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Court reviews civil rights case alleging environmental racism against Black residents in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley

The lawsuit comes as the federal government has taken steps during the Biden administration to address the legacy of environmental racism.

A federal appellate court is set to hear oral arguments Monday in a civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use policies to place polluting industries in majority-Black communities.

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Grace Snelling

‘A whole lot of women out here are not aspiring to be humble’: Kamala Harris strikes a chord on ‘Call Her Daddy’ with a rejection of gender stereotypes

The Democratic nominee has opened up a broader discussion about expectations for women at work, and the weird obsession with female humility.

On Sunday, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris appeared on the popular “Call Her Daddy” podcast to discuss reproductive rights, address criticisms from Republicans Donald Trump and JD Vance, and set the record straight on her own family. 

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Affordable housing units across states are about to disappear as LIHTC protections expire

There is little aggregated data on exactly when LIHTC units will lose their affordability, making it difficult for policymakers and activists to fully prepare.

For more than two decades, the low rent on Marina Maalouf’s apartment in a blocky affordable housing development in Los Angeles’ Chinatown was a saving grace for her family, including a granddaughter who has autism.

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Here's How Differently People Responded To The "Joker: Folie À Deux" Box Office Versus Movies That Star A Woman

"People just don't want supermovies starring straight, white men:(. No other factors at all, no siree. That's how this works."

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Will Knight

The OpenAI Talent Exodus Gives Rivals an Opening

OpenAI built a reputation for making bold research bets before others. After a recent brain drain, it needs to attract a new generation of researchers to keep this going.

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James Dator

Stanford’s marching band did a whole routine mocking the Cybertruck

Don’t tell Elon.

Virginia Tech’s trip to Stanford was the first ACC game to head to Stanford Stadium and the legendary Cardinal marching band wanted to do something big for the occasion. Big, ugly, and uninsurable.

: @ivanmorozov https://t.co/7qomiT2lxu pic.twitter.com/kYU9RyJT98

— Andy Bitter (@AndyBitterVT) October 6, 2024

The show, which was as much about comedy as a marching band, had an entire section titled “The Band Buys a Cybertruck,” which saw some of the...

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Katie Heindl

The Golden State Valkyries want to set the standard for future WNBA expansion

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The Valkyries are laying a team-building road map for WNBA expansion

The concept, and term, of team-building has become something of a tenet in basketball. Though it suggests construction, which takes time, the phenomena of team-building has turned more immediate. The urgency and meta-gamification of competitive seasons — poring over roster construction, rotations, match-up deficiencies — in order to win now versus playing the long...

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Savannah Leigh Richardson

LPGA bound: Here are the 15 EPSON Tour players who earned their cards for 2025

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Here are the 15 EPSON Tour graduates who can now call themselves LPGA members as they won their cards for the 2025 season.

Sunday was a big day for the official LPGA qualifying tour, the Epson Tour.

There were 15 LPGA cards up for grabs at the Epson Tour Championship. These ladies teed it up at Indian Wells Golf Resort in Indian Wells, California, for the first time. It was a 72-hole stroke play event with a $287,500 purse.

This year also marked...

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Rohan Chakravarthi

Arch Manning justified the recruiting hype as Texas’ fill-in starting quarterback

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Manning gave a small glimpse of the future during a recent two-week stretch where he took over for Quinn Ewers.

When it comes to hype, there wasn’t a more touted prospect in college football than Texas quarterback Arch Manning, the No. 1 recruit in the Class of 2023 and the apparent “heir” to the Manning family legacy.

Arch, the son of Cooper Manning and the nephew of likely Hall of Famers Peyton Manning and Eli Manning, has always been at the...

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Jack Milko

WNBA Superstar Caitlin Clark to join Annika Sorenstam at LPGA Pro-Am in November

Caitlin Clark smiles during a September 2024 WNBA game. | Photo by Michael Hickey/NBAE via Getty Images

Caitlin Clark will take her superstardom to the course, as she will team up with one of the greatest players of all time, Annika Sorenstam.

Two of the biggest stars in women’s sports are teaming it up on the course.

Caitlin Clark, the WNBA superstar who has taken the world by storm, announced Monday that she will compete in the Wednesday Pro-Am ahead of The ANNIKA driven by...

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Umar Shakir

Geico insists it ‘has coverage’ for the Cybertruck after owners complain of dropped policies

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Geico says it still offers insurance for Tesla’s Cybertruck after some customers reported being dropped by their insurance company for the expensive and unconventional electric truck.

Several owners have reported difficulties in procuring coverage for their Cybertrucks, fueling speculation that the insurance industry was refusing to write policies for the truck. The speculation reached a fever pitch this weekend when Torque News reported...

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Jess Weatherbed

Threads knows it has an engagement bait problem

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If you’ve noticed more engagement bait appearing across your Threads feed, you’re not alone. Meta is aware of the issue and looking at how to address it, according to Instagram boss Adam Mosseri. “We’ve seen an increase in engagement-bait on Threads and we’re working to get it under control,” Mosseri said on Threads in response to comments flagging the issue.

Engagement bait on Threads typically covers posts with banal questions or invites for...

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Tom Warren

Nvidia to hold CES 2025 keynote as RTX 5090 rumors swirl

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will deliver a keynote at CES 2025 in January. The keynote will take place on January 6th at 6:30PM PT / 9:30PM ET, just a day before the Consumer Electronics Show opens its doors in Las Vegas. It comes amid rumors of next-gen Nvidia GPUs appearing early next year.

A source familiar with Nvidia’s plans told The Verge last month that we might hear more about the RTX 50-series at the Consumer Electronics Show in early 2025. Nvidia is an official...

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Ash Parrish

It’s a spooky season miracle — Alien: Isolation is getting a sequel

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To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of Alien: Isolation, the developers at Creative Assembly have announced they’re working on a sequel.

“We have heard your distress calls loud and clear,” wrote Al Hope, creative director at Creative Assembly. “I’m delighted to confirm, on behalf of the team, that a sequel to Alien: Isolation is in early development.”

Alien: Isolation released in 2014 to rave reviews, marking it as one of the best...

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Serve up a steaming cup o' Joe every fall morning with $20 off this Ninja coffee maker

SAVE $20: As of Oct. 7, get the Ninja Single-Serve Pods & Grounds Specialty Coffee Maker for just $79.99. That's a 20% discount.

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TikTok parent company ByteDance has a tool that's scraping the web 25 times faster than OpenAI

TikTok parent company ByteDance is amassing huge volumes of web data way faster than the other major web crawlers

ByteDance may be planning to release its own LLM, and is aggressively using its web crawler, "Bytespider," to scrape up data to train its models, Fortune reported.

Bytespider showed up on the scene in April, and since then, its rate of consumption puts web scrapers from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Anthropic to shame.

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John Oliver Scorches "Colossal Dips**t" JD Vance Following "Civil" Debate Talk

The Last Week Tonight host turned the Ohio senator’s words against him.

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Vanderbilt, Arkansas fined for fans storming field

The Southeastern Conference has fined Vanderbilt and Arkansas after their fans stormed the field following upset wins on Saturday.

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Power Rankings: Five new teams enter the rankings

Week 6 brought chaos. Two of the top five programs lost to unranked teams, and we added five new schools to our list.

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Paolo Armelli

'Joker: Folie à Deux' Might Be the Worst Comic Book Adaptation of All Time

The sequel starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga has proven to be both a critical disappointment and a box office one.

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