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College Basketball Crown bracket, teams, schedule, explained for 2025 debut

There’s a new college basketball tournament in town with some big programs. Get to know The Crown.

The College Basketball Crown unveiled its inaugural 16-team bracket on Monday morning.

A newly-created, single-elimination postseason tournament — created by Fox and held entirely in Las Vegas during Final Four week — puts together a field of high-major teams that didn’t qualify for the NCAA Tournament.

The College Basketball Crown is also the reason the NIT was gutted into...

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Shams Charania

Sources: 76ers' George shut down for rest of year

Paul George has been ruled out for the rest of the season after receiving injections in his left adductor muscle and left knee on Monday, sources told ESPN.

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Devlin Barrett

Anti-Abortion Lawyer Pushed Out of F.D.A. After Republican Senator’s Pressure Campaign

Hilary Perkins, a career lawyer and a conservative, was targeted by Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri for defending the Biden administration’s position on the abortion pill.

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Dana Goldstein and Jenna Russell

Deported Professor Rasha Alawieh Attended Hezbollah Leader’s Funeral, D.H.S. Says

Dr. Rasha Alawieh was detained in Boston and denied entry when returning from a trip to Lebanon. The government says she attended a Hezbollah leader’s funeral.

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Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Hamed Aleaziz, Maggie Haberman and Karoun Demirjian

Trump Invoked the Alien Enemies Act to Speed Up Deportations: What to Know

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gives the president wartime powers to deport undocumented immigrants with little to no due process.

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20 Target Products To Transform Your Living Space Into The House Of Your Dreams

Make your dream home a reality with a woven storage ottoman, a faux fur throw, and more.

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Mashable

Googles new AI model is being used to remove image watermarks

It's bad enough that tech companies trained their AI models on content that doesn't belong to them. Now, however, it appears that at least one AI model is being used to remove watermarks from images so others can use content that doesn't belong to them, too.

Social media users have recently discovered that Google's new Gemini 2.0 Flash AI model can be used to remove watermarks from images.

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Why are people leaving ChatGPT for this new AI?

TL;DR: Get an AI Magicx lifetime subscription for $64.99 with code MAGIC35 (reg. $99.99). Fewer than 50 are left in stock.

You know the feeling — you ask ChatGPT for help with a creative project, and it spits out something…underwhelming. It’s fine, but it could be better. That’s why so many writers, designers, and creators are moving to this new AI tool for content creation.

AI Magicx is what ChatGPT wishes it could be. The layout of preset templates for writing, images, coding, and...

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The Ugly Stepsister trailer has big The Substance vibes

"What if Wicked and The Substance had a grubby baby?" This was the headline for my review of The Ugly Stepsister out of Sundance 2025, as I cheered this twisted fairytale full of violent beauty treatments and body horror.

SEE ALSO: How 'The Substance' broke the Oscars mold

Directed by Emilie Blichfeldt, The Ugly Stepsister re-imagines the tale of Cinderella from the perspective of one of her maligned siblings. Elvira (Lea Myren) wants only to...

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Joe Berkowitz

Chuck Schumer has emerged as the breakout main character of Bluesky—for the worst reasons

After the Senate minority leader’s decision to help Trump avert a shutdown of the GOP’s own making, Bluesky erupted with anger and savage memes.

What was perhaps the least timely book tour in American history has been postponed.

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Jack Milko

Rory McIlroy’s Players-winning weapon that he must bring to The Masters

Rory McIlroy celebrates with the trophy after winning The 2025 Players. | Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images

Rory McIlroy relied on this shot to win at TPC Sawgrass. Now, he has to bring it to Augusta National to complete the Grand Slam.

Rory McIlroy practiced one shot over and over again this week at TPC Sawgrass, and golf fans saw him execute it perfectly on the par-3 17th during Monday’s playoff.

After making birdie on the par-5 16th, McIlroy held a one-shot advantage over...

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22 Heartbreaking Photos Of The Damage Left Behind In The Storms That Hit Oklahoma, Alabama, And 5 Other States.

The good luck charm still standing around all of the debris got me.

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Meta wants AI to write your Instagram comments

AI is all over social media. We have AI influencers, AI content, and AI accounts — and, now, it looks like we might get AI comments on Instagram posts, too. What are any of us doing this for anymore?

App researcher Jonah Manzano shared a post on Threads and a video on TikTok showing how some Instagram users now notice a pencil with a star icon in their comments field, allowing them to post AI-generated comments under posts and videos.

SEE ALSO: Meta is diving...

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How to schedule an Instagram DM

There's a new Instagram feature that could prove to be revolutionary for three very specific communities:

Guys who want to be the first to say "happy birthday"

People who don't want to seem too eager but also don't want to forget to message a new friend

Dudes who say "good morning, beautiful" but want to sleep in

That's right. You can schedule messages on Instagram DMs now — here's how:

SEE ALSO: New Instagram DM features allow you to translate, schedule, and pin...

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S. Alabama has NIT invite nixed: 'Unacceptable'

South Alabama had their invitation to the NIT rescinded after the team was informed they would be playing, a decision their coach called "unacceptable."

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WVU snub 'robbery' at highest level, gov. says

West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey wants his attorney general to investigate and work closely with the NCAA to ensure the men's tournament selection process is transparent and fair.

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Jessica Bursztynsky

Bumble adds an ID verification feature to win over cautious daters

A suite of new tools, including government ID checks, marks the company’s latest effort to court safety-conscious users and reverse slowing growth.

Bumble rolled out a handful of new safety features on Monday, including ID verification, in an attempt to draw in a new class of users who are focused on safety.

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Jennifer Mattson

Intel stock up as new CEO Lip-Bu Tan eyes cuts to ‘slow-moving and bloated middle management’: Report

Shares of INTC jumped over 8% on news that Tan has a turn-around plan for Intel, which could include staff layoffs and resurrected manufacturing.

Shares of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) rose over 8% in early morning trading on Monday on news that incoming CEO Lip-Bu Tan has big plans to turn around the ailing chipmaker, including restructuring the company’s approach to AI, resurrecting its manufacturing operations, and eyeing cuts to what Tan views as a “slow-moving and bloated...

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NFL free agency’s 6 biggest bargains in 2025 on offense

Here are the savviest free agency moves so far on offense.

Super Bowl winners aren’t based entirely on superstars; they’re created by filling all the holes on their rosters intelligently and with the right money allotted to the right talent.

As much as the 2024 Philadelphia Eagles had it going on with Jalen Hurts, A.J. Brown, DeVonta Smith, the best offensive line in football, and a host of first-line defensive talent, there were as many guys like Zack Baun, who signed a...

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