative conference declares women to be the root of all evil, demands they give up hope (and their bodies) Jason Weisberger

bari weiss The rise and fall of the "Anti-Woke" industrial complex Thom Dunn

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