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RJ Ochoa

2 potential upsets for the Wild Card Round of the NFL playoffs

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The NFL playoffs are here and upsets may soon announce themselves

There is nothing cooler than saying “win or go home” when it comes to the NFL playoffs. We all know and have known forever that this is the case, but actually saying it out loud rocks.

Across the next few days we will watch six playoff games that carry this distinction. Twelve teams will enter, six will leave and legacies will be altered forever. Drama. Chaos. Beauty.

When it...

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Jason Parham

The TikTok Ban Would Be Social Media’s First Extinction-Level Event

TikTok transformed everyday users into influencers and made entrepreneurs rich via its Shop feature. With the US ban looming, they could lose everything—and many don’t know where to go next.

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"That I Was Dead" – 18 Rumours People Heard About Themselves That Were Utterly Ridiculous

"That I accepted 10k from my ex's parents to end the relationship and cancel the wedding."

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Eric Lipton

Trump Organization Issues Ethics Pledge for President-Elect’s Second Term

The measures, which were immediately called insufficient by ethics lawyers, included appointing an outside lawyer and limiting Mr. Trump’s access to detailed financial information.

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Jeff Sommer

Investing in Stocks and Bonds Will Be Trickier Under Trump

Sizzling returns well may continue, but our columnist suggests that it would be wise to prepare for the next storm.

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Joe Rennison

Stocks and Bonds Fall After Strong Jobs Report Fuels Interest Rate Concerns

Stronger-than-expected data on the labor market has added to clues that the economy continues to run at a solid pace, amplifying fears about stubborn inflation.

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Corey Kilgannon

Bob Dylan Is Having a Hollywood Moment. His No. 1 Hater Is Ready.

A.J. Weberman sifted through the prophetic singer’s trash in search of meaning. He turned on him as a sellout and has spent decades trying to reclaim him for the counterculture.

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Mike Isaac, Sheera Frenkel and Kate Conger

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era

After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta’s speech policies. He asked a small team to carry out his goals within weeks. The repercussions are just beginning.

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Sam Lubell

As Wildfire Flames Consume Architectural Gems, a Hit to ‘Old California’

The historic ranch house of Will Rogers and an important residence by Ray Kappe were destroyed by the fires, which threaten L.A.’s spectacular design legacy.

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Zachary Small

On the Eve of Trump’s Sentencing, an Unusual Art Gallery Opening

A show by the artist Isabelle Brourman, who sketched the trials of Donald J. Trump, attracted figures from the art world, the media and some lawyers from his civil fraud trial.

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Kate Christobek and Wesley Parnell

Takeaways from Trump’s Criminal Sentencing

Friday’s punishment was largely symbolic, but it ensured that Donald J. Trump would become America’s first felon president.

Fast Company

Jessica Bursztynsky

The TikTok ban is being weighed by the Supreme Court. Here’s what to know

Lawmakers argue the ByteDance–owned app poses a threat to national security.

The Supreme Court of the United States is hearing arguments today to decide the fate of TikTok.

Fast Company

Alexei Koseff

The L.A. fires underscore how much California has to lose if Trump withholds disaster aid

The federal government typically covers 75% of rebuilding costs after a major disaster. Trump has threatened to withhold firefighting money from California.

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The Conversation

How Trump’s EPA could use ‘science’ to weaken environmental protections

Uncertainty is an important scientific term that the first Trump administration used to promote deregulation, particularly for chemicals.

Environmental issues were conspicuously absent from the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign, but moves by President-elect Donald Trump’s first administration and his leadership picks for his next administration offer clues to what may be ahead.

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Pete Thamel and Max Olson

Ex-Georgia QB Carson Beck commits to Miami

Carson Beck has committed to Miami, just 24 hours after the former Georgia quarterback hit the transfer portal.

The Verge

Jay Peters

Fortnite Festival is turning into Rock Band with local multiplayer

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Fortnite Festival, the game’s Rock Band-like music mode where you play along with real songs, is getting local multiplayer for up to four people on PlayStation and Xbox on January 14th.

Currently, you can only play Fortnite Festival multiplayer online, but with this change, you’ll be able to get your former Rock Band back together and jam out on the same TV screen — well, with a major asterisk. Fortnite Festival currently only supports certain Rock Band guitar...

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Kylie Robison

How Elon Musk’s xAI is quietly taking over X

Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge

When Elon Musk launched his own AI startup, xAI, he touted a key advantage over his competitors: access to the vast trove of data from his newly acquired social media platform Twitter. By implementing new API fees on the network he quickly renamed X, Musk locked out other AI companies, maintaining exclusive access for his own models. And he began using X’s millions of users to test the results.

Musk has been using this distribution channel...

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Emma Roth

Automattic cuts WordPress contribution hours, blames WP Engine

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge

Automattic, the company that runs WordPress.com, is scaling back its contributions to the WordPress open-source project, according to an announcement on Thursday. The company says it’s decreasing contributions to “match” the amount of time companies like WP Engine spend on the ecosystem, further escalating the tension between Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg and the community.

Now, instead of spending 3,988 hours per week developing the WordPress...

The Verge

Emma Roth

Meta disbands diversity team and says DEI has become ‘charged’

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge

Meta is eliminating its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs because of the “legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts” in the US, according to a memo to employees seen by Axios. Meta will also roll back representation goals and end its “diverse slate approach” to hiring.

The memo, which was written by Janelle Gale, Meta’s vice president of human resources, said the company would replace DEI...

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