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- BusinessBusiness Insider
Morgan Stanley's top stock strategist says the market is in a 'sweet spot' when it comes to interest rates
The Fed made the right call in hitting pause this week. "I'm not sure that pausing is really all the bad for stocks in the short term," Mike Wilson said.
- U.S.The Daily Beast
Writer Says LA Times Reversed the Meaning of His Anti-RFK Jr. Article
A writer has alleged that an opinion piece he wrote criticizing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was altered by the Los Angeles Times in order to promote Kennedy—the exact opposite of his intent. Eric Reinhart says the paper gave his article a misleading headline and cut key lines, obscuring his attempt to convey that President Donald Trump’s pick for health secretary is “effectively a mass murderer in waiting.” The article was posted to X by the LA Times’ billionaire owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, with the h
- PoliticsThe Daily Beast
Elon Musk Shuts Out Senior Government Workers in Latest DOGE Takeover
DOGE director Elon Musk has reportedly shut out senior government workers and seized control of key workflows in the Office of Personnel Management, causing concern, a source told Reuters. The Office of Personnel Management functions as the government’s human resources agency, managing policies, payments, recruitment, and labor relations. Government aides working for the billionaire Tesla CEO—and Trump sidekick—have reportedly taken over the office’s Enterprise Human Resources Integration databa
- U.S.KTLA articles
Body found near 101 Freeway in Camarillo
Authorities are investigating after a body was found near the 101 Freeway in Camarillo Friday. The Ventura County Aviation Unit was conducting an aerial search for a missing person when they spotted a female’s body lying in a ravine just south of the freeway shortly before noontime. California Highway Patrol officers and Ventura County Sheriff’s […]
- PoliticsThe Daily Beast
Universities Shutter DEI Programs in Climate of Fear
In response to President Donald Trump’s executive order directing “the termination of all discriminatory programs” associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, many universities are shuttering programs even marginally associated with the progressive slogan, according to The Wall Street Journal. The reason: universities do not want to lose valuable federal funding in response to a DEI program that runs afoul of the order, even if the university did not intend for it to. Arizona S
- U.S.Salon
Small jet crashes near Northeast Philadelphia mall in second air disaster this week
The Learjet was carrying six people and crashed shortly after takeoff
- BusinessBusiness Insider
Sam Altman says OpenAI will embrace two new AI approaches, one from DeepSeek and another from Meta
During a Reddit AMA on Friday, Altman said OpenAI has "been on the wrong side of history" when it comes to keeping model weights confidential.
- PoliticsFox News
WaPo writer accuses Trump of 'government censorship' after backing social media crackdown of 'misinformation'
Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell took aim at President Trump's so-called "government censorship" after cheerleading tech giants to censor "misinformation" in 2021.
- U.S.KTLA articles
Southern California man catfished young girl, convinced her to send sexual images
A Southern California man was sentenced to over 15 years in prison for producing sexually explicit images of young girls he met online. John Matthew Piecuch, 64, of Hemet, was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Friday. Pieuch met the victim, a 12-year-old-girl, on Roblox, an online gaming platform. […]
- PoliticsFox News
Hakeem Jeffries' call to fight Trump agenda ‘in the streets’ sparks backlash as a 'Maxine Waters moment'
Maxine Waters found herself trending on social media Friday after House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries pledged Democrats would fight President Trump's agenda "in the streets."
- PoliticsFox News
DOJ directs FBI to fire 8 top officials, identify employees involved in Jan. 6, Hamas cases for review
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove sent a memo to the acting FBI director Friday evening directing him to terminate eight FBI employees, Fox News has learned.
- WorldFox News
Trump envoy Richard Grenell secures freedom for 6 Americans following meeting with Maduro in Venezuela
Richard Grenell secured the release of six Americans following a meeting with Venezuela's dictator Nicolas Maduro on Friday. Grenell demanded that Maduro accept deported criminals from the U.S.
- PoliticsSalon
Dozens of prosecutors who handled Jan. 6 cases fired by DOJ
The Department of Justice issued pink slips to prosecutors who worked on the cases of pardoned J6 rioters
- PoliticsThe Daily Beast
Fox Panel Gets Testy Over Trump’s DEI Fixation
Fox News' The Five grew contentious on Friday after co-host Jessica Tarlov pointed out that the type of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policy Donald Trump blamed for Wednesday’s plane and helicopter crash in Washington, D.C. was put in place during his first term. “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with asking questions about our procedures that ended up with a completely cataclysmic American horror story. We all agree on that,” Tarlov began. “But when Jesse [Watters] says that Presid
- PoliticsFox News
Trump's Dept of Education reverses Biden's Title IX rewrite: 'Common sense returns!'
President Donald Trump’s Department of Education has told K-12 schools and higher learning institutions that Title IX protections will be recognized on the basis of biological sex.
- StyleThe Daily Beast
Scouted: Tecovas’ Trend-Proof Cowgirl Boots Are Peak Western Luxury
Scouted selects products independently. If you purchase something from our posts, we may earn a small commission. Western-inspired fashion has proven to be a cyclical—albeit impressively enduring—trend. Cowboy boots seem to always make a comeback in the sartorial zeitgeist after incremental lulls—I first rocked the trend in high school in the mid-2000s and am happy to report the very first boots I purchased 20 years ago are still a major player in my permanent collection. From Old Gringo to Aria
- U.S.The Daily Beast
Child Patient Feared Dead as Medevac Jet Plunges Into Mall
A small medical jet crashed near a Northeast Philadelphia mall on Friday, according to reports. Multiple casualties have been reported, with the plane debris possibly hitting buildings and cars in the area, according to 6ABC Action News. Six people were onboard the plane, according to Jet Rescue, the air ambulance company operating the flight. Of the six, four were crew members and two—a pediatric patient and an escort—were passengers.
- BusinessThe Daily Beast
CBS to Comply With FCC’s Request for Harris’s ’60 Minutes’ Interview
CBS News has agreed to comply with the Federal Communications Commission’s request for the unedited transcript and tape of Kamala Harris’ 60 Minutes interview that aired on October 7, 2024, following a lawsuit against the network brought by Donald Trump. Trump’s FCC appointee, Brendan Carr, led the commission’s inquisition by sending the network’s news division a letter on Wednesday evening, requesting “the full, unedited transcript and camera feeds.” “We are working to comply with that inquiry
- CelebrityThe Daily Beast
Zoe Saldaña Does Not ‘Support’ Karla Sofía Gascón’s Racist Tweets
Karla Sofía Gascón’s Emilia Pérez co-star, Zoe Saldaña, is speaking out against the actor’s offensive tweets that resurfaced this week. Saldaña, a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominee, spoke about the controversy during a Q&A in London—an event Gascón was also scheduled to attend. “It makes me really sad because I don’t support [it], and I don’t have any tolerance for any negative rhetoric towards people of any group,” Saldaña said. “I can only attest to the experience that I had with each and
- BusinessBusiness Insider
Trump may be his own worst enemy in his fight against the Fed
Trump argued on Wednesday that Powell and the Fed "failed to stop the problem they created with inflation."
