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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.
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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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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.
Sizzling returns well may continue, but our columnist suggests that it would be wise to prepare for the next storm.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Friday’s punishment was largely symbolic, but it ensured that Donald J. Trump would become America’s first felon president.
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.
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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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.
Carson Beck has committed to Miami, just 24 hours after the former Georgia quarterback hit the transfer portal.
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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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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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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...
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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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