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Save up to 70% on new markdowns during Kohls Ultimate Clearance Event

SAVE 70%: Shop Kohl's Ultimate Clearance Event and save up to 70% on clothing, home goods, and more.

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Severance Season 1 Recap: Everything you need to remember before watching season 2

Severance is finally back! Mashable Entertainment Reporter Belen Edwards is here to walk you through everything you need to remember going into season 2.

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Alan Feuer and Charlie Savage

Judge Allows Release of Half of Jack Smith’s Report on Trump Cases

Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who dismissed the classified documents case, blocked a volume about that matter from being shown to Congress but allowed the release of a volume about the election case.

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Thomas Fuller, Mike Baker, Blacki Migliozzi, K.K. Rebecca Lai and Jonathan Wolfe

What Caused the Palisades Fire? The Site of the Ignition Point Holds Clues

In the hills above Pacific Palisades, there is crime scene tape and scattered debris, clues to what may have caused the initial fire that eventually raged through thousands of structures.

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Peter Baker

Biden Will Deliver Final Foreign Policy Speech on Monday

The president argued in a speech that he strengthened U.S. alliances during his four years in office and that America’s adversaries are weaker than when he took over.

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David Enrich and Katie Robertson

News Outlets Batten Down the Hatches for Trump’s Return

Media organizations are taking unusual steps to prepare for what they fear will be a legal and political onslaught from the new administration.

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Kate Kelly and Kenneth P. Vogel

Trump Supporters Go All In for Pete Hegseth With Money and Coordination

Conservative organizations are targeting Republican senators, saying that they will pay a price if they do not back the president-elect’s choice for defense secretary.

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Wolves' Edwards docked again; fines reach $285K

Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards was fined by the NBA for the fifth time this season, getting docked $50,000 for "obscene gestures" toward an official.

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Minn. in 1st women's poll since 2019, UCLA No. 1

Off to its best start in 17 games, Minnesota has cracked the AP women's basketball Top 25 for the first time since 2019, coming in at No. 24, while UCLA, South Carolina and Notre Dame remain Nos. 1-3.

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Auburn No. 1 in AP men's Top 25 after Vols lose

Auburn now tops The AP men's basketball Top 25 poll after previous No. 1 Tennessee suffered its first loss of the season to Florida. Iowa State, Duke, Alabama and Florida round out the top five.

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Wes Davis

Samsung is adding two new Galaxy Ring sizes

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Samsung is making the Galaxy Ring available to more people by adding size 14 and 15 rings to its options starting on January 22nd. With the expansion, which was rumored last month, the company says its ring sizes now run from five to 15, though it caveats that both size and color availability will vary by market.

The new sizes bring the Galaxy Ring closer to competitor Oura, which already offers its smart ring in sizes four to 15. Samsung’s...

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Emma Roth

Free Our Feeds wants to build a social media ecosystem ‘resistant to billionaire influence’

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Technology advocates and celebrities are backing the launch of Free Our Feeds, a campaign designed to “save social media from billionaire capture.” The project aims to raise $30 million over three years to support the development of a social media ecosystem powered by the AT Protocol, or the decentralized network powering Bluesky.

The raised funds will go toward launching a public interest foundation to support the project, while creating an “independently...

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18 Hilarious Internet Fails From Last Week That Will Make You Laugh So Hard You'll Forget It's Monday

Don't mind me; just looking through all my screenshots of my iPhone background.

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Gina Kolata

RFK Jr.’s MAHA Movement Obscures America’s Unhealthy Past

Medical historians say that the phrase “Make America Healthy Again” obscures a past during which this country’s people ate, smoked and drank things that mostly left them unwell.

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James Dator

Zane Gonzalez’s OCD isn’t a fun meme, it’s problematic stereotyping

The Commanders’ kicker was the hero of Sunday night, but the memes about him were unfair.

Washington Commanders’ kicker Zane Gonzalez became a meme when Sunday Night Football insisted on focusing on him fixing his shoes and hair before lining up for the game-winning kick in the NFL Wild Card Playoffs.

In an astounding lack of awareness by the broadcast team, they referred to Gonzalez’s actions as “fidgeting.” NBC’s Twitter account highlighted it, while others called them...

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Tom Warren

Microsoft creates new AI engineering group led by former Meta executive

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Microsoft is creating a new engineering group that’s focused on artificial intelligence. Led by former Meta engineering chief Jay Parikh, the new CoreAI – Platform and Tools division will combine Microsoft’s Dev Div and AI platform teams together, alongside some employees on the Office of the CTO team, to focus on building an AI platform and tools for both Microsoft and its customers.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella outlined his vision for this new team in an...

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Quentyn Kennemer

8BitDo’s drift-free mobile controller is on sale for the first time

8BitDo’s mobile controller offers a little more grip than others we recommend. | Image: 8BitDo

While the cradle-style Backbone One is a great mobile controller we often recommend, it’s not the right choice for everyone. Thankfully, 8BitDo’s Ultimate Mobile Gaming Controller is a cheaper alternative for Android users, one that’s available at Amazon in black for $39.99 ($10 off) for the first time. That’s well below the Backbone One’s $100 MSRP and its typical sale price of...

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Umar Shakir

Mercedes-Benz’s Virtual Assistant uses Google’s conversational AI agent

Mercedes-Benz’s MBUX Virtual Assistant will use Google Gemini on the cloud. | Image: Mercedes-Benz / Google

Google Cloud’s new Automotive AI Agent platform promises to “continue conversations and reference information” throughout users’ drives, and the first car announced with it is the new Mercedes CLA. That car has the next-generation MB.OS operating system with an upgraded MBUX Virtual Assistant.

When Mercedes revealed it at CES in 2024, it didn’t say which company’s...

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Here's An Explainer On Robbie Williams For The Americans Baffled By "Better Man"

Time to find out if this is just my algorithm serving me a specific question.

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Kellen Browning

When to Report, and When to Help Out

Kellen Browning, a reporter based in San Francisco who has been covering the wildfires, was getting requests from evacuees, and he had a decision to make.

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