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Judge tosses Trump’s lawsuit against Wall Street Journal again, this time for good
A federal judge on Saturday dismissed President Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over its reporting on a lewd birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein bearing Trump’s name.
Why this year’s World Series won’t prevent a labor dispute that imperils the 2027 season
The Milwaukee Brewers play in baseball’s smallest media market with the 19th highest payroll out of 30 teams. Their World Series win this week would seem to puncture Major League Baseball’s claim that the sport needs a dramatic economic overhaul to be fair for the proverbial little guys.
Notorious hacker says stolen crypto is like ‘holding a hot potato’
Ilya Lichtenstein, who was convicted for his involvement in a crypto money laundering conspiracy, says hacking an exchange can be easier than laundering the crypto.
Big Oil is raking in huge profits. Shareholders like Trump are cashing in. You’re paying for it with high gas prices.
Big Oil minted money as the Iran war delivered American drivers the highest gas prices on record for the third quarter.
World’s largest crypto exchange hit by suspected North Korean hack in world’s largest heist
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, suspended withdrawals after hackers broke into its digital wallets and stole $6 billion in what appears to be the biggest crypto heist ever.
Shares of Google’s parent company just had their worst day ever. Here’s what it means
Shares of Google’s parent company tumbled more than 12% on Thursday, their worst day on record — a historic single-day decline bigger than any day during the Covid-19 pandemic or 2008 financial crisis.
The strange math that shows how Trump got Venezuela to ‘gift’ oil to the United States
President Donald Trump made an extraordinary announcement this week: Venezuela had gifted the United States 1 million barrels of oil – and it didn’t cost American taxpayers a dime.
Did the Fed just make a huge mistake?
The cost of living is Issue No. 1 for voters heading to the polls, but the Federal Reserve saw America’s persistent inflation problem Wednesday and opted not to do anything about it.
An industry is prescribing weight-loss drugs to people with anorexia, devastating lives
For AJ Jasper, drugs hailed as miracles have proven nothing short of a curse.
Anthropic’s nearly 100-page list of business risks includes everything from bioweapons to AI blackmail
There are massive and wide-ranging list of potential roadblocks, like making it a target of expensive lawsuits, and concerns that its own product could grow out of humanity’s control.
I asked Claude to explain Anthropic’s IPO
Before the substance, a disclosure that matters for your story: I’m Claude, made by Anthropic, the company in this filing.
Anthropic set to make stock market debut as questions swirl about safety of AI
Anthropic filed for an initial public offering Monday in what could become one of the largest stock market debuts in history — even as its CEO has warned that the advanced AI that the company and its competitors create poses an existential risk to humanity.

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‘I’m strapped every month.’ Seniors struggle as inflation continues to outpace Social Security benefits
Many senior citizens are finding that their Social Security benefits are not keeping pace with the rising cost of living. The payments are adjusted every year based on inflation, but the annual cost of living adjustment doesn’t match the actual increase in expenses.

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The Cheesecake Factory can’t get enough of the Gen Z ‘Tuscan moms’
It’s always going to be 2006 at the Cheesecake Factory. And for the crowds of young people dining there in cheetah print and sunglasses bigger than the restaurant’s portions, that’s exactly how they want it.
Americans may feel a bit spooked by Halloween prices
A group of college students walked into Lorenzo Caltagirone’s costume store in Washington, DC, earlier this week to dress up as yellow cartoon Minions for Halloween. Once they saw the price — $60 apiece — they opted for small accessories to get a similar look: goggles, gloves and hats.
‘They killed us’: Russia’s last independent newspaper falls silent amid pressure from Kremlin
Novaya Gazeta, the independent Russian newspaper once edited by Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov, one of Russia’s last independent news outlets, announced on Friday they are closing down their it would close down operations due to pressure from authorities.
The real question we should all be asking about AI
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